2021 UPDATE: See my new listening guide for this track. Here’s the third of four big-deal transcriptions I have lined up for the fund raiser. I was going to save this for next week, but […]
Month: May 2015
Daily best music in the world: Connie Kay swings
We don’t get to hear much of Connie Kay— usually he’s buried in the back of the Modern Jazz Quartet, playing very conservatively. Here, with French(?) guitarist Andre Conduant, we get to hear him forward […]
Page o’ coordination: anticipations — 03
[NOTE: PDF link is working now! -t] So, today is going to be jazz comping day, in our little fund raiser. If you haven’t made a cash contribution yet, please do. Help give me some […]
Random Billy
For fun I’ve pulled at random some four measure comping phrases from recordings featuring Billy Higgins on drums. Sort of at random: I’ve grabbed the first thing I heard on the track that stands out […]
Ed Blackwell on playing the Five Spot with Ornette
From Ted Panken’s 1986 interview with Ed Blackwell on WKCR NY: So when you got to New York, you found yourself in the midst of the scene that was shaking New York’s art community to […]
Half-time feel funk: the “Syncopation” section — a small tweak
Continuing with my late Reed funk method here, which now has its own label— click on that link to get the whole series. It’s becoming quite substantial— I see a book in our future… If you’ve […]
Species of ride cymbal interpretation in jazz
Following up on George Collligan’s commentary on this subject: The way you play the cymbal pattern is really the center of your artistry as a jazz drummer, so let’s do a little survey of the […]
Transcription: Vinnie Colaiuta — Beat It With Your Fist
It is law that I must do an ultra-hairy Vinnie Coliauta transcription every time I do a fund raiser [Have you contributed yet? Please do. -tb], so here’s Beat It With Your Fist, from Frank […]
Daily best music in the world: Don Pullen
This is wild; a melody composed seemingly entirely of wrong notes, alternating with a groovy pentatonic vamp. That’s actually a hallmark of Don Pullen’s thing; bright, happy tunes, and a whole lot of playing the […]
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm — 02b – inversion
Moar Chaffee phrases in 5/4! This is an inversion of the last set: we’re offsetting the phrases, so the listed phrase starts on the second note of each measure. The attraction there is that it […]
Groove o’ the day: Terry Bozzio with Group 87
This is not the Bozzio thing I was talking about in that last post— this is just a teaser for the big-Bozzio thing yet to come. This is Sublime Feline, by Group 87— a band […]
Transcription: Billy Higgins — Shimmy Shewobble
Let’s start the fund raiser with something amazing I never knew existed: Billy Higgins and Ed Blackwell playing Mississippi Delta drum-and-fife style, performing Othar Turner’s classic Shimmy Shewobble, on Stanley Cowell’s album Regeneration. You may have […]