We’ll be getting back into regular blogging soon enough— I’ve just finished the 2015 Book of the Blog (available for purchase soon!), and am chilling out with some Howlin’ Wolf right now…
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DBMITW: Trio Jeepy
- Todd Bishop
- May 21, 2012
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I feel like I’ve been pretty unimaginative with my filler lately, but what am I going to do that’s better than this? That’s from Branford Marsalis’s late 80’s record Trio Jeepy, with Milt Hinton and […]
Basic 12/8 grooves
- Todd Bishop
- August 25, 2016
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Before we get too deep into the heavier triplet-slash-12/8 stuff, here’s a page of basic grooves. Gotta make sure everyone is taken care of. 12/8 is a compound meter (meaning it has a “triplet” feel— […]
Listening: Art Blakey groove number
- Todd Bishop
- June 1, 2020
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Let’s do some more guided listening. Here’s Art Blakey playing a little Quincy Jones groove arrangement with a nine piece ensemble: Plenty, Plenty Soul, from the Milt Jackson album of the same title. The form […]