anybody here interested with jazz music and blues? please share your thoughts.

[countrykidanthony]

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You have a high music I.Q. ! Kenny G, Earl Klugh are not jazz artist, they are simply pop instrumentalists with shades of crossover and a little jazz, but they are not jazz artists in the real sense of the word..... i posted this because, when the topic of jazz pops out....daghan dayun mga "motherhood" statements, yes nahan kaayo ko'g jazz oy...like Earl Klugh ug Kenny G. but very few mention the real deal like Pat Metheny, Scofield, Al di meola, Jim Mclaughlin, Joe Pass, Dave Brubeck, Keith Jarrett, Chic Corea, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Charlie Byrd, Miles Davis, etc. Sooo please before you post anything on this jazz thread, pag research usa mo oy!

you should check the duet album of Chic Corea and Bela Fleck.. it's amazing how sometimes the banjo of Mr.Fleck sounds like the piano of Corea...

Yeah sakto ka Kenny G is a pop artist who happens to blow a sax.

La pa ko kadungog ni Earl Klugh. The only Earl i heard of is Earl Scruggs of Flatt and Scruggs

[sonikfish]

Sun Ra, Django Reinhardt, Ornette Coleman the best para nako..

[ronivan]

nindot ang blues oi. daghan mga nindot na artists. bb king, clapton, buddy guy, srv, jimmi vaughn(bro ni srv), si eric johnson sad kay mu tira ug mga blues(mga tribute) kita sa iyang playing ang pag ka blues. hehe bai nindot ni nga blues ni bb king, bruce willis and billy preston. tribute to the great ray charles.

YouTube - BB King, Billy Preston and Bruce Willis - Sinners Prayer

ganahan ko mukaton sa guitar parts pero beginner pa ko gitara. di ko kamao mo sepra hahaha

[Jonats]

miles davis don't even call his music jazz...sa iya interview sa youtube, iya ra tawagun ug social music. He's not also a virtuoso sa iya instrument, but iya mga limitations maoy naka palami sa iya music. cya moy nag start ug minimalist approach

my personal favorites:

john pierre
tutu
so what

[Jonats]

nindot ang blues oi. daghan mga nindot na artists. bb king, clapton, buddy guy, srv, jimmi vaughn(bro ni srv), si eric johnson sad kay mu tira ug mga blues(mga tribute) kita sa iyang playing ang pag ka blues. hehe bai nindot ni nga blues ni bb king, bruce willis and billy preston. tribute to the great ray charles.

YouTube - BB King, Billy Preston and Bruce Willis - Sinners Prayer

ganahan ko mukaton sa guitar parts pero beginner pa ko gitara. di ko kamao mo sepra hahaha

bisag ang mga jazz greats gikan ug beginner...hehehe! ako cge rag beginner ako feeling with jazz bisan dugay2 nako cgeg paminaw ug tukar2 ani sa jamming sessions. kay every jamming session spontaneous man dili tong jazz na sinipra hasta ang solo.

[Primal]

....listen to Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, BB King, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Pat Martino, Norman Brown, Paul Brown, Paul Jackson Jr., Jeff Golub, Danny Gatton, Brett Garsed, Scott Henderson, Robin Trower,SRV, and Ted Greene.... and Art Berstein/Chuck D' Aloia (if you can find these guys' stuff).

...these are the guys I listen to everyday at work.

[aeonstyle]

hi guys. I would like to share some tips on how to play jazz and blues. Since this thread relates to those who participated, here's mine.

To Jazz:

1. Learn the modes more than the diatonic and melodic minors.
2. Study syncopation and improvisation.
3. Develop aural training so that you can familiarize by ear, accidentals(#,b) and natural notes (no #, no b).
4. Avoid doing chromatic passages if it's not a part of the entire progression, instead add "fillers" or "pass chords" like#5, m+M7th and m6th notes accordingly for emphasis.
5. Vary the rhythm and practice odd meter. Use rubato. Feel your notes.

As for the blues,
1. Play with conviction. Pick harder for accentuated notes and softer for in-between, in that way, you convey a message. Try hitting the strings "upstroke".
2. Learn full bend, half bend and combination in one string. Add #4th, m6 and 7+9th to your melodies.
3. Try to adopt rhythmic displacement, picking faster and slower at will for expression.
4. Use odd meter approach to vary the 1-4-5 progression. Example, start at shuffle or do a delta, and then smoothly do a staccato or go wild with Chicago, then back to shuffle or ragtime or crossover, to spice things. Add flavor by fusing 2m and #4th7+9 in your cycle.
5. Explore a lot of minor pentatonic options, use "power chords" or major+perfect 5th intervals with added 6th or inverse 9th for rhythmic power and style. Let it growl.

Above all, study the history of Jazz and Blues. Happy groovin!
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My Blues Fave: BB King, Allman Brothers, EC, Paul Jackson Jr., SRV
My Jazz Greats: Spyro Gyra, Jesse Cook, Lee Ritenour, Peter White

[elaimakulai]

check out Richard Cheese

[Jonats]

listen to the masters...

[RonIvs]

im into blues sad. some of the great bluesman are b.b. king, eric clapton, buddy guy, srv, jimmi vaughn and many more. right now im into this song collaborated by b.b. king ray charles entitled sinners prayer. naay tribute sila bb king ug bruce willis ug billy preston sa youtube. heres the link for the interested

YouTube - BB King, Billy Preston and Bruce Willis - Sinners Prayer