I’m transcribing a little bit of Elvin Jones’s playing on the Wayne Shorter tune Juju, which I originally did off the LP around 1988. It’ll take some time to finish it, so here’s a page […]
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Elvin’s march
“I did go through [Harr’s snare drum book] as a matter of fact. I went to public school in Pontiac, Michigan, so I didn’t do anything extra. […] I didn’t have that advantage of being […]
Daily(?) best music in the world: Elvin Jones Trio LIVE
Awesome live recording by one of the greatest trios ever, the Elvin Jones trio with Joe Farrell and Jimmy Garrison. Here they’re playing in Berlin in 1968. Nothing to do here but listen:
Solo transcription: Elvin Jones – Crisis
Here’s Elvin Jones’s drum solo on that tune Crisis, from Freddie Hubbard’s Ready For Freddie, which we looked at a couple of weeks ago. It contains some classically Elvin stuff, and is good for some […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Crisis
Does the site need another Elvin Jones transcription? I don’t know. I’m just putting in my devotional time listening very closely to Elvin. What you all do with it is up to you. This is […]
Page o’ coordination: yet another Elvin 5/4
Here’s a page o’ coordination based on Elvin Jones’s playing on Lazy Afternoon, from Grant Green’s album Street of Dreams. It’s a medium slow 5/4— the tempo is about 109. He plays the ostinato below […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Chasin’ the Trane – 09
Continuing this project, here are the 49th-54th choruses of Elvin Jones’s playing on Chasin’ the Trane, from John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard. Transcription begins at 9:20 in the recording. I see there’s a […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Chasin’ the Trane – 08
When in doubt, keep doing what you’re doing. Let’s actually continue and complete my beginning of the year project, transcribing all of Elvin Jones’s playing on John Coltrane’s Chasin’ the Train, from the Live At […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Chasin’ the Trane – 07
I’m finally half done with this. This project is definitely streamlining my transcription methods. I use the program Transcribe, and loop two measures at a time, usually starting with the playback speed at 75%. Everything […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Chasin’ the Trane – 06
Part 6 of the Chasin’ the Trane transcription project. Elvin Jones playing on that eternal classic track from John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard. My head isn’t fully back into this series, so I […]