I did not put the title... because whenever I played the tune for someone in this kind of arrangement no-one could identify it. They used to say: I think I heard it but cannot figure out))
I'll add George Benson:
"I didn’t know anything. [Jack McDuff and his band] were trying to catch up with John Coltrane and Miles Davis, and I just wasn’t in that category. I had no idea what they...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
'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...
Ed Cherry at Small Last Night (6/3/24)
Today, 09:07 PM in The Players