Jazz Drummer Q-Tip of the Week: Trademark Phrasing - Philly Joe Jones

In this trademark phrasing jazz drum lesson, I demonstrate some classic trademark phrases of Philly Joe Jones, one of the founding fathers of jazz drumming. These ideas can be applied to jazz drum soloing and jazz time playing. They can also be worked over in many different ways, so have fun!

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I am a proud endorser of Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and Tama drums and used the following equipment in this video:

CYMBALS
22” Dry Complex II
20" Bounce Prototype
14" Custom Special Dry

DRUMS
Starclassic (Maple Molten Brown Burst)
14X18 BD
16X14 FT
14X14 FT
8X12 TT
6.5X14 Snare Drum

STICKS
Quincy Davis Signature Stick (available for purchase on my website)

Quincy
University of North Texas
Professor of Jazz Drum Set

[johnnyjohntheschemindreame]

Great presentation. Thank you for not spending time talking to us and giving unnecessary exposition. Let the music do the talking. Very refreshing. Thanks

[RicciJones-kmtt]

You made me miss my uncle when he practiced... Thanks for the memory!

[paulkennedy]

Philly Joe is my favorite from that era so I really enjoyed this. Thank you!

[brewstergallery]

Ned in España here to say how much I love the videos and the logical well laid out easy to grasp..etc way that you demonstrate these patterns. For both hands too ! I appreciate that because I´m a southpaw. Just as an aside for a time I got lazy about my rudiments, shame shame, then I got into them, Stick Control, Wilcoxson, etc and it amazes me how much that it improves learning new patterns and concepts. Your videos are always helpful and thanks for making them.

[drummer]

That kit sounds great and your playing is on point!

[elithepitbulldog]

And I was thinking about Philly Joe today, as matter of fact. Now I’ve some work to do
Thanks again!

[Jazzrob]

Yeah Quincy!! Could you make an episode on Billy Higgins' grip on the ride cymbal? I think it uses the stick control which gives it the binary feel

[simonedisarro]

Love your playing and your style. Wish you great things. Ciao!

[chuckc]

Very nice Quincy, Philly Joe had great chops.

[patrickhwang]

PJJ would be proud of this!!!! Look out!

[peppertennis]

Brilliant !
Love this series of stuff you sharing
Thanks so much for these Quincy
Is Jack de Johnette on the horizon...

[petermack]

Thanks Quincy! Killer - can't wait to transcribe some of these phrases you played!

[lukebs]

So awesome, thank you so much quincy!

[lancenicholas]

Oh my goodness, amazing!!! Thank you sir

[ritabrooks]

Those drums sound so good! These videos are just great. Thanks Quincy! I love your drumming!
By the way hearing your new CD on Sirius XM ! Fantastic!!

[Benfreidkin]

Wow!! Are you singing something in your head at the intro? The drums and cymbals sound fantastic and so do you!

[fredly]

Love this. Your drums are tuned beautifully.

[malvessidrums]

Awesome! Love everything about this.

Classical jazz drumming preserved, destined for immortality.

God, how I wish I could see this kind of stuff when I was learning.

Figuring stuff out by ear was amazing, but just to think how much more we could have crammed into our tiny drummer brainz and then pushed the envelope before the extinction of the instrument on a mainstream fashion.

(Yeah look at spotifys top 100 and hardly one of them features a real kit being played by a real drummer!)