Beside a great drummer Mike's an engaging speaker. I can - and have - listened to his online talks & interviews at home and work to get me through an otherwise boring, uneventful day. His knowledge of drums, love of music/musicians and intellect make him a spirited communicator and entertaining personality.
Met Mike at the London Drum Show a few years back. He was a lovely man and a real gentleman. He even gave me a signed drum head which I treasure to this day. What an awesome drummer - absolute knock out!
Fantastic interview Ken , more of the same please . These interviews you do with musicians showing and talking about their fave albums/ influences are great .
Hey Mr. Micallef! Thanks for the really insightful videos like this. Very much appreciated. I'm from Canada and have been a jazz nut since I was 12. Keep up the good work, and my salutations from Gatineau,Québec Canada !
I could listen to this for hours. I wish i could read lips to hear exactly what miles said to mike and paul! I guess it was a compliment in miles own way. Great stories from a great drummer who is respected by herbie and so many musicians! Thanks ken and mike i really enjoyed this.
@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Yes. You remember the 60's Folk-Rock group, The Byrds don't you ? Their original drummer from 1964-68 was named Michael Clarke.
Feeling a little better now, So time for some more Jazz. Before I go on I hope this is a Coronavirus free zone! Right, let's dive in with Mike Clark. Mr Monk clearly is a genius on the piano, unless your someone with a lot of money in your bank account and has the time to find and collect all of his albums, dipping into Monks albums can be problematic. Part of the problem with Thelonious Monks music was that often he would need poking with a stick by some record label boss “Come on Monk time to make a new album”. If he was inspired to make music you would get genius music from him.(For me sometimes his music is played in a way to serious fashion, it was the other musicians around him who made the music he played a fun listen. Solo Monk is less interesting to me) If he was not inspired to make an album you might get 1 or 2 new tunes from him if your lucky then he would just rerecord some of his old tunes. Some of his rerecordings are better than the first time he played them others are not better. His fans online debate which are the best versions of his tunes still to this day. Is that a (Jazz) cat in the background? Yes, Miles is an icon of music to us all not just the Jazz guys. Good Miles stories thank you for telling them, Mike. (Mike is a good storyteller.) Art Blakey was influenced as much by a lot of the rock drummers of the time. He was friends with Cream's Ginger Baker, I forget how those 2 met. Ginger was taking Jazz influence from Art Blakey, you can here a lot of Jazz in the way Ginger plays his kit. *Ginger Baker and Art Blakey* czcams.com/video/Y32V6klRurY/video.html *Jazz Drummers Timeline* czcams.com/video/0LJltD0v41w/video.html
What's with silencing out the swear words? That's stupid. What is this, daytime US television or does CZcams have some stupid double-standard where they let comedians say whatever they want and stuff like this has to be bleeped out? Good lord.
Love Mike Clark.. He is such a badass drummer.
long time fan Mike,,great interview,,
Beside a great drummer Mike's an engaging speaker. I can - and have - listened to his online talks & interviews at home and work to get me through an otherwise boring, uneventful day. His knowledge of drums, love of music/musicians and intellect make him a spirited communicator and entertaining personality.
Great interview 👍Love the city footage and the cat jumping towards the turntable.Great stuff Ken.
Met Mike at the London Drum Show a few years back. He was a lovely man and a real gentleman. He even gave me a signed drum head which I treasure to this day. What an awesome drummer - absolute knock out!
Great 👍🏼
The man seems very grounded.
And driven. It’s fantastic that he’s still so busy.
Thanks
YES. Love to see Mike Clark. Thank you.
Fantastic interview Ken , more of the same please . These interviews you do with musicians showing and talking about their fave albums/ influences are great .
Hey Mr. Micallef! Thanks for the really insightful videos like this. Very much appreciated. I'm from Canada and have been a jazz nut since I was 12. Keep up the good work, and my salutations from Gatineau,Québec Canada !
Clark..bad ass.
