Joe Locke - Force of Four will be performing at Smoke, in NYC, December 4. 5 & 6.
(w/ Robert Rodriguez, Johnathan Blake, Ricardo Rodriguez)
Smoke: http://www.smokejazz.com/
Here is a brand new interview with Joe Locke on jazz.com for you to view.
http://www.jazz.com/features-and-interviews/2008/11/13/in-conversation-…
Here is a pretty extensive discography of Joe Locke recordings. Some are hard to get a hand on, but this will give everyone here a pretty good basis of getting stuff by Joe Locke.
I'll try to post amazon links to the records I can find there for everyone to check out.
Chris Farr had did an online class tonight where he talked about Dominant Chords.
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I frequently encounter students that are working on 4 mallet playing, but they're having trouble bringing the technique into their soloing. The play the head with four mallets and solo with 2.
Bringing all the mallets into play is a difficult but doable task. When you work out 4 mallets over a head you're already working on this problem. All you do then is examine how you used the mallets on the head and start applying it to soloing. It's a process that can be done. In this audio podcast I talk about that.
Chris is a monster sax player. Played with Maynard Ferfuson and Jill Scott just to name 2 groups. He's a Philly guy and is probably the best young tenor around here.
He'll talk Wed. about playing over dominant chords and how he approaches them. It's based on the lesson I have up here on Dominant Chords, the lesson is linked under 'Check this out'.
My practice time is inversely proportional to the number of posts per day on this site. So keep it down ;-). I had a nice practice tonight. Some scales, some tunes.
One thing led to another and I started playing Norwegian Wood in 6ths. I think I might add this one to my office's Christmas party cocktail hour gig. Enclosed is an arrangement I came up with. I later heard the original and found I played it in the wrong key (C vs. original E). I think I might keep it in C since it lays nicely.
What is the common point between those three songs:
- Autumn Leaves
- Beyond the Sea
- I wish you love
N.B.: Tifoo, and maybe Pap, this one is too easy for you, please let some time for the others to answer! Thanks! :o)
Hi all!
I visited the www.rossmallets.com site and it turned out that apparently Ross vibes are no longer available but there is another brand called Majestic that belongs to Jupiter who has a new series of vibes.
Check it out: http://www.jupitermusic.com/majestic/
It seems that I bought an already no more existing "vintage" brand vibe - probably bad for reselling :-(
Cheers Stefan
Hopefully if this is after the Chris masterclass there will be a recording of it. If you don't see one, then email tony at tony@tonymiceli.com and check if there is one.
Here are 2 lessons for dominant chords.
Any jazz musician has been tripped up by the bridge of Rhythm Changes, the 4 dominant chords. It's easy to fake your way through the bridge and difficult to weave your way through the bridge.
Make sure you study dominant chords and scales and ways of getting through them!
I simply grouped to lessons that would be in two different places here for you to check out.
