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Mark - classical guitar sounds so good! I still like Gymnopaedie number 3 on the piano Wink

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Need to dash, have to pick up some last--minute supplies (batteries etc.) so that I can record the wh ...

Mark

Thanks again for these tracks - you have been so generous in sharing these with us. The context of the Glasgow jazz workshops is a summer school where we work with well-known jazz musicians ov ...

Yes, I am very aware of Ron's work on the All Bird J/A edition. I was just discussing that with Henry (Johnson) a few days ago. I actually transcribed and studied all of Carter's bass lines from t ...

"The past week or two I've been having some fun creating several jazz guitar duo demos using the walking bass editions and a brush kit, showcasing just one of many possible applications. In this ...

Mark - when I played guitar, organ and sax in a rock group over 40 years ago I had to play the bass when our bass player was off dallying with a young lady (groupies they were called then!) BTW he is ...

Mark - thanks for that and Have We Met is a cool head - I can see why you play bass too!

All the best. Bill

To Mark and Dean

Quick update - have a couple of model solos down now, but not up to tempo - one is an "exercise" version with more notes than I would normally play, the other is a sparse ...

To Mark

Many thanks for the encouragement. I do practise every day without an amp, but recently am tending more to using an amp - in particular I find that playing with the volume up lets me practi ...

Mark, thanks for posting and for your Ornithology version - it sounds great. I have saved it to my library for further study!!

This brings me right back to my original topic, how to articulate jazz ...

Dean, I have several versions - the Charlie Parker Omnibook has transcriptions of his solos (note that it depends on the recording used for the transcription) e.g. the fast version of Ornithology is N ...

Dean. Great choice! A few suggestions for learning the head.

Listen Very carefully to all the versions you can. Bud Powell has a great alternative to the normal triplets played on Bird versions ov ...

Just playing the Ornithology head again and finding even more nuances by playing along with the recording.

Incidentally, the Omnibook has no tab or fingerings. It is reckoned to be the most accura ...

Dean, have started transcribing Bird's Ornithology - paying particular attention to his phrasing, inflection and articulation. Using one of his own recordings for the head and solo - also comparing Bu ...

Thanks to Dean and Gorecki for their helpful comments. I listened to a piano/alto gig yesterday - great bebop and classic jazz players, particularly the alto (he leads Strathclyde University's jazz co ...

Gorecki - checked out Al Di Meola - listened to some of his solos on the web and I'm afraid it is not my taste at all - in many examples he picks almost every note, so has little variation in articula ...