Tag Archives: Max Roach

Max Roach: A Great Drummer Looks Back at Influences (1958)

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: One of my favorite Down Beat issues. DB editor Don Gold includes several Max Roach insights on great jazz musicians like Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, and Miles Davis. Max was 33-years old at the time. The cover art is by … Continue reading →

Posted in SKF Blog | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Daniel Freedman: It’s Always Been Hard Being a Jazz Musician

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Scott K Fish

Quest to make drum set not sound like one By ROBIN CAUDELL Press-Republican | Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 5:20 pm UPPER JAY/WHALLONSBURG — Daniel Freedman absorbed the art of drumming from the hands of masters, so it’s little wonder he’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Drum/Music News | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Daniel Freedman: It’s Always Been Hard Being a Jazz Musician

Tony Williams – Why I Play the Way I Do

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This segment is from a good interview by Vernon Gibbs called, Tony Williams: Report On A Musical Lifetime, in the January 29, 1976 Down Beat. I am unable to find the full interview online. Vernon Gibbs: What was … Continue reading →

Posted in SKF Blog | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Alan Dawson on Innovators

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: From my interview with Alan Dawson published in Modern Drummer‘s 10th Anniversary Issue in 1986. Here Alan is talking about drum innovators. Alan Dawson: Innovators are very few. Innovators trod a lonely path. I don’t know who’s the … Continue reading →

Posted in SKF Blog | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in SKF Blog | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment