Here’s a transcription of Papa Jo Jones playing the intro and head of It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing, from a 1970 Black Lion recording, Paul Gonsalves Meets Earl Hines. […]
Category: swing
The DNA of swing drumming
I picked up this interesting book- Charley Wilcoxon’s Drum Method– as one of my local sheet music stores was going out of business. I’d been working with Wilcoxon’s more advanced Rudimental Swing Solos, but this […]
Wilcoxon rhumba studies in 5/4
Here I have rewritten a page from the Wilcoxon Drum Method, which I’ve been using a lot lately. I’ve put his “swing or rhumba” studies (p. 31, two-measure syncopation and accent studies in 4/4) into […]
Jo Jones in the ’70’s
I stumbled across this piece about Papa Jo Jones late in his career, at Michael Steinman’s Jazz Lives. Steinman was able to speak to Jones and see him perform a number of times during that […]
Learning to comp with 16th notes is a necessary misery.
Here I’m elaborating on what some comments in a Drummerworld.com discussion on these pages/recorded example from Jim Chapin’s Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer: I could just be trying to drag everyone else into my […]