Five Feathers Music
presents
"BAND IN THE POCKET! #5"
Jazz Flavors
For all
of you who have waited so patiently for so long,
IT'S HERE!
SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This has been our most challenging CD to date. We wanted to come up with the perfect mix of easy going "Jazz Flavors" grooves that make for easy going jams, paired with slightly more challenging tracks that ask a bit more of your solos!
We enlisted the help of two fine Jazz musicians, who also happen to be fine teachers as well. Dan Coy is a nationally known Jazz guitarist who has taught in the Atlanta area for many years, and is a leading session musician. Russ Rodgers is equally well known as a premier studio musician and bass instructor. There are several well known Atlanta bass instructors who refer to Russ as their teacher! (By the way, Russ endorses Band In The Pocket For Bass and uses it with his students!)
Dan and Russ have played together in various situations for many years, and were perfect for this project! We brought them into the studio with no specific instructions, other than to play four nice jazzy grooves that they would like to have for their students' jams! With no pre-planned arrangements on ascending or descending passing chord patterns, the spontaneity that was captured in these tracks is priceless! At times, you may notice the guitar dictating direction, and at times it will be the bass line. There are a few spots that the two instruments start out in different directions, and somebody does a 180 degree turn to follow the other's lead. We couldn't have scripted it better! The result is perfect for spontaneous Jazz solos that really make you feel like you are part of the group!
SPECIAL ADDITIONAL OFFER!
In addition to the booklet that is offered inside the Jazz Flavors CD, we
are also offering some more in-depth charts and discussions of the tracks.
These discussions on chord substitutions were written by Dan Coy as part of
some of his advanced jazz guitar lessons. He has graciously allowed us
to make them available to you... FREE! Just click on
the link at the bottom of this section!
The other five tracks on BAND IN THE POCKET! #5 were taken from various projects that were done in the Five Feathers Music studio for Five Feathers Music Publishing, our parent company. Some were taken from Jazz Flavors instrumental CDs, some from themes for television productions, and one was an extension of a track for a radio commercial. One thing they all have in common... they are all great grooves to play over... they are all "IN THE POCKET!"
Note: We had previously advertised in some of our CD booklets that "BAND IN THE POCKET! #5" would be more Blues, but demand for the Jazz Flavors product caused us to release it now. Since we are in the process of giving all our booklets a "face-lift" inside and out, we can fix that advertising error in future booklets. This is the fifth solo product, so "#5" it is!
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Chord Charts
and Outlines
We are now offering free downloads of all the charts for all versions of Band In The Pocket. We have heard from many teachers who tell us they have trouble using the tiny charts that come inside the CD jewel cases, and that they have to write out charts for their students or scan the booklets and expand them on their printer, so that the print is large enough to read from a music stand. In a further survey of a cross section of more customers, we learned that most everyone would be happier with a larger, more readable format. We have posted the charts in a printable format. NOTE: We have noticed a couple of typographical errors in the booklet that comes inside the CD package! The chart for "Strolling Through C minor" has an A13 that should be an Ab13, and "Hip Pocket" and "Miami Moonlight" have 9b9 chords that should probably be interpreted as 7b9 chords. These have all been corrected in the larger format download versions of the charts.
Just CLICK HERE and choose the charts you want!
We have also posted a link for free downloads of some more in depth discussions by our distinguished guest musicians on the chord extensions and substitution chords used on some of the tracks. Just follow the links below!
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1. "Tune-up notes"
2. "Bb Shuffle" (5:27) A medium tempo shuffle with lots of great passing chords and substitutions.
3. "Summer Vacation" (6:34) A lazy Island groove written by Marvin Taylor in A Minor and G Major
4."12 Bar Jazzy Blues In F" (6:11) A medium-fast walking Blues with some great substitutions.
5. "Hip Pocket" (5:48) A slinky groove to a modern beat in the key of G Minor
6. "Strolling Through C Minor" (5:58) Definitely a stroll, and through some great patterns!
7. "Santana Sunset" (6:17) A nice Latin groove in B Minor
8. "The Fine Major Nine" (6:01) A lazy modern beat flows under breezy major nines in F.
9."Slow Blues In G" (5:38) A very Jazzy version of standard blues pattern with nice substitutions.
10. "Miami Moonlight" (5:45) A mellow but sexy and spicy Latin groove in C Minor that is great fun to solo over.
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