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Here is Jack Dejohnette playing duo with Lee Konitz, on the head of Green Dolphin St., and the first chorus of Konitz’s solo, on Konitz’s album Satori, from 1974.
I bought this record in 1988, as I was getting ready to attend USC. One of the assignments as I was applying was to transcribe something from Just Friends, so I went out and grabbed any old record with Just Friends on it, which this one did, and I transcribed the drumming on it. It wasn’t the actual assignment— it was supposed to be from a specific recording—but I guess they found my work satisfactory.
The transcription goes for two choruses, 64 bars, from the beginning of the track. Tempo is 199 bpm. A lot of familiar materials in it.
There are a few little spots where he fluffs things out a little bit, like bars 55-56— he’s actually playing triplet stuff, as he does in the preceding measures, but he’s messing with the timing of one of the parts. He’s playing right hand lead triplets, of the type we often do practicing out of Syncopation, straightening out the right hand part, but apparently still filling in triplets (or something like it) with the left. It’s not a thing you would work out, you would just have to go for it.
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