This series is difficult for me, because it means writing a lot of words about somebody’s playing, at which I am not good. I never felt a need to put it into words. It also […]
Category: Philly Joe Jones
Transcription: Philly Joe Jones – Gone
From the Miles Davis album Porgy & Bess, here is Philly Joe Jones playing Gil Evans’s arrangement of Gone. It’s mostly just drums and horns, with a lot of drum breaks, plus a bridge where […]
Philly Joe solo lesson
In that last Philly Joe Jones transcription— his solo on Sub City, with Bud Powell— I noted a pattern of using his 8th note bass drum phrases to break up the mainly-snare drum passages. It’s […]
Solo transcription: Philly Joe Jones – Sub City
Here’s a drum solo played at a bright tempo with brushes by Philly Joe Jones. The tune is Sub City, by Bud Powell. The form is 32 bars long, and he’s basically playing two choruses, […]
Transcription: Philly Joe brush feature
I heard this on the radio yesterday— Soft Winds, from Chet Baker’s album In New York. Philly Joe Jones also had a cool drum solo on it, played with brushes. Drumming right now is in a […]
Transcription: Philly Joe Jones – Let’s Cool One
Here’s Philly Joe Jones’s drum solo on Let’s Cool One, from the Clark Terry album In Orbit. Just the rhythm section plays the tune here: Thelonious Monk, Sam Jones, and Philly Joe. It’s a rather […]
Groove o’ the day: Philly Joe Afro 6
From the Sonny Rollins album Newk’s Time, another individualistic version of an Afro 6/8 groove, played by Philly Joe Jones on Asiatic Raes, a Kenny Dorham tune. On the snare line, the x is a […]
Daily best music in the world: Sonny plays Surrey
Sonny Rollins and Philly Joe Jones play Surrey With The Fringe On Top, duo, on Sonny’s record Newk’s Time. This has got to be the purest essay on bop drumming ever.
Philly Joe starts a chorus: The Theme
Another micro-transcription looking at how Philly Joe Jones plays the beginning of a chorus. The tune is The Theme, from the Miles Davis album Miles (what it says on the cover), or The New Miles […]
Philly Joe plays an entrance: Oleo
Lots of action here this week, but here’s a little something for you… the new Book of Intros is still on its way… finishing is always the hard part, and there’s always more to do […]
Philly Joe Jones three-beat triplet lick
Following up the Philly Joe Jones drum intro transcription from the other day, here are a few exercises for getting together that three-beat triplet lick we saw there. I’ve included two stickings: alternating, and a paradiddle-diddle […]
A Philly Joe intro: Dance of the Infidels
Oh, I was going to put out a book of intros, wasn’t I? Most of the transcribing for that project is actually done, and now I just need to do the not-fun part of laying […]