I've been neglecting Mog lately, hence no WR weekends for a while now. I'll squeeze in a little time to add this post & I think it may as well be a slight diversion from the main trail to follow WR drummer Eric Gravatt after the Japan tour as he plays as a session drummer. Eric Gravatt Trying to stay with the chronological approach, the nice thing about these little tangents away from the cen...
Adam Kolker talked to us once about how he used to go see Joe Henderson at the Blue Note (or the Vanguard, I forget which). He said Hen' would take these long solos that went on for choruses and choruses, just gradually building up in intensity; Al Foster would just be there with him, matching that same level of intensity. Kolker asked us, what if you had that many levels of intensity? Same ...