I’ve been working through Philly Joe Jones’s intro on Lomotion, from the Coltrane album Blue Train; a student was given the fairly nutso assignment of learning this verbatim off of YouTube. We worked through it […]
Category: jazz
Phrases for Chaffee linear patterns: triplets in 3/4
Here is one set of practice phrases for the Gary Chaffee linear patterns, in one or two measures of 3/4, with a triplet rhythm. For the sake of brevity, I’ve given only the two measure […]
Page o’ coordination: in 4/4 — 01
Extending this coordination series a little further, way out there into 4/4. What he have here is a little Elvin Jones-like phrase, ending with an accent on the & of 4, with a space at […]
5/4 jazz ostinato with snare drum — 01
Another in the Dahlgren & Fine-esque, post Elvin’s Afro-Waltz series of stuff, here with a slightly more normal jazz ostinato. I keep writing these because I like practicing them, and learning them gets a lot […]
Cracking 5/4: feet ostinatos
In adapting the blog post Cracking 5/4: the basics for the upcoming 2012 Book of the Blog, I noticed an an ugly gap in my materials— for that portion I suggested you get your patterns […]
Elvin-like 5/4
Here’s another in this fairly massive Elvin series, which I wrote to develop this unusual cymbal pattern in 5/4, with the 8th notes on beats 3 and 5. The first measure is the cymbal-and-feet ostinato, […]
Transcription: Philly Joe Jones — Hi Groove, Low Feedback
We’ll continue light posting through this week, as I’m in the middle of a big booking push, and then heading to the coast. But here’s an interesting Philly Joe Jones transcription, from Hank Mobley’s Hi […]
From the zone: Elvin 9/8
Let’s see if I can make a series out of this— it will depend on people sending me cool stuff out of their personal notebooks. Meaning, you should send me cool stuff out of your […]
The raggedy edge
Here’s a great post by Sam Nadel, on a subject I think a lot about— which I alluded to in the recent African ritual music DBMITW— “the importance of being reckless”: “Part of the problem […]
On Jack
There’s a great piece on Jack Dejohnette, by someone who plays with him, over at George Colligan’s Jazz Truth blog— go read. Here’s a bonus DBMITW:
Transcription: Tony Williams — Hat And Beard
We do all the hits here— this is another very famous piece of drumming, by Tony Williams, on Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch. The tune is the very unusual Hat And Beard, which is in […]
VOQOTD: the Blakey hang
“I used to play every night. It didn’t matter how much money I was making, I just had to play every night. When we’d get through playing at night, it was daybreak: 6:00. Then we’d […]