Student Resources This page is a home for information for my students. It will evolve to contain articles, transcriptions, mp3s, discographies, pdf's of the lesson materials, etc. Let me know how this page can be improved. MP3 Downloads Blues Heads **Learn these heads by ear and internalize them** 1. Now's The Time (F) Now's The Time 2. Tenor Madness (B-flat) Tenor Madness 3. Hugore (B-flat) Hugore 4. Straight, No Chaser (F) Straight, No Chaser 5. KD's Blues (B-flat) KD's Blues 6. Sonnymoon For Two (B-flat) Sonnymoon For Two 7. Cool Blues (C) Cool Blues 8. Barbados (B-flat) Barbados 9. Buzzy (B-flat) Buzzy 10. Blues Walk (B-flat) Blues Walk 11. Cheryl (C) Cheryl 12. Byrdlike (F) Byrdlike 13. Walkin' (F) Walkin' 14. Au Privave (F) Au Privave 15. Relaxin' at Camarillo (C) Relaxin' at Camarillo 16. Bloomdido (B-flat)) Bloomdido 17. Sandu (E-flat) Sandu 18. Mohawk (B-flat) Mohawk 19. Another Hairdo (B-flat) Another Hairdo 20. Visa (C) Visa 21. Chi Chi (A-flat) Chi Chi 22. Solid (B-flat) Solid 23. Vierd Blues or Trane's Blues (B-flat) Veird Blues or Trane's Blues 24. Blue and Boogie (B-flat) Blue and Boogie 25. Perhaps (C) Perhaps 26. Blue Seven (B-flat) Blue Seven 27. Blues for Alice (F Bird Blues) Blues for Alice 28. Laird Baird (B-flat Bird Blues) Laird Baird 29. Billie's Bounce (F) Billie's Bounce 30. Freddie the Freeloader (B-flat) Freddie the Freeloader 31. Soft Winds (B-flat) Soft Winds 32. Si Si (F) Si Si 33. Bongo Bop (B-flat) Bongo Bop 34. Sippin' At Bell's (F) Sippin' At Bell's 35. Opus De Funk (B-flat) Opus De Funk 36. Blue Train (E-flat) Blue Train 37. Hubtones (B-flat) Hubtones 38. Speedball (D-flat) Speedball 39. Down (F) Down 40. Wee Dot (B-flat) Wee Dot 41. Dance of the Infidels (Bud Powell Changes) (F) Dance Of The Infidels 42. Misterioso (F) Misterioso 43. Blue Monk (B-flat) Blue Monk 44. The Squirrel (F) The Squirrel 45. Birk's Works (F minor) Birk's Works 46. The Blues March (B-flat)) The Blues March 47. Wheatleigh Hall (B-flat) Wheatleigh Hall 48. Two Bass Hit (D-flat) Two Bass Hit 49. The Skunk (D-flat) The Skunk 50. Blue Concept (B-flat) Blue Concept 51. Blue Bird (E-flat) Blue Bird 52. Things Ain't What They Used To Be (F) Things Ain't What They Used To Be 53. Passport (Tune Y) (B-flat) Passport (Tune Y) 54. The Champ The Champ 55. Bongo Beep Bongo Beep 56. Bird Feathers Bird Feathers 57. The Hymn (B-flat) The Hymn 58. Carvin' The Bird Carvin' The Bird 59. Driftin' On A Reed or Air Conditioning (B-flat) Driftin' On A Reed or Air Conditioning 60. Bag's Groove (F) Bag's Groove 61. Mr. PC (C minor) Mr.PC Essays, Interviews and Articles John Coltrane: Coltrane On Coltrane 9/29/60 Coltrane on Coltrane Wayne Shorter: Creativity and Change 2/12/68 Creativity and Change Harvey Pekar: Bud Powell--Then and Now 10/22/64 Bud Powell--Then and Now A Fireside Chat with Jackie McLean Jackie McLean Interview Neil Tesser: How Sonny Defeated The Dragon How Sonny Defeated The Dragon John Tynan: Art Pepper's Not The Same 7/30/64 Art Pepper's Not The Same Ken Burns: Jackie McLean Interview 4/10/96 Jackie McLean Interview Ken Burns: Wynton Marsalis Interview 6/12/99 Wynton Marsalis Interview Ken Burns: Branford Marsalis Interview 11/19/96 Branford Marsalis Interview Ken Burns: Clark Terry Interview Clark Terry Interview Ken Burns: Chan Parker (Bird's widow) Interview May 1998 Chan Parker Interview A Fireside Chat with Hank Jones Hank Jones Interview A Fireside Chat