There are a couple of new videos up on Youtube that I discovered last week that lead me to an amazing resource: The Howard University Jazz Oral History Project. Some great stuff there.
The first video I want to share is a one hour interview with Max Roach. It’s full of gold. He not only plays drums and piano, he also shares stories dating back to his days playing in parades as part of his church band.
Enjoy!
When you’re done, don’t miss the Philly Joe Jones interview.
Wanted to give a quick plug for a piece of Mac software I find really useful. If you’re like me, you keep A LOT of music on your hard drives. I had a hard time keeping track of it all until I started using DiskCatalogMaker.
What I like most is that once you make catalogs of your hard drives, you can search the catalogs without having to hook up the hard drives. It saves me so much time, since I have music stored across several large hard drives.
Highly recommended!
In my post about Smalls Jazz Club, I raved about seeing Marvin “Bugalu” Smith play drums with Teodross Avery. I’m still obsessed with his playing.
They have a new duo album out that is highly recommended. You can get it through Teodross’ online shop.
Here’s a video that was just posted of the two of them in the studio that I couldn’t resist sharing here.
