What Pasquale Grasso and Cecil Alexander have in common

[mr. beaumont]

Who are people that have never been in my kitchen?

[djg]

[djg]

Ok I've never ventured into this kind of playing, but I'm willing to try this out for myself. Cecil's feel kinda reminds me of Grant Green, actually. (Dunno if this is a fair/accurate.)

Do you have any tips to nail that lazy, slightly grimey, behind the beat sound? Besides being accurate with triplets and quarter note triplets, what can I do?

yeah, grant obviously. his recording of old folks has his playing lined up perfectly with triplets. or blues in maudes flat from the same record. or my all-time favourite solo on falling in love with love. other than that maybe listen to horn players that have this kind of feel, like hank mobley or blue mitchell. a fun game to play is never to play anything on first impulse. always wait for the second or third one.

[djg]

Ok. When GG syncs his upbeats with that last triplet subdivision, is he using an upstroke or downstroke? I can't quite tell.

no idea. probably upstrokes more than downstrokes. whatever gets the job done, i guess. if it sounds good you're doing it right.