What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend? Homeless!

Happy to hear that you discovered it. If/when you play it, I’ll take full credit! 🙂

Glad you enjoyed it. It’s precious.

Hi Jazz cats,

Among the many inspirational tunes, here is a special one that I discovered thanks to a listening session hosted by Wynton Marsalis and Vincent Gardner during covid. I am very thankful to the JALC family for providing valuable content especially during that strange time.

For this one, I am showcasing Coleman Hawkins playing the…

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This is from a cartoon so I’m paraphrasing to avoid dealing with copyright issues:

Guy goes to the doctor and says: “I’m feeling kinda blue.

Doctors says: “You probably have a case of mild davis.”

Thanks for stopping by Becky and for your interest and support. It’s nice to read a human voice and I appreciate it (just yesterday I asked the copilot AI app for suggestions on a new laptop 🙁 Beam me up! :D)
Yes, the day job and other life responsibilities like assisting my elderly parents etc.
Music is everpresent. Most of the photocopies…

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How can you tell when a singer is at your door?

They can’t find the key and don’t know when to come in.

How does a jazz musician make a million dollars?
By starting with 2 million dollars!

Thanks for listening and for your observations. Yes, my ears wanted to return to the minor blues. Can you elaborate (and perhaps in the livestream) on the finer points of which notes in the diminished scale to stress to ensure that that is the sound that you want to emphasize?
Keep swingin’

Wanted to at least trying out the diminished scales over a blues which I never tried before. This is only a starting attempt. My ears might have pushed me outside into more familiar territory. For the single measures, I tried to focus on chord tones for safety purposes. Interesting approach to revisit. Pardon the “accidentals!” Maybe…

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Diggin’ and swingin’!

Here is a take on doing the minor blues riffin’ exercise after carefully listening to the livestream replay with @SaxophoneSteve .
https://youtu.be/16ZbXRhNu9s
I tried to take written notes on the crucial part for this exercise and wanted to confirm/clarify a few things:
On D7, you indicated not to play the G. I interpret that as the 4th of D7…

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Thanks Carmen. I was trying to follow instructions like a good student 🙂 Interesting that one should know when to stop.

Thanks for asking Carmen. My name is pronounced the French way. I was scrambling to find some phonetic clip but came up with this (not endorsing the site or anything): https://www.deepl.com/translator#fr/en/Alain
The tool is okay for the French pronunciation (from France!)

When we try to come up with our own riffs based on the patterns/sounds that you demonstrated, how do you suggest we codify them (or do you)? I often hear that there is a time to practice, but then you forget everything and just play. To what extent do we need to recall riffs/vocabulary and to what extent will your ears help you dictate what…

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Thanks Steve. I was scrambling to stick to the major blues and was really by coincidence that the pentatonic popped out.
Is the C# the note that provides the “rub?”

This brings me to a question on vocabulary that we all like to progressively internalize. On the one hand, we can take a scale as a foundation to make a statement. You can also…

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Here is a first take of Back At the Chicken Shack with a chorus of the major blues riffin’ exercise. Major blues is still a bit odd to me as we tend to focus on minor blues. While trying to make “statements”, I found that I still wanted to add notes such as my G (outside the scale). As a result, I felt a bit constrained while trying to play…

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Greetings everyone. I’m a tenor saxophonist originally from Belgium but based in Canada in the Toronto region.

I’m a college professor locally so that I can invest in my jazz hobby 🙂

I have had an ear for jazz since I was a kid when my mom would play this cassette tape (remember those) with the label “Satchmo” on it. I couldn’t read a note…

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Thanks for the guidance and support @SaxophoneSteve Wish I also had super headphones where I could listen to tunes, repeated patterns and solos while I sleep to internalize everything! Buhh!

Yes there a more resources than ever before. Thanks to the pandemic, I’ve been practicing more than ever and feel bad when other parts of life get in the way. I like analyzing things and have been guilty of paralysis by analysis. Scaling (pun intended) things down as to what to work on is still a work in progress. Fortunately, I am okay…

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