Here’s Steve Gadd playing the whole first part of Full Compass, from George Benson’s record Bad Benson— it’s a fully arranged thing, with some drum breaks. It’s an Afro-feel 12/8, modulating to 4/4 at the […]
Category: George Benson
Groove o’ the day: Billy Cobham – White Rabbit
Here’s Flamenco beat played by Billy Cobham on a cover of the Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit, from George Benson’s album of the same name. I’ve been listening to it on my drives to Eugene […]
Transcription: Al Harewood – Lil’ Darlin’
Transcription of a slow tune, Lil’ Darlin’, as played by Al Harewood, with George Benson. This is a really great group of Benson’s, with Mickey Tucker and George Duvivier, recorded on a Jazz Hour album […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Gentle Rain
This tune shows you one way of opening up a Bossa Nova groove, in a modern jazz setting. It’s Jack Dejohnette playing on Gentle Rain, from George Benson’s album Beyond The Blue Horizon. I’m listening […]
Groove o’ the day: Idris Muhammad – Last Train to Clarkesville
Idris Muhammad plays a hip train beat on George Benson’s cover of a Monkees hit, Last Train To Clarkesville, from his 1968 album Shape Of Things To Come. He’s playing rim clicks with a stick […]
Transcription: Al Harewood comping
What the hell, I’m on a roll, waiting for this weekend’s blanket of suffocating heat to descend on the entire Pacific Northwest. Let’s look at some more of Al Harewood, on yesterday’s same record by […]
Transcription: Al Harewood – All Blues
I’ve been looking into Al Harewood quite a bit lately. He’s one of those drummers who’s on a lot of stuff, but is still easy to overlook. He’s on a lot of Blue Note records in the […]
Daily best music in the world: So What
I’m going to transcribe some part of this— you can give it a listen while I figure that out. It seems worthy of a pretty full treatment, and breaks down cleanly into funk, medium swing, […]
Daily best music in the world: Al Harewood fast
Digging around for some Al Harewood— I mostly know him from the 60s Blue Note records he’s on, but he was active into the 90s— I found this killing live track from George Benson, in […]
Daily best music in the world: Breezin’
Here’s something very great: Harvey Mason playing Breezin’, written by Bobby Womack, on George Benson’s album of the same title in 1976. As far as I’m concerned there’s really no higher artistry in drumming than […]