There are a few websites which offer Jazz/Blues piano lessons, but I hope you will find this more affordable, more contextualised, and most of all...More personal.
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I have also provided a Links page where you will find some interesting and related websites. My favourite one is The JAZZ.FM radio station from Canada. You can listen live online to that when you wish.
Please have a look at the FAQ page to have some questions answered that you might have regarding the website, and if you find that one is missing, by all means contact me and I'll put it up with an answer. You have the forum to ask questions, and you have lessons personally created by me to suit your needs. Thanks for visiting and...
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This is a simple walking bass with some bluesy improvisation ontop. Check out Video Samples for more.
“We’re not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.” Oscar Peterson
NEWPORT, R.I. - For the first time since he founded the Newport Jazz Festival, George Wein didn't have to sign any checks or worry about how the fickle weather might affect the bottom line.
Instead, his biggest concern at the recent festival was whether he could keep up on piano with his Newport All-Stars band during their set on the main stage that preceded performances by Herbie Hancock and Sonny Rollins...
Download a free live track by the Albert Rivera Quartet from their August 23rd, 2008 performance at Smalls Jazz Club, NYC.
Featuring Albert Rivera on tenor saxophone, Zaccai Curtis on piano, Luques Curtis on bass and John Iannuzzi on drums.
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Charlie Reedy remembers his friend John "Spider" Martin well. They attended music classes at Niagara Falls High School together in the 1940s and eventually formed a band to play at the Ontario House.
Without Spider's help, who knows if Reedy -- who still performs regularly at the Colored Musicians Club of Buffalo -- would ever have became the jazz musician he is today...
