Jazz Smugglers Master Workshop

Jazz Smugglers Master Workshop
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Tuesday 3 December 2013

IN JAZZ LESS IS SO MUCH MORE

Who ever said you need to cram the solo full of notes?

Notice that these people are all composer arrangers. That makes a big difference. They are concerned with the total sound, firm lines, beautiful note choices.

Miles Davis, "Nature Boy". Great line up. Charlie Mingus on Bass, and Milt Jackson on vibes.




This is John Lewis. With Milt Jackson and Percy Heath on bass. MJQ



Watermelon Man Miles Davis with Herbie Hancock, Al Foster, Kenny Garrett, Bill Evans


Horace Silver on keys, really simple. Trumpeter keeps it fairly simple and rhythmic. The sax player starts ok ends up rushing everything. He loves playing outside. Ok for a while but I can't stand it for long. Sorry old fashioned melodic playing for me. I apologise. (Ps Tell me, which one sounds most musical to you?)




The Jazz Smugglers bands in Sussex
The Jazz Smugglers workshop, Bosham, Sussex

For the moment we are full, until someone drops out. There are about 10 of us each week.

This site is to help the Jazz smugglers workshop group and provide informtion about the following weeks work. We will be working on widening our range of playing styles as individuals, working together in a band, and practising the more difficult things. You need to be able to read.

In this blog We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar together with jazz saxophone. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation. you can sign up directly to this blog site as a FOLLOWER, bottom rh side panel, you'll get all the posts.



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