Autumn

It's playlist time again...

1. Brad Mehldau: August Ending
2. Happy Apple: Green Grass Stains on Wrangler Jeans
3. Miles Davis: Fall
4. Dave Holland: Four Winds
5. Vijay Iyer Trio: Mystic Brew
6. Chick Corea: Windows
7. Medeski Martin and Wood: Your Lady
8. John Coltrane: Moment's Notice
9. The Bad Plus: Flim

Listen to this playlist on Spotify

That's One Way to Do it...

Jazz solos transcribed on recorder, presented without comment:

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Happy Birthday Bird

1. Ballad (Hawkins, Bird, Jones, Brown, Rich)
2. Celebrity (Bird, Jones, Brown, Rich)

Personnel: Charlie Parker, alto saxophone; Coleman Hawkins, tenor saxophone; Hank Jones, piano; Ray Brown, bass; Buddy Rich, drums

A Lost Art

Baseball stadium organ players are an endangered species, but in Atlanta one man keeps on keepin' on, and readers of this blog would probably dig him:

His Twitter feed is a must-follow. Even a Marlins fan (I know, I'm probably the first one you know) can like him.

Herbie @ TED