1. The Benevolent Dr. K (Kostakos): a tribute to my Dr. of nearly 20 years and one of my favorite people (Katherine is her 1st name).
2. Gettin' Ahead of Myself: A reference to my lifelong proclivity for jumping the gun. Always wanted to write to this title.
3. Egret Regret: I thought up the title and liked its sound, then wrote a dark instrumental commentary on man's slow elimination of wildlife and ecosystems. I hope at least some people regret it...
*Edit: Oops! The good doctor needs a dot on the 1st beat, 2nd ending of B---or else you may grow dotty trying to play it...
That's a beauty.
Waiting to buy strings in the Totowa, NJ GC last week, I opened up a D'Angelico hard case that was on the counter, something someone apparently just sold to the store. Inside was...
Was in the Springfield, NJ store a few Saturday's ago. Somebody who looked familiar recognized the tune I was playing: Miles' "So What". I gave him the thumbs up for naming that tune. Several people,...
Here's a better recording of Annotations of the Muses by Johnny Richards, played by the great Johnny Smith. It's come out on a Mosaic Select recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wMuJurb_Q
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Thanks for the suggestions, people. Working on some of them, already.
Stumbled on this yesterday. Demonstrates playing "Blue Monk" in 3rds, then, in other vids, using 10ths, all the way up to...
I agree, the point for the student is to thoroughly internalize the lessons in the book and mess around with them six ways from Sunday rather than to get ensnared in marginal details that eat up...
Johnny Smith performed a real concerto for electric guitar written by Massimo Joseph DeJulio, in one movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru-U7fDkwKU
After that fifteen minute piece is...
Of course. I intended no snarkiness of my own either. I had realized before I even wrote anything that this thread is a ghost town and that I might even get "yelled at" for kicking a dead horse; most...
Truly.
I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the Paul Desmond solo stuff. Brubeck was my in for jazz and the Paul Desmond stuff with Ed Bickert and Jim Hall got me totally...
That was merely for anyone who might come here looking for your own informed opinions about the book; more informed than mine, for sure. If I've wasted important bandwidth by adding to a dead thread,...
OK, then! I'll refer to the books as 1E (for first edition) and 2E (for the second) so as to save a little on typing.
At a glance, the most obvious improvement of 2E over 1E is the clarity and...
Kenny Burrell, Jack McDuff, How High The Moon...
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