Another funk groove with a Brazilian flavor, from Shebaba by the guitarist Bola Sete. The album must have been recorded in Los Angeles, because on it are the saxophonist Hadley Caliman, and my old combo […]
Category: Groove o’ the day
Groove o’ the day: a funk samba
This is kind of a throwaway track by Gal Costa, but the drum groove is cool— both the pattern, and the way it’s played. Most people would call it a funk samba, and it has […]
Groove o’ the day: Billy Higgins – Una Muy Bonita
Some variations on a groove Billy Higgins plays on the Ornette Coleman tune Una Muy Bonita, on Bobby Hutcherson’s album Stick-Up!. It’s a New Orleans type thing, reminiscent of parts of Poinciana, as played by […]
Groove o’ the day: Lex Humphries – Abana
Back to posting drum stuff after a shocking, depressing last week, with the massacre of a lot of innocent humans in New Zealand. Here’s some music for anyone still struggling to find their equilibrium. I was […]
Groove o’ the day: Hot Rod
Update: There is some dispute as to whether the drummer here is actually Idris Muhammad, which would not surprise me at all, because this is the kind of stuff he plays. This is from a […]
Groove o’ the day: Street beat in 7
Here’s a New Orleans street beat-style groove in 7/4, played by Bill Stewart. The tune is 7th Floor, from John Scofield’s album Hand Jive. This is the basic groove from the intro of the tune; […]
Groove o’ the day: Idris Muhammad Mozambique
Here is Idris Muhammad playing a Mozambique-like Latin groove with Melvin Sparks, on Speak Low, from the album Sparkling. Muhammad isn’t on many of the records I listen to all the time, but he is […]
Groove o’ the day: Soul Makossa
This is the groove from a track regarded as the first Disco song— Soul Makossa, by Cameroonian performer Manu Dibango. The drummer is Joby Jobs, and he has a bad right hand— he is apparently […]
Groove o’ the day: Andy Newmark – Babies Makin’ Babies
Here’s a cool 70s funk groove in a James Brown mode, played by Andy Newmark, on the alternative version of Babies Makin’ Babies, from the Sly Stone album Fresh. I’ve included the main groove and […]
Groove o’ the day: Tombo in 7/4
More from Airto’s great record Fingers. I got burned last time crediting the drumming to Airto when it was really another great drummer da América do Sul, Osvaldo Fattoruso; this time I think it really is […]