Here’s a cool video of Ndugu Leon Chancler in the studio with George Duke, playing Dukey Stick, which ended up on his record Don’t Let Go. They start playing after about 1:45. The way Ndugu […]
Category: George Duke
Groove o’ the day: Ndugu Latin
Listening to Ndugu Leon Chancler is always a great lesson in how to play funk, and how to use a set with a lot of tom toms. How to use the tom toms period. I […]
Groove o’ the day: Ndugu Leon Chancler afro 12/8
Here’s a very fun tune, with Ndugu Leon Chancler playing an unusual form of an Afro 12/8, on the late, great, George Duke’s 1977 album Reach For It. The track is called Omi. There’s lots […]
George Duke 1946-2013
There was some kind of magnetism about George Duke that made you think he was going to live forever, but then it doesn’t work out that way. Hearing him on Frank Zappa’s Roxy & Elsewhere […]
DBMITW: Milton Nascimento with George Duke
George Duke’s Brazilian Love Affair, again. Ao Que Vai Nascer, by Milton Nascimento. I’m glad someone put this onto YouTube, and you will be, too, in a moment:
Groove o’ the day: Ricky Lawson — I Need You Now
Getting back to our regular stuff, here, we’ve got the groove for I Need You Now, from George Duke’s Brazilian Love Affair, played by Ricky Lawson: The accents are for the hihat part only. Visit […]
DBMITW: more George Duke
This is a little bit of a listening test from George Duke’s Brazilian Love Affair, again, with Ricky Lawson on drums. It would be easy for a lot of people to give this a cursory […]
Busy
Busy all day doing tour-related junk, and transcribing charts– Blood by Paul Bley, Priestess by Billy Harper, following Gil Evans’s arrangement, and a couple of Don Cherry tunes I used to play in the 90’s. […]
DBMITW: George Duke
Here’s Sugar Loaf Mountain, from George Duke’s Brazilian Love Affair, one of the three essential albums of his, along with Reach For It and Frank Zappa’s Roxy & Elsewhere. That’s Ricky Lawson providing the crushing […]
Transcription: Ndugu – Watch Out, Baby!
Here’s one of my favorite funk drumming performances ever, which I originally transcribed years ago off of my brother’s bootleg cassette- Ndugu Leon Chancler playing on Watch Out, Baby! from George Duke’s 1977 Reach For […]