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EDP-Disk’ Opens Brooklyn Retail Store

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:22:41 +0000

Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ From ESP-Disk’: ESP-Disk’, after 45 years of presenting sounds like you’ve never heard before, now has a storefront to offer them directly to you. Our dedicated store staff started by sawing shelves and painting the front of our offices. Then they dug through collections to find the finest in rare ESP [...]

Devin Phillips at Rogue Distillery & Public House

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:21:33 +0000

Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ Part of the Portland Jazz Festival, Rogue Ales is hosting three shows this week at their NW Portland location. Kicking off the three nights of live jazz, Portlanders were treated with a great show by Devin Phillips last night. If you are from Portland and do not know who Mr. [...]

Monk, Solos, Duos, Avant Garde, Hard Bop, and Martinis

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:19:55 +0000

Submitted by Jazz Note SDP It’s stream of consciousness time here at Jazz Note. I am digesting a little new music by Noah Preminger, John Surman, Dave King, and Tom Varner. But I am not ready to post on any of that. Instead, I feel like returning to a handful of occasional them and letting them [...]

Unless you just address with best finesse

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:17:49 +0000

Submitted by Secret Society Secret Society is moving. Our new URL is: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org We kindly request that you update your bookmarks and links. The new RSS feed is: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org/darcy_james_argues_secret/rss.xml No redesign, just a long-overdue URL change. The previous address was owned by our blog hosting software, but secretsocietymusic.org is our own domain, and will remain stable regardless of whatever might happen behind the [...]

NY AG by the Rob Garcia 4

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:54:37 +0000

Submitted by Jazz Note SDP In case there are any anxious and irritated music industry executives reading this blog, here’s how it works. I am in my kitchen, cleaning up the mess I made cooking burritos. I boiled the beef chuck in a crock pot for about six hours, then shredded and fried it, then reconstituted [...]

Recap: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Live

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:56:31 +0000

Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ On Friday, Portland was treated with a great performance by JFJO. I was busy, out an about all day and arrived unprepared. No notebook, no camera. The group sounded great. They played two sets (I was only able to stay for the first), which consisted of three songs from “One [...]

Major Scale Options

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:47:54 +0000

Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios Here is a document that I put together with scale options for Major seventh chords. Visit 1800blogger to see all of our industry leading blogs.

Portland Jazz Festival Itinerary

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:57:53 +0000

Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ I love doing this each year. Planning the few events in advance to partake in. And then I get all anxious about it. Here’s my list of events to attend. Related Post. 1. Rogue Ales Public House is hosting a handful of local acts this year. I can’t remember if they’ve done this [...]

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Live Friday Night

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:58:59 +0000

Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ For those of you here in Portland who are able to check out this blog, I’d like to remind you that JFJO will be performing tomorrow night at Mississippi Studios. Doors open at 8pm. It should be a solid performance, and if you are aching to see some live jazz [...]

Saxophone technical exercises to correct finger motion

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:49:34 +0000

Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios Here are some exercises that I have my students do to correct the most common technical problem- fingers that fly off of the keys. In order to play fast and clean while staying relaxed the fingers must stay low to the keys. Lifting fingers too high can even cause carpal [...]

Rare Blythe

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:55:44 +0000

Submitted by Jazz Note SDP One of my frequent pet peeves is the unavailable status of so many jazz CDs. I understand that some CDs sell only a few hundred or even a few dozen copies, and that it doesn’t make economic sense to print more of them. But how much can it cost to make [...]

Pentatonic Side-slipping etude

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:50:51 +0000

Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios This is a study to illustrate the use of pentatonics to side-slip chromatically over Impressions changes. Over the minor seventh chord a major pentatonic from the flat third is used as the starting point. Then the pentatonic moves up or down a half-step to a pentatonic scale that is outside the [...]

“Ohnedaruth” - The Art Ensemble of Chicago

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:59:48 +0000

Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ I just had to share this video. It really gets the heart rate up. Nothing quite beats this AEOC composition for me. Any punk rocker has nothing on these guys, this is real rock and roll! Visit 1800blogger to see all of our industry leading blogs.

Dominant Scale Options document

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:51:47 +0000

Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios I put together a document that details 26 different scale options that work over dominant chords. All of the usual scale choices are here, along with many that are much less commonly used by Jazz improvisers. Some of the less common choices obviously do not fit as neatly as the [...]

Coltrane’s Interplay Box

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:10:56 +0000

Submitted by Jazz Note SDP The three box sets of John’s Coltrane’s Prestige recordings are treasure troves for jazz fans. The largest and best by far is Fearless Leader. If you have that one, you have most of Trane’s early albums as leader. Side Steps and Interplay contain Trane’s work as a side man and double [...]