Sandu – Max Roach – Drum Transcription (PDF)

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Sandu – Drum Transcription:

Sandu was written by Clifford Brown and first recorded in New York for the 1955 EmArcy Records album; Study In Brown. The album is a collaborative by the trumpet player Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach. Other personnel on the track and the album are Harold Land on tenor saxophone, Richie Powell on piano and George Morrow on double bass. The group recorded the album a year before Brown died in a car accident in 1956. Meaning they only left four years of recordings behind. Not only did Sandu become a famous jazz standard. Also, Daahoud, Jordu and Joy Spring from the album Clifford Brown and Max Roach became well-played songs and are typical for Clifford Brown’s and Max Roach’s Hardbop music styles. The song Sandu is a 12-bar blues in the key of Eb. The name Sandu could stand for one of the four Upper River districts of Gambia.

In 2017, I finished two university degrees at the Luca School Of Arts in Leuven, Belgium. My first degree is a master’s degree in drums and percussion. The second degree is a bachelor’s in jazz studies. As a part of graduating in jazz, I researched the link between four Max Roach drum solos and their jazz standard’s melody. I wrote the initial document in dutch, although, over time, I converted these to English. Here you can download the (free) PDF for the drum transcription of Sandu, one of the Max Roach drum solo’s I analysed. Below that, I will include a brief analysis of the drum solo. If you have any questions, send me a message on the contact page or leave a comment!

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