Talking about the Weather: Vinyl LP + Book Eric Thielemans and Billy Hart

Teacher and student. Past and present. 2 drummers. 2 men. 2 fathers. Friends. A conversation. A dialogue of the drums. Following up on a drum/percussion duo Eric Thielemans and Billy Hart did in the Summer of 2016 at the Jazz Middelheim festival, these two
drummers decided to dedicate time to continue and deepen their versatile dialogues on and around the drums. The meeting and
recording of “”Talking about the Weather “” took place on January 7-9, 2018 at “”Figure 8 Recording””; a beautiful, small recording studio in Brooklyn (NY). In 3 days’ time both drummers circled around the situation of the studio and the conversational aspect of their personal relationship and musicianship. They did this in a way that shows how their musicianship informs and gives structure to a shared experience. As both men after a few sessions acknowledged: “”We do talk as we play””. Mr. Thielemans’ and Mr. Hart’s story
started in the Summer of 1992 when Eric Thielemans joined a masterclass with Billy Hart, organized by the Haleweyn Stiching Summer Jazz Workshop at Dworp in Belgium. This was the start of a deep human connection, friendship and mutual respect for each other’s music and musicianship. 25 years in between, a gap, filled with many explorations, life experience and musical endeavors. Time to talk drum shop & Drum the Talk! Publication Info The publication comes packaged as a single LP sleeve with 7.5 mm spine and a 50 pages book inside. LP (180 gr) + Book (aprox. 50 pages, binded with pictures by Monica Jane Frisell and transcriptions of the talks).