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Different values

  • September 7, 2011
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I usually keep just one CD in my car for days or occasionally weeks at a time- recently for me it’s been Don Cherry’s Art Deco, an old favorite that had been languishing in the […]

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Getting started soloing over a form

  • July 5, 2011
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This is more a roughly-progressive series of guidelines than a step-by-step how-to; this is a much larger subject than can be fully addressed in one little blog post. Players spend years or decades developing a […]

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This / Not This – Episode 2

  • February 9, 2011
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This: Not this, Tacoma:

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Solo transcription: Jack Dejohnette – God Bless The Child

  • January 29, 2011
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Another example of that ECM gospel feel with my original transcription of Jack Dejohnette’s famous solo on God Bless The Child, from Keith Jarrett’s Standards Volume 1:  Keith Jarrett – Standards, Vol. 1 ECM B000VAKNLK […]

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