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Listen to Elvin Jones

Tenor saxophonist and flautist Bobby Jaspar wrote an essay about Elvin Jones1 in The Jazz Review in 1959.

Said to be the first-ever article on Elvin Jones, Jaspar was writing to explain and contextualize the controversial young drummer, t...

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Impressions of John Coltrane at 100

Few writers are as ambitious as Harmony Holiday.

In her1 famously dense text blocks, she is in fearless pursuit of the deepest truths, about music, musicians, current events, and the culture at large. I have to read her very slowly and al...

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Drummers in Duet at Barbes

This is a beautiful video of Mr. Roach playing his composition “South Africa ‘76”, heard on Force (1976), the studio encounter between Max Roach and Archie Shepp, and on Roach’s own Solos (Baystate, 1978).

Organized around the simple and...

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On Keith Moon

Ethan Iverson’s lovely note on Douglas Adams audiobooks nudged me to dig up this piece, written ca. 2023:

Q: What rock drummers have most influenced you?

A: Rock drummers. I think my favorite drummer was Keith Moon. I think he was reall...

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James Ellroy, Quentin Tarantino

I was not prepared for the lurid violence and dark sexuality of The Black Dahlia, novelist James Ellroy’s 1987 smash success and the first of his L.A. Quartet.

Set in the immediate aftermath of WWII, The Black Dahlia depicts a Los Angeles...

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