Please forgive this clickbait, the kids do love a good Ben Dixon transcription.
Here he is trading fours on Come Sunrise, from Grant Green’s album Sunday Mornin’. The record came to me through YouTube, I never saw it in a store, ever. Unfortunate, because it’s a real textbook on jazz drumming. The most famous records aren’t always the best ones for learning what to play.
Like, you’ll notice with the comping on Green’s fours— this is all anyone ever needs to play. There’s not a lot there. The soloing is linear 8th notes, virtually straight out of Syncopation. Simple, but modern. When they say “think like a horn”, that’s what they’re talking about.
Dixon is trading fours with Green over two choruses of blues. I don’t know where the cutoff is for “medium up”, to me this is medium up. Fours begin at 3:11 in the track.
Nothing more to say, everything’s in the transcription, and on the record. It’s a great early assignment for jazz students.
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