A light little 60s pop beat by Idris Muhammad— I don’t know what to call it, part boogaloo, part bossa nova— from George Benson’s album Shape Of Things To Come. The whole record is like […]
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Transcription: Tony Williams – Cantaloupe Island
A student was asking about Cantaloupe Island, played by Tony Williams on Herbie Hancock’s Empyrean Isles album, so I went ahead and transcribed the whole thing. Why not. The style may get called as a […]
Grooves o’ the day: Rumproller
Eaaasing back into blogging after an eventful couple of weeks, with some grooves by Billy Higgins, from Lee Morgan’s album The Rumproller. First, the groove from the title track: Often he’ll accent the & of […]
Groove o’ the day: Grant Green — Cantaloupe Woman
Here are two different Blue Note/soul/boogaloo-type grooves on the tune Cantaloupe Woman, from albums by Grant Green. First, from the great session drummer Ben Dixon (who also wrote the tune), as played on the 1965 […]