The St. Vitus Dance – Horace Silver This is an interesting song because of the accents in the song. Some phrases are before the beat and some are after the […]
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The St. Vitus Dance – Horace Silver This is an interesting song because of the accents in the song. Some phrases are before the beat and some are after the […]
Personnel Art Pepper – Alto Saxophone Red Garland – Piano Paul Chambers – Bass Philly Joe Jones – Drums (Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a 1957) Read all about it
If you want to build your repertoire you should listen to this CD. Full of nice arrangements of standards. It is a must to know these songs. Easy to play […]
Straight no Chaser – Important Notes This time the important notes of the theme Straight no Chaser are written out. As you hear in the video which is attached to […]
Let’s go way back for this one. Almost half a century ago, in 1964, the legendary Oscar Peterson Trio performed this great rendition of Duke Ellington’s “C Jam Blues” in […]
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917[3] – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered one of the giants of American music. Monk had a unique improvisational […]
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the […]
Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also as one of the greatest […]
Best, who was trained on piano, trumpet, and bass, concentrated on the drums starting in 1943. Between 1943 and 1944 he worked with Ben Webster, and subsequently with Coleman Hawkins […]