There are portions of various Hal Galper masterclasses on Youtube in which he discusses various aspects of jazz improvisation. I […]

Want to understand rhythm changes and some useful advice, with examples, about how to improvise on them? Check this out. […]

Today our warm up was in the Mingus blues composition called” Noddin Your Head Blues.” It’s a slow blues using […]

When I showed up to class we had a violinists and a new pianist. The pianist Bob told us he […]

Hi! I wanna share with you an interview that I had with journalist Brent Black from Critical Jazz. I think […]

There’s a good discussion about chord subs on this tune on website all about jazz, including this contrefact  (new melody) […]

Back to some warmups involving the modes in major and scoped out the locrian natural 2, 6th mode of melodic […]

Today we worked mostly on originals. Two tunes of Clement, one in 5/4 and one with a cycle of 3/4 […]

What does My Foolish Heart have in Blue Moon and Heart and Soul, and with many hits from the 1950’s […]

Here’s a transcription of Grant Green’s solo on Airegin. And Craig Buhler dedicates a post on his website to a nice […]

In our last class we welcomed Shri who plays bass and sat in with us. There was an immediate connection […]

Check out this now-classic phrase from Parker’s Anthropology solo (line 14, Omnibook transcription), here, in all keys and with a […]