Jazz Writing
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Topic: Jazz Writing
Posted By: mattybannond
Subject: Jazz Writing
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2017 at 12:25pm
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I've just started sharing my writing online: I'll be writing about a few different topics, but jazz music will be a recurring theme. |
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Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2017 at 12:57pm
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hey Matty, welcome to the site, your link (above) doesn't work for me
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Posted By: mattybannond
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2017 at 1:02pm
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Hi Snobb, I've updated it now and hopefully it works. |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2017 at 1:05pm
works now 
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2017 at 4:36pm
| Hi, welcome to the site, I gotta gig right now, But i will try to check your blog out later and leave some feedback. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2017 at 10:13pm
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I read your article, I'm glad you could get going. As a teacher, I can tell you that many students never learn the fun of improvising. For me it was quite different. I didn't start playing until I was in my late teens. By then I had a clear idea of what I wanted to play, mostly solos on the B3. I had favorite jazz players (Jimmy Smith, Larry Young, Jack McDuff etc) and rock players (Jon Lord, Greg Rollie, Keith Emerson) plus many others, and the main thing I wanted to learn how to play was the solos. I was working on B3 licks and solos before I could even play a song. Improvising has always been my favorite part of playing music.
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Posted By: mattybannond
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2017 at 3:09pm
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Thanks for your encouragement, all of you. It's really exciting for me to hear what you think. |
Posted By: mattybannond
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2017 at 6:42am
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Thanks for reading, and thanks again for welcoming me to the forum so nicely. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2017 at 11:26am
| Nice article, and yes, the standards, or fake book tunes, are one of those things that set jazz apart from other genres. Even if an artist is playing something that isn't a standard, you can tell if they worked up their skills from playing the standards. If you can play the standards, then you will know your music theory inside and out, and how to apply it in time. |
Posted By: mattybannond
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2017 at 4:39am
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It was a lot of fun to write, and I'd love some feedback / responses. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2017 at 8:25am
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Excellent article, one Monk advice I really liked was "Make the drummer sound good". I'm going to return to this article in more depth later, I really appreciated the nod to Parliament; Clinton, Worrell and Bootsy together at their peak was pure genius at work. Your coverage of jazz from the 40s to 70s is very good, but so many people neglect the pre-40s, and the 21st century. Here are some early geniuses to look at: Fletcher Henderson: his big band arrangements in the late 20s-early 30s are just incredible. Listen to many, because some are better than others. The best are the ones arranged by Don Redmon. Possibly the two best jazz piano players of all time: Art Tatum and Earl Hines. Moving on to the 21st century: Piano: Matthew Shipp and Brad Mehldau, two very different piano players, but both are exceptional. Guitar and composition: Mary Halvorson, she is still realizing her potential, I think her best may still be yet to come.
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Posted By: mattybannond
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2017 at 12:43pm
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Thanks JS! |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2017 at 5:49pm
| I just listened to Parker's "Lover Man", that is something else. That was also the first jazz tune I learned how to play, in a very rudimentary fashion of course, unfortunately, I don't have a copy of it anymore. |
Posted By: mattybannond
Date Posted: 20 May 2017 at 11:23am
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Thanks again for all the kindness you've shown me on this page. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 20 May 2017 at 11:30am
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I teach music to young people, and by far the best starter instrument is the keyboard. On a physical level its very easy to play, which means everything else will be brain work. Because of the physical layout of the keyboard and the way standard music notation works, you can teach young people how to read by seeing relative note movement, something thats much better for their brains than note memorization.
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Posted By: mattybannond
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2017 at 3:09pm
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I've just posted an article about how woodwind and brass instruments are enjoying a return to mainstream popularity, through bands like Too Many Zooz and Moon Hooch. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2017 at 1:01pm
| Awesome video, we'll get Too Many Zooz added to the site. |
Posted By: mattybannond
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 2:23am
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I write short stories and one has just been published in an online journal. Feedback welcome, as always! |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 1:09pm
| Good to hear from you Matty, my computer is being repaired right now, but I should be able to check out your story after Monday. |
Posted By: Frederic_Alderon
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2018 at 8:12am
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Juzz is all about the snippet of a heart bit...It's a music of the soul, the music of the heart, and the music of the beating body of the planet... The beauty of jazz, the magnificence of jazz, is that it reproduces and amplifies those sounds, time after time, moment after moment, in ways that speak directly to the heart and ears of the listener as no other music does. Keith Jarrett, using a photographic metaphor in speaking of jazz, said that while classical music was like a photograph of a clear mountain stream Yes that's totally it, and maybe to add a tube in here, or some good old saxophone like the Nill are doing, yep the scenery now is perfect, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_cPsIl5LP0 |
Posted By: ManyRiversMan
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 5:06pm
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Posted By: ManyRiversMan
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 5:07pm
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http://andyhay.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://andyhay.bandcamp.com Hi there, I dont know if anyone managed to catch this. 800 hand painted album covers. ' Many Rivers' 'Another Sun' my 1st 2 albums Uk Jazz in some of its most truthful precise moments. Albums are all individually painted by a fine artist, plus original wall art and hand made session booklet, hand stitched. A 100% indie lab of love. Im a Jazz musician and have devotionally served jazz in UK and Europe for 38 years . I went back to school at 45 and gained a fine art masters, it was a strage place but much gained. My music is my soul direct in the moment to disk. I crowd funded a vinyl pressing and it took off from there. Im exited to see them travel around the globe x I survive day to day as an indie artist. Record labels and industry are not my thing. Im with Frank Z on that x I hope you will come say hi Support share if you dare :) Many Thanks Andy.
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