Anthropology, line 14

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

Bird Like

This is the video of our class performing Freddie Hubbards’s “Birld Like” at Smalls.

Sing the Way you Speak!

This past session of the Jazz Vocal Workshop was super fun! I think we’re beginning to hit our stride as […]

half-diminished chords

I’ve been working on the exercises in “How Not to Suck at Half diminished Chords” on the Jazz Advice blog, […]

Alice in Wonderland and Oleo

Here’s an harmonic analysis of mm. 1-8 of Alice in Wonderland and Bill Evans’ solo. Transcriptions of solos by Miles, […]

Noddin’ Your Head Blues

was so impressed with the students on how they were able to read through some new material. The horn players […]

www.jazzadvise.com

I’ve been reading articles on www.jazzadvice.com, which Marco turned me onto in a comment to an earlier post. The blog […]

Must-Know Jazz Songs

I’ve been thinking about what songs I’d like to concentrate on next, and that led me to look at some […]

Videos of Performanceat Smalls

Here  the first of 2 videos of the theory class performance at smalls MRMr Knight & Autumn Leaves All the […]

Video of Perfomance at Smalls

Joy Spring performed at Smalls

Video of mixed meter class at Smalls

Here is the video of the mixed meter class performance at smalls

Video of performace at Smalls

I truly enjoied your performances at Smalls last week. Here are the videos.