![]() On some of the tunes too, everybody lays out during the bass solos. You may also want to try playing with some of the many Thelonious Monk live albums: Monk often lays out, letting you provide chords for his saxophone player.Ĭheck out his "Live at the It Club". The album opens with a medium paced Blues in F that is just perfect to play with. Well, I just would invite myself (in the privacy of my own home.) and play some chords with them.Īnother nice one for that is the 1989 Branford Marsalis album called "Trio Jeepy" with Milt Hinton on bass and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. It's a trio record with just bass and drums behind Sonny Rollins: Wilbur Ware on bass, and either Elvin Jones, Donald Bailey or Pete LaRocca on drums- depending on the tracks. I have played a lot with the album "a Night at the Village Vanguard" by Sonny Rollins. In that case it's even more challenging to find records with no chordal instrument: no piano, no organ, or no guitar. We can improvise and pretend that we are soloing along, but we can also work on our comping. Now, don't get me wrong: I use iRealPro all the time (for my teaching and my own practicing) but playing with records is just the closest thing to playing with the real guys. There is something exhilarating about playing with Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers, something that we just will never get from iRealPro or Jamey Aebersold tracks. Playing some of the solos that I was trying to learn, yes, but also just jamming along with some of those tracks. Just think of all those stellar rhythm sections that we then get to play with !įor example, I've spent hours playing along to the album "Kind Of Blue" by Miles Davis. While it is nice to practice with tracks that only have a rhythm section and no solos, it is also very helpful to play with a full band. When I say "play with your records", what I mean is play with those great records, those CDs that you already have in your collection: Miles Davis, Coltrane, Monk, etc. I'm not talking about band-in-a-box or even iRealPro either. I'm not talking about those various play along tracks that we all use: the Jamey Aebersold, music-minus-one, and so forth. ![]() ![]() Play With your Records - Jazz improvisation - play-along - improv - Jazz guitar - Bruno Pelletier ![]()
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