 This jazz method will help the intermediate player take their jazz skills to a new level. Includes 22 pieces written in a variety of styles: blues, swing, New Orleans, ragtime, jazz-rock, bossa nova, samba, salsa, calypso, reggae and South African. Particular emphasis is given to helping the student improvise over chord sequences, such as the II-V-I progression. Other features include a section on idiomatic effects, scales, and a companion CD with backing tracks for all pieces and exercises.
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 The conclusion to this jazz method starts with a review of concepts from Intermediate Jazz Keyboard and quickly moves on to more advanced concepts of chord voicings, modal soloing, substitution, reharmonization, modes of the minor scales, diminished and whole-tone scales, walking bass, stride piano technique, non-diatonic progressions and much more. The perfect launching pad for a lifetime of discovery and joy of playing music, this is an essential vehicle for any keyboardist’s journey into jazz. The CD includes examples and opportunities to play along.
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 Set Theory for Improvisation Ensemble Method is a series of books exploring the relationships of post tonal theory to contemporary improvisation. The series includes a theory book and several ensemble books. The theory book gives the underlying information on how each pitch class set can be applied to contemporary improvisation while the ensemble method gives examples of applying this information in the form of etudes. Set Theory for Improvisation Ensemble Method: Hexatonic 027 016 |
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 Here is the definitive guide to chordal playing for the contemporary vibraphonist. Includes material on: voicing selection, chord-member selection, use of extensions and alterations, voice leading, inversion selection, and more. The accompanying CD contains demos and play-along tracks with notated charts featuring standard chordal progressions in the following styles: fast and medium swing, ballad, jazz waltz, bossa-nova, and samba. This book is the most complete – and fun! – way to learn four-mallet voicings and comping patterns for jazz vibes.
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There are many methods claiming to teach guitarists how to improvise jazz guitar by providing endless scale charts, arpeggios for practice, and technical exercises aimed at learning notes by rote.
Back in the 1940′s, the guitarist Charlie Christian devised a system for easily improvising over complex chord changes. His ideas revolutionized electric guitar playing, and the art of improvisation once and for all. Every guitarist since his time owes him a debt of gratitude.
In this guitar method, learn how to apply the concepts Charlie Christian used in order to open up your view of the guitar neck. You will find that you can improvise over any chord progression with just a little practice.
This method breaks down some of the most compelling jazz/swing guitar solos every played into understandable bites, and keeps everything grounded in solid, simple theory to be sure that the reader can apply the concepts and create new ideas in this style. Naturally, many of the melodic fragments used in the accompanying solos have become classics of the Jazz repertoire, first adopted by jazz greats Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, and Jim Hall, as well as blues legends T-Bone Walker and B.B. King (among many others). Learning these concepts is like going back to the well of ideas and drinking from the coolness yourself, instead of simply copying a handful of licks and recycling them…
This Kindle version allows you to read the text and view the diagrams, but you will need to use your PC/Mac to hear the audio examples, which the author will provide you if you contact him for the PDF/Audio version – don’t miss that one, just email him (email address is in the Kindle book).
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Expand the boundaries of your knowledge and improvisation skills with this exciting book, which picks up where the improv lessons in
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Create arrangements with texture and style with this complete guide to arranging for large horn sections! Now, for the first time, learn the same jazz ensemble arranging techniques taught by renowned Berklee College of Music faculty, and studied by the best and brightest arrangers working today. While the book focuses on classic big band and jazz styles, the core information about horn harmony and arranging can be used for any style, from hip-hop to ska. Arranging for Large Jazz Ensemble includes all the information you need when creating horn charts, fueling and inspiring you with the charts of esteemed Berklee professors Jeff Friedman, Ted Pease, Scott Free, Greg Hopkins and Bill Scism. The play-along CD includes more than 60 demo tracks and arrangements written in the style of masters such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Gil Evans, and performed by Berklee faculty. Covers: writing and voicing techniques; soli, background and shout choruses; special effects; creating your own style; and more.
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Haerle presents the scales used in improvisation and explains applications. Scales shown in all keys and treble and bass clefs include blues, ionian, dorian, phrygian, locrian as well as whole tone, chromatic, augmented and many more. Great aid to memorizing.
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Techniques, exersises and philosophy of improvisation as an art form.
