Hitting the ground running with this 2024 business, here’s Philly Joe Jones trading fours with Red Garland on Ahmad’s Blues, from the Miles Davis album Workin’. Joe sounds quite beautiful, hand made, and direct after […]
Category: trading 4s
Transcription: Philly Joe trading
Here is Philly Joe Jones trading eights and fours with Bill Evans on Minority, from one of my favorite records, Everybody Digs Bill Evans. It’s a good tune to learn. I’ve written just the drum […]
Transcription: Peter Erskine – Duo – 04
Here are the next 30 seconds / 32 bars of Duo, played by Peter Erksine and Bob Mintzer, from Mintzer’s record Hymn. The whole track is about three and a half minutes long, so there […]
Transcription: Max fours
I am not screwing around people, this is now an ALL Max Roach site. Here he is trading fours on Minor Meeting, from the record Sonny Clark Trio, from 1960— there’s another record by that […]
Transcription: Billy Higgins trading
Some uptempo trading 8s and 4s on Moose the Mooche, from an old favorite album, Wish by Joshua Redman, with Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins on drums. I used to play along […]
Transcription: Jake Hanna fours
Here’s Jake Hanna trading fours with Duke Jordan, on Jordan’s album Live Live Live— a Japanese import release from the late 90s. This is a pretty ordinary club date; Hanna was almost 70 and Duke […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes 8s
Hot on the heels of that “too perfect” post, here’s a great example of what I’m talking about in terms of playing with an edge: Roy Haynes trading 8s with Chick Corea on Rhythm-a-ning, from […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes feature
UPDATE: I have extreme quality readers. Jim in the comments pointed out a bunch of errors in this, and figured out the insane Mystery Lick on the second page. The corrected pdf is up now. New […]
Transcription: Jimmy Cobb fours
Jimmy Cobb trading fours with Wynton Kelly on Gone With The Wind, from Kelly’s self-titled (plus an exclamation point) trio album from 1961. There’s a lot of very standard vocabulary here, the type of which […]
Transcription: Art Blakey fours – Well, You Needn’t
Just a couple of solo 4s from Art Blakey, from the 1953 Miles Davis 10-inch release, Vol. 3. You’ll most likely find it on a later Blue Note compilation. The tune is Well, You Needn’t. […]