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 […]
Category: Groove o’ the day
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 […]
Groove o’ the day: Mickey Roker Latin
Fantastic, I hadn’t planned it this way, but here’s yet another thing you have to buy— a Latin groove by Mickey Roker, on the tune Woody’n You, on McCoy Tyner’s album Live At Newport: Roker plays […]
Groove o’ the day: two by Jabo Starks
Here are two grooves by Jabo Starks, played on James Brown’s original soundtrack for the movie Black Caesar. As you already know very well, Starks, along with Clyde Stubblefield, is the drummer most responsible for […]
Groove o’ the day: Elvin Afro 6
All I can say is, we’re all going to be masters of the 6/8 Afro groove by the time we’re finished here. That’s fine. It’s a lot of fun to play, to listen to, and […]
Groove o’ the day: Al Foster — Billy Preston
Must play more music where I can just leave the hihats open all day. This is Al Foster’s groove on the tune Billy Preston, on the Miles Davis album Get Up With It; kind of […]
Groove o’ the day: Tony Allen — No Agreement
Finishing up a long Ed Blackwell transcription, so while U wait, here’s a pretty classic Afrobeat groove from Tony Allen. The tune and album are No Agreement, by Fela Kuti: The variations and fills are […]
Groove o’ the day: Todd Bishop — The Secret Agent
I’ve got a bunch of unfinished stuff on deck, so we’ll just keep doing GOTDs until I can get it together and be a writer. And what the hell, let’s do one of me. The […]
Groove o’ the day: more Public Enemy
…aaand another rocking groove from The Bomb Squad, this time on Bring The Noise, from Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions… album. Again, this is a composite of programmed and sampled grooves, which […]
Groove o’ the day: The Bomb Squad — Night of the Living Baseheads
There was a period in time when hip hop really rocked. This is the groove from Night Of The Living Baseheads, from Public Enemy’s album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. […]
Groove o’ the day: Neftali Santiago — Too Late
Because I don’t think your funk is 70s is enough, here’s some more Mandrill, with one of the greatest-named drummers ever, Neftali Santiago. And just a great drummer, period. This is Too Late, from the […]
Groove o’ the day: more DC Go Go
Last year we looked at the quintessential Go-Go groove, in my mind, played by Ricky Wellman, with Chuck Brown. Trouble Funk is another major act in that style, and their drummer Emmett Nixon did things […]