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Playoff Season

Published: Fri, 10/20/23

It's playoff season here in the U.S., where after a lifetime of more or less baseball indifference, I have gotten sucked into the American league…

Right And Wrong 10-A

Published: Thu, 10/19/23

I was going to start out with one of those super-mystical questions about the meaning of the fingerboard: Can there be a right and wrong way to learn…

Minor Blues Soloing In Five Steps

Published: Wed, 10/18/23

But before all that – why "Minor Blues & Bebop" at all? Most often, we just kind of think of blues as "blues;" if we stop and think about it at all,…

Minor Blues Soloing In Five Steps

Published: Wed, 10/18/23

But before all that – why "Minor Blues & Bebop" at all? Most often, we just kind of think of blues as "blues;" if we stop and think about it at all,…

The Grilled Cheese Department

Published: Fri, 10/13/23

My browser home page currently defaults to presenting me with recommended articles to check out, including, as I write this, a story on how to make…

Next Workshop: Minor Blues & Bebop

Published: Wed, 10/11/23

I studied jazz in college, more or less, and lasted all of one semester in a graduate program in jazz composition before deciding both my proclivities…

Lingua Franca

Published: Fri, 10/06/23

But when I went to look it up, I couldn't find any version by a female singer; someone named Gordon Jenkins kept popping up instead. So I sprinted…

Deep Space

Published: Fri, 09/29/23

I used to haul my Emmons push-pull single-neck steel down to the East Village every now and then to play instrumental hillbilly boogie with Whit…

Chord Substitutions Workshop – Last Call!

Published: Fri, 09/22/23

It's sweet I will Repeat Just one more time The fact That I'm Presenting Chords As aimed Towards The minor Blues As jazzers Use Them: one by one And…

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