The Method: A Complete Guide to Improvisation
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Learn how to play and improvise in the style of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon and other jazz greats! The book uses real jazz classics to teach you, and covers topics including chord progressions; scales and licks; soloing styles; modes; pentatonics; instruments and equipment; and more. Songs include: Autumn Leaves * Chi Chi * Doxy * Easy Living * Footprints * I Remember You * Maiden Voyage * Meditation * Satin Doll * So What * Song for My Father * and more. The CD includes 87 tracks for demonstration and play-along.
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Sax 130 Top : Saxophone Method For Children (book/cd Set)
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This book, written by Benny Goodman himself, has been out of print for many years. It teaches the beginning student clarinet tone, style, technique and musicianship. It covers such basics as assembling and tuning the clarinet, proper position, scales, expression and many exercises. Features 11 tunes, including biography of his career up to 1940 is also included.
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- 224 Pages
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With over 100 color photos and insightful essays written by world-class jazz authorities, this book illustrates the saxophoneÕs role in jazz from its earliest 1920s roots through today. It describes how the sound of jazz has been shaped in the hands of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Branford Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, and many other legendary saxophonists in varying styles. It also includes a comprehensive guide to the finest recordings featuring jazz saxophone.
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- The Jazz Trio combines three stereo effects digital reverb chorus and a compressor/limiter into one convenient package
- These superb effects pedals provide the ultimate tonal toolbox for everything from the sizzling sounds of fusion to the cool strains of smooth jazz
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Chorus, Compressor and Reverb Guitar Effects Package Including Cables
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Your guitar becomes the ultimate jazz solo instrument when you master the techniques and concepts in this book. Picking up where the harmony lessons in Intermediate Jazz Guitar leave off, topics include melody and harmony integration, bass line development, chord enhancement, quartal harmonies, and how to arrange a guitar solo. Learn to simultaneously play the harmony, melody, rhythm, and bass parts of any song! Concepts are illustrated with lots of examples to practice, including arrangements of some traditional melodies. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates the examples in the book. 64 pages.
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- 32 Pages
- Published by HL
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30 songs, including: All the Things You Are * A Foggy Day * The Girl from Ipanema * Just in Time * My Funny Valentine * Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars * Smoke Gets in Your Eyes * Watch What Happens * and many more.
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- Published by Editions Salabert 45 Pages
- Violin Method
- Composer: Didier Lockwood Editor: Francis Darizcuren
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Cordes et Ame Improvisation Method for Jazz Violin
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- Trumpet by John O’Neill Book/CD Pack
- Composer: John O’Neill
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This method provides a complete course for players of all ages, guiding students from their first note to ‘classics’, together with compositions by contemporary writers. Accompanied by high quality rhythm section tracks recorded on compact disc. Right from the start, students can enjoy authentic jazz sounds, playing in the company of professionals. With step-by-step instruction and a progression of specially written pieces, the fundamental elements of good technique are introduced alongside the rhythmic subtleties of jazz. Improvisation is encouraged from an early stage and is given direction through the systematic study of scales and arpeggios and advice on ear-training and chord patterns. With supplementary suggestions for listening and reading, and an Appendix containing all the chord progressions for ‘live’ accompaniment of the tunes, The Jazz Method is ideally suited to both students working alone and those learning with a teacher. “John O’Neill has a solid understanding of jazz and how it can be taught. I highly recommend his educational jazz materials.” (Jamey Aebersold) “…a rare opportunity for a new player (or a more experienced one) to develop a really musical facility. A rare addition to the jazz improvising library.” (Lee Konitz, international jazz saxophone soloist) – includes ‘classics’ by Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver – “…very good original jazz tunes that students will use as stepping stones for further development… a non-jazz-playing flute teacher would probably find the book a godsend especially if students are studying GCSE music.” (Steve Tayton, Jazz Journal International) Part one: The foundation Techniques * Part two: Playing the Music * Part three: Appendices
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- Book & CD Pages: 40
- By Bob Mintzer
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Written by jazz musician Bob Mintzer, 14 Jazz & Funk Etudes presents practice and performance aids and explanations in a variety of jazz and funk styles. In addition, the books include a CD containing combo accompaniment that’s ideal for practice sessions.
