I think the title pretty much sums it up. Let’s first go with something classy, Duke Ellington. who in 1960 recorded a jazz interpretation of “The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky. The video below is of the Overture, opening with a descending…
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A Short Selection Of Holiday Themed Music That Doesn’t Suck
Tagged with: Christmas Music, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Run-DMC, The Nutcracker, The Waitresses, Vulfpeck
Posted in Classic Rock, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
A Haiku For The Holidays 2018
Something Different For The Holidays This Year Music Is A Gift The New Jazz Spasms – Tradition (Fiddler On The Roof)
“May All Your Dreams “. . . : Brian May’s Star Licks Guitar Video
Continuing with the Queen theme from my previous post, the video below is from a series of instructional videos fthat were made in the ealy 1980’s called Star Licks. Besides Brian May, the series featured well-known musicians such as Steve…
Tagged with: Brian May, Insrructional Guitar Video, Queen
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Queen For A Day . . . : Bohemian Rhapsody On Classical Guitar
I haven’t seen the movie yet but with the recent release of the Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic, I thought it would be a good time to share this great video of classical guitarist Edgar Cruz playing a solo guitar arrangement of…
Tagged with: Bohemian Rhapsody, Classical Guitar, Freddie Mercury, Queen
Posted in Classic Rock, Classical
Posted in Classic Rock, Classical
“Getting Off The Root” . . . : Digging Deeper With Jeff Antoniuk
As I’m doing my own deep dive into jazz bass playing, I’ve been working on my bass soloing. As the material has a much faster harmonic rhythm than the rock/blues/funk tunes that I usually play, I’ve noticed that many of…
Tagged with: Bass Soloing, Improvisation, Jazz, Jazz Theory, Jeff Antoniuk
Posted in Improvisation, Jazz, Music Theory
Posted in Improvisation, Jazz, Music Theory
“That Which Does Not Kill You”. . : Recent Adventures In Jazz Bass Playing
I have written about my returning to playing bass after a prolonged period of playing the Chapman Stick Guitar. One of my immediate challenges in actually find people to play with. I hate going to jam sessions. You wait for…
“He is poetry, he is innocence, he is energy, he is Flea!” – Flea at the Pathway to Paris, 09/14/2018
With that great introduction from none other than Patti Smith, the bassist extraordinaire Flea (born Michael Peter Balzary) proceeds to give a short but beautiful solo set playing bass and trumpet. The performance is loosely divided into three sections with…
Tagged with: Bass, Flea, Looping, Pathway To Paris, Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Posted in Bass, Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Bass, Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
