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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 ...
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...
Time Out is still one of my favorite albums. Blue Rondo a la Turk is just beautiful. I should learn that one too…
Great stuff, Decitrig. You have mathematically enhanced this august thread. I don’t care if the info is trivial for some.
What’s up with this intro? Is there a verse to How High The Moon? Are they quoting another tune, or is this just a bluesy riff kind of like Four? ...
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...
I was more like, spitballing as to why nobody is joining the conversation.
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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