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Source Material: Richard “Groove” Holmes – “Onsaya Joy”
Richard "Groove" Holmes was a jazz organist from Camden, New Jersey. He began his career playing the bass guitar, then he transitioned to the Hammond organ. Holmes taught himself how to play the organ, then he became one of the most…
Source Material: Grant Green – “Upshot”
Grant Green was a jazz guitarist from St Louis, Missouri. He's most well-known for his contributions as a leader and a sideman for Blue Note Records. Green is considered to be one of the most prolific and least celebrated guitarists of…
Source Material: Lou Donaldson – “You’re Welcome, Stop on By”
Lou Donaldson is a Jazz alto saxophonist from Badin, North Carolina. His career spanned over 40 years, starting in the early 1950s, on through the '70s, and into the '90s. Donaldson began to establish himself in the '50s during the bebop…
Source Material: Chico Hamilton – “I Can Hear The Grass Grow”
"I Can Hear The Grass Grow" sounds like the perfect song for a film score.
The music and video below is presented here for the purpose of scholarship.
Chico Hamilton – “I Can Hear The Grass Grow”…
Jazz to Know: Dorothy Ashby – “Soul Vibrations”
Almost hard to believe that the harp could be so soulfully recontextualized. A reminder that instruments can be made to yield a variety of music forms; it all depends on the imagination and skill of the composer.…
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Taught Me How To Shuffle
The Jazz Messengers are one of the richest sources of musical knowledge that we still have available to us. Initially Co-fronted by drummer Art Blakey and pianist Horace Silver, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers (the moniker that was…
Jazz to Know: John Coltrane – “Invitation”
The music and video below is presented here for the purpose of scholarship.
John Coltrane – "Invitation"
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