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))
There’s some conflation here of the blues form and the blues idiom.
BB King for example will give you everything you need to know about the blues idiom but won’t help much in navigating a jazz...
It's easy for me to go 4 to the bar with the big band, the band fills out the song, but at home I try to throw all the things in so they'll be ready should I feel spicy at a gig.
That's the plan...
I wouldn’t say no to an L5 CES or something, but if I had that amount of money burning a hole in my pocket for a new guitar - actually, no wouldn’t be my first choice. I’d probably go for something...
I think I solved my own problem! :-)
I found a book called Wolf Marshall's Jazz Guitar Course.
He has a chapter on GUIDE TONES and that looks like what I was originally talking about. I...
I've seen the Charlton Johnson book, I remember it as being quite good. The Ranger Doug book is also very good.
The video...not so much...I guess he's getting at what to teach a young beginner for...
Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano
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