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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Category: Standards
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
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
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Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics
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 […]
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Straight no Chaser – Important Notes
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 […]
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C Jam Blues
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 […]
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Rhythm-a-Ning
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 […]
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Straight no Chaser
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 […]
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Oleo
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 […]
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Move
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 […]
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Doxy
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