Here Gary Burton runs his vibes through a Big Muff. Great tune, but everyone’s really just waiting for them to play the little ’70’s-style hook at the end of the ensemble lick again. This is […]
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DBMITW: Art Ensemble of Chicago
I’ve got several things brewing– including, but not limited to the rest of the series on playing in 5/4— but they’re all taking their sweet time getting finished, so in the mean time, here’s some […]
DBMITW: the kind of playing I’d like to hear more of
With hyperactive fast-16th-to-32nd notes kind of dominating drummers’ collective mindspace today, I love hearing some utterly happening 8th note-based playing: Also:
DBMITW: Rated X
From Miles Davis’s Get Up With It: That’s the great Michael Henderson on bass. From Wikipedia: Davis saw the young Henderson performing [with Stevie Wonder] at the Copacabana in New York City in early 1970 […]
DBMITW: Can YouTube do this?
See, another reason I like my turntable is that I can just reach over and hit one button and it will replay side B of The New Miles Davis Quintet for the tenth time in […]
DBMITW: all Elvin, all the time
This current Elvin binge really snuck up on me. It’s easy to lazily categorize his playing as a style– but then you listen to something like this, which we’ve all heard a thousand times, and […]
DBMITW: Trio Jeepy
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 […]
DBMITW: Jazz at the Philharmonic
This is from a Jazz at the Philharmonic album from 1949 that I dug out of my father’s record collection back in the early 80’s, and I’ve been carrying it around ever since. It’s got […]
DBMITW: more Cecil
This is from my other favorite Cecil Taylor record, Looking Ahead!, with Denis Charles on drums. Charles plays his cymbal (in 1950’s, at least) in a way you would have a hard time getting away […]
DBMITW: Cecil Taylor
Here’s another old free jazz favorite from my LP stacks. Andrew Cyrille is on drums. And the title (CONQUISTADOR!) has an exclamation point, which I like.