jazz

We'll be playing here on December 1st.

Quoted: Boxley's is a Jazz, Blues and Live Music Club in Downtown North Bend, Washington featuring great food, great wines and the best of the Northwest's musicians performing live @boxleys five nights a week; Wednesday through Sunday with 2 sets of music every night.

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I'm supposed to play this tune on November 5th with Mordy Ferber.

Quoted: Emily Remler plays her interpretation of the Sonny Rollins classic 'Tenor Madness' on Australian TV in May 1989.Visit the wonderful Emily Remler site:http://...

Quoted: The question amounted to “how do you improvise over Dolphin Dance?” This is how I do it at least. I try to keep in mind ...

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I'm channeling some Wes Montgomery here.

Quoted: Jay Roberts and Rob Dickerson play "Four on Six" by Wes Montgomery at the Roberts Music Institute.

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I'm WAY over my head here. But it was fun anyway.

Quoted: Jay Roberts and Rob Dickerson play "Scrapple from the Apple" by Charlie Parker at the Roberts Music Institute.

Giant Steps is the best known example of the Coltrane Matrix.

Quoted: In this guitar lesson you will learn how to comp over John Coltrane's Giant Steps in a creative way...

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Hancock and Metheny playing Cantelope Island.

Quoted: An amazing rendition of canteloupe island.

This standard set of chord changes is a requirement for the improvising jazz musician. I'm working on it now since I'll be playing "Oleo" (by Sonny Rollins using these chords) with a pianist this week.

Quoted: Rhythm Changes for guitar. Chord progressions, techniques and examples.

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Here's a video of our band playing a Chick Corea tune at the Robert's Music Institute in Seattle. The intro is kinda slow but keep watching...it picks up a lot.

This tune took forever to nail down because it's pretty fast and there are tons of breaks. Our drummer and bass player are awesome, the rest of us are just along for the ride.