Another older transcription, Zigaboo Modeliste on Stay Away by the Meters. This one has a lot of fills. Get the pdf
Author: Todd Bishop
4:3 metric modulation in jazz
Here’s a little thing I put together to develop the 4:3 cross rhythm/metric modulation in jazz. Normally you actually want to explain an advanced concept like this, but really, if you don’t recognize it right […]
How fast can you take your time?
The Discipline of DE, from William S. Burroughs’ Exterminator!, reprinted in it’s entirety via Melancholia, which appears to be a Dutch literary blog. For me this is right up there with Zen in the Art […]
Drum roll, please…
My best drum roll story: playing an 8 AM party on Christmas in Hong Kong for about a thousand Chinese children. The emcee let us know through a combination of broken English and strange hand […]
Know your paint: Prussian blue
I have no idea what got me thinking about this, as I haven’t been painting recently, but it’s my blog so what the hell: Prussian blue is an earthy, ferric-looking blue that reminds me of […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – Morpheus
That does it- I may just switch over to an all-transcription blog- it probably took me less time to do this transcription than it will take to write an intro that doesn’t make me sound […]
Jo Jones in the ’70’s
I stumbled across this piece about Papa Jo Jones late in his career, at Michael Steinman’s Jazz Lives. Steinman was able to speak to Jones and see him perform a number of times during that […]
Transcription: Sly Dunbar intros
Here’s a project I had been meaning to tackle for awhile- a compilation of Sly Dunbar lead-ins. These are all taken from Serge Gainsbourg’s album, Aux Armes Et Caetera, which is like a reggae drumming […]
Jon Christensen solo
Via Trap’d, here’s a solo by Jon Christensen: He has always struck me as being sort of the Billy Higgins of the ECM era- egoless-seeming, non-pyrotechnic. I’m working on a transcription of one of his […]
Ron Hudson 1940-2011
Via Rifftides: Seattle photographer Ron Hudson has died at 71. Jazz musicians were his primary subject, and during his career he photographed many of the greats, including Count Basie, Woody Herman, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, […]