Continuing our little ten tunes series of often-played tunes to learn— today’s theme is solid standards; standards that are called a lot, that everyone still likes to play. Some things you play a thousand times […]
Category: tune list
Tune list for sessions
This is the tune list for a weekly session I play. We go through a lot of material, most of it kind of unusual, and many things that are rather challenging. I shlep this big […]
Another list of standards
On George Colligan’s Jazz Truth blog there is a group email sent out by a student who sounds nearly as dickish as I was in college, with the heading: The George Colligan Standards List…LEARN THEM […]
2013 tour repertoire
Here’s a list of the tunes we’ll be working with on my group’s Belgium trip next week. We won’t end up playing all of this stuff, but it’s in the books. A little over half […]
Putting some things in
This is me at my most masochistic. I’m back in updating my events band’s book again- it’s a long, tedious process- and thought I would continue to share the gory “thought” process with you. Previously […]
Tune of the moment: Eiderdown
Eiderdown is a great tune by Steve Swallow that deserves to be played a lot more, and has been coming up a bunch lately in sessions and in my listening. The lead sheet is available […]
The abyss
In this third installment of my events/swing band repertoire series (hopefully it’s of some interest to the bandleaders/working drummers out there), we’ll be confronting some of the things I’ve kept around strictly out of commercial […]
Keeping the band happy.
More notes from revamping my book (my events band’s performing repertoire, that is). Here I thought I would share some of the tunes I use to keep the band from going nuts over the more […]
Getting started soloing over a form
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 […]
Popular jazz tunes
Via NPR’s A Blog Supreme here is Jazz24.org’s list of top 100 jazz tunes, as suggested by their listeners. It’s not a bad place to start for beginners looking to get their repertoire together. There […]