Just a quick little Roy Haynes transcription, from Bad News Blues, from Haynes’s album Cracklin’. It’s short— they play the 12-bar head once before heading into the bass solo— but there are some things to […]
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Roy Haynes on rudiments
He talks about a lot of things, but his comments on rudiments (after 2:30) are interesting: I don’t know if I would take that completely at face value— in answering the question he seems to […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes intro
You know what, I still owe you a BOOK OF INTROS. The thing has been languishing a few short hours from completion for quite a few months now. Perhaps me drawing attention to that fact, […]
Daily best music in the world: Roy Haynes Hip Ensemble
This is a nearly forgotten early fusion project by Roy Haynes: Roy Haynes Hip Ensemble. I read about the group in the Jack Dejohnette/Charlie Perry book, and was lucky enough to find a banged up […]
Daily best music in the world: tracks that used to get me in trouble
Here are a couple of things I was listening to when I was at USC, which used to get me in trouble with some of the other students, for playing too… aggressively, let’s say. One […]
DBMITW: my fat bass drum
Just sharing a little piece of my own development here. From the early 90’s, until I finally submitted to the too-soft, you-don’t-really-want-drums-on-this-gig-do-you craze of the mid-oughts, I played a 20″ Gretsch bass drum with Remo […]
Everybody digs the same stuff, part eleventy
I’ve decided that one of the immutable laws of the universe is that everybody digs the same stuff— well, I’ve felt that way for some time, and it keeps getting confirmed. In this latest case: […]
Got my Chick cymbal
The original, signed by Roy Haynes. The nice thing about Paiste cymbals— most of them— is that when you hear a sound you like, you can duplicate it almost exactly by just buying the same […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes — Played Twice
I’m always listening to great drummers, but Roy Haynes just sweeps in and blows everyone away here. I love the way he plays this head. This is Thelonious Monk’s Played Twice, from The Straight Horn […]
DBMITW: trove o’ Burton
I’ve been listening to a lot of Gary Burton lately— like the past five months or so— but haven’t been sharing much because there’s a shortage of his recorded stuff on YouTube, except for this […]