Here is an episode of a ’60s BBC TV series called Jazz 625 (yeah, our TVs had 625 scan lines at the time and the Beeboid techies came up with that really imaginative name). It’s Bill Evans with his second…
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Tagged with: Bill Evans, jazz, jazz 625, Monty Python, Nardis, set lists
Posted in c) Musicianship, e) Rants & Ramblings
Posted in c) Musicianship, e) Rants & Ramblings
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
How do jazz musicians learn, hear and think of tunes? They do it the way we all understand, read and speak. In chunks and in links between chunks, not word by word. Even when you put a new chart in…
Tagged with: chords, contrafact, harmonic form, jazz, learning tunes, Life of Brian, Monty Python
Posted in b) Harmony & Comping, c) Musicianship
Posted in b) Harmony & Comping, c) Musicianship
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