What the heck, we haven’t done a “round up” style post in awhile. Here’s a quick survey of Internet lore, briefly reviewing some of the information returned when you google “Elvin Jones triplets”: First, the […]
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Transcription: Elvin Jones — Summertime
Let’s start out the new year with a more substantial transcription than we’ve done in a while, in this case a very famous drum solo by Elvin Jones, on Summertime from John Coltrane’s My Favorite […]
DBMITW: Sonny Sharrock
Having a very busy weekend with students, gigs, and tour preparations, so here’s one of my favorite records from the 90’s, Sonny Sharrock’s Ask the Ages— by far his best album that I’ve heard. With […]
Groove o’ the day: Elvin Jones — Tumblin’ Tumbleweed
Just back in town from a short quasi-vacation at the Oregon coast, and nothing on deck except, groan, another hip, generic “Latin jazz” groove, played by Elvin Jones on the tune Tumblin’ Tumbleweed on J.J. […]
Tune of the Moment: Out of This World
The tune Out of this World by Harold Arlen has been on my mind a lot recently– I’ve been listening to John Coltrane’s recording of it on the album Coltrane, then it came up in […]
Cracking 5/4: listening
Here’s the first in a series on playing in 5/4. Since everything in music follows from listening (and this is the easiest type of post for me to write), we’ll start with some recorded examples: […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Your Lady
Lately I keep doing the bulk of the hard work on these things, only to run out of steam in the last 12 bars, but David in the comments was able to shame me into […]
Scholar’s corner: Elvin Jones plays the ride cymbal
We’ll see how long this new feature lasts. I’ve been coming across a good number of scholarly works online, most of them not worth sharing– in fact, I have a draft of a long post […]
Favorite albums: Impressions by John Coltrane
Cover from my version, the 80’s reissue. Impressions by John Coltrane 1963 – Impulse! John Coltrane – tenor and soprano saxophone Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone, bass clarinet McCoy Tyner – piano Jimmy Garrison – […]
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 […]