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One of BB's early influences was Lowell Fullsom. And what you call horn blues comes from the breath of vocal music.
Nat Adderley: "We belonged to the Episcopal church with its sort of Gregorian chantish kind of music. For the benefit of the music people, it's all tonic and sixths [hums]. That's tonic and sixth....
Yeah, for a cat from Mississippi his playing sure was "uptown."
Language acquisition is facilitated by music and poetry. That is why lullabies and nursery rhymes exist which expose babies/toddlers to the rhythm and melody of their first language. I am lucky to...
This is true. There is a trope about blues being pentatonic or blues scale stuff which mostly comes from the rock dudes that came later. I’ve heard he loved CC but didn’t know about Django, though...
BB was a knowledgeable player...and he loved Django. Whether or not he played "jazz licks" on a blues, he definitely played changes...he treated each chord in a blues differently.
It came up in big band. Somebody got a bunch of charts and the band played through them, one at a time. The tune was new to me. In cut time (2/2). The tempo could have been X or 2X. I had no...
ED CHERRY, ERIC WHEELER & ANWAR MARSHALL - 06/3/2024 - YouTube
"Ours is a triplet language" - Barry Harris
Performed in Chelyabinsk, Russia, shortly before the first cases of what was to become a global pandemic were reported. Chelyabinsk is in an area where a meteor exploded overhead in February 2013,...
I’d sum it up as “cadence.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
'Let's Compare Improvisation to Spoken Language' There's improvisation in spoken language. I do it all the time. When improvisation involves another person, both music and speech have listening...
not significantly different than mahogany , the nice thing is they are natural finish an absolute bonus in the humid Atlanta summers . I have 4 rosewood neck models , as well as mahogany , maple,...
I'm a bassman so like fat tone. Single coils are the thinnest. I also like the spongey attack of humbuckers because of the 2 coils. Single coils have a brittle, immediate attack.
Ed Cherry at Small Last Night (6/3/24)
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