We’ll be getting back into regular blogging soon enough— I’ve just finished the 2015 Book of the Blog (available for purchase soon!), and am chilling out with some Howlin’ Wolf right now…
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Transcription: Roy Haynes – Bad News Blues
- Todd Bishop
- February 26, 2017
- 2
Just a quick little Roy Haynes transcription, from Bad News Blues, from Haynes’s album Cracklin’. It’s short— they play the 12-bar head once before heading into the bass solo— but there are some things to […]
Practice loop: slow blues
- Todd Bishop
- November 13, 2022
- 0
Bringing this back to planet Earth, here’s a nice 65 bpm blues to practice along with. Sampled from the tune After Hours on Roy Haynes’s album We Three.
Groove o’ the day: Jimmy Smith / Midnight Special
- Todd Bishop
- October 11, 2017
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In about 1991 I lived in Eugene, Oregon, and every once in awhile KLCC 87.9 would play something that would send you immediately to Cat’s Meow (the jazz record store that survived for 30 years […]