Month: August 2009

Trying to think of good album names… And a good way of looking at the cycle of life and how to see things in a beautiful way…

I just picked a few notes out of a solo by John Coltrane from If I Were a Bell.  I love when folks play descending watefalls of appregios.  Mr. Coltrane plays a series of descending appregios on probably a bunch of stuff, but I always think about how he does it on Milestones.  On Milestones, […]

So this was something I was doing recently.  It’s based on using the omnibook (though I guess you could use other folk’s solos) and then David Baker’s books about learning bebop.  Anyways, here’s what it was… Just read through Charlie Parker’s solo at a pace that you can get a bunch of the notes and […]

Here’s some cool songs that I’ve been working on or would like to work on. Just started playing with the Omnibook again.  I learn a lot just sight reading his solos.  Once i get some worked up to speed, I’ll play along with the record.  I’ve been waiting for my ear to catch up but […]