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Jazz improvisation by Col Loughnan (tenor saxophone) at the Manly Jazz Festival with the Sydney Jazz Legends. Loughnan was accompanied by Steve Brien (guitar), Craig Scott (double bass, face obscured), and Ron Lemke (drums). Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz ...
Sheets of sound was a term coined in 1958 by DownBeat magazine jazz critic Ira Gitler to describe the new, unique improvisational style of John Coltrane. [1] [2] Gitler first used the term on the liner notes for Soultrane (1958). [3]
Alto Saxophone Concerto (1989) Concert Piece for Trombone and String Orchestra (1991) Concertino for Cellular Phones (2006) Concerto for Trumpet, String Orchestra, and Jazz Band (1987) Concerto for Two Pianos, Jazz Band, Strings, and Percussion (1976) Concertpiece for Viola and Orchestra (1989) Homage: Bartok, Bird, Duke (1988) Images of ...
Ramon "Ray" Ricker is a classical and jazz performer, music educator, composer, arranger and author.. Ricker was professor of saxophone, director of the Institute for Music Leadership and senior associate dean for professional studies at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester until his retirement in 2013.
His books include Bebop Scales, Jazz Scales and Patterns in All Keys, Target Tones and Approach Tones, Shaping Bebop Lines, Developing a Jazz Vocabulary, The Language of Jazz, and Making a Connection with Your Saxophone, Teaching with a Focus on Learning to Play Jazz. Riposo plays in the Salt City Jazz Collective in Armory Square. One of his ...
An avoid note is a note in a jazz scale that is considered, in jazz theory and practice, too dissonant to be emphasised against the underlying chord, and so is either avoided, used as a passing tone or chromatically altered. [3]
The term outside is commonly used by jazz musicians playing in a post-bop idiom, but despite its frequent use in musicians’ jargon there is no set or standardized definition for it. As the term is commonly understood, outside is not a direct synonym to terms such as free improvisation , polytonality or atonality but a musical phenomenon in ...
His most recent recordings include an environmental-jazz CD of solo improvisation as well as the newly discovered saxophone concerto of the 19th century American composer Caryl Florio. His latest CD, American Landscapes, includes three centuries of original American Music for saxophone, including works of Florio, Grainger, Siegmeister and Wilder.