There was a documentary a while ago on 1959 as the year that changed jazz for ever. It focused on Miles’ Kind of Blue, Brubeck’s Time Out, Mingus’ Ah Um and Coleman’s Shape of Jazz to Come. Of course, jazz…
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1959 and All That
Tagged with: Ah Um, Brubeck, Coltrane, Giant Steps, Kind of Blue, miles, Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Shape of Jazz to Come, Time Out
Posted in b) Harmony & Comping, e) Rants & Ramblings
Posted in b) Harmony & Comping, e) Rants & Ramblings
Playing Giant Steps with One Scale
This tune gives most learning players an attack of the vapours. The chordal motion is weird, the tempo is whip fast and it involves playing over progressions in the key of B, which most players haven’t spent very much time…
Tagged with: augmented scale, Coltrane changes, Giant Steps, hexatonic scale, jazz harmony
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes
Coltrane’s Substitution Tunes
On two groundbreaking albums, Blue Train (1957) and Giant Steps (1960), John Coltrane presented a group of original tunes that stretched to breaking point the possibilities of functional harmony. Shortly after these albums he began increasingly to turn his back…
Tagged with: Giant Steps, harmony, jazz, John Coltrane, Ladybird, Lazybird, Moment's Notice, Tadd Dameron, theory
Posted in b) Harmony & Comping
Posted in b) Harmony & Comping
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