Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about a song you never heard until a few days ago, “Baby” by Caetano Veloso. It’s not exactly the most important thing ever, but it’s on my […]
Category: grooves
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell — Lop-o-lop
Another Ed Blackwell 6/8 today, from an album you may have some trouble finding, Dewey Redman’s Tarik, on Aktuel. The drums play in two, and the bass (Malachi Favors, I think?) plays a fast 6. […]
Groove o’ the day: Grant Green — Cantaloupe Woman
Here are two different Blue Note/soul/boogaloo-type grooves on the tune Cantaloupe Woman, from albums by Grant Green. First, from the great session drummer Ben Dixon (who also wrote the tune), as played on the 1965 […]
Groove(s) o’ the day: Shuggie Otis — Inspiration Information
Once upon a time even music meant for mass consumption didn’t necessarily have the same drum beat played repetitively all the way through. The drumming on Inspiration Information by Shuggie Otis is constantly changing, while […]
New CSD! book: 100 Grooves
OK, here it is, just in time for Christmas— our new book, 100 Grooves – vol. 1, is now available for purchase. It contains over 100 transcribed drum grooves by people like Elvin Jones, Ed […]
Groove o’ the day: “They called him Craw.”
This new grooves book is almost done, believe it or not— the 20% discount on the transcriptions book should be good for just a couple of more days. The last new thing I put in […]
Groove o’ the day: Airto — Stanley’s Tune
Here’s a baião-based funk groove from Airto: That is, Airto’s feet are doing baião, everything else about the tune is just early 70’s funk jamitude. The accents on the floor tom are pretty subtle; he […]
Groove o’ the day: Philly Joe with Hank Mobley
The 50’s were apparently also the heyday of the quasi-Afro feel— all of the hard bop guys seem to have had their own way of making it. This one is by Philly Joe Jones, on […]
Groove o’ the day: Art Blakey with Hank Mobley
This is from the 1955 album Hank Mobley Quartet (it doesn’t appear to have been reissued recently, so you’ll have to just buy the mp3). The tune is Avila and Tequila, and Art Blakey plays […]
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell — 6/8 variations
Here are some more variations on the Afro 6/8 feel, played by Ed Blackwell on the tune Mopti (an old favorite from Flatland days, which I’ll be reintroducing to the set on the Europe trip […]