This is pretty much definitional as to what funk drumming is. Here are another couple of Funkadelic grooves, from Take Your Dead Ass Home, on the album Tales of Kidd Funkadelic. The drummer is the […]
Category: Groove o’ the day
Groove o’ the day: Shelly Manne — Way Out West
Here are a couple of very famous things by Shelly Manne, from the album Way Out West by Sonny Rollins. Sonny could be a little perverse in his tune selections, often choosing things that would […]
Groove o’ the day: funk samba
Today we have a studio-funk style samba by Ivan Conti of Azymuth, on the tune Manhã, from the group’s 1974 self-titled album: The right hand alternates between the bell of the cymbal, and the regular […]
Groove o’ the day: Blues in Elf
Here’s something from what I’m hoping will be the second volume of books of 100 Grooves, this time dealing with odd meters— we’ll see if I can track down enough interesting things to merit a […]
Groove o’ the day: Ivan Conti — Questao de Etica
More Brazilian fusion from Ivan Conti, of Azymuth. They really embraced the technology in the early 80’s, so a good amount of their stuff is fairly unlistenable, but the records with real drums on them […]
Groove o’ the day: Peter Erskine — Clint
Because I like challenging you to hear past things that most people perceive as cheese, here’s a little relic of the later fusion era, by the great John Abercrombie trio with Marc Johnson and Peter […]
Groove o’ the day: DC Go-go
In the late 80’s my old friend and cohort Kirk Ross went off to Berklee and brought back some tapes of Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers, and Trouble Funk— Go-go, Washington DC’s special variety […]
Much more on the Baby groove
Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about a song you never heard until a few days ago, “Baby” by Caetano Veloso. It’s not exactly the most important thing ever, but it’s on my […]
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell — Lop-o-lop
Another Ed Blackwell 6/8 today, from an album you may have some trouble finding, Dewey Redman’s Tarik, on Aktuel. The drums play in two, and the bass (Malachi Favors, I think?) plays a fast 6. […]
Groove o’ the day: Whipping Post
Extraordinarily busy this week, but there’s always time for a groove o’ the day, so here’s Whipping Post, by the Allman Brothers. Butch Trucks and Jaimoe Johnson are on drums, apparently playing basically in unison. […]
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 […]
Groove(s) o’ the day: Shuggie Otis — Inspiration Information
Once upon a time even music meant for mass consumption didn’t necessarily have the same drum beat played repetitively all the way through. The drumming on Inspiration Information by Shuggie Otis is constantly changing, while […]