Classic Jazz refers more to a transitional era (1920s), rather than any specific style. During the 1920s jazz slowly shifted from the exuberant New Orleans and Dixieland styles toward a more sophisticated and urbane swing style. Many artists who participated in this transition had careers that ...
For the non-rhythm changes riff tunes, I’ve put the melody and the bass line. This is closer to figured bass in Baroque music than a lead sheet with chord symbols. Musicians of that era would have understood these charts, partly because chord symbols arrived a bit later in the timeline....
" as well as revisiting Mel & Tim's "Starting All Over Again." One of the centerpieces for this album longtime rhythm section for Keith Jarrett, share the creative space with matching intuition. Motian's duo with Konitz sets up an expansive groove on the set closer, Sonny Rollins' "Oleo...