www.motema.com "If you're going to learn jazz, you should have something to bring. Cats don't think about bringing much, they just want to see what ...
www.motema.com “If you’re going to learn jazz, you should have something to bring. Cats don’t think about bringing much, they just want to see what they can get from the music. It’s a two way street.” – Marc Cary Hailed by Down Beat as one of the most, “multi-dimensional keyboard players on the scene today,” whose music reveals those multi-dimensions in sensual living color, Marc Cary’s continual search for his musical identity has brought him to all corners of the earth, quenching his thirst to bring forth indigenous musics in all of their forms. His latest offering on this journey is Focus Trio Live 2009, the follow up to his earlier live release, Focus Live 2008, which is available only digitally. This is the third album off Motéma Music for Marc. Recorded live at select festivals across Europe and the US, Focus Trio Live 2009 features Cary’s longstanding trio: on tabla and drums, Sameer Gupta and on bass, David Ewell, both of whom he met on the west coast. With inimitable style, Cary drives the trio towards hard-hitting turns, fusing together indigenous East Asian, Indian, African, and Native-American influences within the African-American blues and jazz traditions, as only a player with his undeniable talent can manage to do while simultaneously claiming new virtuosic territory. Marc Cary has earned four Grammy® nominations for his ensemble work, most recently in 2009 for “Best Contemporary Jazz Album” as a participant in Stefon Harris’s Blackout. His production work …
I’m looking to buy an 88-key keyboard to further continue my piano playing. I’m 15 and I started playing piano when I was 5. I started out classical but I love playing jazz tunes and latin tunes as well. I only have a Steinway piano but feel the need to upgrade. My budget is about 0-0 as I don’t have a job.
As for how the keyboard goes, I’m looking for a standard 88-key keyboard with different playing sounds, a USB port connector as well as the basic pedals. A headphone connector port will be helpful so I can play at night. Extras would be the ability to record what I play, a metronome, maybe being able to play a "beat" in the back to play along.
On Tuesday I will be auditioning for my High school Jazz band. The music director asked me to play piano for the band next year because the current pianist will be graduating at the end of this year. I have never played Jazz before, I’ve been strictly classical. I’m late intermediate to early advanced in classical music, I can play things like Chopin prelude number 4, 15, 20, etc. moonlight sonata, Mendelssohn’s gondola songs, and the Rachmaninoff prelude in C.
I am currently working on the scales for jazz piano. I need to audition with F major Blues and B flat major Blues along with a selection from a piece and improvisation in B flat major.
I’m fine with the first two, scales are no problem and the piece is easy. Improvisation is a problem. I have never done any sort of improv before, let alone in a certain key. I’m not very familiar with keys and stuff like that, I just have always played to play.
Any pointers and tips or links to tutorial websites would be so helpful! I’ll be practicing on my keyboard unfortunately for the next week, as my piano is being repaired. Figures.
On Tuesday I will be auditioning for my High school Jazz band. The music director asked me to play piano for the band next year because the current pianist will be graduating at the end of this year. I have never played Jazz before, I’ve been strictly classical. I’m late intermediate to early advanced in classical music, I can play things like Chopin prelude number 4, 15, 20, etc. moonlight sonata, Mendelssohn’s gondola songs, and the Rachmaninoff prelude in C.
I am currently working on the scales for jazz piano. I need to audition with F major Blues and B flat major Blues along with a selection from a piece and improvisation in B flat major.
I’m fine with the first two, scales are no problem and the piece is easy. Improvisation is a problem. I have never done any sort of improv before, let alone in a certain key. I’m not very familiar with keys and stuff like that, I just have always played to play.
Any pointers and tips or links to tutorial websites would be so helpful! I’ll be practicing on my keyboard unfortunately for the next week, as my piano is being repaired. Figures.
Specifically, jazz piano. I love jazz. I have a very good ear, developed from mostly learning guitar by ear. Throughout most of the 10 years I played guitar, it was rock and contemporary music, but I am really starting to love and understand jazz. I can read music, although I’m kind of slow since guitar doesn’t really encourage reading unless it’s classical, which I never really pursued. I just learned bass clef because I bought a keyboard last week. I am going to get lessons at the Conservatory of Music in my area (Portland Conservatory of Music). What do you think? I figure by the time I’m 30 I could have something going if I really dedicated myself to the instrument.
Specifically, jazz piano. I love jazz. I have a very good ear, developed from mostly learning guitar by ear. Throughout most of the 10 years I played guitar, it was rock and contemporary music, but I am really starting to love and understand jazz. I can read music, although I’m kind of slow since guitar doesn’t really encourage reading unless it’s classical, which I never really pursued. I just learned bass clef because I bought a keyboard last week. I am going to get lessons at the Conservatory of Music in my area (Portland Conservatory of Music). What do you think? I am 20 now. I figure by the time I’m 30 I could have something going if I really dedicated myself to the instrument.
For Stereo just go here: www.youtube.com . . . in the first part I have played the piano solo in the second part I added bass and drums, and you can also see the mini keyboards. I Remember Clifford is the name of a jazz threnody written by jazz tenor saxophone player Benny Golson in memory of Clifford Brown, the influential and highly-rated jazz trumpeter who died in an auto accident when he was only 25 years old; he and Golson had done a stint in Lionel Hampton’s band together. The song became an instant standard, as musicians paid tribute to Brown by recording their personal reading of it. Golson later said: [it] took me several weeks, but I’d never written a composition like it before. I wanted to create a melody that the public would remember, and associate it with [him]. I Remember Clifford is also the name of an album by Arturo Sandoval; the entire album is a tribute to Brown, who was a great influence on Sandoval, and features Golson’s tune. Clifford Brown (October 30, 1930 June 26, 1956), aka “Brownie,” was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years’ worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, Valery Ponomarev, and Wynton Marsalis.[1] He won the Down Beat critics’ poll for the ‘New Star of the Year’ in 1954; he was inducted into the Down Beat ‘Jazz Hall of Fame’ in 1972 in the critics …
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