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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
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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
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
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Secret Society is moving.
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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
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
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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
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here is a document that I put together with scale options for Major seventh chords.
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Portland Jazz Festival Itinerary
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
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
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
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
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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
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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!
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Dominant Scale Options document
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
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 [...]
Wayne Shorter’s Footprints & Aung San Suu Kyi
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Last Sunday I had the chance to roam around Sioux Falls, and stopped at the Last Chance CD Shop. Or was it the Last Stop? Anyway, it was one of those rare places trading in used pieces of circular plastic pregnant with signal: CDs, DVDs, and video games.
I didn’t expect much, [...]
On the art of hair growth
Submitted by X… Y… Jazz
Recently a piano student of mine emailed me for some encouragement. He asked me “I was wondering what you do when you don’t like the way you sound on the piano?” This is definitively a question that most students have but few dare to ask. It’s a good question for several [...]
Tom Varner Sells Me a CD
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Last October I posted a review of Tom Varner’s The Window Up Above: American Songs 1770-1998. Varner channels avant garde jazz through the French horn, which might be illegal in some states. His songbook is full of rich interpretations of traditional American melodies that accomplish the basic purpose of avant garde: [...]
Kenneth Caldwell Blanchard Sr. 1923-2010
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My father passed away on January 27th. As a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, I suppose I will have to begin celebrating that day in the future, as that is what Buddhists generally do. There is a kind of appealing symmetry in replacing the birthday with the day of passing.
My father had [...]
“One Day In Brooklyn” - Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
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JFJO graces us with their newest EP of their own brand of jazz (stream it on their site right now for free). One Day In Brooklyn is a short yet solid collection of tunes that fall into a wide spectrum, covering many grounds.
Catch them live here in Portland on February [...]
Industry Standard
Submitted by Secret Society
Our next NYC hit is Tuesday, March 23 at Jazz Standard, as part of the New York-based celebrations surrounding the 40th anniversary of my alma mater’s jazz program. It is great to be a part of this — many of my most important musical/personal relationships began at NEC. In fact, that is [...]
Tim Price on the music of Charlie Mariano- Rico Reeds blog
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Hello again, Tim Price here for Rico Reeds. I thought I might discuss some unique and important music played by Charlie Mariano and friends.
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady— Charles Mingus’s 1963 recording was wake-up call to jazz- - a lesson in alto saxophone expression by Charlie Mariano. Even [...]
Warne Marsh
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Warne Marsh has a claim on my heart. My first introduction to serious jazz was listening to Bill Evans in the apartment of an English Professor, Mead Harwell, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. One of my first purchases was Crosscurrents, featuring the Bill Evans Trio backed by Lee Konitz and Marsh. It is [...]
Medeski, Martin & Wood ticket giveaway!!!
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When I was going to school at Berklee back in the late 80’s I spent a lot of time hanging and playing with the students at new England Conservatory. This was mainly because my close friend Kenny Brooks, a fantastic tenor player, was a student there. Through Kenny I met [...]
The Words Project: Process and Evolution
Submitted by Secret Society
Guest post by Sam Sadigursky
Tremendous thanks to Darcy for allowing me this space to share my work. I’m very excited to release Words Project III: Miniatures on January 29 at Galapagos (the same space where Secret Society kicked off the release of Infernal Machines) and thought I would take this opportunity to [...]
