Another drum solo from a Jackie McLean record. Jack Dejohnette early in his career, soloing on a fast tune from McLean’s album Jackknife. The tune is Climax, tempo is about half note = 160. We looked at another tune from this record awhile back.
If you ever worried about not being able to solo at fast tempos, check this out. It’s fast but very simple, using a few basic “non-independent” patterns, with hands in unison opposite the bass drum. He’s not panicking about not throwing in enough stuff, or changing ideas fast enough.
The solo begins at 6:55 in the track.
Listening closely, Dejohnette’s execution is quite loose— the unisons between hands are pretty wide flams.
That measure of 9/8 near the end is nothing, ignore it. Just an extra 8th note seemed to work its way in there.
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