“Forging A Unified System of Life [and Business] Management” -GoogleCasting (blogging by phone) about Systems, Life, Entrepreneurship, and Internet Technology
While I take a break from it all enjoy my journeys in Jazz improv.
I can play saxophone (here a soprano sax), mellophone (yeah, I bet you’ve never heard of it. that’s a shame), french horn (hate it, but it is beautiful), and trumpet/flugelhorn (Chuck Mangione).
Anyhoo, here are some recording I made using my GoogleCasting skills.
Me doing improv on the Piano
(Warning: I am not a piano player…)
Certainly not my best saxophone improv, but…
As I explain in the recordings I am working on my improvisation skills and knowledge of music theory.
Particularly this time I was playing around with blues scales, pentatonic scales, and little bit with modes.
In the future I want to understand modes better and be able to use them well. And I want to learn how the different scales and modes are related and how to transition between them.
Also progressions.
And I want an ice cream sundae.
Is that too much to ask?
I love Jazz music. When I was nine years old my dad bought me an old beat up Alto saxophone from a man he worked with who was a pro jazz musician by night.
Thus began my love affair with Jazz.
I took lessons for awhile (with a crazy instructor that almost made me quit) and took band class in school. In high school I joined the marching band (playing mellophone), concert band (on french horn), and played sax in the JAZZ band. And man was that fun!
(I also learnt to play trumpet and can improv on piano)
In my Uni. days in Tokyo I played some duet gigs with a friend from Indonesia who could play melody and a simple bass line (at the same time) on the guitar (he was a killer guitar player!). I also taught beginner saxophone to some Japanese people on the weekends and took advanced lessons from an ace Japanese Jazz saxophonist who plays often at the Tokyo Blue Note.
Yeah, I like Jazz.
I also like Jazz because it drowns out distractions whilst I work at my main bread-winning activity in life, creating websites. Other coders like Ma.tt (creator of wordpress) also swear by it (listening to music) as a concentration tool.
So, for all these reasons, today I was wondering…. Is there any public domain jazz available free? (I’m a bit miserly)
and I found a site with audio files! RedHotJazz. It is also a smashing website because it deals with pre-1930 Jazz, the origin of the music (and lesser known groups).
Random rants off the top of my head. Most are submitted on the fly using the TDO mini forms plugin. To see them all click here. The most recent are below:
