Skip to main content

On Dominant - Joe Locke & Dick Oatts

Hi all,

After our long discussion about duets, I came across this very recent performance between Joe Locke and saxophonist Dick Oatts...

Man the vocabulary, energy, intensity are very dense and powerful!! They both must have gotten used up after that!! I enjoyed the reactions of the audience, and that great conversation after Joe's solo... and the end... yes the end and the joy on their faces! :o)

- M

P.S.: can someone help me and name this tune?

Teaching Jazz

This time I hope to get some feed back for as you know Jazz has been my life. I will be 86 yrs old October 13th and I am still trying to find different things to play on songs that I have been playing all my life (Not Easy). Now what I am about to say will throw a curve to a lot of your members but I say this from experience and I will try to explain what I am about to say as best as I can.

"YOU CANNOT TEACH ANYBODY TO REALLY PLAY JAZZ!" What you can teach them is how to compose, write songs. Back in the 50's I had a student that played the Vibes pretty good and now wanted to play jazz.