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Vinnie Sperrazza
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Jazz, Music, Jazz Drumming, Music History.

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Joys and Concerns

Drummers should play together. On Monday, June 15th, Josh Dion and I will play at Ibeam in Brooklyn. Hope to see you there.

Note the image of Frank Arsenault at the bottom right:


Chronicles is a reader-supported publication. To re...

8 days ago
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3

Doxy, Oleo, Airegin

I stopped work on Chapter 3 last night when I heard the news of the death of Sonny Rollins.

The passing of a beloved artist is sad enough, but Sonny Rollins’s death also marks the end of an era. Sonny Rollins was the last of the brilliant...

15 days ago
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Jazz Drumming Before Baby Dodds: 1910-1920

This is a playlist of popular music recorded in the United States between 1910 and 1923 that goes with Chapter 2 of the book I’m publishing on Substack.

I was searching for the beginning, the earliest recorded examples of jazz drumming— a...

20 days ago
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Have You Seen This Interview with James Morgan, brother of Lee Morgan?

Filmmaker Kasper Collins’s I Called Him Morgan (2017), the story of Lee and Helen Morgan, cast a light on the rich and complex culture from which the hard bop sound emerged. As the film showed, whatever struggles the musicians faced— addict...

23 days ago
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The Music Is The Proof

Last month, I was showing Paul Motian’s Lost In A Dream to a student. After a track ended, the student was enthusiastic, and I heard myself say, “It really is great, but it doesn’t capture what it was like it in the room”.

And then I thoug...

a month ago
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