Who is your favourite when it comes to Jazz Blues phrases? Greetings from a sunny Big Band gig 🙂 Content 0:00 Intro 0:17 Blues Phrases from George Benson, Joe Pass and Emily Remler 0:34 Example #1 0:47 Benson's Major Blues Sound 1:38 Play Blues From The Key of the Piece 1:58 The Blues As Leading Notes 2:48 Altered Dominant? Blues! 3:21 Example #1 Slow 3:38 Benson's Blues Approach 4:04 Pat Martino On Benson 4:20 Example #2 4:29 Joe Pass - Watch What Happens 5:24 Joe Pass' Minor Blues 6:43 Example #2 Slow 6:55 Blues In Major and in Minor songs 7:19 Example #3 7:32 Using Blues in a Minor Key 8:11 Emily Remler - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise 8:53 From Blues to Triplet Groupings 9:20 Example #3 Slow 9:36 The Things You Want to Do To Use Blues in Jazz Solos 10:22 Like The Video? Check out my Patreon Page!
Bill Jennings is worth checking out. He played with Brother Jack McDuff and Louis Jordan. Check out the title track of his album, “Enough Said!” I also like Oscar Moore’s solo on “Easy Listenin’ Blues”.
Another fantastic example of your prodigious teaching abilities ! When I watched this , I couldn’t help but think of Duke Ellington’s quote, “ if it sounds good, then it IS good!” One wouldn’t think of playing a minor blues “scale”’over a major 2-5-1, but Joe Pass sounds good doing it! Great lesson sir !!
I think Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz blues .Joe Pass said in an interview that Kenny Burrell is a "great"blues player. I copied Kenny's "Saturday Night Blues" and played it on my gig for Billy Gibbons ZZ Top and he said " that was beautiful".
I think Kenny is a good model as he doesn’t overdo blues cliches. Some other players don’t turn in listenable solos when they venture into blues licks. Perhaps they feel too constrained by the genre. Kenny’s a man with a lot of class. Someone made a sticker for me a couple of years ago that says, “Kenny is My Co-pilot.”
I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know Kenny Burrell before (still very new to guitar jazz). I looked him up and I really like his "Moon and Sand" album. Thank you for mentioning him.
Hi, great, great lesson! I just wanted to say that I met Pat Metheny in Sanremo, an italian Music tv festival. He was a guest and Benson was a guest as well. I had the chance to talk to Pat and he had wonderfull words for Benson. I asked a couple things and he said “ you should ask George, he's much better than me”!!
Herb Ellis is deserving of a mention here. Another player who -- as you say about George B -- can do great things with pretty basic material (i.e., the blues).
Mr. Larsen can demonstrate using Gibson be I spend my life savings I love that Jazz box , my wife won't agree till I get some gigs going 🤣🤣🤗🎸🎼🎶🙏 thanks for sharing Sir. You sound fantastic 🌟
Go slower and call the notes out playing around 3 / 4 notes at time, great job 👍👏 Professor 🎓, thank you for sharing the details Sir. Sounds great 👍 great point you definitely know what you talking about 👍🥇🎸🎼🎶
I am about to" jazzify" my 12 bars blues or to bluesy a 12 bars modal jazz tune... The egg or the hen? i like wes for that great stuff, and charlie christian.
Hi Jens - I notice in the George Benson solo that he plays a B natural over the C7. Should this be interpreted as a major 7th (which I believe I've heard elsewhere that George uses over dominant 7th chords) or is it more correctly thought of as a pickup to the C?
That link was indeed sort of edited out, but I find that most people don't realize that they need to think from the root of the piece, so they apply blues phrases to other chords, and D blues on D7 in Take The A-train just doesn't really work :)
