EWHS Jazz Colony - featuring Nathan Eklund
A bit of Green Dolphin Street ....
Lecture ....
https://youtu.be/sSeiGHzgdJQ
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Ken Weller provided this summary ....
7/11 Jazz Colony Combo Session
We started with playing Misty. Mr. Gabrielson had an idea to change the bridge section to sound more hip.
He changed the bridge to the following
|Bb- Bb-Maj7| Bb-7 Bb-6| AbMaj7| AbMaj7|
|A-7 D7 | C-7 F7 |G7 C7 | F-7 Bb7|
The emphasis here was on the second half of the bridge, the constant V-I progression of the root movement makes it sound more interesting.
Next we played Little Sunflower by Freddie Hubbard
We finished off with playing Four again. We were encouraged to listen to many different versions of this song to get ideas and to absorb some meaningful tidbits from them.
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'Four & More' Recorded Live In Concert Personnel: Miles Davis(tp); George Coleman(ts); Herbie Hancock(p); Ron Carter(b); Tony Williams(ds)
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Miles Davis & John Coltrane / Four ''1958'' Live In New York 1958.5.17 Cafe Bohemia. NCC Miles Davis [to] , John Coltrane [ts] , Bill Evans [p] , Paul Chambers [b ...
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Miles Davis - FOUR Trumpet:Miles Davis Piano:Horace Silver Bass:Percy Heath Drums:Art Blakey Recorded March 10,1954 New York. フォア トランペット ...
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Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn James Spaulding - alto saxophone, flute Albert Dailey - piano Bob Cunningham - bass Ray Appleton - drums Ray Barretto - conga
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"Tough Tenors" summary by Marina Albero
We kept working on the blues now more focused on the chord changes instead of just the blues scale.
Also worked on playing without the music charts specially for blues solos. Many times we keep staring at it just as an involuntary act of dependence instead of feeling the form and listening to the music created at the moment. Here is the original version of it! I find specially interesting Curtis Fuller's solo (trombone) as he sets a simple idea for one whole chorus just with a few notes of the blues scale, but all solos are great examples on how to use both resources! We plan on finishing the tune next session:
On my original song "42 y 19" we are getting more fluent on minor modes and started to take a look at the B section where there's a few chromatic II-V's to explore. We just had time to analyze them and also learn how to pick a mixolydian scale that fits our needs (natural? b9? b9 and b13?). We also could relate those scales to the minor modes we've been practicing.
Patterns suggested for practicing chord changes were: 1,2,3,5/1,3,5,7 upwards and downwards. For the dominants (7 chords) I suggested to practice 1,3,5,7,9 or 1,3,5,7,b9 depending on what choice we make.
Marina Albero
"Night and Day" - summary by Max Bennett
The Joe Henderson combo worked on Professor Dissendadt for the majority of the session. We worked on being able to sing the bass line - dragging on the fourth bar is a tendency to keep in mind. We also played the bass line together.
For most of the time however, we worked on the solo section. We talked about using the melodic minor scales as a resource for the dominant chords. We also talked about trying to mix up the solo sections for each soloist and each chorus. Distinguishing your solo from the one previous is a good thing to do. Mr. B also brought in an arrangement he did of Night and Day.
The gig is only about two weeks away!
"Barbados" Combo summary Jack Hillman
Trombone Sectional:
In the trombone sectional, we first talked about warm ups again including long tones, false pedals, and lip slurs. For the lip slurs, we focused on improving speed rather than range. Then, we worked on sight reading, and what to look for before one sight reads a piece. Finally, we talked and went through methods of practicing a piece after sight reading it.
Combo:
The combo continued to rehearse the Miles Davis tune Walkin'. We talked more about using the minor blues scale again, as well as talked about how to trade fours. The group listened to the tune multiple times to try to pick out the articulation and style of the the song from the recording. Next, we learned the head to Sonny Rollins' Saint Thomas, and talked about the calypso style of the tune. We also listened to the solos to learn about Sonny's use of thematic development and repetition. Finally the students were tasked with searching for a third tune they might want to play.
King Dawidalle provided this ....
Our combo is making progress on the tune Perdido. We revisited Dan's etude he made for it and incorporated it into the tune. Everyone took turns soloing. Dan also had everyone do an exercise where each horn held out a note that represented a chord. The two we did were Bbmaj7 and Fmaj7. Then Dan passed out an etude for the F blues he created and we sight read that. Finally, everyone took turns soloing over the blues and we ended the session.
This from Joel Steinke ...
Our (Little sunflower) combo is working on refining the two arrangements of Blue Bossa and Groovin' High. Jared is going to write out harmonies for the horn players and Natalie is going to finish the last four bars of her contrafact. The rhythm section is going to practice the switch in Natalie's contrafact from med swing to swing off the quarter note triplet. Everyone needs to memorize the changes to both tunes for next weeks combo practice!
King Dawidalle provided this ....
Our combo is making progress on the tune Perdido. We revisited Dan's etude he made for it and incorporated it into the tune. Everyone took turns soloing. Dan also had everyone do an exercise where each horn held out a note that represented a chord. The two we did were Bbmaj7 and Fmaj7. Then Dan passed out an etude for the F blues he created and we sight read that. Finally, everyone took turns soloing over the blues and we ended the session.
This from Joel Steinke ...
Our (Little sunflower) combo is working on refining the two arrangements of Blue Bossa and Groovin' High. Jared is going to write out harmonies for the horn players and Natalie is going to finish the last four bars of her contrafact. The rhythm section is going to practice the switch in Natalie's contrafact from med swing to swing off the quarter note triplet. Everyone needs to memorize the changes to both tunes for next weeks combo practice!
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