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Blue Note Special - Messengers should know this tune

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:41:56 -0700

Blue Note Special - Messengers should know this tune

Music Geek Humor

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:00:56 -0700

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?

In this video, the first solo part that the Messengers should be...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:58:00 -0700

In this video, the first solo part that the Messengers should be playing starts around 0:57 and goes to about 1:13

Messengers Set List

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:08:00 -0700

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.

Alligator Boogaloo Lou Donaldson Quintet

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:05:10 -0700

Alligator Boogaloo
Lou Donaldson Quintet

Us by Thad Jones/Arranged by Mike Carubia

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:28:08 -0700

Us
by Thad Jones/Arranged by Mike Carubia

Shifting Down Kenny Dorham

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:32:49 -0700

Shifting Down
Kenny Dorham

Chet Baker Shifting down

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:30:45 -0700

Chet Baker
Shifting down

Whispering Solo Changes

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:19:59 -0700

Whispering
Solo Changes

Whispering

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:01:34 -0700

Whispering

Congratulations, Messengers!

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:43:00 -0800

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.

Pianist and composer Sir George Shearing has died, at age 91.

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:21:54 -0800

Pianist and composer Sir George Shearing has died, at age 91.:

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

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:54:00 -0800

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.

Jimmy Heath talks about “storytelling’ through...

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:52:00 -0800

Jimmy Heath talks about “storytelling’ through music.

Night TrainJimmy Forrest with Count Basie

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:48:01 -0800

Night Train
Jimmy Forrest with Count Basie

Cool Solo changes

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:30:20 -0800

Cool
Solo changes

Just Friends Solo changes

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:00:31 -0800

Just Friends
Solo changes

Groovin High Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:08:55 -0800

Groovin High
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie

Whispering

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:06:00 -0800

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 that’s almost fugal in structure and open solos galore. Great ensemble and small group playing opportunities abound. This is one cool chart!

True North Mike Dana This is a captivating, contemporary...

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:22:00 -0800

True North
Mike Dana

This is a captivating, contemporary even-eighth note ballad in the ECM tradition.