Today the Bebop to Hard Bop Workshop had Andrea Veneziani subbing for Mark Sherman. We worked on the tunes are going to be played at Smalls. We decided endings and introductions and worked a lot on interplay and the melodies.
We also talked on how to comp the bass player during the solo and how to trade with drummers before heading back to the last head. Those are always the most difficult moments of a jazz group performance!
Jan 16 session with Andrea went well. Here are my notes:
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- We worked on the ending, and trading 4's with drums. Trading 4's and 8's became more of a dialogue, with sax/drums responding to each other, same with piano and bass trading. We also talked about accenting certain notes, and not playing everything....finding space, and places to hit harder.
- when bass and piano are carrying the rhythm, the drums can go off a bit, and improvise, not just keep time, since bass and piano are keeping time. drums can strike more of a conversation with sax
- when trading, drums can play more or less than 4 or 8 bars - it is OK to go over, or under, depending on the phrase being played
- piano solo may alternate half 8 with right, 8 with left, then finish with both
- drums/bass play in 2/4 on head, and on first half of solo's, then switch to swing in 4
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- B section is drum solo
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- Drums start with Latin A section, swing B section, Latin C section. STAY on LATIN for 1st solo, then swing on 2nd, 3rd, etc. solos.
- BACK TO HEAD ==> Back to Latin, and trading 8's twice, then trading 4's four times, then back to HEAD and END
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- we worked on the form, the solo's, then B section play once and end.