Via Let’s Cool One: George Shearing has died. Here he is with Denzil Best on the drums:
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Soul Eyes
Another transcription from the archives- Elvin Jones playing brushes on Soul Eyes, from the album Coltrane, by John Coltrane. The transcription is of the piano and tenor solos; it’s written in the four of the […]
Roy Haynes Grammy
Via AllAboutJazz.com: this is nice to see– lifetime achievement award to one of the greatest musicians living.
Best books – Even in the Odds by Ralph Humphrey
The classic text on odd meter playing by Zappa/Don Ellis drummer Ralph Humphrey, this book covers swing, funk, and solo patterns in 5/4, 7/4, 5/8, 7/8, and longer odd time signatures. Each meter gets a […]
Baby Dodds
One thing I’ve noticed in recent years is that you can’t have a conversation about the drums in jazz without Baby Dodds coming up- he’s become kind of a signifier of seriousness about the subject. […]
Sell everything.
Brilliant. Why raise taxes a few hundredths of a percent this year, when you can plunder your cultural heritage, then be forced to raise them in a few years, after you blow through all the […]
Transcription: Lenny White – Invitation
Here’s my transcription of Lenny White playing on Invitation, from Joe Henderson’s In Pursuit of Blackness. I made note of a couple of suspect measures that gave me problems originally. I haven’t proofed it recently, […]
Ben Sidran speaks to Don Cherry
In keeping with our current theme, here, via AllAboutJazz.com, is a podcast of Ben Sidran talking to Don Cherry on NPR in the mid-80’s. I’m listening to it now- you should be too. There are […]
Straight, No Chaser – two interpretations
You know, I think I’m kind of a Monk guy? Here’s something I did for a student some time ago- a comparison of Ben Riley’s and Art Taylor’s approach to playing on the head of […]