More Steve Gadd on Chick Corea’s Friends— here on the flute solo on Waltse For Dave, a medium tempo jazz waltz. It has a 70 bar form: A -16 | A – 16 | B […]
Category: Chick Corea
Solo transcription: Steve Gadd – Samba Song
Classically Gadd solo by Steve Gadd (hey?) on Chick Corea’s album Friends— the Smurfs album. There are four records from the later 70s by Corea, with Gadd on them, that were the epitome of the […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes 8s
Hot on the heels of that “too perfect” post, here’s a great example of what I’m talking about in terms of playing with an edge: Roy Haynes trading 8s with Chick Corea on Rhythm-a-ning, from […]
Daily best music in the world: Spirit of ’86
Funny how dramatically the zeitgeist can change in a few years. Did you know that fusion was actually a serious thing, for many years? Until Wynton Marsalis hit us with his thing in the mid […]
Got my Chick cymbal
The original, signed by Roy Haynes. The nice thing about Paiste cymbals— most of them— is that when you hear a sound you like, you can duplicate it almost exactly by just buying the same […]
DBMITW: freight train
Several clips of Tony Williams during his early 70’s “freight train from hell” phase: With Stan Getz, along with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke: Continued after the break: With Lifetime: Master of the single […]
Groove o’ the day: Airto’s samba in 3
Here’s a favorite piece of drumming by Airto, from Chick Corea’s Return to Forever album on ECM. I’d like to transcribe this entire track, but today I just have the primary grooves for you. The […]
DBMITW: Gadd with Chick
I’m working on putting last year’s transcriptions into book form today- which, thanks to the miracle of online publishing, should be available for you to purchase shortly. So you’ll just have to enjoy these two […]
Two more Paul Motian memorials
This time from someone who actually knew him and played with him, Ethan Iverson. Here’s the introduction: “Who was Paul Motian? A bald white guy without proper technique? One look at his trademark grip, choked […]
Roy Haynes transcription round-up
I thought I’d follow up my Elvin Jones transcription round-up with one of the other great jazz masters, Roy Haynes. I’m a little surprised to find I’ve only put up two things of his, his […]
Out-of-print LP rips: some finds
Here are some exciting drummer-led things I found while paying a visit to the thriving community of record-collecting bloggers dedicated to ripping out-of-print LPs and making them available for download. Apparently no one wants to […]
Finishing taxes music
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