“IF YOU CAN’T FIND ANYTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT A PERSON, DON’T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL.”
what's the racket?
“IF YOU CAN’T FIND ANYTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT A PERSON, DON’T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL.”
I am aware that I tend to speak in glowing terms about many of my colleagues and am not given to spiteful or destructive comment. This is because I learned from Thumpers mother that „If you can’t find anything good to say about a person, don’t say anything at all“. Many of the older black American jazz musicians who I idolised had this dignified attitude and it’s good enough for me.
SUPER DRUMMING VOL.3
The preparation of the third Super Drumming DVD is under way and it will be packed with previously unreleased goodies. The show is now 20 years old and I am constantly meeting good young drummers who tell me they were first turned on to drumming by the great players we were privileged to feature. I will be recording some video material of my own memories of the show and its stars directed by my valued friend, Michael Maschke, who directed all the shows so expertly.
FRANKFURT MESSE
It looks like I will be able to get to the Frankfurt Messe for one day only on March 28. I will have to sprint around greeting the Pearls, the Sabians and the Vic Firths because directly afterwards I have some gigs with Bruce Adams and Alan Barnes in the Stuttgart area which should crackle with energy. Martin Schrack, old pal and great pianist on many of my adventures, has fixed two sessions, March 29 in his home village of Rechberghausen and March 30 in the Jazzfabrik, Waiblingen. Then on March 31 Bruce, Alan and I join clarinettist Charles Höllering in the Traditional Jazz Hall in Stuttgart itself.