Here’s what I was talking about the other day, about Wilby Fletcher. At some point plays the cymbal rhythm I discussed. It doesn’t matter, the whole thing is incredibly powerful.
One thought on “Daily best music in the world: Wilby Fletcher with McCoy”
Leave a Reply to Anonymous Cancel reply
Related Posts
DBMITW: freight train
- Todd Bishop
- July 17, 2012
- 0
Several clips of Tony Williams during his early 70’s “freight train from hell” phase: With Stan Getz, along with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke: Continued after the break: With Lifetime: Master of the single […]
Daily best music in the world: harmolodic rock
- Todd Bishop
- September 19, 2020
- 2
From the 80s, when you could play this kind of music and get an apparently-decent recording contract, here is some James Blood Ulmer. It seems to fit the mood of the day. Harmolodics, for the […]
DBMITW: happy 80th to Wayne Shorter
- Todd Bishop
- August 27, 2013
- 1
In honor of the 80th birthday of the great saxophonist Wayne Shorter, here is one of my favorite solos of his— or of anyone else’s, ever— from Miles Davis’s Complete In A Silent Way Sessions […]

Awesome! This RLRR-LRRL (and of course all the inversions and variations you can imagine) is a big part of the great Johnny Vidacovich's playing as well. His former student, Stanton Moore, does some wonderful YouTube videos on these ideas, very practical and usable. I think this approach sounds good with a samba foot ostinato as well, pretty obvious variation I've been tinkering with. Thanks! Best drumming blog! -Joel