Jazz
The Wonderful Mike Clark with Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters
Wowie zowie! Check out this wonderful performance from back in the 70’s when music was still good (!) and hair was a serious business. Mike Clark’s drumming is just beautiful. Listen to how he’s locked in with Paul Jackson, the bassist. It’s wild, free and busy as hell yet remains tasteful and economical, no notes out of place and no sense of indulgence about the playing. Awesome.
The Fundamentals Of Jazz Part 01
The lovely Andrew Hare of the Melodic Drummer blog demonstrates the Jazz ride cymbal beat with the help of Art Blakey.
The Melodic Drummer Blog introducing the Jazz Shuffle
Check out this great post about the Shuffle. I recently discovered the Melodic Drummer blog which is heaving with great lessons and exercises to help us develop our Jazz skills. In today’s post we are going to discuss how to play one of my favorite grooves of all time, the shuffle! The best thing you can do to start learning how to shuffle is to get acquainted with it’s sound. Starting a blog post about the shuffle with anything other… Read More »The Melodic Drummer Blog introducing the Jazz Shuffle