[Monday Notes No. 180] Denny Zeitlin is an American pianist who has performed since the 1960s in solo piano or trio with double bass and drums. He is a very fascinating musician also because of an unusual detail: despite a career in music at the highest level, he practised in parallel as a psychiatrist at…Continue readingQuiet Now, a Denny Zeitlin piece that Bill Evans loved
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[Monday Notes No. 171] Blue In Green is a track from Miles Davis’ famous album Kind Of Blue, released in 1959 and considered the most successful jazz album ever. Miles Davis wanted to explore modal jazz with this work, and helped to spread it among musicians and audiences alike. I tried to analyse the melody,…Continue readingBlue In Green, the Impressionists’ painting… in jazz
[Monday’s Notes no. 148] Flamenco Sketches is a track from Miles Davis’ album Kind of Blue, a masterpiece entirely dedicated to modal music. Among the various modal scales, the Phrygian mode and the flamenco scale are of particular importance, hence the title of this composition, of clear Hispanic inspiration. I transcribed and analysed the solos…Continue readingFlamenco Sketches, modal jazz and open form