Here are a couple of things I was listening to when I was at USC, which used to get me in trouble with some of the other students, for playing too… aggressively, let’s say. One […]
Category: Roy Haynes
DBMITW: my fat bass drum
Just sharing a little piece of my own development here. From the early 90’s, until I finally submitted to the too-soft, you-don’t-really-want-drums-on-this-gig-do-you craze of the mid-oughts, I played a 20″ Gretsch bass drum with Remo […]
Everybody digs the same stuff, part eleventy
I’ve decided that one of the immutable laws of the universe is that everybody digs the same stuff— well, I’ve felt that way for some time, and it keeps getting confirmed. In this latest case: […]
Got my Chick cymbal
The original, signed by Roy Haynes. The nice thing about Paiste cymbals— most of them— is that when you hear a sound you like, you can duplicate it almost exactly by just buying the same […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes — Played Twice
I’m always listening to great drummers, but Roy Haynes just sweeps in and blows everyone away here. I love the way he plays this head. This is Thelonious Monk’s Played Twice, from The Straight Horn […]
DBMITW: trove o’ Burton
I’ve been listening to a lot of Gary Burton lately— like the past five months or so— but haven’t been sharing much because there’s a shortage of his recorded stuff on YouTube, except for this […]
What records I’m listening to
My original bleak assessment of the future of this feature has mostly played out– I still just listen to the same batch of records over and over for days or weeks at a time. But a […]
Tune of the moment: Misterioso
Thelonious Monk’s Misterioso is a strangely beguiling little tune: It’s a slow blues, with a melody of running even 8th notes. That doesn’t sound hard. Except somewhere in the playing of it, it always goes […]
Know your tempos: what’s meant by up
In case you were wondering how fast you need to be able to play, here are a bunch of your favorite tracks spanning the break between “medium up”- where it’s still possible to swing- and […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – In Walked Bud
To make up for the exceptionally light posting this week, and to follow up the Roy Haynes transcription round-up, here’s an extra special solo from In Walked Bud, on Thelonious Monk’s Misterioso, which I first […]
The stars are aligned
Or something. Looks like I’ll be playing this tune with two different groups two weeks in a row, after never playing it in the 20+ years I’ve known it. A ton more Metheny/Haynes/Holland goodness after […]
Roy Haynes transcription round-up
I thought I’d follow up my Elvin Jones transcription round-up with one of the other great jazz masters, Roy Haynes. I’m a little surprised to find I’ve only put up two things of his, his […]