I love Steve Nelson. He has played a lot(and think he still does) with Dave Holland's band.
Check Nelson on Wikipedia:
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Check out Justin Faulkner. He's 18 years old and plays like he's 40 and has already played all over the world.
This is Philly to me. His feel is so happening. He swings his ass of and he's so musical.
He's on his way to Berklee, so look…
I was thinking about my post to Dimitri today and I started thinking about practicing slow.
I remembered that on tunes like Invitation it's really cool because you can get into all these harmonic worlds. If you take your time, let the…
Long time ago since the last entry.
The glockenspiel is now fully in production and will be our first instrument that can be sold from stock. It turned out a killer instrument, I guess it's the only glock out there to play jazz vibes on…
One of my favorite therapists, partly because she was cute and a large part because she was GREAT, taught me a big thing about music.
I remembered it today on my walk. I used to(still do a little) take all my problems and NOT solve them…
Dont know if you are aware that a real book for IPhone or ITouch is now available for all you jazzers, comes in handy if one cant remember some of the changes as it only displays changes avoiding copyright infringement,it also has a handy…
Hey Guys,
It's been a while since I have visited the site and I believe there are so many new members... Man this site is amazing and growing even more and more. (btw Tony congrats and the one year+ anniversary).
Anyway after a lot of…
I'm sure as everybody knows, I've been working on the Tom Harrell solo I posted here. I was blown away by it's simplicity and beauty. I think everything comes out of simplicity. It is possible to learn this later on as I did and lots of…
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…
Its been about 8 months since this recording. I think I'm past the mistakes on it now to a point where I am willing to post it.
This was recorded at my percussion ensemble concert last year. We only were able to rehearse about 3 times…
This is a great lick. It really gives some insight about weaving and vocabulary.
Check out the bebop major scale coming down. What a natural evolution for the scale huh? It just smooths out the major scale!
I love how he gets to the 4…
For me it's about my 12th year teaching at the college. Man I think Ed Saindon is going on 20+ something. Maybe even 30!!
It's always fascinating for me to start the year off. I know I have certain stereotypes and I'm always curious to see…
The more I do this the more I realize the power of a site like this. The more you talk about things, the more you post, the more you comment, I think, the more you learn.
When you record something with the intent of posting on this site…
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!
Earlier today I was recalling my experiences with French jazz violinist Stephane Grappelly. I made one recording with Stephane and while it is far from earth-shattering, it remains a sentimental favorite of mine. I met Stephane rather…