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Ed Cherry at Small Last Night (6/3/24)

John Raymond & Gilad Hekselman - Russia, October...

PRS DGT with Rosewood neck

Telecaster: Single coil or Humbucker?

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

I do not agree to disagree. I think Peter is simply wrong. Two quotes: Nat Adderley on his influences: "And then you'd get to hear T-Bone Walker and the Blues Boys." English Wiki on Kenny...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Yeah. The nature of most instruments is that they had to adapt that microtonality of a voice. So instrumental vocab is a little bit its own thing. Guitar just has a very idiosyncratic thing even...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Ive got a Sadowsky T-style that im going to put a Lollar CC pickup in it.

Telecaster: Single coil or Humbucker?

One of BB's early influences was Lowell Fullsom. And what you call horn blues comes from the breath of vocal music.

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

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....

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

Yeah, for a cat from Mississippi his playing sure was "uptown."

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

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...

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

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...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

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.

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

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...

Counting off a song in cut time

ED CHERRY, ERIC WHEELER & ANWAR MARSHALL - 06/3/2024 - YouTube

Ed Cherry at Small Last Night (6/3/24)

"Ours is a triplet language" - Barry Harris

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

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,...

John Raymond & Gilad Hekselman - Russia, October 2019

I’d sum it up as “cadence.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

'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...

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

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

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

Are Modern Amps Repairable?

how to suppress cough on the bandstand ....

Tritone chord root movement

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo?

Where do fusion guys play gigs?

The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?