Ray Brown Bass Line; "In a Mellow Tone"

The first chorus of his bass line from Ben Webster and Associates.

Ray Brown - In a Mellow Tone

Keith, Edwards, and Barnette

Under the Moose

1. Under the Moose
2. The Torpid Titmouse
3. Essence and Form
4. Reina
5. Black Sea Floor
6. Chowdah a lah Mode
7. What You Mean to Me
8. Inamorata
9. Manet and Munch
10. Bossa Nebuloso
11. Weekend at Gritty McDuff's



All original material. Thom Keith (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone), Duane Edwards (bass), and Mark Barnette (drums). Recorded February 18, 2009.

Workin' It

My guerrilla style marketing campaign is under way. Posters, business cards, craigslist, street corners, markets, outskirts of town, the badlands, sewers, government offices....the march goes on. Short of most of that my lesson posters are done with business cards attached to them. Here is a jpeg proof of what it looks like:



The background of the flyer and the business card are colored and not colored, respectively. In reality its transparent in photoshop to print on Astroparch card stock for that refined look.

Took out a few cds from the library: John Coltrane's Ballads, Joe Williams Nothin' But the Blues, a disc of traditional Jewish songs, and the newish collection of Sonny Rollins live stuff called Road Shows Volume 1. I have listened to and enjoyed the first two, I will check out the other two later this week. I also signed out a book entitled Creative Jazz Improvisation by Scott Reeves. It looked interesting as supplemental material to my other tomes of knowledge, and if its a good method I might use it for teaching.

Soon I'm going to post my gigging schedule and try to keep that going.

I Don't Do This Enough...

...blogging is not high on my priority list. Some day I'll get this straight. Working on some original material for a project down the road. I already have one project planned for a series of Christmas concerts with Catholic hymns in a modern jazz setting. I may have my hands on another project. This one I have given a pet name recently of "Paul and the False Apostles." More than likely this is the project name and not that of a tune; I'm also partial to "Super-Apostles." Finding these references by Paul of Tarsus brings to mind a comic book style adventure. Whenever I now think of "Paul and the False Apostles" I picture Paul as Christopher Reeves wrestling Zod and the other Kryptonians all over Mesopotamia.