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Looking for a New Venue for the Ellington Study Group

September 6, 2013 by Scott Healy No Comment

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We’re looking for a new venue for the Ellington Study Group. Please respond or leave a comment if you have any ideas. Possibilities include my house, your house, a club, a hall, the musician’s union… We don’t necessarily discuss Duke Ellington’s work, in fact the last few classes have ranged in topics from Kansas City small group arranging to Sammy Nestico, Thad Jones and Gil Evans. Info on the class: Ellington Study Group Los Angeles The Ellington Study Group is organized and led by composer and pianist Scott Healy, and is open to all music professionals. The group is intended…

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Again with the Linear Harmony? Too dry….

September 3, 2013 by Scott Healy No Comment

Linear Harmony #5: Block and Layered Counterpoint This is a new blog post at professorscosco – it’s dry as a bone but you composers will get the point. If you want an enjoyable read and fun content go read the Huffington Post. Click for the original article. I’m revising a piece for my ensemble, perhaps for a recording in the near or far future. I’ve used “Take it Inside” in many posts because it’s a good example of linear harmony. It’s also free and I have the score. During the process of taking this tune apart I’ve seen many missed…

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August 29, 2013 by Scott Healy No Comment

A competent arranger is expected to be, among other things, an excellent musician, a clever “idea” man, an inventor of new styles or patterns, and a composer of sorts. He is supposed to shun the thought of imitating any previously employed devices in his idiom.
Marlin Skiles

The Score: Jazz Scores after the Jazz Age After having watched Mike Hammer, My Gun is Quick (1957) on youtube, the interwebs led me to the below post from Hearing the Movies, a really cool blog by Jim Buhler, David Neumeyer and Rob Deemer. The opening credit sequence is the first installment of Marlin Skiles’ jazz score: a really cool big band piece, with a drum solo (what! say it isn’t so!)…turns out that Skiles was a prolific composer and arranger, and his jazz-noire score for this film rivals my all time favorite, Elmer Bernstein and Chico Hamilton’s Sweet Smell of…

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Repost: Blues for Pablo: True to Form

August 28, 2013 by Scott Healy No Comment

Yes, it’s another retread…the following is a popular post from my other blog: What do you call this…something like “orchestrational and harmonic gestural writing”, or “tonal consequence”, or even “temporal textural tautological antiphony”?…maybe you just mean “music”. “Blues for Pablo”–True to Form Posted on October 8, 2011 by Scott Healy View the original article at professorscosco.com. Blues for Pablo is to me the best piece of music on the great Miles Davis/Gil Evans 1958 record Miles Ahead (also titled Miles +19.) It’s a rich and detailed work. Gil’s techniques–transparent orchestration, use of instruments such as alto flute, french horns, tuba and…

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B-3 Basics for Pianists

August 26, 2013 by Scott Healy No Comment

Here’s another reprint of a lesson from Keyboard from a few years ago. Despite quite a few musical typos (blame the copyist), you’ll get the idea. Many past lessons are available at the Keyboard Magazine website , so check them all out online, not just the ones I did. If you buy Keyboard on the stands you’ll notice that the print edition’s wide format makes the lessons look particularity great. The basic idea of this lesson is that no matter how good a pianist or keyboardist you are, there are some trademark and non-intuitive techniques you need to know, and…

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“Get Funky” Rhodes Lesson from Keyboard Magazine

August 16, 2013 by Scott Healy No Comment

Here’s a reprint of a lesson I did for Keyboard Magazine a few years ago…in fact the bio at the bottom talks about The Tonight Show, so it must be from 2009…the pic above is from a session I did in June with my 1973 Fender Rhodes 73 Stage, which I bought in 1974, sold in 1985, then after an intense bout of seller’s remorse, tracked down and bought back in 1994. (click here for original article on keyboardmag.com) Influential recordings from the late 1960s by pioneering keyboardists (such as those by Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea with Miles Davis, and…

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