Donald's first album giving the reigns of both production and composition to NASA aerospace engineer Larry Mizell. (Larry has writing credit on all seven of the album's songs. Donald has none.) Larry and his 11-month-younger brother, Fonce, were both D.C. born graduates of Howard Universi...
Guitarist Montgomery takes “Gone with the Wind” as a relaxed swing tune, accompanied by Tommy Flanagan, Percy Heath and Albert “Tootie” Heath. He provides us with a prototypical Montgomery solo, moving from fleet-fingered single notes to octaves to thick block chords. Paul Smith Quartet, ...
In the patient hands of Raphael Rogiński, a semi-hollow electric guitar can sound both ancient and futuristic. Drawing from free jazz, freak folk, Hasidic mystical songs, and Delta blues,Talàntakes the sparse, solo guitar meditations of 2015’s exquisitePlays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes ...
It allows a guitar player to have the open strings start at a higher pitch, thus facilitating the transposition of songs and the use of the "ringing", rich sound of open chords in unusual keys. * changes: a jazz term which is an abbreviation for "chord changes", which is the harmonic...
Henderson, accompanied by Wynton Kelly’s trio, modernizes “Limehouse Blues” with a harmonically adventurous approach tot the chords. The fast swing feel is busy and aggressive, largely due to the fiery drumming of Jimmy Cobb. - Noah Baerman ...
(but often also commercial) competitiveness—it was inevitable that a new jazzidiomwould soon evolve. Ellington’s harmonic lessons were finally beginning to be appreciated as arrangers forged beyond simple triadic and dominant harmonies into the various types of 9th, 11th, and 13th chords, all ...
The pianist no longer kept time (the earlier stride pianists had strided back and forth between bass notes and chords right on the beat) and instead played rhythmically with their left hand functioning almost like a drum. While the bass players kept time, the drummers often played accents ...
“fat” block chords, but much praise was afforded Desmond’s “cool” tone (he stated he wanted his saxophone to sound “like a drymartini”) and Morello’s facility and inventiveness. Brubeck himself received the most acclaim for his work as a composer; his best-known tunes include “...
such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vauighn and Billie Holiday to contemporary jazz singers such as Ann Hampton Callaway and Alicia Keys. We offer here a selection of songbooks of songs as sung by these singers. Some are for PVG and otthers have accomapniement CDs to help you learn and ...
They barge in, do things a jazz piano trio isn’t supposed to do, such as play Blondie’s ‘Heart of Glass’ or Kurt Cobain’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit.’ To get inside these songs, and their own well thought-out originals, they may inflict a bit of grievous bodily harm on the ...