October 2011
1 post
Blue Note Special - Messengers should know this...
September 2011
2 posts
Music Geek Humor
An E flat, G flat and B flat walk into a bar and the bartender says, “I’m sorry we don’t serve minors.” I guess I should be careful of my puns or they might get me in treble, but they’re the key to my humor and very noteworthy.
Does any of this strike a chord with you?
April 2011
3 posts
Messengers Set List
Here’s where we are headed.
Love Walked In
Bye, Bye, Blackbird
* Us
* Whispering
Trickle Down Shuffle
* Just Dance
* Super Mario
True North
What’d I Say * Drop In The Bucket
* For Friday rehearsal
Tunes in BOLD will be performed at the Jazz Cafe.
On May 10, we’ll start deleting and handing in songs that we won’t be playing.
Us
by Thad Jones/Arranged by Mike Carubia
March 2011
5 posts
Whispering
Solo Changes
Whispering
Congratulations, Messengers!
Great job Friday night at the jazz concert with Tom Scott! Everybody gets Tuesday morning off (without pay).
On Wednesday., we will go in depth on:
1) Whispering
2) Love Walked In
3) Drop In The Bucket
Please have these parts learned before you arrive on Wednesday.
February 2011
6 posts
Pianist and composer Sir George Shearing has died,... →
Born blind, Shearing was a self-taught musician, the youngest of nine children of a London coal man. In a career spent almost entirely in the U.S., he won fame, fortune and eventually a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth for a lifetime of elegant jazz.
The 100 Quintessential Jazz Songs →
The Jazz 100 is a crowdsourced list of the most quintessential jazz songs of all time, determined by the listeners of Jazz24.org and NPR Music.
Cool
Solo changes
Just Friends
Solo changes
January 2011
3 posts
Whispering →
Click the title for a link to the recording on JWPepper.
Eric Richards has taken this wonderful old standard and given it an exciting samba setting that makes it thoroughly contemporary and fresh! Tenor and trumpet roll out the melody and then other melodic and background parts are layered in making it a dense harmonic palette for the whole band. There’s a unique a cappella break...
True North
Mike Dana
This is a captivating,...
December 2010
2 posts
Clay Jenkins →
Associate Professor of Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media
ECMS Collegiate Instructor in Trumpet
Harold Danko →
Chair, Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media Department
Professor of Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media
Director, Jazz Performance Workshops
November 2010
5 posts
FELIZ NAVIDAD
Parker Blues Changes →
Charlie Parker developed the progression/change that came to be known as the Parker or Birds Blues. Clint Eastwood scored with a movie about the Jazz great “Bird” in 1988.
October 2010
7 posts
Miles Davis →
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True North
A contemporary even-eighth ballad in...
September 2010
10 posts
Warren Bernhardt →
Pianist, composer and producer Warren Bernhardt performs solo and leads his own bands (with whom he’s recorded eight DMP albums). He was Steely Dan’s pianist (1993-94) and musical director (1994), co-leader of Steps Ahead (1985-88) and is also renowned as an accompanist.
Bob Saget solo changes, as performed by another...
Li’l Darlin’
Resist the urge to...
Cool
The first 2 minutes of our arrangement. It...
Just Friends
Jazz Messengers: here is a...
May 2010
1 post
March 2010
3 posts
Linda Chicana / Cal Tjader
Kevin Kanner Interview
Despite his age, over the...
Interview with Brad Howey
Brad Howey built the...
Bob Athayde interviews Josh Nelson, pianist for...
