Tuesday May 1st – Getting ready for Smalls!
Hi Everyone, We had a great class last Tuesday, thanks to Charlie Caldarola to sit at the drums with us! […]
Bird’s Anthropology Solo
There’s aย nice analysis of Bird’s solo on Anthropology on Peter Spitzer’s blog, which includes aย link to Bird’s solo Youtube. You’ll […]
Vocal Harmonies Sung by Ear
W O W !!!ย As much as I love teaching and as much fun as well as learning we have in […]
Tunes
The group is starting to sound like a band. We played the best variation of Minority so far, by heart, […]
little update
We had a fantastic class, and all the students are making great progress. Today we worked on a new tune […]
Along Came Betty, Stablemates & Beatrice
Today is my first sub for Mark Sherman (he’s on tour in Europe), has been a pleasure to work and […]
26-2, After You’ve Gone, Star Eyes,
The last month has been a productive one in the combo. We have had a variety of different chairs not […]
Jazz Vocal Workshop back up and running…
I had a sweet time on the road in March and so great to return to running the The Jazz […]
Hal Galper
There are portions of various Hal Galper masterclasses on Youtube in which he discusses various aspects of jazz improvisation. I […]
Rhythm Changes
Want to understand rhythm changes and some useful advice, with examples, about how to improvise on them? Check this out. […]
Angelica
Today our warm up was in the Mingus blues composition called” Noddin Your Head Blues.” It’s a slow blues using […]
Duke Ellington
When I showed up to class we had a violinists and a new pianist. The pianist Bob told us he […]