Man, there’s just a whole lot of stuff besides blogging on my mind lately— like a Europe tour and recording project— so we may not see a lot of hugely substantive posts in the coming […]
Category: grooves
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. […]
Groove o’ the day: a Blue Note waltz
Let’s do an easy one. Here’s Billy Gene English sketching out a simple, Blue Note-y, quasi-Latin waltz on the tune Wavy Gravy, from Kenny Burrell’s Midnight Blue: Swing the 8th notes. You can think of […]
Groove o’ the day: Idris Muhammad on Grant Green’s Carryin’ On
There’s some nice late-60’s funk drumming by Idris Muhammad (named Leo Morris at the time) on Grant Green’s Carryin’ On album. This is from the James Brown tune I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me […]
Groove o’ the day: Death Wish — Mike Clark
I told you I mean to do a lot of these this year– hopefully enough to do a dedicated book of them early in 2013. Today we’ve got Mike Clark playing with Herbie Hancock on […]
Groove o’ the day: Jungle Man
Another Zigaboo Modeliste groove today, from Jungle Man on The Meters album Rejuvenation: Half-swing the 16th notes– listen to the track to hear the correct interpretation. YouTube audio after the break:
Groove o’ the day: Palm Grease
Here’s another hugely famous piece of drumming– one of the best-known of the 70’s– by Mike Clarke on the tune Palm Grease from the Herbie Hancock album Thrust: YouTube audio after the break:
Groove o’ the day: Paul Motian’s tango
I like this feature, and I’m going to try to do a lot more of these this year. Here’s a hip modified tango played by Paul Motian on the tune When We Go, from Rambler […]
Basic beats
Here’s a rare bone for my younger/beginning-er readers. What we have here is a collection of basic “rock” beats- really they’re good for many/most varieties of popular music using the drum set. The names I’ve […]
Groove o’ the day: Gainsbourg
I love 70’s studio drumming. I was just re-listening to some old Serge Gainsbourg stuff- I made a record of his music in 2009 and did a couple of little Europe tours with it- and […]