Philly Joe Jones

We did that with Elvin.

We did it with Roy, with Philly, with Art Blakey.

The only drummer that he didn't do that with was Tony, and I didn't care 'cause I was on Tony anyway.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But the solos all have a couple choruses in the original tempo, and then a couple choruses where just the drummer... goes into double time and it feels like to me like the bass and the piano are staying in the same tempo so it's just the drummer that's going double time but every chorus would still take the same amount of time and they do two choruses like that and then they do one final chorus back in the original tempo with the other horn players doing a background so here's a little bit of the transition from the original tempo to the double time feel

And by the way, that's Philly Joe Jones and Paul Chambers on the drums and bass.

who Coltrane had been working with at the time in the Miles Davis quintet.

So there's a lot of great improvisation on this.

That was his standard composition.

Moments notice it featured Lee Morgan on the trumpet, Curtis Fuller trombone, Kenny Drew piano, Paul Chambers bass, and Philly Joe Jones drums.

Before that, trumpeter Roy Hargrove from his debut recording from 1989, Diamond in the Rough, he played whisper not.

I remember around those years I used to try to see Roy every chance I got when he was around with his group because it was such a dynamic ensemble that I couldn't imagine it being any less so than John Coltrane or Miles Davis's great groups.

Let's skip back a few years.

This is Miles Davis's quintet with Red Garland on piano and Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones on drums and a young John Cole train.

It's from round about midnight, recorded in the mid-1950s.

Its trains first go around with Miles before he got fired, got off the drugs, hung out with Thelonious Monk and then returned to Miles before 1960 when he formed his own quartet.

That 1959 recording can be found on Chet's Riverside album, Chet.

Features Chet, of course, on trumpet, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, Herbie Mann on flute, Pepper Adams on baritone sax, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.

What a way to start off this week's journey on I'm Old Fashioned, the first of the fall season.

That's right, fall is here.

Monk's, uh, solo, and it's also, the solo's sort of progressive.

Philly Joe and PC is on that as well? Is that right?

It's actually Percy Heath.

Percy Heath.

That's right.

And may- I'm not sure who's on drums.

It might be Philly Joe.

I don't think it's Philly Joe.

Ray Brown bass, and Louis Hayes at the drums.

Now here's pianist Bill Evans, Sam Jones bass, and Philly Joe Jones at the drums from Everybody Digs Bill Evans Minority.

Bye.

Thank you.

The harmonic phrasing, the bright cascading tone, the awe-inspiring arpeggiated solos.

This album features a very young Lee Morgan on the trumpet, just 19 at the time of recording, Chris Fuller on the trombone, Kenny Drew on the piano, Paul Chambers for bass, and Philly Joe Jones on the drums.

Coltrane composed four out of the five songs on the record, and listeners were dazzled by it immediately.

A couple years after Blue Train's release, Coltrane said it was one of his favorite albums he'd done up until that point.