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Fred Below – Full Interview – Tape A Side A (1982)

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Among my interviews with drummers, a few are the only known interviews – at least full length interviews – with a few drummers. Jim Gordon is one. Frankie Dunlop is another. And Fred Below is a third. Fred … Continue reading →

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Scott K Fish – Time Flies

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: My friend of many years, Candice Baranello, mailed this photo of me taken right around the time I started freelance writing for Modern Drummer magazine. In good times and bad — time flies.

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Zutty Singleton – We Just Kept the Rhythm Going

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Growing up, I was aware of Zutty Singleton among the drum pioneers, but records on which he played were either not on my music priority list, or they weren’t available. The New Orleans-Chicago early jazz drumming was a … Continue reading →

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What Big Sid Did with One Foot

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Art Hodes wrote a Down Beat column in the mid-1960s which I enjoyed. He was a jazz pianist who knew musicians, including early jazz drummers, like Dave Tough, George Wettling, and Big Sid Catlett. I valued Mr. Hodes’s … Continue reading →

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John Von Ohlen – Your Day of Liberation

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: When I finished putting together John Von Ohlen’s Modern Drummer interview, before it was published, I sent him a copy to review. That was my standard practice. Drummers responded, usually, by signing off on the interview as written. … Continue reading →

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