Comping, Chords & Chord Progressions

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

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Lesson #94: A Method To Create Jazzy Blues Licks...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing...

I mean, it is Don Cherrys words, presumably. But in his more social-political writing, Amiri Baraka was pretty controversial.

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

I have three Strats: The black one has a maple board The Ocean Turquoise one has a rosewood board The Lake Placid Blue one has a roaster maple board. They all look great, sound great and...

Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

Well, that is honest! With Fender guitars, I have tended to do the same and have preferred a rosewood fretboard primarily because I just think it looks better. I don't know that my ears are good...

Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

I bought one of Vinny's Campellones (V1K Custom) and it has a built in humbucker. It is first and foremost an acoustic guitar and is every bit as loud as your average flattop acoustic. I doubt the...

Campellone Cameo

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...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

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...

If you only had 1 book to work through…

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:

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

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...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

I disagree about BB. There's tons there for jazz blues playing.

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

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Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

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...

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

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...

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

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Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

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.

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

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: ...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 1) - Blue Monk in minor

Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

Itching for a Fender, which one?

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

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Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

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Thoughts on Gabor Szabo?

Tritone chord root movement

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Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?