Very busy this week, so just another little link share of something very cool: part 1 of Michael Shrieve’s interview with Elvin Jones. You’ll probably want to follow Shrieve on Facebook, too— he’s always posting good stuff.
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Transcription: Elvin Jones – Chasin’ the Trane – 02
- Todd Bishop
- December 25, 2020
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Happy Saturnalia everyone— although it seems a shame to call it that, with everyone celebrating in isolation. Nevertheless, here is the second minute of Elvin Jones playing Chasin’ the Trane— 1:13 to 2:13— from John […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Your Lady
- Todd Bishop
- June 4, 2012
- 1
Lately I keep doing the bulk of the hard work on these things, only to run out of steam in the last 12 bars, but David in the comments was able to shame me into […]
Developing Elvin’s Afro-Waltz
- Todd Bishop
- April 11, 2012
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Here’s a little something for developing the left hand using the feet-and-cymbal part from Elvin Jones’ groove on John Coltrane’s Your Lady. I always did that type of thing by just going for the sound […]

