From the New York Times;
A judge in Washington on Friday tossed a lawsuit filed by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts against a jazz musician who canceled a performance at the venue’s annual Christmas Eve concert last year after the center’s board added President Trump’s name to the building.
In case you haven't seen this yet, you MUST watch it!
Hello everyone! I'm pleased to share my senior recital performance from April! This month, I graduated with my undergrad from Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University with a major in Jazz Performance for vibraphone and a minor in Public Relations! I want to say a big thank you to Tony Miceli, who was my teacher/mentor throughout my 4 years and beyond! Thanks for telling me about Temple and making me fall in love with the city of Philadelphia! Below is the program, and I hope you enjoy watching:)
Here's my version. Where is yours!
I will do a chord melody and either post it here, or as a separate post.
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 14
We’ve covered a lot over the course of this series:
• Guide tones
• Blues comping
• Chromaticism
• Whole tone and diminished language
• Chord melody textures
• Harmonic movement underneath simple melodies
For our final lesson, we bring many of those ideas together using:
👉 “The Intimacy of the Blues”
This arrangement continues the idea of using a relatively simple melody as a framework for richer harmonic movement underneath.
This week introduces:
Let's work on comping!
Do you know the chords!!! :-)
Body and Soul (comp. J. W. Green) Vibraphone Solo Arrangement and Reharm. by Franz Bauer
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 13
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been combining blues melodies with chord voicings and moving toward a fuller chord melody approach.
This week, we use a very simple melody:
👉 “C Jam Blues”
Because the melody is so minimal, it gives us room to focus on something else:
👉 Dense harmonic movement underneath the melody
This lesson introduces several important concepts: