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Tag: soloing

  • Smoke Gets in Your Ears

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    or Being Yourself Interesting experience recently. I spent a fair bit of time working on live sound and recording for a band with another pianist (a really very good one), then went straight out to do a gig of my own… Well I rather struggled to click somehow. It was only halfway through the gig…

  • This is Just a Four-Note Solo…

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    …built upon the same four notes, Other notes are bound to follow but not far from those four notes, Now the new notes are the consequence of the ones we’ve just been through, And you get more structure in your solo using just those few. There’s so many people who can play and play and play,…

  • Pausing for Breath

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    Here’s another video. Apologies for writing less recently, but it’s that ho-ho-ho time of year and I’ve got other things on. Anyway, this video is a stone-cold classic. Here’s Bud Powell in Copenhagen doing Anthropology (not, as a friend of mine who played with us the other week and cocked up the head described it…

  • The Secret of Jazz? Mathematics

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    Forget technical studies, listening to the greats, learning licks, advanced harmony, playing out, networking and “living the life”. Well, don’t forget them at all, actually. But those are the obvious bits, and there’s a very simple principle that most learners completely overlook as they strive to progress in jazz. They’re usually too busy with the high-flown…