Jazz Science

Large intervallic leaps and interesting rhythms can make phrases more compelling.  The most effective place to use both devices is at the be...

Just thought I'd share a transcription I did a while ago.  I think it's pretty accurate, but there may be some some mistakes or typo...

In the previous post, I put up a transcription of a signature line from Kurt Rosenwinkel's solo on "Zhivago" from The Next Ste...

Here transcription of "the lick" from Zhivago. I've deconstructed it and will post some of what I came up with in the next po...

Here's a continuation of the previous Augmented scale study, using three maj7 chords. Since the augmented scale can be related to three ...

Here's an an older one from my workbooks. I've spent a lot of time exploring the possibilities for using various triads in improvis...

I haven't posted anything to the blog in a while (obviously), but not because I haven't had anything to post! I'm just a bit of...