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- By Bob Mintzer
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12 Contemporary Jazz Etudes is written by the world-renowned jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist, bandleader, educator, and member of the Yellowjackets, Bob Mintzer. Designed for the medium to advanced difficulty level, this book includes: 12 jazz etudes composed by Bob Mintzer in a variety of jazz styles, tempos, and time signatures; performance notes/tips for each etude to assist in interpretation and improvisation; play-a-long CD with a stellar rhythm section; and an opportunity to study and learn these skills: melodic composition, improvisation, sight reading, motivic development, call-and-response, and jazz concept; All books are compatible and written so they can be performed together.
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- 80 Pages
- Published by HL
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Tom Harrell is arguably one of jazzÕs top trumpeters. This collection features 20 solo transcriptions, including: I CanÕt Get Started with You ¥ IÕll Remember April ¥ Moon Alley ¥ Sail Away ¥ Scrapple from the Apple ¥ Visions of Gaudi ¥ more.
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- 250 Pages
- Published by Hal Leonard
- Softcover
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In The World of Jazz Trumpet – A Comprehensive History and Practical Philosophy, acclaimed jazz trumpet soloist Scotty Barnhart examines the political, social and musical conditions that led to the creation of jazz as America’s premier art form. He traces the many factors that enabled freed slaves and their descendants to merge the blues, gospel, classical marches, and African rhythms to create a timeless and profound art that, since its inception, circa 1900, continues to have a major impact on all music. The World of Jazz Trumpet is a must-have study of the jazz trumpet for students, instructors, and professional musicians, as well as for anyone who appreciates the genre. Readers will appreciate Barnhart’s personal and professional connection to a major part of American and world history. This book fills a major void in the world of jazz education as well as in general music education. With entries on 800 trumpeters, it is destined to become required reading in thousands of colleges, schools and homes around the world.
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10 great tracks with a play-along CD that lets instrumentalists play as part of a big band. Titles include: Bags’ Groove * Blue ‘N Boogie * Blue Train (Blue Trane) * Doxy * Four * Moten Swing * Oleo * Song for My Father * Stolen Moments * Straight No Chaser.
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- 82 Pages
- Published by Music Sales America
- SAXOPHONE
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Teaches improvisation from the point of view of the sax player, utilizing theory as insight into playing. Chapters on modal playing, and special effects (multiphonics, microtones, etc.). Includes a complete chord chart.
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- Learn jazz arrangements of 12 classic Christmas songs
- Course book and all sheet music included
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Jazz piano lessons on DVD. Learn to play great sounding jazz arrangements of 12 favorite Christmas songs including Auld Lang Syne, What Child is This, Good King Wenceslas and Angels We have Heard on High. Step-by-step video lessons on 6 DVDs with interactive menus and multiple levels of lessons. Great for all levels of players. Also includes beginners chord tutorial, all lead sheets and bonus CD from the Bill Susman Trio.
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- 432 Pages
- Published by Backbeat Books
- Softcover
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This engaging book unveils the personal and musical lives of 479 brilliant jazz trumpeters, past and present, through intimate biographical profiles that describe each artistÕs unique traits, intriguing life experiences, relationships with other influential players, career milestones and key recordings. Artist covered include: Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Arturo Sandoval, Red Allen, Chet Baker, Bunny Berrigan, Roy Eldridge, Freddie Hubbard, Freddie Keppard, Lee Morgan, Fats Navarro, King Oliver and hundreds of others – plus jazz figures who seem unlikely to have recorded on trumpet but did, such as Benny Goodman and Mose Allison. A fascinating read!
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- 96 Pages
- Published by Music Sales America
- Softcover with CD
- TRUMPET
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A comprehensive study of modern jazz trumpet playing by renowned jazz musician John McNeil. Contains a personal history of jazz trumpet, articulation, valve technique, and alternate fingerings. This complete edition combines and updates the earlier works and includes a CD as a practice aid.
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This book is great for guitarists who have learned the basics of jazz harmony and improvisation. Topics include the ii-V-I progression, creating solo lines, altered chord formulas, and comping in different jazz feels such as Latin, swing, ballad, and even funk. Continuing in the format of Beginning Jazz Guitar, every new concept is accompanied by etudes and songs for practice, and every chapter is clearly divided into lessons on harmony and improvisation. Packed with literally hundreds of chord voicings and improv ideas, this book is a must for any serious student of jazz guitar. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates the examples in the book. 96 pages.
