Here’s Pete La Roca trading 4/8s (four bars horn, eight bars drums) on Homestretch, a blues on Joe Henderson’s album Page One. I’ve written out the full choruses— four total. On the fourth chorus there’s […]
Category: Joe Henderson
Grooves o’ the day: Joe Chambers – Caribbean Fire Dance
Here are some Latin jazz grooves played by Joe Chambers on Caribbean Fire Dance, from Joe Henderson’s album Mode For Joe. This is late phase hard bop. Chambers plays a solo on this that gets […]
Transcription: Ndugu Leon Chancler – Earth
Happy holidays everyone. Instead of finishing the other transcriptions I said I needed to finish, I started a new, really long one: Ndugu Leon Chancler playing Earth, from Joe Henderson’s album The Elements. I don’t […]
Transcription: Joe Chambers – Granted
Here’s a transcription of some jazz comping with a 3/4-within-4/4 feel, by Joe Chambers. This is from Granted, on Joe Henderson’s album Mode For Joe. It’s sort of a companion to the Elvin Jones Groove […]
DBMITW: Joe Henderson
Another long one: Joe Henderson with Al Foster and Dave Holland:
Transcription: Lenny White – Invitation
Here’s my transcription of Lenny White playing on Invitation, from Joe Henderson’s In Pursuit of Blackness. I made note of a couple of suspect measures that gave me problems originally. I haven’t proofed it recently, […]