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hen Mary and I were going to college together (about a quarter-century ago) I was a trumpet player. In fact, I was a music major and my proficiency was the trumpet. And Maynard Ferguson was my favorite trumpet player.
Unfortunately, a health issue caused me to lose my ability to play the trumpet—not that I was ever able to do what Maynard can do, or even come close.
The loss of control of my lip muscles brought some fear with regard to Mary’s recent surgery and we’re praising God... Read Full Story
Find out how to play guitar
Everyone have their influences and whether is intentional or not you will pick up some techniques and licks form our guitar heroes when wepick up a guitar for the first time. Everyone has a favorite band or genre and this should be sued for your first few lessons to help you develop.
If you enjoy blues music then acoustic blues guitar lessons should hopefully appeal to you and allow you to learn quickly. Similarly, guitar lessons dvd may prove to be the best... Read Full Story
Freddie Hubbard — 2 LP Blue Note Reissue Series — 1961/1965 (1990) Genre: Jazz Freddie Hubbard first played and recorded in Indianapolis with the Montgomery brothers. After moving in 1958 to New York he began a series of brief associations with established jazz musicians, including Philly Joe Jones (1958-59, 1961), Sonny Rollins (1959), Slide Hampton (1959-60), J.J. Johnson (1960), and Quincy Jones, with whom he toured Europe (1960- 61). In 1961 he joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, but... Read Full Story
Big Pop Instrumentals: Tenor Sax (Big Pop Instrumental Solos) ( Paperback ) By Alfred Publishing Staff Buy new : $12.44 8 used and new from $10.75 First tagged "michael jackson" by Janice E. Dekelbaum "saxgirl13" Customer tags: michael jackson , music Read Full Story
So you want to learn how to play the blues on your acoustic guitar? On this page you will find a collection of excellent acoustic blues guitar lessons that I gathered from YouTube from the folks over at Next Level Guitar. I can’t promise you will become the next B.B King or [...] Read Full Story
By John Libbo Some years ago, Bob Dylan moved forward to the stage and began playing his electric guitar. From that day on, the phenomenon of the world of music's revolution started. Despite many audiences complained the loudness and obnoxious rock music, he continued indifferently. He simply plugged in and played in silence. Considering some differences between it and the blues music, the latter got started with acoustic blues guitar. Yet, as soon as the adult blues musicians heard that... Read Full Story
Multi-instrumentalism is one of the enduring legacies of the '60s New Thing and Chicago's AACM, where everything was fair game in the hunt for unfettered expressionism. Few have taken it as far as Kali Z. Fasteau, who plays a different instrument on each of the nine tracks of this live recording from Finland's 2007 Kerava Jazz Festival. Perhaps surprisingly, this doesn't make for a smorgasbord of unrelated approaches, thanks to the unifying force of Kidd Jordan's tenor saxophone, featured on... Read Full Story
