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Tag Archives: Chip Stern
Blakey: ‘Is There Anything I Can Do to Make You Sound Better?’
“See, I wanted to become a great drummer, but just in the sense of having musicians want to play with me — not to be better than Buddy Rich or to compete with someone. I will not compete that way; … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Blakey, Chip Stern, Drummer, Modern Drummer, Scott K Fish
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One Night Watching Sonny Greer and Papa Jo Jones Trading Fours
SKF NOTE: Reading again my memories, written in 1982, of one night at New York City’s West End Cafe watching Sonny Greer and Papa Jo Jones trading fours with wire brushes. I’m thinking about a phone conversation with Chip Stern … Continue reading
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Tagged Chip Stern, Modern Drummer, Obituary, Papa Jo Jones, Scott K Fish, Sonny Greer, West End Cafe
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Neil Peart on Max Roach’s M’BOOM
SKF NOTE: This is the last of my Trading Fours exchanges with Neil Peart. My friend and music writer par excellence, Chip Stern, had a very good, albeit short-lived, idea for a drummer’s magazine. I did some writing for Chip’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Chip Stern, Drummer, M'Boom, Max Roach, Neil Peart, Scott K Fish, Trading Fours
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Neil Peart on Tony Williams’s ‘Fred’
SKF NOTE: My friend and music writer par excellence, Chip Stern, had a very good, albeit short-lived, idea for a drummer’s magazine. I did some writing for Chip’s magazine, but I don’t know that any of it saw the light … Continue reading
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Tagged Chip Stern, Drummer, Fred, Joe Morello, Neil Peart, Scott K Fish, Tony Williams
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Modern Drummer Cover Story: Who Decides?
If I can’t have the cover story, I’m not doing an interview at all. I witnessed three drummers flat out refuse Modern Drummer feature interviews because they wouldn’t be cover stories. The drummer with the cover story had his photo … Continue reading
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Tagged Chip Stern, Modern Drummer, Papa Jo Jones, Rick Mattingly, Ron Spagnardi, Scott K Fish, Slim Jim Phantom, Stray Cats
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