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. Lately, I'm super pumped up after the jam. It's easier to write a calm post after a week goes by. These endings generate excitement in the listener and are fun for the musicians. Confused? Listen to this version below by Stitt and Ammons and you'll hear what I mean. Loop as many times as desired and end with a clear ending idea. Play the usual 2-5 cadence but land on 3 instead of 1.
One type of vamp involves looping a 2-5-3-6 progression. What else is there to work on? Try to work out an ending. Some common endings are tags, vamps, and the A Train ending. Our featured tune is Gershwin's, "But Not For Me." Let's say you've listened to a number of recordings, memorized the head and changes, and can play a decent solo. If you are a guitarist, take advantage of this opportunity to play without bringing your own amp. Our next jam is September 18th and the band is Ken Hoffman - sax, Doug Brown - guitar, Matt Rodgers - bass, and John Lombardo - drums. Like "So What" and other tunes of this type it can be challenging to fill all that space while maintaining interest and keeping the form. Thinking in 4 and 8 bar phrases can help you keep track of where you are, and alternating between ideas using different pitch sets like mixolydian, dominant bebop, and blues scales helps with variety. Alternating ideas between eighth note lines and more rhythmically interesting lines adds variety, too. If you are a jamming musician the featured tune is "Sister Sadie." It's an AABA tune and the A section chord progression consists of just one chord: G7. These guys are all college and/or high school educators as well as busy performing musicians. The band tomorrow is terrific: Darren Sterud - trombone, Mark Davis - keys, John Mesoloras - bass, and Rodrigo Villanueva on drums. If you are a jazz fan, all you need to know is you are welcome to join us! You may learn a bit about jazz and will enjoy our music. It's kind of late now so this will be brief. I just noticed I forgot to write about our next jam (Oct 2nd).
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