Jazz Improvisation Class Web Page
Below
are
links to the Play-Along tracks used in the Jazz Improvisation classes
Below
are
links to some mp3's of recordings of the tunes we're working on
now
in the Improv class.
The Chicken,
from "Live and Funky" by Pee Wee Ellis and Fred Wesley (the transcribed
trombone
solo is from this track)
The Chicken,
from a live recording by the Dave Weckl band, a very sophisticated,
modern
treatment
A link to You Tube to see the Jaco Pastorius Big Band
play "The Chicken"
Watermelon
Man,
the original recording from 1962 by Herbie Hancock with Freddie Hubbard
on
trumpet, and Dexter Gordon on tenor sax
Watermelon
Man, a great live latin treatment of it by the Poncho Sanchez band
Watermelon
Man, a revised version of this tune from Herbie Hancock's
"Headhunters"
album in the early 1970's
Watermelon
Man, an interesting brass and rap version by a group called
Wonderbrass
Other
good
funk tune recordings
Ain't that the Truth,
a remake of the Jr. Walker tune by Don Byron on tenor sax, and David
Gilmour
on guitar
Cissy Strut,
by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Sidewinder,
featuring
Eddie Henderson on trumpet and Grover Washington, Jr. on soprano sax
Cold Duck Time
by
Les McCann (piano) and Eddie Harris (tenor sax)
MP3 Recordings of accompaniments
PDF
files
of funk stuff
The first two choruses of Fred
Wesley's
trombone solo on "The Chicken" (above) along with a few tasty licks
from
Pee Wee Ellis's tenor sax solo.
A few classic funk style and funk/bebop
licks
isolated from the same recording.