Volume Two of The Complete Guide To Improvisation should be available soon. Chapters include: Upper Structure Triads, Four Note Groupings, Motivic Playing, Cyclic Patterns and Major 7th #5 Superimposition. The book will be available on Amazon, the Berklee College of Music bookstore and www.edsaindon.com

Hi all,
I am putting together a book of free verse with musician photos by the incredible author/jazz photographer Ed Berger. Some of you may remember when I asked around last year for birth dates of vibes players who have recorded to include them in the book. I decided to self-publish and the book is going forward.
One of the verses is actually a compilation of all the vibes players I am familiar with by

Well, Ray Charles OWNS this tune. His recording is the one we all think of when this tune is mentioned.

It sounds great as an instrumental too, and since everyone knows this tune it's a good one to play on gigs.

Lesson in June left me with two tasks.

A lesson about digging deep on the basics with the first 8 bars of Stella.