Hey, if you’re in Seattle, come on down to Egan’s in Ballard tonight— my group will be playing at 10:30, as part of the Ballard Jazz Festival. The band includes Richard Cole, Jasnam Daya Singh […]
Author: Todd Bishop
Transcription: more Serge, more Dougie
What the heck, let’s do some more Dougie Wright. The last thing was a little goofy, but today’s transcription is for me a minor classic of 70’s studio rock drumming. The album again is Serge […]
Groove o’ the day: Dougie Wright — En Melody
I spent a lot of time listening to French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg as I was working on my album of his music a few years ago, and came to appreciate a very British, very 70’s, […]
Straight 8ths within Afro 6/8
I keep feeling like I have to justify doing so much with the Afro 6/8. I’m just working with it a lot, and here we are nothing if not personal and idiosyncratic. I also feel […]
Transcription: Rick Marotta plays a waltz
UPDATE: The download link is working now. Here’s a portion of Spirit of Summer, from the album Deodato In Concert. If you don’t know who Deodato is, he’s a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger, who was […]
Some observations on an Ari Hoenig performance
A few weeks back I saw Ari Hoenig play in Portland with Kenny Werner’s trio, and scribbled down a few notes after the fact. Hoenig is one of the leading current guys, but I haven’t […]
Groove o’ the day: Idris Muhammad — The Windjammer
Here’s a funk groove with a couple of unusual touches, and a New Orleans flavor, by Idris Muhammad. The tune is The Windjammer, from Grant Green’s 1970 album Green Is Beautiful. On the intro Muhammad […]
A few old photos
Digging through my archives for imagery for the cover of my new record, and rescanning some of my old negatives, today. Here are a few pictures I took in Rome several years ago:
Swing coordination: Dahlgren & Fine format — 01
In the swing section of their book 4-Way Coordination, Marvin Dahlgren and Eliot Fine created a fairly ingenious framework for writing related exercises in multiple time signatures. With my Pages o’ Coordination I’ve been following […]
Priorities
From a drum book with the questionable premise and title of Rhythmic Illusions: There is no Chapter 15, FYI. Don’t let this happen to you.