Here’s a boiled down version of the Christmas transcription, Strength and Courage, by Joe Lovano. It’s a real crash course in Ed Blackwell— a lot of what he plays on many albums throughout his career is in here.
I’ve simplified the patterns as much as possible— taken out the bass drum, in a lot of cases. Often the bass is just feathered on beats 1 and 3, or is not necessarily integral to the pattern. You can see what he does with it on the transcription. He has a lot of integrated stuff worked up between his hands— conceptually it’s not unlike the thing I called “Max’s rubadub”. Inherently two-handed jazz rudiments, of a kind.
Once again, I’ll leave this up for free for awhile, then sometime in the new year I’ll ask for a donation to download the transcription and analysis together. Or you can just send a $3 donation when you download it now, if you want to.
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