Improvisation

Why is the internet out of tune, and what can you...

Anyone hip to Joshua Breakstone?

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

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

Doesn't work that way. There are companies like CDBaby, Orchard, Distrokid that do digital distribution, meaning you upload your music to them and they upload it to every streaming service on the...

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I’m not sure about the provenance of the quote. Possible Archie Shepp misremembered the publication. There were loads of widely circulated jazz publications, for example, that were out of print long...

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Please do not do that: art historian in the room.

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

Ah right

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

I've told this story before, but it's it's a good story.... I wandered off the road mid bike ride once in Senegal, I heard a really amazing bird call & wanted to know what made it, left my bike at...

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

There's a Jamie Aebersold book/record called "Nothin' But Blues" that is, um, nothing but blues. The book itself has a lot of decent information: chord voicings, bass line construction, typical...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Research is just my word for work put in to find out what you need to answer your questions. You say you're learning the Charlie Parker solo. Why? Bear in mind it's not a question of...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

The DGTs are special guitars. The finish on that one is insane. I have to tell you, I have never been a fan of the splits tho, and I don't find them very useful. I leave mine in humbucker mode all...

PRS DGT with Rosewood neck

And that clarification is very useful. If this is the goal: Then now — as a mea culpa — all this would, in fact, be very good stuff (in addition to Grant Green).

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Published in this Down Beat magazine it was an interview with Archie Shepp and not Don Cherry.

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

yeah, you have to just tune to the recording, the same as if you're playing with a piano that's not precisely in tune to A440. I had the original CD version of Kind of Blue, which was infamously...

Why is the internet out of tune, and what can you do?

I found four or five Lennie Tristano Down Beat interviews but not the one Don Cherry talked about.

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

I'd like to read the actual quote from Lennie Tristano. I searched for Tristano Downbeat interviews but didn't come up with anything.

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

*eyeroll* Grant Green is where it’s at. He has a later period where he’s playing a bit more of a funk thing (which is also awesome) but any of his earlier stuff fits the bill. And check out...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Those old recordings are analog recordings, any difference in recording and playback spinning rate will introduce detune. Try tuning your instrument to the recording not to the tuner. In the 80-90,...

Why is the internet out of tune, and what can you do?

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

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Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

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Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

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how to suppress cough on the bandstand ....

Tritone chord root movement

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Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?