get better, you’ll get a lot more
accomplished in a half-hour doing that
than you do playing in a big band,”
reasons Webb, adding he would do that
all the time.
One For Art
Webb wishes that his musical journey
with Art Davis had been more
documented. “I was a pallbearer who
helped carry the casket” at Art’s funeral,
recalled Doug, after being asked about
his composition One For Art, which he
recorded on his 5th Posi-Tone release,
Another Scene.
“I call it a dirge—it’s two choruses of that
going into a drum solo and then a faster
blues,” says Webb, recalling a similar
tune that Art composed in three
movements which they had played
together. Like Davis’ composition, One
For Art begins as a New Orleans style
funeral march that transitions into a
second movement representing the
preaching and then the joy of ascending
to heaven. Traditionally, that’s how a lot
of jazz music originated.
Coltrane’s impact on drummers
and sax players
“I would play a lot with just drummers,”
said Webb, who recalled playing duets
almost daily with Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts while
they were at Berklee. “Say you’re a
young sax player and yo H