OK, first new content post on the new platform. WordPress handles images a little differently, and it’s messing with my usual post design, so I’ll be fiddling with that a bit. I’ve been working with […]
Category: latin
Groove o’ the day: Max In Tunisia
A selection of grooves played by Max Roach on the Miles Davis album At Last!— a live recording made at The Lighthouse in LA in 1953, and released thirty years later. Max here has been […]
One note / two notes
A little rhythm project, building rhythms based on sequences of one and two notes, spaced in a natural way for one hand— bell rhythms, essentially. It’s a good approach for teaching people who are new […]
Groove o’ the day: two by Elvin Jones
I have a couple of larger transcriptions going right now, from a couple of Elvin Jones live albums, but don’t have time to complete them, so here are the major grooves from them. The first […]
Mozambique inversions
Library item that occurred to me while writing that last post. That Mozambique bell rhythm seems significant beyond just using it to play a Latin beat, hence this page, running it through its inversions. Half […]
Elvinized Mozambique
An item I was working out with a student— making an Elvin Jones-like Latin groove/texture out of a Mozambique rhythm, for medium tempos, with swing 8th notes. It’s an entry, just the first, most obvious […]
Tresillo unit
For a couple of weeks I’ve been working with an area of stuff covering several different styles— grooves with a tresillo rhythm, or part of it, in the bass drum. I’ve been polishing it for […]
Groove o’ the day: Dave Weckl Afro 6
Hey, happy new year— let’s roll in 2024 with a snazzy Dave Weckl groove, which inspired some conversation. It’s from 1994— hey, 30 years ago now— and Weckl is in his zone. He’s been writing […]
Songo brushup
I have some dates coming up where I need to use a Songo-type groove (the chart says “samba”, but it’s really not)— which I don’t have to play that often, so I’m brushing up on […]
P. 38 canon
This is purely a writing experiment, pay no attention. Like, run away to some other web site right now. Actually this is a pretty good exercise for working up an Ed Blackwell kind of solo […]
Groove o’ the day: Billy Higgins Latin
Addendum to yesterday’s Billy Higgins transcription— here’s the Latin groove he plays on the A sections of the head on Moose the Mooche, from Joshua Redman’s album Wish. More or less— it takes a couple of […]