Another drum solo from a Jackie McLean record. Jack Dejohnette early in his career, soloing on a fast tune from McLean’s album Jackknife. The tune is Climax, tempo is about half note = 160. We […]
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Daily best music in the world: So What
I’m going to transcribe some part of this— you can give it a listen while I figure that out. It seems worthy of a pretty full treatment, and breaks down cleanly into funk, medium swing, […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Mr. Clean
Took a break from the really long and hard Elvin Jones transcription and did something else really hard. From the Freddie Hubbard album Straight Life, this is Jack Dejohnette playing behind Joe Henderson’s solo on […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Peasant Dance
Hey, the longest transcription we’ve done in awhile, here, a three pager. It’s Jack Dejohnette playing on a very interesting record I had not really heard before: Peacemeal, by Lee Konitz, recorded in 1969. It’s […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Tennessee Waltz
Jack Dejohnette plays Tennessee Waltz! One of the most cursed tunes in the standard repertoire. I don’t know what’s going through his head here— maybe he’s having a wonderful time. I know a couple of […]
Practice loop: Sivad
This is a fun one, and just about my favorite ~45 seconds of music in the world: the opening of Sivad, from the Miles Davis album Live Evil. Tempo is 86 bpm. Rock out.
Groove o’ the day: Jack Dejohnette – On the Nile
Here’s Jack Dejohnette early in his career, soon after his move from Chicago to New York. He’s playing in a very Elvin Jones-like mode with Jackie McLean, who is himself writing in a Coltrane Quartet-like […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Timeless
Biggest longest transcription we’ve done here in some time. This is Jack Dejohnette playing on Timeless, another essential recording by John Abercrombie. Jan Hammer also appears. I got my copy of this album at Rasputin’s […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Backwoods Song
In honor of the passing of the guitarist John Abercrombie— along with Pat Metheny, John Scofield, and Bill Frisell, one of the most important guitarists of the last ~45 years— here’s Jack Dejohnette’s playing on […]
Groove o’ the day: Go Ahead John
Getting loose definitionally with our groove o’ the day here— this one is all variations, really, and no foundational groove. This is Jack Dejohnette playing the beginning of Go Ahead, John, from Miles Davis’s album […]