Improvisation – BirdFeed : Recent Episodes
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a blog by pianist, composer and teacher Tom Cleary about improvisation, piano, and the Jazz tradition (comments and questions welcome in the comment section of each post, or email tgcleary@uvm.edu)
‘Everybody’s Inside Blues’ is a through-composed melody line on the twelve-bar ‘jazz blues’ progression. Here’s a live recording of it (in the key of F) from a gig I played a few years ago with guitarist Steve Blair and bassist … Continue reading →
An essential skill for all improvisers is being able to play the seventh scale (Barry Harris’ term for the major scale with a flatted seventh) through all twelve keys with steady tempo and a sense of swing. There are many … Continue reading →