New Year

Happy new year everyone! Hope you all had a classy Christmas, and a sloppy New Year!

It's been bizarre, I've started watching quite a few vlogs on youtube, like RayWilliamJohnston's blog BreakingNYC, which is pretty cool. I've always loved the idea of being able to do that myself, but more music orientated, even with a few tasty musical bites here and there on the ol trombone... ANYWAY, I'll just stick to this for the minute, I like doing this :)

I feel really bad, because Jiggs Whigham is coming back in March, and I haven't done a lot of work for him yet... I've been neglecting my Aebersold book a bit too much. I have been doing a bit of improvising for part of my course though, in class. And I must say, I wasn't too bad at it. We did a solo over the Welsh folk tune "O Waley, Waley", and it was seriously tasty. I will be doing more work on my jazz though. I promise :)

Got a few tasty albums/artists for you guys to listen to that I've come across quite recently!

First off, here's a trio called 'Project', with their album Brooklyn which is pretty tasty. If you're wondering who the flautist is, then here is where you first heard him -> YouTube (EVERYONE must have seen this vid. Or one of his others.) I admit, I do sometimes have a strange taste in instruments sometimes, but jazz flute is seriously badass. The Anchorman is the prime example.

These cats have some seriously tasty original stuff on there, as well as some interesting covers and transcriptions!

Next up is something a bit differant, but SERIOUSLY funky; it's the Quantic Soul Orchestra, with their album Tropidélico. This guys have some seriously tasty stuff on here, a lot of groovy riffs and a lot of aux percussion, which is what I'm all about! Check out their YouTube vids as well, like this one. Or this one. S'all gravy.

The last album I've got here is a pure classic for me. My memory of this group is of my former trombone teacher back in Belfast blaring a few tunes out the window in the car. Seriously, check it out. And have a spare pair of trousers ready. Oh yeah.

'til next time...

Thanks ~ The Jazzbone