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Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now – with Vince Mendoza’s orchestral arrangement
I keep meaning to make a video about this, and probably will, but I just listened to this song again and need to share it with you. It’s SO beautiful. Haunting. Stirring. Moving. Just gorgeous.…
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How well can you know an album?
At 4:50 Rick makes a great point about the amount of music there is now to be familiar with vs. years ago. I feel the same about the Jazz lexicon. If you grew up listening…
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The #1 Skill Most Improvisers Forget to Practice
While driving home from a family trip I listened to Marc Maron’s conversation with Herb Alpert who shared some great stories about Chet Baker. Specifically that Chet could not read music or interpret written chord…
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Bob appears on the Everything Saxophone Podcast
The Everything Saxophone Podcast invited me on for a chat recently. It came out this week and you can listen to it here: One enthusiastic listener, Ward, suggested I share this because “I just walked…
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Exploring Joshua Redman’s pre-“Jazz Crimes” recordings – Live webcast additional resources
Thanks to all who joined me today! If you missed it you can access the replay here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/groundupmusic49 I always find these live “talking to my computer” webcasts daunting and there is no possible way…
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Limitations, interaction, and building something together – Vlog 168 (blocked by YouTube and record labels)
The four musicians I reference in the vlog episode below inspired me so much they changed the course of my life. In this video I distill some important musical lessons I learned from their collaboration.…