From maybe the first jazz record I ever checked out on my own, Golden Boy by Art Blakey. Kind of an obscure record on the Colpix label, that I dug out of my dad’s record […]
Here’s Max Roach soloing with his left hand on Commutation, by J.J. Johnson, on Johnson’s record First Place. A nice little self contained lesson item— there’s some trading after this solo I didn’t bother with. […]
Here is Jeff Watts’s 32-bar solo on Upper Manhattan Medical Group, from Branford Marsalis’s album Trio Jeepy. It’s a sign of the times that Watts, a virtuoso himself, comes off as kind of un-technical compared […]
Great performance, thanks