Category Archives: SKF Blog

Bobby Colomby: I Learned to Play Drums Playing Monk’s Music

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Bobby Colomby is a record producer of note. He is also an excellent drummer, best known, perhaps, as an original member of Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Bobby Colomby: …Thelonious Monk[‘s]…music to me is very personal. Whatever he plays – … Continue reading →

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Keith Copeland: Building a Jazz Drummer’s Listening Library

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Revisiting my drummer interviews from the early 1980s reminds me how digital audio is making so much music available at such reasonable prices. Many of the recordings drummer Keith Copeland talks about here were either out-of-print or expensive. … Continue reading →

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Passion for Your Instrument: A Must

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Scott K Fish

Bob Brookmeyer: “Whatever instrument you play, you must have a passion for it, and you must play it passionately. Even if you aren’t good and keep making mistakes, you must have the passion.” Source: Bob Brookmeyer: Strength and Simplicity, by … Continue reading →

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Drum Lessons by Ear, Not Eye 

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Scott K Fish

Max Roach spoke to me highly of an African hand drum teacher’s way of teaching. The teacher and his student are sitting in the same room. But they are separated by a sheet or curtain hanging from the ceiling between … Continue reading →

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Chico Hamilton: You Remember What a Nickel Was

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Just finished reading Hannah Rothschild’s biography of her Aunt, “The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild.” Excellent reading about a woman Thelonious “Toot” Monk, Jr. describes as a combination Santa Claus and Mother Theresa for Bebop … Continue reading →

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