TweetI have a copy of the Tao Teh Ching sitting in my office/studio/practice room that I randomly open up from time to time. It is the edition published by Shambhala and translated by Dr. John C. H. Wu. Today I opened it up to Chapter 63 and read the following: Do the non-ado. Strive for [...]
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Tweet I’ve decided to move on from Hank Mobley for the moment and change strategies. One of the main things I’m working on right is learning tunes. I’ve been working on a couple of rhythm changes heads over the last couple weeks and thought it would be good to transcribe a solo with those changes [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Posted in practicing, Technique, Technology, tools, Transcriptions
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Tagged Bebop, Bill Evans, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, jazz, Oleo, pdf, piano, Rhythm Changes, solo, transcription
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Tweet Click here to see the placement of the finalists.
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By Eddie Rich
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Posted in Live Music, Technology
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Tagged 2010, Adolphe Sax, Alexandre Souillart, Belgium, classical, competition, Dinant, Evgeny Novikov, Joonatan Rautiola, Miha Rogina, Nikita Zimin, Results, Saxophone, Simon Diricq
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Tweet Click here to find out who made it into the finals of this year’s Adolphe Sax Competition.
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Tweet Last night, I played a jazz trio gig for a corporate reception at the MGM Grand Conference Center. My friends, Cocho Arbe and Joel Richman, were playing keys and drums, respectively, and I was playing tenor. As we’re finishing our set-up, the event coordinator comes up to us and tells us that the client [...]
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Tweet Here is Hank Mobley’s solo from Cattin’ from The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley, Vol. 1. Cattin’ is a 12-bar blues in Bb. On Hank Mobley’s and Donald Byrd’s solos, there is a 16-bar tag added at the end. It’s 14 bars of a G pedal (F concert) It lands on C (Bb concert) [...]
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Tweet At one time in my life, I was a pretty dedicated classical saxophonist. I still geek out about this stuff every now and then and this is one of those times. The 5th Adolphe Sax Competition started on November 1st and continues through the 13th. The competition is held every 4 years in Dinant, [...]
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Tweet John Klopotowski’s “A Jazz Life” is a memoir written about master saxophonist Warne Marsh. Klopotowski, a guitarist, was a private student of Marsh’s in 80′s and this book is a chronicle of that time, written in two sections. Part I tells the story of how John ended up studying with Marsh and describes the [...]
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