We finish up the month of November with one of my favorite jazz standards, On The Sunny Side Of The Street. Here we try to channel Lester Young and do what we can to put some of the concepts we learned into action. Enjoy! WANT THE PDF THAT GOES ALONG WITH THIS EPISODE?? Head over…
This week we look at the intangible parts of Lester’s playing by learning one of his transcriptions on Almost Like Being In Love with the Oscar Peterson Trio. I think this will be a great way to end our series and send you out into the world armed with some great things to work on…
Welcome back for the second in our series of episodes on the legendary, Lester Young. This week we’ll be taking a look at 4 more examples of Lester using simplicity to create beautiful lines over cadences. It’s a great reminder that everything doesn’t always have to be so complicated. Enjoy the episode and don’t forget…
This month we start a brand new series on one of the best musicians who ever graced the tenor saxophone and jazz, Lester Young. Lester’s music will give us great insight into how to do a lot with a little. While his harmonic language wasn’t as adventurous as someone like Charlie Parker, the way he…
This week we finish up our series on the great Clifford Brown with an etude written over his composition, ‘Joy Spring’. Hope you enjoy and get something from this month long series on one of the greatest musicians in jazz history! WANT THE PDF THAT GOES ALONG WITH THIS EPISODE?? Head over to our Patreon page and…
This week we take a look at what Clifford Brown does over an extended period of a single chord happening. I believe Clifford might be the best of all time at this and we can take many things from his teachings and put it into our own playing for awesome benefits. Enjoy the episode! WANT…
