RM: You’ve been involved with clinics for quite a few years. JM: I’ve been doing clinics since the early ’60s. For a while, I was doing a lot of them—twenty or thirty at a time. In those days, the Brubeck Quartet would work for three months at a time, with a month off in between. So during that month off, Ludwig Drum Company would send me out to do clinics. During one month, I would maybe work my way down the West Coast. During another month, I might do a nine-country clinic tour in Europe. By the time I’d get back to the Quartet, I was wiped out. Some vacation! But I really enjoyed it; it was a lot of fun. RM: What is your basic philosophy about clinics? JM: My idea of a clinic always was to try and impart some knowledge and try to help people. My two-hour […]