Tag Archives: Music

The Jazz Network Worldwide

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Jazz promoter JaiJai Jackson provides a real service to jazz musicians, including drummers, with her Jazz Network Worldwide and her Not Just Jazz Network. Jackson comes from an esteemed musical family. Legendary jazz bassist Chubby Jackson is her … Continue reading →

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Interviewing Jim Gordon

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Scott K Fish

Interviewing Jim GordonScott K. Fish, Special to the Piscataquis Observer • March 31, 2020 Thirty-eight years ago, Monday, January 11, 1982, I was alone in a single room at a New Jersey boarding house. “Bitter Arctic Winds Blow In and … Continue reading →

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Bill Bruford – Drummers Will Have to Think Quick

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Forty-two years up the road it is, perhaps, hard for some in the drumming world to truly understand the initial impact in the 1980s of the LinnDrum drum machine. Suddenly one compact machine could keep perfect metronomic time. … Continue reading →

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Drums & Demons – The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon

Posted on January 29, 2024 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Author Joel Selvin’s biography, “Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon,” is scheduled for release on February 27, 2024. As stated in the “Drums & Demons” press release, Selvin wrote the book, “With full cooperation from … Continue reading →

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Audio Samples: Peart’s 1989 Freewheeling Conversation

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Sometime this week I will post Part 1 of a conversation I had with Neil Peart on August 21, 1989. It may actually have been a two-day conversation. And to be as precise as possible, ours were several … Continue reading →

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