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The Jazz Smugglers band

Festival of Chichester Events list

The Jazz Smugglers workshop

John

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LISTEN AND LEARN BOYS AND GIRLS. BRUBECK AND DESMOND

Balcony Rock 1954. This is the original version, 12 minutes. The other YouTube live video is much later and does not do it justice. Why not listen to it first, and then read the notes and listen again? It may surprise you.

In the early 50's they achieved fame by going on tour with Colleges and Universities. This was in their early prime.

Listen to Paul Desmond's use of displaced patterns on alto - no one does it as well as Desmond. This was a characteristic of his playing throughout his life. His solos are all full of varied repeated rhythmic phrases. Comping is very quiet behind his solo.

Hear also his dynamics, loud and soft, this is the beginning of Cool jazz

Brubeck then solos with a totally different feel, a lot of block chords.
He was recovering from an surfing accident in 1951 that left him playing single notes with great pain. But look at what he makes of his very limited capabilities. It holds the attention throughout. At one time he is playing with just a single finger. At the end they just play single bar exchanges, question and answer playing out the song for the last 16 bars.

The audience loves it, agree?

John

JAZZ SMUGGLERS TO PLAY AT 9 FESTIVAL OF CHICHESTER EVENTS

The Jazz Smugglers band

The Jazz Smugglers workshop

Start your own jazz band - don't

How to promote your gigs



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Steve Turner - its Madness

Its going to be a great workshop next Sunday.


He doesn't know I've posted this and will be very embarrassed......
John


The Jazz Smugglers band

The Jazz smugglers workshop

We are going to dominate the Festival of Chichester. 9 events.

How to promote your gigs



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.
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HELPING THE FESTIVAL OF CHICHESTER EVENTS

Don't quite know what I've taken on here. But we have put up a new page in our website for publicising the events at the new Festival of Chichester. Organisers need to send me 30 words of details to post.
I'm posting this here to get a link to the page from Google.
It just forces it on to Google's attention this way.

Festival of Chichester events

Here is another new page which could do with a link.

Sussex jazz band prices

John

LET'S DO GONE WITH THE WIND

Next Sunday, Geoff Valenti will be running the workshop. He'd like everyone to do
this lovely song, "Gone with the Wind"

ABAC format. Mostly 11 V7 1s in Ebmaj and Gmaj. You'll all have fun with this.

John


Jazz Smugglers bands

The workshop

Start your own jazz band. Don't be daft.

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Would you like to sit in, this coming Sunday evening?

Hi, boys and girls. We've got about three folks who will be away on Sunday so if anyone would like to sit in on the Jazz workshop, free of charge, you'd be very welcome. I can tell you in advance what we will be doing.
It is between 7.00 and 9.00 on Sunday evening 14th at Creek End Smugglers Lane, Bosham po188qp
Fancy it?

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SUBSTITUTE SCALES+ CHORDS. A PLAYING EXAMPLE

Just have a listen. This guy is not explaining anything, he is just using substitute chords and scales over dominant chords.

In our workshop, lads and lasses, this is the sound to which we all might aspire. Some of you clever ones do so already.

We've got the following choices for substitute scales in dominant chords; alternate scales, tritone substitute scales, whole tone scales, diminished scales.

Geoff, what do you think about the following?

I'm not checking it on the keyboard at the moment, but from memory these chords and scales are not massively different from each other, maybe 1/2/occasionally 3 notes diffrence. Since there is a lot of chromatic movement anyway a bit of dissonance with a passing note is hardly going to matter one way or another.

1) The one common note they all have, outside the dominant scale is the Lydian +11 (+4).
2) The diminished scale is symmetric, therefore only three scales cover the entire range. Bliss. There are only three scales to learn.

If we are going to do Autumn leaves in all the keys, starting next Sunday why don't we all aim to at least know where is the Lydian for a start. The purpose is to force us all away from using just scales and arpeggios and to introduce some chromatic element.

Then perhaps the easiest to do would be a Diminished scale (starting a semi-tome above the root to make it fit)

Geoff I know you are an advocate of the diminished. What do you think if we start to get everyone at least thinking about it? I'm leaving space here for you four experts to use other scales if you want.

Geoff, any chance of your putting a diminshed scale on BIAB and sending it to us for practise? I know, I'm asking a lot here. Have you got a moment to do it?






The Jazz Smugglers band from Sussex

The Jazz Smugglers Sussex workshop


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.
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