August 19, 2010 in Jazz Standards
This the 7th post in a two week series about the blues in all keys. I choose to use straight eights on this key because it is a very guitar oriented key, and it’s unlikely you’ll play in this key much unless you have a guitar in your group. The E Blues is usually done with a “rock” or straight …
August 18, 2010 in Jazz Standards
This is the 6th post in the 2 week “Blues in All Keys” series.
Eb Blues Changes pdf
Blues in Eb-C Instruments
Blues in Eb-Bb Instruments
Blues in Eb-Eb Instruments
Eb Blues Play Along
Here are the other posts in the Blues in All Keys series (Click the title to view each post):
Blues in Bb
Blues in B
Blues …
August 18, 2010 in Uncategorized
One of my favorite weeks every year is my week at the Great Basin Jazz Camp. I’ve been an instructor for the past 3 years at camp, and I’m also on the Board of Directors. This is a video interview with a couple of our students that Paul O’Brien put together for the camp. Ellie and Jessie were two fantastic …
August 17, 2010 in Jazz Standards
Here is the fifth post our two week “Blues in All Keys” series.
D Blues changes pdf
Blues in D-C Instruments
Blues in D-Bb Instruments
Blues in D-Eb Instruments
Blues in D Play Along
Here are the other posts in the Blues in All Keys series (Click the title to view each post):
Blues in Bb
Blues in B
Blues …
August 16, 2010 in Jazz Standards
This is the 4th post in a two-week series of the blues in all 12 keys.
Db Blues Changes pdf
Blues in Db-C Instruments
Blues in Db-Bb Instruments
Blues in Db-Eb Instruments
Db Blues Play Along
Here are the other posts in the Blues in All Keys series (Click the title to view each post):
Blues in Bb
Blues in …
August 14, 2010 in Jazz Standards
This is the third post in a two week series on the blues in all 12 keys. C Blues is one of the most common keys, and is ubiquitous in jazz recordings. It’s probably one of the three most common keys for the blues in jazz music, along with F and Bb. If you go into “blues” and “rock” songs, …
August 13, 2010 in Jazz Standards
This is part of a two week series on the blues in all keys. Every jazz musician should learn the blues in all keys. B Blues is considered a little hard than many of the other keys, and isn’t as common. But don’t think of it as harder-if you don’t think it’s supposed to be harder, maybe it won’t be!…
August 12, 2010 in Jazz Standards
This is the first of a 2 week series on the blues. Learning the blues in all 12 keys is ESSENTIAL for the jazz musician. We are going to take the blues throughout all 12 keys, and also I’ll give a list of blues tunes. I’m not going to post as many youtube videos for this series as I normally …
August 11, 2010 in Learning Jazz
When you play over a minor ii-V chord progression, such as the first two chords of Stella by Starlight (which you expect to resolve to the minor i, D-, but it goes to a ii-V in Bb instead) one fun sound to play around with is the melodic minor scale.
Over the ii-7b5, use a melodic minor scale a minor …
August 10, 2010 in Jazz Standards
Willow Weep for Me seems like one of those tunes that was in a musical or movie at some point, but that isn’t the case. Ann Ronnell wrote the tune, and it was first performed by two different groups, one led by Ted Fio Rito and another by Paul Whiteman, both in 1932. It hit the charts again in 1964 …
