I first heard this track performed by Sherman Irby of the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra back in 2014 and I was just blown away by it…
It’s a real ‘Tour de Force’ of Blues playing that will really enhance not only your blues vocabulary but your phrasing, time feel, and much more!
In this lesson I will take you through clips 3 & 4, including how Lou Donaldson uses a ‘scoop’ or ‘lip bend’ to recreate the effect of a ‘bottle neck’ blues guitarist…
It’s really important to be able to play the head with conviction before moving onto the solo, so make sure you have this lesson done before moving off to the next one.
It’s Christmas Project time, this time for 2023 I’ve selected ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman’ from the Wise Music Christmas book
One of the things that people tell me they want to get better at is improvisation – one of the best ways to learn is to transcribe the masters. Dexter Gordon is certainly one of those masters and here is playing Charlie Parker’s, (another incredible ‘master’, if not THE master) ‘Scrapple from the Apple’. This recording is taken from Gordon’s 1963 Blue Note album, Our Man in Paris.
I stumbled across this album of Mark’s on Apple Music when driving back from my parents after a family visit. I’ve been a fan of Mark’s playing for years and this rendition of ‘Skylark’ just blew me away.