From Flora Purim’s album Encounter, here’s more Airto— this time playing a jazz waltz: Black Narcissus. I’ve transcribed the head of the tune, and the first couple of choruses of his playing behind Joe Henderson’s […]
Category: waltz
Assembling a basic Elvin Jones-style waltz
Here’s a page of elements for putting together a basic Elvin Jones-style jazz waltz— I hate to treat his playing so reductively, but what are we supposed to do? It’s a thing, it’s sometimes asked […]
Page o’ coordination: “Latin in 3”
“Latin 3” is not a style name you often hear; it’s not a true Cuban/Salsa style that I’m aware of, and is not a super-common Brazilian style. But jazz musicians will call for it occasionally, […]
Page o’ coordination: Out Of This World
For all of these POCs I’ve posted, I’ve actually been writing and practicing quite a few more. Here’s one elaborating on one of the very first entries in this series, but with a more advanced […]
Transcription: Todd Bishop — Black Monk
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 […]
Page o’ coordination: Dannie Richmond-inspired — harder
I need to keep saying this: we do so many of these Pages o’… that a person could get the mistaken impression that I think this is the best way to learn drumming vocabulary. I […]
Page o’ coordination: Dannie Richmond-inspired
A page o’ coordination inspired by that last Dannie Richmond transcription, with a syncopated cymbal pattern. Are you getting to the point with these that you can anticipate what the left hand parts are going to […]
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. […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin waltz, with 16th notes
An big part of the Elvin Jones “thing” (if we must think of it that way), which doesn’t get talked about much, is 16th notes. People instantly think Elvin >>> triplets!, but he played a […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin’s waltz — inverted feet
Once you start doing an Elvin-like thing, the pull of that dotted-quarter rhythm can be very hard to resist; it’s effective, it builds tension, and it feels good to play it, but you need to […]
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 […]
Page o’ coordination: hihat splash in 3/4 — 02
Hey, I kind of like these things— we’ll see several more pages o’… with hihat splashes, in the near future. This format has become one of the major things we do here, as I’ve had […]