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I've been thinking about transcribing these days as I work on a Tom Harrell solo.
I dig Joe's philosophy.

We have a new trumpet site up with Joe and I asked him if I could post his trumpet video on transcribing. He said yes.

When Bobby Hutcherson heard Joe Magnarelli play his reply was: 'Man that cat can spell!'.
I love that quote!

I'm always checking myself. Especially with all the different opinions here on the site. Gary has really helped me chill out about practicing. I still DO practice a lot, but i'm not as freaked about it. I'm someone who put in 8 hours a day on average for about 20 years. And personally I think most young musicians should be practicing and playing ALL THE TIME.

No matter what I read or hear about transcribing, I just love doing it. It's fun and I play along with someone whom I really admire for a few days and have a good time.

Here is the PDF to go along with Drop 2 Lesson 3 Part 3

Here is the melody of "Alone Together" harmonized in drop 2 voicings. I have included the .pdf of what I am playing (minus my performance mistakes <:)-

I'll be posting parts from Joe's appearance on Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz.

This is from the Mid 90's.

It's a great chance to check out Joe and listen to him play and talk. He's a very inspiring cat!

Barry asked me to talk about the tune invitation. So I whipped up a quick video, just talking about what makes that tune unique and why it's a great tune to study.

I'm going to do an etude and then I think if some of you guys are interested we can do a study of the tune, just like with A train.

I don't know if this performance has been previously posted, but I just found it on YouTube and really enjoyed it. Red and Gary play on just one vibe (sometimes together, which looks a bit cramped!) and do nice version of Back Home in Indiana.

It's interesting to see the 2 playing styles displayed so well.

The Philly workshop was amazing! The idea of traveling to a new city and spending 2 days in a room with 10 – 12 people I had never met before on top of not really knowing anything about playing jazz in the traditional sense made me a little nervous. Then getting up in front of really heavy players to show off my beginner chops scared me to death. However, I have to say I felt so welcomed and supported the entire time I was there. It was truly an amazing experience. My highlight was hearing Joe talk about the inspiration for his tune, Verrazano Moon.

hi all .....

its been a while since ive been on the site. The roots Reggae band that im playing Keyboards in has been travel almost every weekend. We are also goin to be backing " Studio one jamaician reggae legend NORMA FRASER, soon.

Since my wife and i moved down to southern oregon. my musical adventures have been primarily as a keyboardist .. playing B3, clav and other sounds ....also expanding into the use of my laptop on stage via reason 4 for some sampling and LIVE Dubbing....

"Within a Page" is one of my favorites. I wrote it while working on a page out of my sight reading book called "Shapes and Patterns of Music". The title comes after spending weeks on a single line trying to develop it into a song. When I finally came up with a "song" (that I really love), I realized that there was SO MUCH music and work that went into this small page of music. So I titled it "Within A Page". After coming up with the arrangement for solo vibes, I thought I'd offer it along with a lesson on how to play it. So, here it is in PDF download form. I hope you enjoy it.