Chad LB Quartet - Green Chimneys (Thelonious Monk) 

yeah its so good

Check out Chads books on jazzlessonvideos.com. He has great practise materials there.

@@davidolahmusic I know I bought 2 courses from him. But the language and ability to improvise over bebop tunes still isn't coming. I'm sure I need to do something else.

@@sergej100qca4 I would suggest to start with basic exercises - jazz articulation on scales, arpeggios...playing with solid rhythm. And than to practise some tunes - jazz blues, rhythm changes. Playing the arpeggios of the chords - 1 3 5 7, learning that way chords and melodies and than play it by ear. Next thing after that is vocabulary - learning phrases in all 12 keys, memorize them and try to improvise with all those devices - arpeggios, scales, but mainly blues riffs. Making your own exercises with a few notes, working rhythmically - creating motives, riffs. Try to play simple question and answer phrases with nice and easy rhythms - chceck out oldschool swing masters like C. Basie, Lester Young etc. and try to emulate those swinging riffs. Also practise some etudes based on standards. Chads are great. Jim Snidero, Mintzer or Fishman has also very good etude books. The best thing is to memorize everything - phrases, riffs, q and a motives, melody and harmony of the song and than play it by yourself with metronome on 2 and 4. Keep chcecking out if you are outlining the harmony. If not, go back and practise the arpeggios of the chords you are missing in your improvisation. Aim for the chord tones on downbeat. If you cant play the tune from memory you dont know it well enough to improvise over it. Hope it helped :)

@@davidolahmusic wow thanks!

@@sergej100qca4 remember you've only been playing 7 months. Things like this don't come that easy. It takes years, to assume anything different is almost arrogant, we are all hypocrites of this to an extent :)

He doesn't look too worried to me😎

Most of the resonance of come out of the whole body - not just the bell(except extreme low notes). Although bell mics can sound good, using a condenser/Ribbon mic on a stand is more likely to get an even tone across the whole sax - especially noticeable in a top notch recording like this one (Chad is one classy player!)