Originally Posted By montunoman
Hey Chas, that was some very tasty organ work! Would love to hear a collaboration with you and Russ on guitar.

As for the new stuff, I’m fairly familiar with it as I’m a high school teacher, have a teenage daughter, and my band plays a few recent hits. For the most part there’s not much for a jazz musician to work with melodically and harmonically.

Jazz piano great Brad Mehldau has done some done some interesting things with post Great American Song Book material . Not sure if it’s your cup of tea, but perhaps he can give you some ideas. If not, nothing wrong with doing standards , even young super stars like Lady Gaga still do them . As Americans, the songs from that era are something we should all be proud of!


Paul, I found the video both entertaining and educational. Watched the whole thing in one setting. Learned some tidy little tidbits, such as....his take on 'stride piano' and how he was too worried about playing a wrong note with all the mult-octave left hand arm movement. I could sooooo relate to little tidbits like that and so self-satisfied that brilliant PRO players had the same kind of anxiety and playing concerns as us low-level amateurs. Thanks for sharing that.

chas
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