Jason Lyon Music

Tag: jazz

  • SE Confidential

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    Nice writeup just been published at Something Else (click for full interview). Life, the jazziverse and everything… “I first saw Jason Lyon at Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec in London. I had gone to see Gareth Lochrane on flutes, as he was guest of the Jason Lyon Trio – which is comprised of Jason on piano, Joel…

  • We’ve Run Out of Jam

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    Our Wednesday marathon is now run. To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new (we’re uncouth swains).

  • Playing Flat

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    A quick one for pianists – in particular, pianists who are fortunate enough to play on grands. Though not all grands are made equal… Okay, let’s admit it, we all read sometimes. Whether detailed arrangements, originals, things we “kinda know” or whatever. Put the damn flap down and read the chart across it. If you’re a…

  • Booker’s Blues

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    All of us are always learning (well, hopefully most of us are…), but it’s not big-headed to take pride in what you do. Here’s a little parable (with apologies to Jorge Luis Borges). Imagine you’re walking down an enormous corridor in a library that stretches on and on into the distance. You’re reading the books as you…

  • Skeletal Comping

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    Confession time. I actually enjoy comping more than soloing. It’s like a fascinating, constantly shifting, multi-dimensional puzzle to solve, with no limit to the possible solutions but your own imagination. Co-operating is as important as leading. Playing not just the piano, but playing the music. Here’s something I find interesting. Listen to a recording of…

  • Gareth Lockrane with JLT Review

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    Thanks to Sammy Stein for writing this review/interview. On a corner of a main road in the busy, noisy borough of Kennington, London, sits an unassuming building, easy to walk past but turn in and you find yourself in the place of wonder and magic that is Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec. Downstairs is a bistro restaurant…

  • A Backstage Emergency in Fairytale Land

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    .. he Narrator has called the denizens of fairytale land together for urgent talks. He’s not in the best of moods. He casts a weary gaze around the green room and speaks. “Right, I’m told we’ve got a problem on our hands. Tonight’s story is supposed to be the Three Little Pigs, is that right…

  • A Musician’s Guide to Black Tie

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    Jazz musicians usually chafe against the whole idea of dress code, but for some gigs dem’s de rules, pal. Since many musicians don’t really dress, they just add glue to their bathwater and run through a pile of laundry, I thought it might be worth a rundown on how to get black tie right. This…

  • Augmented Sixths or Tritone Subs?

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    I was recently reminded of my dusty school days when someone asked me how jazz uses augmented sixth chords. Oh, I do so love these invitations to give a fag-packet explanation and get myself into trouble… I suppose the simplest answer is that jazz uses augmented sixths all over the place, it just doesn’t think…

  • Erm, me…

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2hNAwSt2Yg 고맙습니다 to my lovely Korean friends at Talent Shop, who recently spent a sweltering week enthusiastically tailing the band with cameras. Check out their website or YouTube channel for a growing series on London musicians. PS Yes, I do actually possess a comb, I just keep forgetting to use it…