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Jazz Guitar Technique: Breaking the Skill Barrier and Jazz Guitar Structures: Boosting Your Solo Power
by Trevor MacLaren
Andrew Green Jazz Guitar Technique: Breaking the Skill Barrier Jazz Guitar Structures: Boosting Your Solo Power Mel Bay Publications 2004 Starting off with Jazz Guitar Technique is a great way for jazz players to learn the basics of improvisational guitar. Though several books claim they can help the ...
Raphe Malik Quartet: Last Set: Live at the 1369 Jazz Club
by Trevor MacLaren
After leaving the Cecil Taylor Unit in 1979, Raphe Malik seemed to have disappeared until his first record as a leader appeared in 1989 ( 21st Century Texts ). Last Set proves that Malik was not only playing, but he was cutting some incredible chops. Taken from the last set of a two-night engagement ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Salt Peanuts
by Trevor MacLaren
Salt Peanuts is a Dizzy Gillespie show recorded in July 1981 at The Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club in Montreal. Though Dizzy's work from the '70s on is patchy at best, this show is a real killer. It seemed Gillespie and his crew were really into a groove while hanging out in Canada's jazz Mecca. The ...
Albert Ayler: New Grass
by Trevor MacLaren
Albert Ayler New Grass Impulse! 1968 If there is one word that is poison in the minds of jazz fans and critics, it's sellout. If any musician, for whatever reason, decides to change their sound in a way that could be considered commercial, they have committed the deadliest ...
Archie Shepp: Attica Blues
by Trevor MacLaren
Archie Shepp Attica Blues Impulse! 1972 In November of 2004, the world stage is set on the American election. In a post-9/11 world the masses have become paranoid, tense and angry. At the forefront is George W. Bush's foreign policy. Thirty years ago artists found themselves in a similar plight ...
Miles Davis: In a Silent Way
by Trevor MacLaren
Miles Davis In a Silent Way Columbia 1969Recording in February 1969, Miles Davis seemed to pick up the vibe of what was going to go down that crazy summer. It was a tumultuous time as the sixties came to a close. First came the Manson Family, then the ...
Anthony Braxton: 3 Compositions of New Jazz
by Trevor MacLaren
Anthony Braxton 3 Compositions of New Jazz Delmark 1968 In the 1960s a new fuse had been lit under the ass of jazz. As musicians of the bop era drove out hard bop, free jazz and modal works, avant-garde was slowly taking root as well. Growing from the seeds of ...
Grover Washington, Jr.: Mister Magic
by Trevor MacLaren
For anyone who enjoys taking bites from the now forbidden fruits of jazz, smooth jazz has probably crossed your palate once or twice. Just as rock music fans treat adult contemporary with certain disdain, so do jazz fans in regards to smooth. It is certainly easy to see why. The arrangements are flooded with lush pop ...
Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch
by Trevor MacLaren
Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch Blue Note 1964 Being a Charles Mingus fanatic, I often ask the question, “Are you into Eric Dolphy?" To my appalled surprise, more often than not I get the response “Who?" That, my dear fellow jazzites, is totally unacceptable! For those of the ...
Herbie Hancock: Future Shock
by Trevor MacLaren
Herbie Hancock Future Shock Columbia 1983 As with Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come , the title Future Shock says it all. With this record Herbie Hancock busted open jazz in a way that no one could have expected. It may have taken ten or twenty years for ...
