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Paul Motian, subtle jazz drummer and wizard of the wire brushes: Mar. 25, 1931 - 2011…
First coming to prominence in the late ’50s with the pioneering trio of pianist Bill Evans, Motian since worked in an array of contexts, and led a number of groups over the last five decades…
Tonight we focus on his early trio-work w. Bill Evans
Photo: Scott LaFaro, Bill Evans and Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard, 1961 - © Steve Schapiro
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Tenderly by Billie Holiday
I fortunately had this great teacher Miles Davis that helped me to find my way. He never told us what to play, never. Five and a half years he’s never said: don’t play this. And if he said “play something”, it would always be wrong. Always. I remember Miles seeing this depressed look in my face, nothing was coming out, I was sort of constipated, he said “put a B flat in the bass”. I put a B flat in the bass and it was definitely wrong, but then I found something and that worked and I was delighted, and when I looked up he said: “you see?” I took me years to figure out: he deserves the credit, because he made me search for my own answer and it got me out of the depression. If I wanted to follow him, I had to follow myself and bring the answer from myself. That’s what a master teacher does.
— Interview with Herbie Hancock
(Source: londonjazz.blogspot.com)
22nd Annual CalArts Jazz 2011 CD
Thelonious Monk and his Town Hall band in rehearsal, February 1959
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Lunch hour at CalArts.
