Mark Taylor - saxophone
Jack Hillman report ...
Trombone Class: The class reviewed different warm ups including mouthpiece buzzing and false pedals. Then, we talked about different kinds of commonly seen chords and what scales might be used to solo over them.
Song "Take the Coltrane" https://youtu.be/ISG9hDbCYIk
Mark Taylor Lecture part 1: https://youtu.be/nHxhcs1RZSQ
Mark Taylor Lecture part 2: https://youtu.be/x9rHlma0tD4
Jack Hillman report ...
Trombone Class: The class reviewed different warm ups including mouthpiece buzzing and false pedals. Then, we talked about different kinds of commonly seen chords and what scales might be used to solo over them.
Combo: The group continued with our Sonny Rollins theme by learning the tune Blues 7 from saxophone Colossus by ear. We also worked on ear training by doing call and response with different members of the group.
Max Bennett report ....
The Joe Henderson combo is thinking about adding an additional tune for the next gig - a bird blues in F. During this last session we worked with Mark on trying to make bar 9 and on of Night and Day sound good. We talked about doing arpeggios in different directions and using approach tones. In bar 12 you can also play F min instead of F diminished. Also, on the bridge you can go play Eb major before the D chord.
Keep working on connecting those ideas, switching up the feels on solos, and playing good time.
Ken Weller report .....
We spent this week's session playing through some new tunes, two of which we will decide to play for the second gig at the end of the month.
The tunes we played are:
Take 5.
There Will Never Be Another You
Misty: We'd change the feel to something like RNB or Latin
Equinox
I Love You: We'd change the feel here too
Lucky Southern
The outlier suggestion was an arrangement of the song, "We Are #1".
Graham had the idea of arranging it, so we may do it.
King Dawidalle report ...
Our Combo worked on a new bossa called Samba de Orfeo and talked about alternate changes that could be used over the Dmin7 and G7 chords. The horns switched parts a few times so that they could have a better understanding of how everyone's part fits together. We also took this concept and applied it to the F blues. During the session with Mark Taylor, we learned that when you know a blues melody inside out, you can make it sound more musical by playing with the rhythms.
King Dawidalle report ...
Our Combo worked on a new bossa called Samba de Orfeo and talked about alternate changes that could be used over the Dmin7 and G7 chords. The horns switched parts a few times so that they could have a better understanding of how everyone's part fits together. We also took this concept and applied it to the F blues. During the session with Mark Taylor, we learned that when you know a blues melody inside out, you can make it sound more musical by playing with the rhythms.
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