Jazz Drumming

 

“If you don’t have ability, you end up playing in a rock band.”

   - Buddy Rich (1917-87), legendary jazz drummer

 

 

I spotted this quote in a superb film I watched a few weeks ago, Whiplash, and have not been able to put it out of my mind. It’s become a sort of mantra to me. And though its deep truth seems enigmatic and ungraspable to some, I know what he’s saying here, and I herewith place it in the sanctum of my heart.

 

It actually inspires me to keep chipping away at my Grand Obsession, carving and chipping and etching like Michelangelo hovering about a slab of marble, a project I’ve begun over 18 months ago, and still proceeding along at a snail’s pace …

 

And I’ve played in a rock band!