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11 – Laurie Lang 5-6PM MJJ Workshop Session Stay at Home Session – Dan Wallach with Aaron Brenton.
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An influential American jazz musician, composer, big band leader and electric bass. Died: 21 September 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA (aged 35). Born: 1 December 1951 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. Profil: American bassist and composer from Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. Stay at Home Session – Chris Rottmayer with Aaron Brenton Vrai nom: John Francis Anthony Pastorius III.Here are a couple of versions to check out: Make sure to transpose it if you don’t play a C concert instrument. I’m not sure “The Chicken” is available in a fake book. You might want to start practicing by singing lines over the form and trying to find them on your instrument. Over the I7 IV7 vamp you can use scale tones from the major blues scale based on the tonic, and play off the chords as well. You can get a lot of mileage out of playing harmonically simple (pentatonics, chord tones), rhythmically interesting ideas, and playing them with feeling. It was written by James Brown’s band leader Pee Wee Ellis, and popularized among jazz musicians by bassist Jaco Pastorius. For our next jam on March 21st we feature “The Chicken.” This song has a blues-like progression and a funky rhythm. This time it will be Joey Banks – drums, Lucas Koehler – bass, Paul Hastil – keys, and Ken Hoffman – saxophone.įor the last several months our featured tune has either been a standard with chord progressions that descend by whole steps, or something simpler like a blues. Our next jam is March 20th and I expect it will be more of the same. With a brilliantly fleet technique and fertile melodic imagination, Pastorius made his fretless electric bass leap out from the depths of the rhythm section. Lately, I’m super pumped up after the jam. Jaco Pastorius was a meteor who blazed on to the scene in the 1970s, only to flame out tragically in the 1980s. It’s easier to write a calm post after a week goes by.