The last couple of weeks I’ve been listening to a lot of Grant Green. There are three tunes in particular that I keep returning to. They are “Blues In Maude’s Flat”, “Cool Blues” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So”. As a…
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Born To Be Blue: Grant Green (1935 – 1979)
Tagged with: Blue Note Records, Blues, Grant Green, Jazz, jazz guitar
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Live-Evil: Miles Davis Deconstructes The Blues on Sivad/Honky Tonk (1970)
Sort of continuing the Miles Davis theme from my previous post, I want to discuss one specific piece of Miles from the early seventies: “Honky Tonk” (a studio recording on the album “Get Up With It”) or “Sivad” (as the…
A Different Kind Of Blue: A Video Transcription of Miles Davis’s “So What”
Miles Davis. Kind Of Blue. This is one of those seminal moments in the history of 20th century music. In jazz, this was certainly one of those before/after things. Many of the concepts popularized by Kind Of Blue were not…
Tagged with: Jazz, John Coltrane, Kind Of Blue, Miles Davis, So What, Solo Transcription
Posted in Improvisation, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Improvisation, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing”: The Awesome Guitar Of Charlie Hunter
I’m just saw Charlie Hunter this past week. I’ve lost count of how many times I seen him but the number is in the double digits easy. I first heard about Charlie Hunter in a Guitar Player magazine article as…
“How Blue Can You Get . . .” : Some Lesser Known Blues Solos Worth Checking Out
Lately, I have been concentrating on learning to play the Chapman Stick Guitar (see the Chapman Stick Guitar tab for more info). While it is in many ways different from your standard guitar, it also shares many traits. Because I…
Tagged with: "Stormy Monday", Billie Holiday, Blues, Boz Scaggs, Duane Allman, John Mayall, Larry Coryell, Lester Young, Michael Bloomfield, Peter Green
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
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