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IT’S STUDIO TIME…

Wayne Shorter, jazz master

New York, 1996, ©Jimmy Katz

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Reblog if you play an instrument or sing

I wanna see how many musicians are on tumblr!

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Pete Cosey: Overlooked Guitar Hero

Tzvi Gluckin spotlights the influential guitarist Pete Cosey who had an incredible impact on Miles Davis’s sound in the mid ‘70s and who was a legend and an institution in his native Chicago where he moved in jazz, R & B and blues circles. This Premier Guitar column is aptly titled “Forgotten Heroes.”

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Lead sheet for “Crazeology”, recorded by Charlie Parker on December 17, 1947

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Lead sheet for “Quasimodo”, recorded by Charlie Parker on December 17, 1947

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Inspirational Quotes #NewPost [3]

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Antonio Carlos Jobim + others, c. late 1950s/early 1960s.

1. Jobim with Bossa Nova co-creators Vinicius De Moraes and Joao Gilberto

2. From left: Stan Getz, Sebastio Neto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Milton Banana, Joao Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto at A&R Recordings

3. Jobim and Luiz Bonfa composing & rehearsing

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Tony Williams, born December 12, 1945

From Wikipedia:

Anthony Tillmon “Tony” Williams (December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997) was an American jazz drummer.

Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s, Williams first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis and was a pioneer of jazz fusion. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1986.

Williams was born in Chicago and grew up in Boston. He was of African, Portuguese, and Chinese descent. He studied with drummer Alan Dawson at an early age, and began playing professionally at the age of 13 with saxophonist Sam Rivers. Saxophonist Jackie McLean hired Williams when he was 16.

At 17 Williams found considerable fame with Miles Davis, joining a group that was later dubbed Davis’s Second Great Quintet. Williams was a vital element of the group, called by Davis in his autobiography “the center that the group’s sound revolved around.” His inventive playing helped redefine the role of jazz rhythm section through the use of polyrhythms and metric modulation, transitioning between mathematically related tempos and/or time signatures.

The full Wikipedia entry can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Williams_%28drummer%29

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COLEMAN, GIVING HIS BODY AND SOUL…

Coleman Hawkins, superb musician

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Audition Advice #13

Don’t practice the day of the audition and too much the day before. You don’t want to over practice because you’ll tire yourself out, nor would you want to psych yourself out somehow.

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Miles Davis and John Coltrane, NYC, 1958 by Dennis Stock

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“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

John Lennon (via naturaekos)

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