Dave Samuels plays Monk's "Bemsha Swing" with his trio at the 2009 Berklee Percussion Festival. A strong performance to study for his harmonic choices and phrasing.
Bobby Hutcherson Quartet plays Jitterbug Waltz at JazzBaltica 2007, with Joe Gilman, Dwayne Burno, and Eddie Marshall. Worth studying for his comping and solo phrasing in 3/4.
Stefon Harris's TED talk "There are no mistakes on the bandstand" — playing through examples with his quartet, he shows a wrong note is only a mistake if you don't react to it. A listening lesson worth every improviser's time.
🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Body & Soul – Week 1Welcome to the next installment of Play A Great Standard In One Month!After spending two full series exploring blues and rhythm changes, we've moved into a new phase of our…
Gary Burton with the Stan Getz Quartet in 1966 — his vibraphone solo on "The Sunset Bell," the tune he made his own, captured by the BBC at the London School of Economics. A clear look at the four-mallet style he was building that year.
Warren Wolf featured with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band on "I Can't Get Started," recorded January 2025 in Frankfurt. Worth studying for how he projects the vibraphone through a full big band.
🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 4Last week, we worked through a full chorus of "Stella By Starlight" using clear, relatively simple melodic ideas. The goal was to hear the harmony through basic scale and chord tones…
OK, slowly crawling my way through the lessons. Slow but steady wins the race, right? :)Friedman 3 https://youtu.be/A5dHhQmdFYQ and Friedman 4 https://youtu.be/y0qv0KSj4P8Diminished chords open and closed https://youtu.be/…
🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 3Over the past two weeks, we've been developing our approach to "Stella By Starlight" through voicings and chord melody.Week 1 established our harmonic foundation, while Week 2 explored…
🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 2Last week, we began our study of "Stella By Starlight" by developing a practical set of voicings through the entire form.This week, we're taking those voicings and putting them into a…
This is an exercise of blues solo. One chorus written using chord tones on the beats, and (mostly) blues scale and bebop dominant scale tones as passing notes.
Discord is a cool way to build a community. Come check it out. We have a couple days left on our first giveaway which happens to be a free lesson with me. Join our server and enter the giveaway! There will be more! https://…
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First post here, though I've been aware of the site for a while. I'm looking for some advice on what I might use to (safely) clean the bars on an old Jenco I recently acquired as my secondary, at-home practice rig. It…
🎵 New Series Alert – Play A Great Standard In One Month!We've spent the last two series taking a deep dive into two of the most important forms in jazz:• Play A Great Blues In 3 Months• Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 MonthsThose 14-week…
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