Wonderful, thanks for finding another great person for us to be able to hear from.
Great video ken, love the inserts and photo’s you show, grtz from the netherlands
Wow, love it! I could listen to Mike all day. Ken, I really enjoy the bits of drumming mixed with the NYC cityscape-excellent!
Thanks Mike, thanks Ken - great insights and stories
Ken, thanks for this. Very cool video and my intro to Mike Clark. I want his t-shirt BTW!
love every second of this video. thanks...
Thank you very much
The great Mike Clarke, thanks!
bump - RLOL - Mike such a wonderful friend for a while... always cracked me up ~ wish we could have cut that lp bless always ~
Mike Clarke 👍 great drummer 🥁
I could listen to this for hours. I wish i could read lips to hear exactly what miles said to mike and paul! I guess it was a compliment in miles own way. Great stories from a great drummer who is respected by herbie and so many musicians! Thanks ken and mike i really enjoyed this.
Great interview Ken. Keep up the good work!
steven frost hey man!
Mike is such a great guy--(knew him & played w/him in 1976) and never too haughty to play with just a kick, snare, hi-hat and a single cymbal.
a very good, informative and cool video in bad times :-)
ThxK 💎🥁💎
Mike! Master drummer!
GREATEST DRUMMER‼️🙏
Fab interview & NYC footage, Ken ! Never heard of this Mike Clark before just Michael Clarke of The Byrds.
Byrds?
@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Yes. You remember the 60's Folk-Rock group, The Byrds don't you ? Their original drummer from 1964-68 was named Michael Clarke.
@@Steve-tk6fo in The intro of Eight Miles High they tried to emulate Coltrane with guitars
@@patrickshawl7189 I remember that, Patrick. I think Roger McGuinn & David Crosby mentioned this in interviews.
Mike's left hand technique is the stuff of dreams.
How can they silence the Miles punch line, for the love of god?
With Miles everything was a mother fucker. Good bad or Inbetween like I said in my last video.
I know, a strange question. But, did anyone know which cartdrige this is - on his SL1200? -Thanks
Feeling a little better now, So time for some more Jazz. Before I go on I hope this is a Coronavirus free zone! Right, let's dive in with Mike Clark.
Mr Monk clearly is a genius on the piano, unless your someone with a lot of money in your bank account and has the time to find and collect all of his albums, dipping into Monks albums can be problematic. Part of the problem with Thelonious Monks music was that often he would need poking with a stick by some record label boss “Come on Monk time to make a new album”. If he was inspired to make music you would get genius music from him.(For me sometimes his music is played in a way to serious fashion, it was the other musicians around him who made the music he played a fun listen. Solo Monk is less interesting to me) If he was not inspired to make an album you might get 1 or 2 new tunes from him if your lucky then he would just rerecord some of his old tunes. Some of his rerecordings are better than the first time he played them others are not better. His fans online debate which are the best versions of his tunes still to this day.
Is that a (Jazz) cat in the background? Yes, Miles is an icon of music to us all not just the Jazz guys.
Good Miles stories thank you for telling them, Mike. (Mike is a good storyteller.)
Art Blakey was influenced as much by a lot of the rock drummers of the time. He was friends with Cream's Ginger Baker, I forget how those 2 met. Ginger was taking Jazz influence from Art Blakey, you can here a lot of Jazz in the way Ginger plays his kit.
*Ginger Baker and Art Blakey*
czcams.com/video/Y32V6klRurY/video.html
*Jazz Drummers Timeline*
czcams.com/video/0LJltD0v41w/video.html
not a good lip reader, what did miles say??
hmm. It's profanity. MFs
@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 yeah I got the MF part, I assume it was in a complementary tone?
@@diamond_marimba yeah, miles always refered to players he thought played very well as "MFers"
What's with silencing out the swear words? That's stupid. What is this, daytime US television or does CZcams have some stupid double-standard where they let comedians say whatever they want and stuff like this has to be bleeped out? Good lord.