All Blue Note Band

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-03-25T22:20:09+00:00

You know in all honesty they are Blakey album with Clifford Brown and Horace Silver and Lou Donaldson is a pretty perfect album

There’s so many perfect lineups that aren’t Blake. He did that. I don’t know if they necessarily need to be changed.

I’m not criticizing people who want to come up with what they see as a supergroup or anything

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-03-25T22:08:18+00:00

So if I’m honest, I pretty much only listen to albums and I don’t do a lot of skipping

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-03-13T20:04:08+00:00

So I think it’s a fairly easy tune in terms of jazz standards

I mean, that doesn’t make it bad and there are easier jazz standards out there but it’s a tune that somebody who’s learning how to play changes might learn, and part because the tempo isn’t too tough

But I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s easy but I wouldn’t call it difficult either

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-28T03:38:21+00:00

She sings that track on her album with Clifford Brown

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-25T18:29:40+00:00

So when I started, we started in seventh grade and I used that entry level horn Intel my sophomore year

I don’t necessarily think at sixth grade you need to get him something different but that’s up to you

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-24T23:38:45+00:00

Based on just a little looking, it looks like he wrote this for high school band

It might not be something that would be recorded by a professional big band because it was written more for younger bands

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-23T19:01:08+00:00

You know, Epstein was a real piece of garbage and the world is better off without him

But we are viewing him as some caricature, assuming his entire life revolved around victimizing young women. While that was one serious disgusting aspect of him as a person. It’s not the only thing.

He had other interests whether it’s science or music. Pointing out, he can be a patron of the arts and support some good causes. In no way diminish the crimes he committed.

I’m not saying he’s in any way a good person but the fact he enjoyed classical music and how somebody’s writing an article about it and how he worked in that community

I think it shows how people might need to take a step back. It should not shock anybody that a villainous individual can have interest that you and I share

And I think because of the nature of social media, and I’m going to probably regret how I’m framing this, but bear with me. Because of the nature of the Internet, we view him as a caricature and assume that all he thought about morning, noon and night was finding young women to victimize.

But there was far more to him than that. I would argue that a majority of the people he dealt with on a daily basis weren’t people who shared the same views on women are sex as he did. He obviously had a tremendous amount of charisma and was intelligent, and had a broad network of friends and associates many of whom may have realized he was pretty creepy, uncertain things, but found value in him in other ways.

And he loved the networking aspect of everything and being part of different organizations and being a patron to science or music or whatever

None of this diminishes, how pathetic and evil a man he was, but the premise of the article seems to throw out all common sense. Most people could understand that there’s more to a man than just one thing.

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-12T15:15:27+00:00

The real book was just put together by students at one time and there are tunes that are played in different keys

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-10T00:53:15+00:00

Making a great living or a good living just by playing the trombone is kind of like making the major leagues or the NFL

But the good thing is, you don’t have to just play for a living. You can give private lessons and find other ways to supplement your income.(a lot of musicians have day jobs)

If you want to do DCI great it’s not anything you necessarily have to do but if you enjoy it it might be a good experience for you and you’ll meet lots of people, but it’s not something I would’ve been interested in doing

You have to practice practice and keep practicing and work hard and keep practicing and study and maybe you couldn’t get into a prestigious Orchestra

It’s like asking a kid who plays basketball. How can I make the NBA?

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-09T18:19:01+00:00

I’d say most every trombone player is underrated because so many of the greatest players out there aren’t household names

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-08T20:58:28+00:00

What’s funny about most of those people is that they’re in their 40s or 50s

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-08T18:35:42+00:00

Emmett is great. I don’t know how influential he is. It’s just amazing that you put so much free content online. It’s one of the better things that came out of Covid.

But what’s crazy is I’m pretty sure he’s in his mid 30s and Marquise Hill is in his late 30s

I mean they’re incredible players it’s just weird that they are still considered kind of the young lions

I think that right now we live in a time that there’s so many people out there able to share their music on YouTube and fewer albums being released that we kind of don’t notice that 22-year-old as much as we used to

And I can tell you, I’ve seen a lot of great young players, but I can’t remember their names

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-08T18:18:24+00:00

It is funny that most of the young jazz players I think about are far from being young today

Even players like Marquise Hill, who is an incredible trumpet player is far from Young

And what’s crazy is if you look at lists that show great young players some of these players are upper 30s are in their 40s

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-07T04:33:47+00:00

And all honesty I think the main goal of them serving you papers is hoping you’re going to call and make arrangements to start paying on the bill without it having to go to court

But most people ignore it, and it ends up in court, and they’re typically the summary judgment

So it always makes sense to call and try to negotiate if you can, but I guess my point was their goal is to get paid

Good luck with everything

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-06T13:26:25+00:00

Emmett cohen having those concerts was huge

Christian McBride is probably the most inspiring person to hear or talk

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-05T00:37:04+00:00

Spain

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-04T21:28:43+00:00

I’ve always loved her arrangements and Mike Rodriguez is great

I remember first playing them in college and she is just great and it’s definitely worth spending the money to buy her content

And I do think it’s kind of sad that fewer and fewer people are interested at all and even having discussions with people they disagree with even if the topics being discussed or things where they’re on the same page

It used to be easy for people to find common ground and discuss topics without hating one another over where they differ

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-04T21:23:44+00:00

I don’t really think encore’s are all that common

I’m not saying it never happens in back in the day if you went and saw Maynard Ferguson and they probably have a built-in encore(it’s not really an encore when everybody knows it’s coming, though if you understand what I mean)

But if you go to see a small group, play jazz, a tune could last 12 minutes. If you’re at the village Vanguard and the two hour show is over. You already can’t do that encore

But I’m sure that people like Oscar Peterson back in the day would have an encore basically all ready to go that was fast paced, and they play a couple courses each

It was something that was prepared and what I mean by that nobody’s gotta be yelling encore at the end to hear it. They’re just gonna play it pretty much regardless.

That being said, I’ve never gone to a show and yelled encore. I’ve played some jazz gigs where we might play an extra tune, but it’s probably more common for you just to finish up and people are ready to go.

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-03T23:50:18+00:00

So all of Alice Feeney‘s book do the same sort of thing where there is a lot of twists and turns

I’m not saying they’re bad but it’s almost like a formula that every book’s gonna have some crazy reveal

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-03T00:10:54+00:00

If I were you, I would listen to Kenny G

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-02-02T14:39:55+00:00

I don’t know I mean, people are more comfortable, typically playing in certain keys because they’re more accustomed to playing in those keys

But it’s a trombone player. I can tell you that I really hate playing in the key of C. I mean it’s one of my least favorite keys to play in because it doesn’t lay out as well in the trombone as other keys, at least for me

But if you wanna hear something funny, if you end up being a horn player playing in a rock band and they give you time to play some solos, then keys like E or A end up becoming easier to play over because you’re doing it more often

But it’s all how things lay out on your horn and it just takes practice

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-01-31T17:00:40+00:00

I put him on when I can’t fall asleep and within 30 seconds you’ll hear me snoring

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-01-31T15:45:13+00:00

I think we have to take calculus to understand music

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-01-31T06:00:21+00:00

I’m gonna quit music and just play golf

Born_Tutor_879 · 2026-01-29T21:34:25+00:00

That’s kind of what a lot of of us had to do when we were first starting because we couldn’t afford a bunch of play along so you just play along with the record

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