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Op: you also want to work on outlining the changes. Jazz blues isn't only blues vocab on the 1 of the key. Although there is a lot of that and it's tough to go overboard with accumulating those...
I'm a little different. I think it's good to learn tunes, but I think it's much more important (for me) to write songs. Certainly, knowing some tunes can help in the writing of them. (I think many...
These Robben Ford performances posted in a different thread (Younger guitarists are discovering the joys of having a jazz box. Good!) are a crash course in blues playing:
BB wont really help you hit the changes on a jazz style blues. Love him to death, but it’s not quite the same thing. Then again a book of ii-V licks won’t help you sound like you’re playing The...
I disagree about BB. There's tons there for jazz blues playing.
Difficult to take such things out of context. 1) First of all Amiri Baraka did not want to be called LeRoi Jones anymore in later years after having taken the name Amiri Baraka. Jones was a...
I love how that sounds - " I am almost being forced, forced I tell you to, to head to Paris 'cause there's an L-5 there I have to check out ! "...or..... Of course my story would be - - " I...
You need to update the access for that link.
This is an interesting rumor that I’ve never heard Pete say. What I heard was rather that he had a hard time deciding which of the two he was going to keep as his main ax.
If it's the latter, I actually just made this today for a class I teach on Wednesdays. I've been deep down a Clifford Brown rabbit hole lately: ...
There’s some conflation here of the blues form and the blues idiom. BB King for example will give you everything you need to know about the blues idiom but won’t help much in navigating a jazz...
I wasn't immediately able to find the Downbeat article. It could always be incorrect.
Ah yeah. I remember that. Disappointing, to say the least.
Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano
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