I’ve been preoccupied the last few days whipping into shape the 2013 Cruise Ship Drummer! Book of the Blog (available for order next week), so here’s a quick little something from my old notebooks: a transcription of the tune The Wizard, by Albert Ayler, which I made in 1999 or so:
Here’s the original audio, if you want to check my work. The album is Spiritual Unity, with Sunny Murray and Gary Peacock— if you’re going to play free jazz, you need to have a smoking bassist with some classical chops:
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