Hot Jazz Lick
Red Garland Lick  added 7/2/09
Red Garland was a fleet handed pianist who had a predilection for sixteenth notes. Try this lick of his over a pair major of ii-Vs. Listen to him breeze through it at 4:16 on the A section of the first chorus of (more...)

Jazz Spotlight
Red Garland: A Little Bit Swing, A Little Bit Bebop  added 5/31/09
Coming of age in the mid 1940s, Red Garland had one foot in the Swing camp (pre 1945 Big Band jazz) and one in the sharply contrasting modern Bebop movement (post 1945 small group jazz). Or I (more...)

NEW Lesson
Improvising Over Passing Diminished Chords added 5/17/09
There is a lot of uncertainty that surrounds diminished chords. How do they work exactly? What chordscales do they take? How do you improvise over them? Gain some insight into these questions through (more...)

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