Jazzadvice
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Jazzadvice is a rapidly growing collection of the best advice we've picked up along the way on our never-ending path of musical development. The purpose of this site is to help you grow as a musician and an individual. We're sharing with you concepts, ideas, and tactics that we've picked up over the years.
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1y ago
There are a lot of skills you need in jazz improvisation...Developing great ears, a knowledge of tunes, instrumental technique, and a mastery of jazz language... But there's one question that ..read more
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1y ago
Michael Brecker is one of the greatest saxophonists to arise after John Coltrane. Like Trane, he took the instrument places it had never gone before, adding new fingerings, effects, and ..read more
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1y ago
You dream of becoming the type of player that can improvise with ease over any tune. A musician with an endless supply of creative ideas to play at a moment’s ..read more
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1y ago
Kenny Dorham is one of the enduring masters of this art form, spanning the history from the bebop era to the musical explorations of the 1960s. His playing and compositions ..read more
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1y ago
Bebop “heads,” what jazz players sometimes call the melody of a tune, tend to be some of the trickiest and most technically demanding strings of notes you’re likely to encounter ..read more
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1y ago
As musicians, we often treat the songs of the jazz repertoire in the same predictable way. We learn the chords, memorize the notes of the melody, and then we skip ..read more
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1y ago
When you’re first starting out on your journey learning how to play jazz, you'll typically come across two different camps of how to go about things... One camp believes that ..read more
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1y ago
Beyond scales, music theory, and all those memorized licks lies something that gets to the core of what improvisation is all about - the art of crafting musical ideas. It's ..read more
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1y ago
Always searching for a new sound to explore and share with the world, jazz musicians are constantly trying to evolve and push the music forward, reaching for something different and ..read more
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2y ago
Take The A Train is one of the most classic jazz standards you’ll ever come across. Composed by Billy Strayhorn, the tune quickly became the featured tune of The Duke ..read more