Here’s one for my student, Max: from an early demo by northwest punk legends Poison Idea. With our Iron Maiden shirts and long hair, my friends and I went to see them play in somebody’s […]
Category: Groove o’ the day
Groove o’ the day: Melvins cover Butthole Surfers
I was re-listening to the videos in this post, and, in honor of music that makes you feel good— contra music that makes you feel nothing— here’s the beat Coady Willis and Dale Crover are playing […]
Groove o’ the day: Jabo Starks — The Payback
I don’t know karate, but I know karazy. Here’s Jabo Starks playing James Brown’s classic, The Payback, which, if you don’t already have the record, you may know from Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels, […]
Groove o’ the day: Terry Bozzio with Group 87
This is not the Bozzio thing I was talking about in that last post— this is just a teaser for the big-Bozzio thing yet to come. This is Sublime Feline, by Group 87— a band […]
Groove o’ the day: Tony Williams — Lopsy Lu
This is a super-classic bit of 70s fusion, from Stanley Clarke’s first self-titled solo record, with drumming by Tony Williams. I got this album used for 3 bucks around 1985, when I was buying everything […]
Groove o’ the day: Bernard Purdie — Funk Down
Here’s a bright proto-disco groove from Bernard Purdie, on the tune Funk Down, from Mongo Santamaria’s Afro-Indio record: The snare drum filler notes on the es happen more regularly, and more emphatically, than notes on […]
Groove o’ the day PLUS: Roger Hawkins — Mustang Sally
Another Groove o’ the day on steroids, from the studio drummer Roger Hawkins, of the famous Muscle Shoals rhythm section— we last checked him out on him on Aretha Franklin’s Chain of Fools. Here we’re […]
Groove o’ the day: Ivan Conti — A Presa
Here’s a funk samba groove from a drummer I’ve really come to dig: Ivan Conti, of the Brazilian fusion band Azymuth. When I was into fusion in the 80s, I got the impression from some […]
Groove o’ the day: Jorge Rossy calypso
I’ll try to keep these little quicky-posts coming as I work on our Book of Intros, and a couple of other pressing, revenue-generating, writing projects. This is a little calypso groove by Jorge Rossy, on […]
Grooves o’ the day: two by Frank Butler
This week I’m hard at work on the new Book of Intros (a collection of transcribed jazz drum intros), and it’s forming up nicely. If I don’t get bogged down in the text part, it should […]
Groove o’ the day: Art Blakey afro
This is a triplet Afro feel by Art Blakey, one of the major people playing that feel in a hard bop setting in the late 50s/early 60s. I usually call it a 6/8 feel— some […]
Groove o’ the day: Elvin Jones — The Trip
Here’s Elvin Jones playing a groove that should be very familiar if you’ve been following our Page o’ Coordination series: The Trip, by alto saxophonist Art Pepper, from his album of the same title. On the […]