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"Lovely Aspect"

I was in the kitchen this afternoon when the first five notes came to my mind. Bang, downstairs and the damn thing wrote the rest itself.
I like the lurching feel of it, and the nine bar solo sections.
Monk? Never heard of him...

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"The Blooms of Dublin"

�THE BLOOMS OF DUBLIN�
Based on characters from �Ulysses� by James Joyce

Part 1 �Leopold�
Leopold Bloom is eating his breakfast as he prepares to go out into Dublin:

�Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.�

Part 2 �Underworld�
Leopold goes to a funeral:

�Coffin now. Got here before us, dead as he is. Horse looking round at it with his plume skeowways. Dull eye: collar tight on his neck, pressing on a bloodvessel or something. Do they know what they cart out here every day? Must be twenty or thirty funerals every day. Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world.�

Part 3 �Sirens�
Leopold goes into a pub for lunch. There is music, and singing:

�Bloom. Flood of warm jimjam lickitup secretness flowed to flow in music out, in desire, dark to lick flow, invading. Tipping her tepping her tapping her topping her. Tup. Pores to dilate dilating. Tup. The joy the feel the warm the. Tup. To pour o'er sluices pouring gushes. Flood, gush, flow, joygush, tupthrop. Now! Language of love.�

Part 4 �Marion�
Back at the Bloom's house waits Leopold's wife:

�O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.�

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Avid Smiles
Here's my line on Miles Davis's Nardis, excerpted from my new inexpensive mini-book, Hot Lines on 10 Jazz Standards. I play it in an up-tempo swing feel. For the trombone I like the way it falls on the horn up a 1/2-step in F minor. It's fun to play and requires no rehearsal with anyone who knows the tune.

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What Is This?
Here is my line on What Is This Thing Called Love; below that is my guide-tone line background for the same tune:

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Butterfly
Excerpted from Hot Lines on 10 Standards:

Here's my original line on Miles Davis's Solar, only with a CMA7 instead of Miles' CmMA7.

What follows are several examples of chromatic targeting of the melody in a variety of ways, using basic principles of the Linear Jazz Improvisation Method.

The first example is the lead sheet. In the second example, the very first motive, E G A, is transposed throughout in an inside fashion. In the third example the motive is connected to each transposition by a leading tone chromatic targeting Type 1a.

The example at the very bottom is the Simplified Melody Targeted (the melody place on the beat and reduced to quarter notes with targeting in between).

SCROLL DOWN ON EXAMPLE BELOW FOR 2ND PAGE:

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Block Chord Keyboard Cadences
Excerpted from Block Chord Keyboard Cadences, now available for only $9.95:

This is the most basic cadence to be learned on piano by all:

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"Connected Or Not"
Either way...

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"Example"
Going through my old stuff, when I can't seem to find anything new to work on, has been a bit of fun lately, and here's another one I found today. I had to re-write some of the chords and change the way the song ended. I like the clinking sort of dissonance created between the chords and the two lines. Clink, clank, clunk.

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Need Gospel Jazz Compositions
Hello All,

I recently joined FJI and noticed almost immediately that there's a wealth of information here that will benefit me. I'm an experienced musician but consider myself a novice when it comes to jazz.

Anyway, I lead a male acapella sextet and we have recently reorganized ourselves and are ready to sing again (well after everybody went away for school and is now back). We're in need of good quality gospel jazz renditions set in 5 or 6 part harmonies. Most of us in the group are musicians and do write our own stuff every once in a while, but we're looking to work with anybody who's interested in sharing their music with us.

It is our hope to record what we do. If you're out there and do write such music please do get in touch with me or post a reply and let's collaborate. Thanks.

Kismet

"Springhead"
This one I'd forgotten all about. I found it among some files that I thought I'd deleted, but they're still there. Don't know what to think about it, really. I guess I actually rather like it. It's sort of a cheerful little tune.

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Date Posted	Updated	Thread Author	Subject	Replies	Views
2008/11/28	2008/11/29	jay norem	"Lovely Aspect"	0	4
2008/11/25	2008/11/27	jay norem	"The Blooms of Dublin"	0	10
2008/11/20	2008/11/25	EdByrne	*Avid Smiles*	0	51
2008/11/14	2008/11/25	EdByrne	What Is This?	0	29
2008/07/15	2008/11/25	EdByrne	*Butterfly*	0	259
2008/07/29	2008/11/25	EdByrne	Block Chord Keyboard Cadences	0	220
2008/11/24	2008/11/25	jay norem	"Connected Or Not"	0	7
2008/11/23	2008/11/23	jay norem	"Example"	0	7
2008/11/23	2008/11/23	kismetgerald	Need Gospel Jazz Compositions	0	18
2008/11/21	2008/11/22	jay norem	"Springhead"	0	9

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