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Originally Posted by valejazz  First I'd like to say how I appreciated "At Sea"...it's not easy to get your cds in Italy, but I received and reviewed a copy for the italian edition of All About Jazz and gave it 4 stars :)
I am mostly a section player and an istinctive soloist. I know I have to transcribe to develop a deeper jazz language, but it seems I have big trouble even singing correctly a solo. My ears stick to the ensemble passages and get a complete but not detailed image of the solo....
Any advice...solos to start with, methods, approach?
Thanks a lot!
Valerio |
I've been holding off jumping in here but Ingrid seems to be elsewhere. I'd echo the idea of starting with something simple, Chet with Mulligan, any early Miles, Art Farmer. It's important to stay with things that are within your technical capabilities. And it is most important to get them by ear off of a recording, and not from a book. Try to get them in real time, not by slowing down the track with one or another of the trickeries now available. Your ears need the training too. It's an aural art and it is important to grasp it through one's ears.
Michael McLaughlin