Musical Direction / Radio / Fewell Book

My son was the DJ for an hour last night on his college radio station. Here's what he played: 1) Bill Evans: "My Foolish Heart" 2) Vince Guarldi: "Skating" 3) Sufjan Stevens: "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland Illinois" 4) Penguin Cafe: "Cherzo And Trio" 5) Fleet Foxes: "Lorelai" 6) Velvet Underground: "Candy Says" 7) Nick Drake: "Road" 8) A dad request: Rolling Stones: "Moonlight Mile" 9) George Harrison: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps (acoustic George Martin 'Love' version)" 10) Bob Dylan "Desolation Row" Pretty Cool. Practiced some Christmas stuff with the band, but also stretched myself a little musically by playing a couple of jazz standards with our sax player and a background music app. I think it's time to dig in deeper in guitar and get back into the book "Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Melodic Approach," by the late Garrison Fewell. We had some cool email interaction in the past, and he autographed a copy of his book: "Outside Music, Inside Voices; Dialogues on Improvisation and the Spirit of Creative Music."

Father's Day / 2014

Happy Fathers' Day to all the dads who might be reading this.

An interesting day of practice, again. Went over repertoire, and get into the Garrison Fewell book again: "Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Melodic Approach." Putting the pieces together with the book, and finding out that I may be learning more than I am giving myself credit. Need to take more notes from the book as I'm reading. From here-on-in I'll refer to this book as "the Fewell book" in this blog.