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- 72 Pages
- Published by Cherry Lane Music
- Softcover with CD
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66 Drum Solos for the Modern Drummer presents drum solos in all styles of music in an easy-to-read format. These solos are designed to help improve your technique, independence, improvisational skills, and reading ability on the drums and at the same time provide you with some cool licks that you can use right away in your own playing.”66 Drum Solos for the Modern Drummer has great information and would be a challenge to any drummer.”- Joe Porcaro
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- ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust In Jesus
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- Arms Of Love
- Be Magnified
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A respected soloist, clinician and writer, Mantooth has written this book for any keyboard player interested in developing better jazz chord voicing. Written more as a Õhow-toÕ book than a textbook, Voicings will make a valuable addition to the library of any performer, arranger, teacher or jazz theorist.
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This book provides a step-by-step approach to learning basic piano realizations of jazz and pop tunes from lead sheets. Systems for voicing chords are presented from the most elementary to the advanced along with methods for practicing each system. Both the non-jazz and the advanced jazz player will benefit from the focus on: chords, chord voicings, harmony, melody and accompaniment, and styles.
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by Bill Boyd This book contains the chord progressions found in most jazz standards. Each progression is written with chord voicings which are indigenous to the style. The book is divided into two sections. The first section uses chord voicings with the root as the bottom note. This voicing is appropriate when playing with a jazz group where there is no bass player. Chord voicings with the third or seventh of the chord as the bottom note are the basis for section two. This voicing is useful when a bass player is present to provide the root movement. The same progressions appear in both sections. The study of this material will help prepare the player for fake book reading and comping with a group.
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- Presented In A Unique Master Class Setting
- This Series Will Inspire Others As Teachers And Artists
- Recorded And Filmed In 2005 In New York
- Duration: 3hrs 23 minutes
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Part of being an artist is being a teacher. Directly or indirectly, through their work or their words, artists teach. In this series of DVDs, some of the most important jazz artists are presented in a unique master class setting. They perform, they talk about their lives and work, students play for them and the comment and instruct those students. Students discuss their expectations before the class and their thoughts after the class. Viewers will observe learning taking place, and come to understand how great artists think, perform, and teach. We hope this series will inspire others to videotape and document artists as teachers and teachers as artists. This DVD was recorded and filmed October 9, 2005 at the Center for Jewish History, New York City. Songs performed include ”Yes, There Is a C.O.T.A.,” ”Goodbye, Mr. Evans,” and ”What Is This Thing Called Shove.”
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The conclusion to this jazz method starts with a review of concepts from Intermediate Jazz Keyboard and quickly moves on to more advanced concepts of chord voicings, modal soloing, substitution, reharmonization, modes of the minor scales, diminished and whole-tone scales, walking bass, stride piano technique, non-diatonic progressions and much more. The perfect launching pad for a lifetime of discovery and joy of playing music, this is an essential vehicle for any keyboardist’s journey into jazz. The CD includes examples and opportunities to play along.
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- 14 Songs For Solo Instruments
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- Standard Notation
- Includes A Play Along CD
- 32 Pages
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14 songs for solo instruments, complete with a play-along CD. Includes: Bernie’s Tune * Cry Me a River * Fever * Fly Me to the Moon * God Bless’ the Child * Harlem Nocturne * Moonglow * A Night in Tunisia * One Note Samba * Opus One * Satin Doll * Slightly Out of Tune (Desafinado) * Take the A Train * Yardbird Suite.
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This text-only volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts and techniques of the Linear Jazz Improvisation Method. Using a wealth of examples from the jazz repertory, the book avoids theoretical terminology and focuses on the four essential elements present in every composition: melody, guide-tone lines, root progression, and rhythm. Understanding these “building blocks” of improvisation, you will be ready to put them into practice throughout your course of study.
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- For Seasoned Rockers Seeking New Challenges Or Jazz Newcomers Looking For A Good Start
- Covers Scales, Chords, Techniques
- CD Features 65 Full Band Demos
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Perfect for seasoned rockers seeking new challenges and jazz newcomers looking for a good start, this book/CD pack covers scales, chords, licks, techniques and other vital jazz improv concepts step by step. The accompanying CD features 65 full-band demo and play-along tracks.
