This week I was working on something really narcissistic: a transcription of one of my own performances. I was just listening to some of my old rehearsal/gig recordings and thought, hey, I’d like to figure […]
Category: transcriptions
Transcription: Dannie Richmond — Ugly Beauty
I guess the theme this week is TRANSCRIPTIONS and BUY RECORDS, because this post also does not have a YouTube link. But you can get the album on iTunes, probably from some other online sources. […]
Transcription: Paul Motian — Trinkle Tinkle
Oh, look, another transcription with no YouTube video— no worries, though, because as a serious listener, you already own this record. This is Paul Motian’s playing during Bill Frisell’s guitar solo on the tune Trinkle […]
Transcription: Jeff Watts — Makin’ Whoopee
Another Jeff Watts transcription, from Branford Marsalis’s album Trio Jeepy. The audio is not available on our usual YouTube; but, you, know, that’s OK. Music isn’t actually supposed to be free. So get thee to […]
Transcription: Jeff Watts — Upper Manhattan Medical Group
Here is Jeff Watts’s 32-bar solo on Upper Manhattan Medical Group, from Branford Marsalis’s album Trio Jeepy. It’s a sign of the times that Watts, a virtuoso himself, comes off as kind of un-technical compared […]
Transcription: Funkadelic — Trash A Go Go
More funk. This is Trash A-Go-Go, from Funkadelic’s Cosmic Slop album. It’s not clear who the drummer is; our man Tiki Fulwood is only credited on one track, and I don’t think it’s our other […]
Transcription: Ed Blackwell — Guinea
OK, this one is definitely a labor of love— that took way too long to finish and proof. But I’ve been living with this piece for a good twenty years, and performing it for much […]
Transcription: John Guerin — Dirty Harry, Main Title
Here’s a whole lot of kickass 70s stuff. The drumming here is by John Guerin, one of the great L.A. studio drummers of the era. He plays a large set here, with five concert toms, and, […]
Groove o’ the day, plus fills: Mandrill — Tee Vee
There was a period in the 70s when funky music had a kind of unbridled quality you don’t much hear any more— there was a lot of screaming, and everyone seemed to be fully embracing […]
Transcription: more Serge, more Dougie
What the heck, let’s do some more Dougie Wright. The last thing was a little goofy, but today’s transcription is for me a minor classic of 70’s studio rock drumming. The album again is Serge […]
Transcription: Rick Marotta plays a waltz
UPDATE: The download link is working now. Here’s a portion of Spirit of Summer, from the album Deodato In Concert. If you don’t know who Deodato is, he’s a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger, who was […]
Frankie Dunlop plays an intro
Not much to say about this, except that one of my favorite things ever, Thelonious Monk’s Bye-Ya, from the album Monk’s Dream, came on KMHD today, and that Frankie Dunlop’s opening is just a perfect piece […]