An Old Big Band Video
Sorry for the large break between posts. I was playing in South Pacific last week and I ended up having no time to write. I did however find an old video whilst I was digging through unnamed CD’s and DVDs…
Daahoud – Clifford Brown Transcription
That’s what I have to look forward to today. It’s been a while coming but it’s about time I pulled my finger out on these transcriptions as part of my ear-training practice. I think I might spend a bit of…
Mac Studio – Why Won’t You Work?!?
Perhaps a misleading title. In essence my nice new Mac Studio (pictures to follow at some stage) records mic’s and line in’s really well. But I’m trying to get the damn midi to work so that I can record some…
Practice Makes Perfect … and Gets Gigs (in theory)
Nothing but practice today spliced with theory reading and subsequent shedding. I think it’ll be a while before I see a return but there definatly some practice money in the bank today. I hope I keep inspired. I recently bought…
Hangin’ Out In Chappells
I went to Chappells music store yesterday to pick up a few books to help me on my jazz crusade when I started chatting with a chap called Pete Robinson by the improvisation theory section. Pete was a great chap…
A Late Post And Long Day
I’ve had an intensive day of pounding through jazz standards with Jonny before he went back to London. We played for a good 5 hours and I carried on practicing those good old half-diminished scales well after he’d gone -Woo-Hoo!…
Jazz Duo
My good pal Jonny is heading up from London tomorrow to work on our duo material. This is a fairly new project that we are working on together and the majority of our material to date are some of the…
Emailed in Question; Orchestra VS Big Band
Hey Jason, Thanks for sending me your email Jason. That’s a pretty hard question to answer but I’ll do my best : ). I guess I can just tell you the things that I find tricky between the…
5 Star Charity Ball *****
Last nights Big Band gig was a success. The venue was at the MacDonald Randolph Hotel, Oxford (5 stars). It was a bit of a shame that the raffle, auction and speeches ran on as this left us with only…
An Unexpected Evening
I was already to crash out last night with a box of Lemsips when I got a call from a mate I play in a Big Band with. He was just calling to ask if I was coming to the…