Absolutely killing tune here— Jodo by Freddie Hubbard, from his album Blue Spirits. Pete La Roca is on drums. Soloists are Hubbard, Hank Mobley, McCoy Tyner, and La Roca. I sometimes forget La Roca is […]
Category: Pete LaRoca
Daily best music in the world: Pete La Roca with Coltrane
Busy this week finishing an e-book outlining my “harmonic coordination improved” method. I think I’m going to call it Drumset Control. There are at least two other books with that title, by Mitchell Peters and […]
Pete LaRoca 1938-2012
Another very great drummer has died, Pete LaRoca Sims. I heard that he had entered a hospice a few days ago; his condition must have deteriorated very quickly. He was of roughly the same generation […]
Two nice finds
Two nice things from Jazz Schmazz, a blog I’ll be checking in with real often from here on out. First is a transcription of Pete LaRoca’s fours on Homestretch, from Joe Henderson’s Page One… and, […]
VOQOTD: Pete La Roca on backbeats
What an insult for Fusion to impose the repetitive BackBeat on Jazz drummers! How ironic, since the BackBeat is merely the handclap used by American slaves when they were forbidden to have drums! How bizarre […]
Tune of the moment: Eiderdown
Eiderdown is a great tune by Steve Swallow that deserves to be played a lot more, and has been coming up a bunch lately in sessions and in my listening. The lead sheet is available […]
Transciption: Pete LaRoca – Oleo
I must apologize for the light posting- I’ve been occupied with work and with my still-upcoming, really-going-to-happen this time recording session for my new record. Allow me to make it up to you by offering […]