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Tubby Hayes. Tenor, flute and vibes. Youtube has some clips from the Jazz 625 BBC concerts from the 1960s. Plenty of recordings becoming available again through iTunes/Amazon and the cheap reissue...

WithOut F#. Yamaha marketing speak for a horn which doesn't have the high F# mechansim.

i.e. a one half-step alteration to one note of a (mode of a) major scale. Nice and easy.

But then a harmonic minor is also a one half-step alteration to one note of a (mode of a) major scale. Just...

I'm shedding the Omnibook at the moment. One thing I have noticed, for what it's worth, is that Bird plays a lot within Harmonic Minor tonalities. The famous 16th-note lick alluded to several times...

You really really really should get a teacher to get your alto embouchure sorted out. Infuriatingly, everything embouchure that's been drilled into you as a clarinetist is wrong for the sax, and you...

The Train and the River
As Catch Can

Tenor, soprano and alto are not just different saxes, they are different instruments. Also, each has its own natural repertoire. Moving to a sop form a tenor is *not* moving to a pocket-sized tenor...

Other posters in the Yamaha subforum have mentioned serious problems with C# tuning in early 82Z models. The consensus seems to be that Yamaha fixed the problem and recent 82Zs play fine. For what...

Just joined the club: YAS 82Z UL WOF#. Aizen NY 7, Vandoren Klassik lig (string!) and blue box 2.5. I thought I was a tenor player (ref. 54), but this horn is just so much fun to play!

S.

Stand up striaght, shoulders back, sax in front of you! If you're stooping, chances are you're basically dangling the sax from your neck. The neck-strap's main job is to stop the sax falling all over...

Tubby Hayes played great flute. YouTube him for some clips from the sessions
he did at the BBC in the 60s.

I suppose it could, but... here's Bud's lick:

descending eighth notes C# Bb A G (over A7b9), F D (over Dmi6).

The most straightforward analysis (and the one Levine gives) is that this is a...

Oh, I thought someone had invented a new clef or something...

:)

Sean

The quote continues: `They play fragments of it [the harmonic minor], but very rarely the entire scale'

Then he goes on to give examples of harmonic minor licks over V7b9-Imi from Bud Powel, Joe...

Don't neglect the `difficult' scales, either. They're only difficult because they're unfamiliar. Take these four standards:

All the Things You Are
Cherokee
Body & Soul
Joy Spring

Between...

Hal Leonard publishes the `John Coltrane Solos' book in the Artist Transcription line. Not as huge as the Omni, but has 27 essentials, including the alt. take of Giant Steps. And for soprano fans,...

I got this exercise from my teacher. It has really helped me hear (and play!) the changes:

I go through the tune and just play the chord scales: on a one-measure chord, play the scale...

You're welcome. And at the risk of hijacking this thread, here's another insight into 7b9 and harmonic majors from a more conventional source:

Bert Ligon's Jazz Theory Resources (Vol. 2) Chapter...

Not exactly conventional, but coming from within modern tonal theory (building tonalities with tetrachords):

http://www.andymilne.dial.pipex.com/Harmonicma.shtml

Interesting site

Sean.

Because Slominsky didn't `have to give names to' the (total of 1330) scales. He wasn't at all interested in naming them. He gives them numbers. The only things he names (as far as scales go) are the...