Month: October 2017

  • Have You Met Miss Jones – Fishing for comments dammit! Well, here it is again. You’d think I would know this song by now as long as I have been playing it. I play it every day. It’s not that…

  • I am looking forward to practicing today. I am in the process of memorizing 24 songs I have worked on for over a year. It is important to me to be able to play many of the jazz standards. Usually,…

  • Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley was born September 15, 1928, and died August 8, 1975, at age 46. He was a jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. He was thought to be the heir…

    Cannonball Adderley
  • Slowly I am gaining more endurance while playing. Learning tunes is going well also (I think). My technique is coming back, though it would happen quicker if I worked more on basics (consistency). One thing I seem to have particular…

    My Lack of Consistency
  • Fishing for comments dammit! All of Me is one of my favorite songs. I first heard it in high school. It’s a relatively easy song to play and was one of the first songs I ever learned to improvise on.…