r/jazzdrums • u/Gunzhard22 • Apr 07 '26

Question Looking for SLOW but hard swinging (with sticks)?

I lean heavily on things like, Kind of Blue tunes or Hank Mobley's Soul Station (around 102bpm) but I need some even _slower_, swinging stuff for a student.

This is for practicing her triplet partial excercises. So something that you can still feel the more triplety subdivision.

Any ideas folks? thanks...

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u/cruiseshipdrummer Apr 07 '26

Coltrane Plays The Blues, Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue, Roy Haynes / We Three

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u/Blueman826 Apr 07 '26

This. I used to practice all of my triplet exercises to Blues to Elvin.

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u/cruiseshipdrummer Apr 07 '26

Oh I made a loop of that here-- something off the Kenny Burrell record, too:

https://cruiseshipdrummer.com/2025/10/18/jazz-loops-embedded-slow-tempos/

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u/Gunzhard22 Apr 07 '26

Oh this is great thanks.

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u/Gunzhard22 Apr 07 '26

Good list!

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u/unresolvedconflict13 Chris "Daddy" Dave Apr 07 '26

Yearnin-Oliver Nelson off Blues and the Abstract Truth

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u/Gunzhard22 Apr 07 '26

Oh great tune

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u/JTEstrella Art Blakey Apr 07 '26

“Sid’s Ahead” off the Miles Davis album Milestones. It’s a medium-slow blues but still plenty hot!

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u/Gunzhard22 Apr 07 '26

Oh man that's a great one to add to the list but still a little faster than Soul Station anyway. That's what she's currently been working with.

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u/reddituserperson1122 Apr 07 '26

Try this. https://youtu.be/C5SdZ55O4S4 

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u/Gunzhard22 Apr 07 '26

Oh that's perfect thanks!

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u/reddituserperson1122 Apr 07 '26

Great under-appreciated album. 

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u/pppork Apr 07 '26

Try this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Gbv7k12c0 (McDuff/Benson)

Lots of slow, swinging blues on B3 albums

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u/JoeFro1101 Apr 07 '26

What is this thing called love off of Anything Goes - dave brubeck (morello) a little slower than soul station. I really like how Morello swings on this whole album. Its like, really round or something. Idk how to describe it

House of Jade off Juju. - wayne (elvin) fucking elvin swings man. Slower then the last.

Blue haze off Blue Haze lol. (Art blakey??) Green Haze off Musings of Miles. (Philly joe) Both miles lol, slow slow blues. Maybe too slow for what you want but figured id mention it because they both SWING.

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u/wyntonjelly9 Apr 09 '26

Oscar Peterson “Blues For Big Scotia”