David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Dec 10, 2009, 3:14 pm
Matt Otto has a new web site and he's posted some very good lessons on there. He has lessons on topics like: reverse 13th arpeggios, augmented scales over dominant chords, spread triads, minor ii...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Dec 9, 2009, 11:21 pm
A conversation with jazz musician Joe Henderson
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Dec 9, 2009, 4:44 am
I started to reply to Jazz pianist/educator Josh Rager comment from the previous post and I just got kind of carried away. He does make some good points and my reply is wildly rambling and not even to...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Nov 18, 2009, 11:13 am
Here is part of a letter that I sent one of my students who recently moved out east to study at a major Jazz school in the New York area. I thought that it was worth reprinting because it contains a l...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Nov 14, 2009, 2:08 pm
Yes, it's no joke. This is from the great Avant-Garde Jazz site Destination: Out "We tend to think of Armstrong and Sanders as inhabiting entirely different universes, but one of the interesting...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Nov 10, 2009, 1:43 pm
Aaron's last post caused quite a stir all over the blogosphere. Readers and bloggers either loved it or they wanted to wring his young neck. The role of the musician in our society has bec...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Nov 2, 2009, 1:10 am
There are quite a few interesting videos on Banddirector.com, including a bunch of Bergonzi improvisation workshops.
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Oct 30, 2009, 1:47 pm
Nat Kline wrote some very helpful exercises to practice fourths after he saw Dan Gaynor's Fourths Exercise. Nat designed a template that covers the entire range of the saxophone (or flute dependin...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Oct 28, 2009, 12:04 pm
... personal project to rediscover that first joy and give more attention and respect to the music I already have and might buy in the future. The recent discovery of the great ALAC sound ... them...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Oct 21, 2009, 1:18 pm
One of my former students recently discovered the wealth of Jazz mp3s that are now available on blogs for free. He was quite surprised and realized that he really didn't need to spend all of the t...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Oct 19, 2009, 12:00 pm
(From Rico's Facebook with Rico artist Tim Price) In this lesson, I’ve taken an in-depth approach to give you all some information, new ideas, ear training, and fresh approaches to this form. ...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Oct 12, 2009, 10:51 pm
I ran across and interesting site called Musician Wages.com. It's all about the business side of making music, from ideas for hustling new gigs to motivating musicians as a bandleader. It's wo...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Oct 6, 2009, 3:23 pm
Here's an article written by Aaron Johnson, one of the most talented students I've had in the past few years. Aaron recently moved from Portland, Oregon to NYC to study as a Jazz performance m...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Oct 1, 2009, 7:46 pm
Dan Gaynor wrote these nice exercises for saxophone: Fourths exercises
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Sep 27, 2009, 11:52 am
A while back I wrote about my buddy Tom Garcia's neck modification. Right about the time I wrote about this Tom left town to spend the summer in New Orleans and touring Europe, so he wasn't ab...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Sep 25, 2009, 1:11 pm
Regular reader David Wells, a smoking tenor player who teaches at the University of Maine at Augusta, sent me some overtone exercises that Dave Dempsey adapted from Joe Allard's overtone routine. ...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Sep 21, 2009, 4:22 pm
This week I finally got a chance to play through the new sextet charts that Dan Gaynor arranged for me. Last month I posted all of the charts here on this blog. Keep in mind that these are recordings...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Sep 13, 2009, 10:11 pm
Portland saxophonist John Nastos is doing something quite interesting with pianist Clay Giberson. They'll be recording one tune a week (mostly originals) in HD video for an entire year and posting...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Sep 2, 2009, 11:54 am
My buddy Joel Frahm posted a bunch of great quotes about Jazz on his MySpace blog. Quotes about Jazz
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 29, 2009, 1:45 pm
I got these exercises from my buddy Kuba when I was over in Prague this summer. They are written using a series of rhythmic permutations based on eight notes in groups of 3's, 5's, 6's, an...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 28, 2009, 12:04 pm
Transcribed by Pere Soto Nuits de St.Germain des pres
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 28, 2009, 12:01 pm
Thanks to Pere Soto for this transcription Grooveyard
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 24, 2009, 10:11 am
BOMBAY BAR WALKING- The point here is to emphasize what Rilling calls the "architecture" of the music. For example, the way Pablo Casals varied the tempo according to what he was trying to convey. In...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 21, 2009, 11:20 pm
Seattle pianist/humorist Bill Anschell just send me his newest treatise on Jazz. This one perfectly details every possible career path of a Jazz musician. Bill is painfully spot on and always hilariou...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 20, 2009, 10:26 am
Jazz on the Tube
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 19, 2009, 10:37 am
Tim Price has been blogging for Rico Reeds on MySpace and Facebook for a while now. He has written some very interesting stuff that is well worth a read. The article below is his most recent post abou...
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 11, 2009, 2:43 pm
Another one from Pere Soto. S.O.S.
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 11, 2009, 2:42 pm
Thanks to Pere Soto for this. Jingles
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David V. posted an article on Casa Valdez Studios - Aug 11, 2009, 9:13 am
Pere Soto transcribed this Wes Montgomery solo. So Do It
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