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Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
A rooster is getting ready to retire from his gig at the Farm….he sent the word out to some young roosters to come up and audition for the gig….the first young rooster comes up and scats the bird solo on Night in Tunisia…..nothing happens the sun doesn’t come up no [...]
Harmonic Major- Modern Jazz Vocabulary vol.1
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
The harmonic major scale (simply a major with a flat sixth) is a relatively new addition to Jazz improvisation. It has an interesting exotic sound and can be a important element of a modern Jazz musician’s vocabulary.
Music theory always lags significantly behind what musicians are actually playing on the streets. [...]
Genius Ages Slow: Lee Konitz @ the Village Vanguard
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
NPR is doing jazz a tremendous service with its Live at the Village Vanguard series, which I have heavily pushed here. The current offering is a concert by Lee Konitz, backed by Dan Tepfer on piano and Matt Wilson on drums. Konitz’ alto has 82 years of heart behind it. I [...]
Upcoming PDX Jazz Festival Events
Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ
The last weekend of February — and the last of the Alaskan Airlines/Horizon Air PDX Jazz – looks like it’s going to be an epic one. February 27 and 28 offer a slew of conversations, jams, and performances worth checking out. I’m overall pretty bad with posting about upcoming events [...]
The Passions of a Mingus
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I have been listening my way through the 41 tracks on Charlie Mingus’ Passions of a Man. I am thinking that is not only the definitive Mingus collection, but one of the great treasures of modern jazz. Mingus clearly had that genius that most distinguishes jazz: the ability to dig deeply [...]
New Yorker cartoon
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Yusef Lateef interview on WGBO
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s a nice interview with NEA Jazz Master Yusef Lateef from WGBO’s Checkout show. He talks about his musical influences and development, world music, his involvement with Islam, and his current work.
Yusef Lateef interview
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John Stowell video lesson- Applying the Melodic Minor Scale
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Last night I was looking through stuff on my hard drive and ran across a great video lesson on melodic minor scales by John Stowell that I had never posted. This TV show was produced a few years ago by Darren Littlejohn of Portland Jazz Jams and directed by myself.
In [...]
Joe Diorio’s solo on Autumn Leaves
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Joe Diorio is an underrated monster guitarist and was one of the first instructors at the Guitar Institute of Technology. He has recorded ten albums, written several instructional books and is currently teaching at USC.
Dan Johnson transcribed this of Joe’s on Autumn Leaves.
Without You- mp3
Invitation- mp3
Joe Diorio’s MySpace
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1959: The Year That Changed Jazz, Part Two of Two
Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ
I’m always trying to create similarities between free jazz, and specifically Ornette Coleman, with Minimal and Conceptual Art. Just like Ad Reinhardt’s famous quote, “art is art, everything else is everything else.” For Ornette, the same could be applied — sound is.
Ornette played in the moment. He was only [...]
Martin Luther King & Charlie Mingus
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Here’s a scoop: you can get Charlie Mingus, Passions of A Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, from eMusic, for 12 credits. That’s 41 songs, including about 6 albums, for the price of one. In honor of the recent holiday and today’s election in Massachusetts I offer this sample:
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
The [...]
1959: The Year That Changed Jazz, Part One of Two
Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ
Last Friday I sat in the Whitsell Auditorium through the re-screening of Cool. I was giddy and excited to see 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz. Featuring highlights on Kind of Blue, Time Out, Mingus Ah Um, and for me most importantly The Shape of Jazz To Come. The audience [...]
Tonight — Reel Music Festival
Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ
The Portland Art Museum’s NW Film Center has their 27th Reel Music Festival going on. Typically each year they have a handful of rare screenings on Jazz. This year is no exception. What’s particularly interesting is the double screening of two 2009 British films. Cool, which profiles the resurgence of [...]
The Best Jazz You Never Heard: Reid Anderson
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
If you are looking for evidence that genius still inhabits contemporary jazz, Ethan Iverson’s work is a good place to start. I blogged on Iverson back in June (sorry, but the links have been removed). Iverson has been most visible as a member of The Bad Plus, a very eclectic and [...]
Sonny Criss
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I first learned of Sonny Criss from Ken Blanchard on this blog. Cat had amazing chops and a rough life with a painful ending. This one is for you Professor and Jazz Note SDP’s audience too. There are more from this session too. Hunt them down on YouTube and check them [...]
Misty Mountain Hop
Submitted by Secret Society
I’m hugely, deeply honored to have been invited to join the faculty at this year’s International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Centre for the Arts, especially as the rest of the faculty this year includes the likes of Donny McCaslin, Jeff Parker, Ben Monder, Ravi Coltrane, Drew [...]
Calling Softly
Submitted by Secret Society
As mentioned in the latest Secret Society News-Letter, the Festival of New Trumpet Music – one of my favorite musical events in NYC — is on, and I could not be more pleased to be involved.
Things kicked off tonight with a gala honoring the great Wilmer Wise, probably the only trumpet player [...]
Air
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
With a collection of about a thousand jazz albums, for the most part carefully selected, and drawing on limited resources, the question is always where to go next. This evening I returned to my jazz Bible, the Penguin Guide, and started at the beginning. It didn’t take long to arrive at [...]
Public Service Announcement
Submitted by Secret Society
Our 9:00 PM set tonight at the Jazz Gallery is sold out. As of now, tickets are still available for our 10:30 PM set, but you’d best act fast.
Thanks to all who came out to hear us at LPR last night. Winter JazzFest is a kick.
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Hellow from New Orleans
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I have been in New Orleans for the last few days, drinking beer and eating Cajun and listening to lectures on the Second Amendment. In between all this serious activity, I managed to visit one of my favorite music places, the Louisiana Music Factory, on Decatur Street in The Quarter. It [...]
Howard Alden guitar master class- All the Things
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Howard Alden give a master class for Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open on the tune All the Things You Are
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Wes Montgomery’s solo- So Do It
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So Do It
Thanks to Pere Soto for this transcription
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Letter from an occupant
Submitted by Secret Society
The latest edition of Secret Society News-Letter contains lots of exciting (and as-yet-unblogged) news. If you aren’t subscribed to it, you are, I’m afraid, missing out. Fortunately, that is easily remedied.
Just got back to NYC and am in serious crunch mode trying to finish a couple of new pieces, but I hope [...]
Jaki Byard
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
The “J” section on my iPod takes a long time to scroll through, what with all the Johns and Joes that fill up the jazz fan’s soul (does Apple have a copyright?). And then there are the Jacki(e)s. Keyboard genius Jaki Byard is not one to be missed. Perhaps his most [...]
The Jazz Review online-
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Founded by Nat Hentoff, Martin Williams, and Hsio Wen Shih in New York in 1958, The Jazz Review was the premier journal of jazz in the United States. Short-lived as it was (1958-1961), it set an enduring standard for criticism.While all of the material is of high quality, several features [...]
