Hi Steve, thanks for listening and agree with all your comments too, they are very valid. This is the “base”, to be able to groove alone, and to be able to play to a metronome and records. And what is it that makes certain players, like Gadd feel like “magic”. I think part of the puzzle is sound, co...

(...watching this material with Gadd makes me sad, because of Duke )

(side comment, Steve Jordan sometime talks about "the length of a note")

This is the best I've seen so far about time and feel in music, and "relations" between players in the time domain... (And I've browsed the Internet for decades :-)) Some serious "food for thought" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oimZ5dzewic Playing the right note is important bu...

Another one with JR

Wolfgang Haffner's Dreamband live | Jazzline | 2021
Great concert, great recording
(Randy Brecker, Nils Landgren, Bill Evans, Simon Oslender, Christopher Dell, Wolfgang Haffner)

Thanks for these last links. I’m sad to hear about Vinnie’s neck problems. I can just imagine what it would be like. Despite this he seems positive and energized. About these health issues, what is it in detail and what’s causing this? Is it the same problems that Phil Collins had? Most important, w...

Make Mats/Morgan great again, recorded November 2023 in Stockholm ("they played with Zappa for a short time before he passed away")



Morgan Ågren - drums, sampler, stick-guitar
Mats Öberg - keyboards, grand piano, vocals, harmonica
Dan Berglund - double bass

Wow, thanks, that was awesome, that's also my favourite Gadd solo, still grabs me deeply every time... I guess this also proves how musical his solos are... Happy new year, and thanks for your work with this site and your own videos, they are also awesome!