I first got this idea in a lesson I had with Kiko Freitas .  Kiko took Dotô ’s rhythms of the repique de anel , and orchestrated them for dr...

Here's some silliness for your Friday morning.... The other day I was playing around with some of those Philly Joe three-beat triplet id...

Awhile back I posted about a common Philly Joe phrase in which he plays three beats worth of triplets in this sticking. It is a really comm...

Keeping on with the current comping theme I figured I'd transcribe some of Max's comping to go with the Sandu solo I did a couple mo...

Here's another sheet of comping exercises using melodies, this time with Charlie Parker's "Yardbird Suite".  Again, I'...

There is plenty of great resource material out there for learn how to comp in straight ahead jazz styles, with more coming out all the time....

I stumbled across a video the other day of Steve Gadd  playing a shuffle in which he used his left foot to play the skip notes.  This frees ...

I've been revisiting Max Roach lately with some of my students, four of whom are working on this particular solo.  None of them have wri...