with George Coleman George Coleman Interview Fred Jung: My Conversation with Horace Silver Horace Silver Interview George Coleman: This Gentleman Can Play George Coleman Interview The Eminent J.J. Johnson J.J. Johnson Interview Hal Galper: An Introduction to Forward Motion Forward Motion Radio Interviews Charlie Parker Interviewed by Paul Desmond Part 1 Bird Interview 1 Charlie Parker Interviewed by Paul Desmond Part 2 Bird Interview 2 Charlie Parker Interviewed by Paul Desmond Part 3 Bird Interview 3 John Coltrane Interview 1960 Sweden Coltrane Interview 1960 John Coltrane Interview 1963 Paris Coltrane Interview 1963 John Coltrane Interview 1966 Tokyo Coltrane Interview 1966 Clinics Steve Grossman @ Berklee 1986 Steve Grossman clinic Michael Brecker @ Berklee 1987 Michael Brecker clinic Instruction Books Jazz Instruction Jazz instruction books available at: www.jazzbooks.com How To Play Bebop David Baker Volume 1: The Bebop Scales and Other Scales in Use Volume 2: Learning the Bebop Language Volume 3: Techniques for Learning and Utilizing Bebop Tunes Modern Concepts In Jazz Improvisation David Baker The Barry Harris Workshop DVD - Part One (4 DVDs/Workbook) The Barry Harris Workshop DVD - Part Two (4 DVDs/Workbook) The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns Yusef Lateef Inside Improvisation Jerry Bergonzi Volume 1: Melodic Structures Volume 2: Pentatonics Volume 3: The Jazz Line Volume 4: Melodic Rhythms Volume 5: Thesaurus of Intervallic Melodies Volume 6: Developing a Jazz Line Volume 7: Hexatonics Forward Motion Hal Galper A Chromatic Approach to Harmony and Melody David Liebman Expansions Gary Campbell Charlie Parker Omnibook Pocket Changes Volume 1 Pocket Changes Volume 2 The Jazz Piano Book Mark Levine Trumpet Instruction Herbert L. Clarke “Technical Studies” Earl D. Irons “Twenty Seven Groups of Exercises” Arban: Complete Conservatory Method Don Jacoby “Jake’s Method” John J. Haynie "High Notes, Low Notes and All The Notes In-Between" Ernest Williams “Complete Method” Colicchio Nu-Art Technical Exercises Biographies, History and Criticism To Be Or Not To Bop by Dizzy Gillespie Straight Life by Art Pepper Bird Lives! by Ross Russell Swing To Bop by Ira Gitler Jazz Masters of the Forties by Ira Gitler Milestones by Jack Chambers Notes and Tones by Art Taylor Raise Up Off Me by Hampton Hawes American Popular Song by Alec Wilder Open Sky: Sonny Rollins and His World of Improvisation by Eric Nisenson The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History by Scott DeVeaux Beaneath The Underdog by Charles Mingus Kind of Blue by Ashley Kahn To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road by Wynton Marsalis and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (Jazz Perspectives) by Eunmi Shim Music Is My Mistress by Duke Ellington Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce by Noal Cohen and Michael Fitzgerald John Coltrane: His Life and Music by Lewis Porter Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (History of Jazz) by Gunther Schuller The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (The History of Jazz, Vol. 2) by Gunther Schuller West Coast Jazz by Ted Gioia Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (Jazz Perspectives) by Andy Hamilton 2020 Dan Miller All materials and information (unless otherwise noted) property of Dan Miller
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