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Music Study Continued
July 23, 2019I.
This is a great time to study music. Man, Brian came over the other day, and we just were like grooving out on a few standards, and he called Autumn in New York, the great Vernon Duke ballad.
Ouch, (sorry Bri!) I hacked my way through that one out of the real book, but damn, that’s a…
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Jazz Nerdings
June 25, 2019I’ve been doing a bunch of jazz recordings recently.
I really enjoy mixing them afterwords and checking out what the different microphones sound like. I have six channels available, and while most of the time it’s pretty straight forward, there are challenges, like getting the drums…
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Jazz Studies
June 13, 2019When I get a minute at home, I like to return to the lifelong study that is jazz.
One of my favorite tunes from the cannon is Thelonious Monks’ I Mean You. It’s a fun song - learned it (tediously) out of the original (5th Edition) Real Book, but then discovered that everyone likes to…
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West Coast (Road IV)
March 21, 2019Man, I’m so glad to be here on the West Coast again. Nothing against the mountain states, but it’s just less rarified here. I can feel the sea.
I’m psyched to be close to home now too. I’ll see my old buddy (pictured) again tomorrow night. I hope it’s not too confusing for her,…
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