LETS PLAY TOGETHER

 THE WAY YOU LOOK TO-NIGHT. LISTEN TO THE EXCHANGES AT THE END.

I copied the Blues in Time CD for everyone, without explaining why. I've got spare copies for the newcomers.

This is why.
These two do and their backing section do nearly everything that we plan to do in the workshop. Have a listen. They are listening closely to each other while they play. For example, on track 4 Mulligan plays a little quote in his solo. Not to be outdone Desmond then plays a quote in his. They are just having fun with each other. Behind Desmond's solo is a soft descending harmony which is Mulligans trademark in all his arrangements. Its soft, quiet and cool. On other tracks listen to the way they copy each other exchanging 4s, sometimes they use a counter point harmony.

Desmond's solos are full of little playing patterns transposed, Mulligan too plays patterns but with a more flowing line. We'll have a go at this.


WE DID IT ONCE. BRILLIANTLY.
there was a supreme moment in our last jazz concert with the big band at Hillier. It lasted for 32
bars.

Andrew and Geoff exchanged 4's, and they really played off each other, they copied, they drove, they played fast and slow, loud and soft but they had a huge amount of fun playing for each other. It made them laugh together, it made the audience laugh, and it was totally musical.

For me it was the epitome of what a band should be about. It was a team game with the two forwards exchanging passes in the box.

That is part of what we are going to strive for in the new workshops.


We are going;
TO MAKE MISTAKES
TO LISTEN TO WHAT THE OTHERS ARE DOING
TO PLAY OFF EACH OTHER
TO EXPERIMENT
TO TRY THINGS WE DO NOT NORMALLY PLAY

We are all at different standards but there will be no

judgement, no criticism, just fun.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE'LL WORK ON.

• PRACTICE THE REMOTER KEYS
• ADD SILENCE/SPACE LESS IS MORE
• DRAG A NOTE/ PUSH THE BEAT
• FAST AND SLOW / LOUD AND SOFT/ 8TH NOTES
• ADD A TUNE REFERENCE TO THE SOLO/ EMBELLISH TUNE  
• PLAY WITHOUT MUSIC!!
• PHRASE LENGTH SHORT/LONG
• STACCATO/LEGATO
• JAM SECTIONS
• REPETITION OF NOTES/PHRASES
• START PHRASES ON DIFFERENT BEATS/DISPLACE PHRASES
• PLAY SCALE/ARPEGGIOS
• PLAY BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL THEN GLOOMY AND SAD  
• QUOTE FROM OTHER SONGS
• FRONT LINE LEADERS TO INVENT VARIETY, melodies/melody plus solo/sharing/ensemble/ backing/breaks/ 8’s 4’s 2’s hand overs, harmonies, jamming, codas, intros all sorts of stuff.
• RHYTHM SECTION TO ADD VARIETY

The Jazz Smugglers bands in Sussex

The Jazz Smugglers workshop, Bosham, Sussex

The workshop will be opening again on Sunday September 8th. 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.

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