Here’s a short method for getting your Bossa Nova/Samba in 7/4 together. Since it’s not exactly an everyday thing, short is the only way to do it. We’ve discussed before the obvious wrong-seemingness of odd […]
Category: grooves
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 […]
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 […]