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02-08-2011, 09:54 AM
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 Jay Umble- anyone like his books? He seems from the Martino / Diorio school and his books contain some tasty lines. Was wondering if anyone else was aware of him or his books, and if they had any thoughts....?     |
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02-08-2011, 10:08 AM
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#3
02-11-2011, 12:13 AM
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| Yes! Jay Umble is a great player and teacher. Great angular style ala Diorio. I don't have any of his books, but his class on Mikesmasterclasses.com is great! It's called the dominant chord matrix system (or something like that); your playing over dominant altered chord is guaranteed to reach a new plateau (at least it did in my case...). His other classes on the same website also seem cool - I plan to purchase them as soon as I"m done with this one... |
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02-12-2011, 12:05 AM
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| Yes, I agree that the Jay Umble classes on MMC are great. I really like the modern harmonic concepts class, or something similarly titled, and the major lines class. Both full of extremely useful info. I have Umble's blues book and I think it is very good. It is kind of "kitchen sink," which is somewhat unusual for the more recent Mel Bay jazz books, which I have found to be uniformly high-quality (especially Bruce Saunders's books). By "kitchen sink," I mean that he covers comping, soloing, creating bass lines, etc. So there might be some material that is more interesting, and some less interesting. But a good addition to the library, for sure. He also seems like an extremely nice guy and is a great player, and like most of the folks on MMC very open, IIRC, to email correspondence/questions from folks like us. |
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