This is a lick using melodic minor. You hear this lick everywhere. It comes from a basic voicing. Check it out!
I'm sitting here listening to Clifford Brown practicing over Cherokee. He's working out his s***. I did this because I was working out my stuff on cherokee this morning since I'll have to play it in Korea in August! I'm going to start practicing it now. While in Ireland doing a tribute to MJQ, I'm going to play it on the gigs. Just throw it in (John Daly start working on you FAST tempos). So I'll be working on this for the next 60 days.
Yesterday was my first vibes only gig. Untill then, I always had split guitar/vibes gigs.
Bass/vibes in the first part and on the second we had to acompany various singers on the fly with all kind of repertoires, most of them coming without any written music, all of them singing in fancy keys and some of the tunes totally unknown (from me at least). Very good ear exercise !
So as you guys know, I just moved to Philly! It was a rough start getting here (the moving company I used sucked @$$), but all is great now! I love this city, I am so happy to be here. I had dinner with Tony tonight and I told him this story. He told me that I had to share it with you guys. I laughed and agreed it would be a good one to let everyone in on. This is not made up, this really happened to me...
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Anyone heard of this guy? I think he's fantastic. A friend of mine recently introduced me to his stuff. What do you guys think? I attached a video.
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