
Mark Turner plays with Matt Jorgensen’s group on Origin Record’s Ballard Jazz Walk this month. 
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First jazz lesson
- Todd Bishop
- October 4, 2018
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Here’s an item for teachers. This is a process I improvised in a lesson with a 6th grade student yesterday, to introduce him to playing the jazz rhythm on the drums. We did this verbally, […]
Transcription: Art Blakey – Afrique
- Todd Bishop
- April 18, 2017
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Here’s the drum solo from the same tune as our GOTD the other day: Afrique, from The Witch Doctor, by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Blakey’s solos with his group often serve a compositional […]
Making bass drum punctuations while feathering
- Todd Bishop
- September 2, 2013
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A couple of the problems I have with the idea of playing time with the bass drum (“feathering”) in jazz are: 1) it’s easy to play the feathered notes too loud— a very hokey thing […]