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Dave explains his approach to jazz improvisation with musical examples that he himself uses, learned from years of playing with the greats – after learning how to play jazz from listening to players such as Grant Green, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. Explains the minor sub approach using minor scales to play over dominant seventh chords, and then includes several solos over often-played jazz standards, using this approach. Also described are the use of the blues and pentatonic scales as well as be-bop ideas, the melodic minor scale, and whole-tone and diminished scales and patterns. Hanon-type warm up exercises and Dave’s own fingerings shown in tab are also described. Perfect for intermediate-to-more advanced players, Dave’s concise way of explaining his approach will open up the students to developing their own improvisational ideas. Dave plays the examples and solos on the companion CD including tracks with a rhythm only section for student play-along.
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This is the quartet version of my all time Hit; Potion Magique. I wrote that song in five minutes, singing the theme over two stupid bar chord B major and A major, talk about a progression…
The bridge took a little longer… less than ten minutes. Lol The arrangement was done the same way.
It sounds like a garbage song but actually all the songs I wrote really fast are the best of mine. It doesn’t mean that all the song I wrote fast is good, actually they aren’t.
However, when a song comes out fast it simply means inspiration, or divine guidance. Sadly, I do not have a lot of those. This thing happens more frequently when you are composing a lot without looking for a hit or thinking you’re a genius or that the song has to be complicated to be considered a heavy musician…
Lineup
- Hervé Senni: guitar, solo
- Pierre Bonin: Keyboards, solo
- Alain Picotte: Bass
- Mario Di Blasio: Drums
Download the song for free
I wrote Rumba Buena with the help of the percussion player, Normand Bock, who was playing in a band named Queba under the musical direction of Don Alias.
He introduced us to salsa, and we had to do percussion homework at every reharsal,practicing cowbell, clave or chekere, while Normand was playing over. It was fun. We were doing long percussion block in our shows featuring th percussion and the drummer Gilbert Trahan.
Finally, I wrote that song including all the rhythms and musical genres I was learning from him. The harmonic and structure of the song was based on a multitonic modal system I learned in Jan Jarcic classes at the Concordia University of Montreal back in 85.
The song features a long, and really good keyboard solo of Normand Devault followed by a groovy percussion solo.
Line up:
- Soprano Sax: Jocelyn Menard
- Trumpet: Pierre Lafrenaye
- Guitar: Hervé Senni
- Keyboard: Normand Devault, solo
- Percussion: Normand Bock, solo
- Bass: Alain Picotte
- Drum: Gilbert Trahan
This is my hit. We performed it much time at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and it was an all time favorites. Radio Canada aired it many times for years.
I discovered it later when I received my royalty check. Potion Magique stands for Magic Potion, in honor of my hero Obelix and because the mix of reggae and jazz was a magic potion.
The song is pretty straight forward. It’s a basic AABA structure where the As are reggae and the B swing.
The chords are extremely simple. B Major and A Major in the A section and a cycle of dominant chords in fifth for the B section. A basic rhythm change bridge actually.
Jocelyn Menard is doing a nice and simple solo on the soprano sax.
We recorded many different versions of this song, in various setups. This is the number two cut. Enjoy
Line up:
- Soprano Sax: Jocelyn Menard
- Trumpet: Pierre Lafrenaye, solo
- Guitar: Hervé Senni
- Keyboard: Normand Devault
- Percussion: Normand Bock
- Bass: Alain Picotte
- Drum: Gilbert Trahan
I wrote that song around 1984/85. I don’t remember exactly when, I know I was a student at the Concordia University in the Jazz program with my palls but which year was it?
Anyway. I called that song Suivez La Ligne ( Follow the Line) in honor of all the cocaine addicts that were following each other in line to the bathroom to take a good line while we were playing… It was impossible to urinate in those bars. We had to go outside…
Go back to the song: it’s a really fast 3/4 song based on an unusual bar structure and a completely crazy chord progression. Actually there’s no logic in those chords. The only important thing was the soprano and bass movement. The inside voicing are just colors that suit well going from one chord to another… Damn impossible to solo over.
Jocelyn Menard did a really good job on that song.
Line up:
- Tenor Sax: Jocelyn Menard, solo
- Trumpet: Pierre Lafrenaye
- Guitar: Hervé Senni
- Keyboard: Normand Devault
- Percussion: Normand Bock
- Bass: Alain Picotte
- Drum: Gilbert Trahan