This is a continuation of my previous post about the great Grant Green. One of the points I made during that post is how Grant Green’s playing is an excellent source of coping lines (or if you prefer, licks), especially…
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“Please, sir, I want some more.” . . Grant Green Part II
Tagged with: Blues, Grant Green, guitar, Improvisation, Jazz
Posted in Blues, Improvisation, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Blues, Improvisation, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Born To Be Blue: Grant Green (1935 – 1979)
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…
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
Statesboro Blues: The Animated Videos
On October 28th, 2014, the Allman Brothers, after 45 years, played their last show at their “home away from home”, the Beacon Theater in New York City. The Allman Brothers were one of my favorite bands and a big reasons…
Tagged with: Allman Brothers
Posted in Blues, Classic Rock, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Blues, Classic Rock, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“I Feel Free”. . . . . . : Jack Bruce 1943 – 2014
Jack Bruce, bassist, vocalist and songwriter extraordinaire passed away on October 25, 2014 at the age of 71 from liver disease. With Cream, he was one of the handful of musicians who redefined the capabilities of his instrument and along…
Tagged with: Bass, Cream, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce
Posted in Bass, Blues, Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Bass, Blues, Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Time Is Tight. . . “: Booker T. And The MG’s
Last post, I talked about one of the highlights of my recent trip to Tennessee, The Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville. This time we’re going to Memphis. There was Graceland. There was Sun Studios. There was the Gibson Guitar factory…
Tagged with: Al Jackson Jr., Booker T. Jones, Duck Dunn, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Soul Music, Stax Records, Steve Cropper
Posted in Blues, Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Blues, Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“I Hear The Train A Comin’. . .” : The Johnny Cash Show
I just got back from a trip to Nashville and Memphis. The musical legacy of there two cities is so immense that it’s just ridiculous. One of the high points of my trip was the Johnny Cash Museum. I’m a…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Derek & The Dominoes, Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Louis Armstrong, Nashville, Neil Young, Ray Charles
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
The Mother Of All Funk Chords: A Brillant Video from Kutiman
I have previously featured the work from the artist Kutiman when I showcased his video “My Favorite Band”. With that video, Kutiman took up to 80 You Tube videos of assorted musicians doing Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog and edited them…
Tagged with: E9th Chord, Funk, Kutiman, Sampling
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, 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
“Summertime Done, Come And Gone, My, Oh, My. . .”: Happy Labor Day
Wishing everyone a happy Labor Day weekend. Here in the United States, Labor Day is the psychological, if not actual, end of summer. This leads me to the clip below. A video of the Grateful Dead playing U.S. Blues as…
Tagged with: Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, U.S. Blues
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
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