One of the goals of PercussionEducation.com is to curate materials found on the interwebs. This brief interview features Richard Matteson talking about his experience with Louis Armstrong (1960 – Louis & Dukes of Dixieland) and the important lesson that Louis taught him. Spend the next 8 minutes and listen to this. You will not be sorry.
I have always enjoyed listening and learning from great musicians. Too often we listen to people we want to emulate on our own instrument when you can gain valuable insight from other musicians. Over the next couple of months, I am going to put together a series of blog posts of musicians, artists and other creatives that have inspired me. In his book, Steal Like an Artist, author Austin Kleon talks about the theory of picking one great artist and reading, listening and learning everything they did. Once you have learned from that artist, you pick three artists that inspired the first artist. Sounds like endless inspiration to me!
Last week, I posted about Gary Burton’s final concert. Today, I ran across this great live performance video featuring Gary Burton (vibes) and Pat Metheny (guitar) performing Falling Grace.
Dave Weckl just posted this video yesterday on his YouTube channel. The video features Chick Corea, Frank Gambale, Eric Marianthal, and John Patitucci performing as the Chick Corea Electric Band in Bangkok (March 2017).