Trading 8s on Inner Glimpse, from McCoy Tyner’s album 4×4, with Al Foster on drums. Tempo is 260, normal burner range, and everyone is slamming. The trading begins at 4:40 in the track: On the […]
Category: drum solo
Solo transcription: Peter Erskine – A Summer Place
From a funny arrangement by Peter Erskine and Danny Grissett, from Erskine’s new record Vienna To Hollywood, out now on Origin Records (hey, as is a new record I play on) which features the music […]
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: Shelly Manne – Come, Gone
Here’s a drum solo by Shelly Manne on Come, Gone, from Sonny Rollins’s album Way Out West. I don’t know the album real well, and listening to this at random I was sure it was […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – Well, You Needn’t
Roy Haynes trading fours with Kenny Burrell on Well, You Needn’t, from Burrell’s 1959 album A Night At The Vanguard. They’re playing trio, with Richard Davis on bass. The whole record is really cool— nobody’s […]
Transcription: Art Blakey – Safari
A little drum break and Latin groove from Art Blakey, on Safari, by Horace Silver, originally on Horace Silver Trio, vol. 1, on Blue Note. Originally a 78 release, actually— the recording is less than […]
Transcription: Art Blakey – Boomerang
A left handed drum solo by Art Blakey, on Boomerang, from Blue Mitchell’s album Out Of The Blue. The solo is 32 bars long, with a stop on bar 32 for the horn pick ups […]
Transcription: Max Roach – Commutation
Here’s Max Roach soloing with his left hand on Commutation, by J.J. Johnson, on Johnson’s record First Place. A nice little self contained lesson item— there’s some trading after this solo I didn’t bother with. […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Boo Ann’s Grand
Jack Dejohnette open drum solo from Boo Ann’s Grand, on the Jackie McLean 1967 album Demon’s Dance. Tempo is about 241— about as fast you can do this kind of stuff. This is burning for […]
Solo transcription: Billy Higgins – Third World
Here’s a drum solo by Billy Higgins, from the tune Third World on Freddie Hubbard’s album Bolivia. I’ve never played this tune and didn’t count out the form. It starts with 8 bars of an […]
Max Roach / Stan Levey duo transcription: Milano Blues
Here’s a composed drum duo played by Max Roach and Stan Levey, on their album Drummin’ The Blues. They trade off on some parts, and play in unison on others. I believe the whole thing […]
From the zone: Danny Gottlieb solo break
Another archive item— lots of action around here right now, and not a lot of time to write. And I just found some more of my old writing. I wrote a lot of drum stuff […]