First Jazz Broadcast from PDFjazzmusic.com!

I am so fascinated by this new Google video search engine.  I was just surfing around again on there and learned a few new things.  You can sort by date or relevance of your search.  They also have a new function whereby you can copy and paste a few lines of code and have the video play from your own website.

The ramifications of this are immense for getting your "message" to a market very quickly.  The internet has made the world smaller, but Google has now made it even smaller by allowing for people to make a video and potentially have the video shown on "tv stations" (websites) all over the world!

With that said, I stumbled across this video of a trio and singer in Boulder, CO doing the tune Bye Bye Blackbird.  Good group too.  I'll continue to keep my eyes open for good jazz, and especially big band performances to bring to you guys and post them right here.  The great part is that Google picks up all the bandwidth costs!  I need to go out and get a digital camera. 

Here is today's jazz broadcast....

 Jazz on the Mezz is held every Wednesday night from 5:30-9:30 at the historic Hotel Boulderado in downtown Boulder, Colorado. Each week, the Diamond / Weyl Jazz Showcase features two special guest artists. This video was filmed on November 16, 2005.

Marguerite Jueneman - Vocals
Andy Weyl - Piano
Mark Diamond - Bass
Chris Lee - Drums

If you would like more information about this video clip or to obtain a DVD of this show please contact J. Parker at: parkerjame@gmail.com

 

Free Shuffle Tune Lead Sheet Download

I just finished a tune that I’ll be arranging for big band and for small big band.  I thought if some of you have small groups where you are just playing tunes, you might want to try this at your next rehearsal or gig.  Or you could throw the changes into band in a box and get a good II-V7 workout.

Normally I’m not a big fan of “shuffles” per se, but this one just seemed to fit that style.  It came out as kind of a blues shuffle with an extended form, with lots of successive II-Vs.  If you play this with a small combo, the rhythm section could take the last four bars of a form as the intro, or you could do a 4 bar Eb13-Db13 vamp type of thing.  I’ll keep you updated as to the progress of this tune as a big band chart.  I’m thinking is will be in the 3 ½ to 4 level of chart, about where Doxy and Slave Labor are.  For the ending, just end on the lick in the 19^th bar, then a Eb13#11 type of thing in the last bar, rather than the turn around.  Solo changes are different then the tune changes, but not by much.  Download the one page tune, “Shuffle This”, here