Oh, I was going to put out a book of intros, wasn’t I? Most of the transcribing for that project is actually done, and now I just need to do the not-fun part of laying […]
Category: intros
Frankie Dunlop plays an intro
Not much to say about this, except that one of my favorite things ever, Thelonious Monk’s Bye-Ya, from the album Monk’s Dream, came on KMHD today, and that Frankie Dunlop’s opening is just a perfect piece […]
Transcription: Tiki intro
Hey, some time ago I promised you a new book— a collection of transcribed intros— before the end of the year. Work on that got sidelined as I was preparing for tour, and there’s no […]
Drum intro: Art Blakey — Straight, No Chaser
Every part of this is just so classically Art Blakey— except maybe his touch, which is somewhat gentler than usual. This is his intro on Straight, No Chaser, from Thelonious Monk’s album Genius of Modern […]
Transcription: Frankie Dunlop — Jackie-ing
Here’s Frankie Dunlop’s opening solo chorus from Jackie-ing, on Thelonious Monk’s Live In Stockholm 1961— a really great record. As I mentioned, I’m transcribing a whole lot of drum intros this week, so far mostly […]
Kenny Clarke plays an intro
Putting together a bebop podcast (which we’ll see here whenever I get it finished), this intro from 1941 by Kenny Clarke jumped out at me— the tune is Hot House, and the playing feels more […]
Groove o’ the day: Ivan Conti — Questao de Etica
More Brazilian fusion from Ivan Conti, of Azymuth. They really embraced the technology in the early 80’s, so a good amount of their stuff is fairly unlistenable, but the records with real drums on them […]
Transcription: Philly Joe Jones — Locomotion
I’ve been working through Philly Joe Jones’s intro on Lomotion, from the Coltrane album Blue Train; a student was given the fairly nutso assignment of learning this verbatim off of YouTube. We worked through it […]
Transcription: Philly Joe Jones — Hi Groove, Low Feedback
We’ll continue light posting through this week, as I’m in the middle of a big booking push, and then heading to the coast. But here’s an interesting Philly Joe Jones transcription, from Hank Mobley’s Hi […]
Transcription: Milton Banana — O Samba Da Minha Terra
Another Milton Banana transcription, this time the batucada-style intro to O Samba Da Minha Terra, from the same Sambas De Bossa album as last time. We’ll probably be seeing more of these, because I really […]