I have just finished my lengthy review of Robert Conti’s Ticket To Improv (Volumes 1 and 2) and I have to say that I think you will love them as much as I do. What a terrific way to get some cool jazz lines into your hands and into your brain!
Robert Conti is a true [...]
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This week has turned out interesting but not in the ways that I expected. I was hoping to start my “Mark Hanson Week” but I got caught up in several different things that were urgent. So I will start my 5-part series on the remarkable work of Mark Hanson next week, when I [...]
I do not have a new review on an improvisation method this week because I am in the midst of a thorough evaluation. In short, I am spending some quality time with Robert Conti’s Ticket to Improv series and this one is going to take some time. So far, I am having a blast working [...]
Diversity is the spice of life and the spark of creativity. Maybe it is the approaching spring; maybe it is the exciting things coming up, like the Montreal Guitar Show, and the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society convention in Nashville; maybe an important audition for my student and friend Markku; but whatever, I feel like branching [...]
I have just posted the second of my reviews of improvisation materials. This one looks at Easy Soloing for Jazz Guitar, which is a much different approach than the Aebersold method that I am so enthusiastic about. I chose this one because I have a good bit of experience teaching with it and have found [...]