Here’s a funk groove with a couple of unusual touches, and a New Orleans flavor, by Idris Muhammad. The tune is The Windjammer, from Grant Green’s 1970 album Green Is Beautiful. On the intro Muhammad […]
Category: Groove o’ the day
Groove o’ the day: Lenny White — Red Clay
Here’s a fusion classic, Red Clay, by Freddie Hubbard, as played by Lenny White. For a time this was one of the most-played tunes in the world among college-age jazz musicians: Lenny plays really on […]
More Guaguancó
OK, my new record is done, my taxes are done, and it’s time to get back to business as usual. Here I’ve found here an interesting version of Guaguanco, a very popular traditional Afro-Cuban rumba […]
Groove o’ the day: Tamba Trio — Negro
Posting is going to be a little spotty for the next few days; I’m recording my new album at the beginning of next week, and until then I’ll be preoccupied with stuff related to that. […]
Groove o’ the day: Jim Gordon — Jump Into The Fire
Here’s a cowbell groove from the studio legend, tragically insane, Jim Gordon. It’s Jump Into The Fire, from Harry Nilsson’s album Nilsson Schmilsson, which for people not around in the 70’s will be best known […]
Groove o’ the day: Mel Lewis — Jive Samba
Mel Lewis plays a funk groove. The tune is Nat Adderly’s Jive Samba, and the album is Thad Jones / Mel Lewis, Central Park North, from 1969. The intro has some fun tom fills, so […]
Groove(s) o’ the day: On the streets of Aba, Nigeria
I loved this video so much I wanted to lay on you a transcription of the whole thing, but we’re going to have to settle for just getting the basic groove. I hit a wall […]
Groove o’ the day: Elvin Jones Latin
We want to get a sense of the texture of this groove, and just writing out one time through of it would be misleading, so here’s the whole intro from I Wish You Love, from […]
Groove o’ the day: Tony Williams — Footprints
Here’s a Latin-style groove Tony Williams plays at one point in the odyssey of jazz percussion that is Footprints, a tune by Wayne Shorter, from Miles Davis’s album Miles Smiles. The tune is in 6/4, […]
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell — Tarik
Here’s something from I think the first record with Ed Blackwell I ever bought: Tarik, by Dewey Redman. It’s sort of Blackwell’s tom tom thing boiled down to it’s smallest essence: It will be up […]
Groove o’ the day: Ronald Shannon Jackson — Behind Plastic Faces
I guess I’m blogging in couplets this week. Speaking of one of my favorite records, Decode Yourself, by Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society— long totally out of print, from a not-very-collectible era in jazz— I’m glad […]
Groove o’ the day: Tiki Fulwood — Red Hot Mama
Another GOTD by my favorite Funkadelic drummer, Tiki Fulwood. The tune is Red Hot Mama, from Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On, by Funkadelic, of course. The groove for the verse: The song […]