This is the groove from the head of the tune. Swing the 8th notes.
He plays this on the solo vamp:
He plays these grooves pretty repetitively throughout, which is interesting. For some reason it reminds me of Robert Rauschenberg's Factum I and Factum II, where the famously freewheeling painter made two identical pictures. On the solo vamp Dejohnette sometimes plays 16th notes a la Elvin in the second measure—just double the middle note of the triplet and spread it all out to make legato 16th notes.
2 comments:
isnt this tune in 9/8?
You could write the drum groove in 9/8 instead of swing 3/4, but nothing else played on it suggests 9/8. The tune is all dotted quarter notes-- easy to write in 3/4, the equivalent rhythm written in 9/8 looks obscure.
The tune and bass vamp could be written in 6/8, but the drums definitely suggest a meter counted in 3*, whether you call it 3/4 or 9/8. If the drum groove was all triplets I might notate it in 9/8 regardless of what meter I thought the tune was conceived in, but that's not happening here.
* - Or 6/4 phrased as 3+3, if anyone wants to quibble about that.
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