Hello, i play the tenor saxophone and recently I feel like Ive hit a block in improvement. I need to get honor band recordings done this week and I have my school winter concert soon and although I can play the “correct” tones/scales over changes it just doesn’t sound good (ive tried using rhythmic ideas but it only goes so far if idk how to connect my ideas smoothly).

I feel like I’m lacking in jazz vocabulary as well- is the only way I can improve that transcribing tunes? Also the things I transcribe dont always follow the same chord changes as the songs that Im playing so idk how to apply it (i can do ii V I s and stuff but im struggling to find tunes that has stuff that I can play over more specific chord changes).

Even though I practice chromatic passing tones my brain just freezes up when I try to apply them while soloing and I just end up not incorporating them or doing it wrong.

so overall i just feel like im diatonically noodling with clunky ideas and nothing that sounds really cohesive or pleasing to hear. Does anybody know how to overcome this?

Hi, I don't know much about jazz nor have I ever listened to much of it so please bear with me. I was wondering if I could get any suggestions on what kind of jazz I would like based on a few specific jazz pieces that I love. The pieces in question are variants of Sanji's theme from the One Piece soundtrack:

• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0qJUQi2BY&pp=ygULU2FuamkgdGhlbWU%3D
• (From 0:00 to 1:13) https://youtu.be/UBeElNGOydo?feature=shared
• (I don't know exactly how much jazz there is in this one, it's definitely on the funkier side, but I thought it would still be appropriate to mention) https://youtu.be/1lIq1pircqk?feature=shared

I love the elegant, cool, slick, badass vibe they give off. And, by the way, I would appreciate it if I could get genuine responses that aren't simply "that crap isn't real jazz" haha. Does anyone know of a specific style of jazz or any pieces in particular out there that sound like this? Thanks in advance.

Any feedback or advices like how can I continue it or change would be nice.

Does anyone have any recommendations for 2 contrasting jazz standards with a head and 2 choruses of improv that are relatively easy to play?

Hi guys. My friend decided to start making some jazz music. His first song is very basic ill be honest but I wonder what people will think about it and any advice I can give him.

Listen to Orange by Freddie Parker on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/9eDWV

Apologies if this is the wrong sub. If it is, maybe someone can direct me to a more appropriate one. I'm struggling to work out the exact structure and harmony of the 7 chords played at the intro and turnarounds of this song. Can anybody help? I think they might be easier to define as polychords. https://youtu.be/kXPU4cnYM9E?feature=shared

Hi all,

I am a classically trained pianist, though out of practice right now. I have been trying to learn jazz. Besides finger training and learning the 251 progression in every key, listening to jazz, and watching videos on applications of theory in jazz, I have been trying to learn standards. My goal right now is to learn 2 standards and then go up to four and so on.

I have a few questions about that. Should I separately learn both how to comp and how to play the melody with chords?

Do you guys recommend any exercises I can practice? I found a collection of 251 exercises I am starting to read through.

Are there common chord progressions that are must knows?

Do you have any advice or recommendations in general?

I'm putting together a Louis Armstrong tribute show, and I'd like to find transcriptions of some of classic recordings with the trumpet solos and clarinet counterpoint. Any sources out there? Here are the tunes I'm thinking of

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Hello this is my first ever post and here is my Situation. I am not a native jazz bass trombone player I am a native tuba player, but I have been playing for about a whole year in a couple months and have a range frome a Gb2 to Eb4(which I think is an ok range for a going on 2 year of playing). However there is this kid L(fake name for private reasons, yall understand) who is a native trombone player and was valuntold ( Volunteer+ told) to play bass bone in our top band and Orchestra, ON HIS FLIPPING TENOR HORN. And he wasn't even in the orchestra but in top band on EUPHONIUM. Plus he is only one year above me ( I sophomore, he a junior). But back to my main Complaint, I went in this morning to see who make which jazz band our top or secondary. I look and see his name on top jazz on trombone 4(which is bass bone for the none trombone players) and me in the secondary. I was so depressed and sad to read that and then came the saltiness BECAUSE HE DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP TODAY. But I want to get pass my anger and not feel like a jerk and be salty. Even though I have ask people who sit next to him and have play with me and they say I should be in top jazz, but my band Director did say this my change as the year goes on, so I hope I can be put up there. But I would like some help to get over my saltiness and move on.

I am trying to improve my ears in jazz. But a lot of what I listen to/enjoy is really fast. And I’ll be honest, I can’t really hear most of it. I can slow it down then sing each pitch. But is this cheating?

I get the importance of slow and lyrical. But when I play this way at a jam, and a really good player plays next and he’s really got the fast stuff together, I just sound like a middle schooler next to him.

People say you should be able to sing everything. Well how do you sing blistering Charlie Parker lines? Are you just “sort of” singing it pitch-wise and trying to be accurate rhythm-wise? Or are you just slowing it down and then singing it slowly? Even then, if you’re singing it slowly then should you even play it fast till you can sing it that fast too?

TL:DR - I don’t understand how to sing/hear fast things but I want to know how so I can start to play it.

Hi, Im a classical pianist. I'm wanting to learn to improv well and I've been trying for awhile now. Any tips on how to approach this/how to practice this. Everytime I try, I get psyched out. When I practice, I can't tell if I'm getting better which is demotivating lol. I'm also not sure how long to practice. help

What do jazz musicians practice and what do teachers teach you?

Hi! Wondering what others have found useful in learning to hear music that has an irregular meter, such as 5/8, 7/8, etc.

Not having that consistently spaced pulse makes it so challenging for me to get to a level of "feeling it" and like I can freely improvise over a tune without losing my sense of the bar.

Any thoughts on how to get better at making these odd meters feel more second nature? Things I've dug into so far:

-possible note groupings of 2's and 3's

-getting comfortable with each eighth note position in the bar

-superimposing other note groupings like 3's over the odd meter to hear how they interact

One thing I would love to be able to do is sing melodies/vamps while doing the above exercises, but I don't know that many tunes with consistent odd meter (just in 5/8, or just in 11/8 vs tunes that constantly change). I know big puzzle piece is getting this stuff "in one's ear," so I'd also really appreciate any tune recommendations. Thanks all!

Can anyone recommend the best Non-Latin jazz albums by Dizzy Gillespie? Especially looking for audio recording better later than early times. Also I remember hearing an upbeat that included two-part counterpoint with the sax in the head i think. No riff tunes thx. Standards are great. Thx

Pepper Adams too. Album titles or/indivual track is great too.

Art Farmer or Chet Baler great but NO SINGING by Chet please!---lol)

Hello,

I'm a little new to jazz. I've been a classical saxophonist for the longest time, but I always wanted to be killing at jazz saxophone since it looks so cool. I'm struggling with this one song where there is a vamp between G7sus and A7sus, and I want to know what sales/melodic concepts work well over this. I've tried doing major pentatonic over both of these (C major Pentatonic and D major pentatonic), but it just doesn't sound right. Any/all ideas would be great!

Any advice for (guitar) voicing variations over the A section? (F6 Gb7)

Does anybody know of some good videos/other resources for a beginner learning how to improv? I play alto sax if that makes any difference

Just gotten into jazz music really been feeling Bozza Nova Jazz. Wondering what anyone else might recommend, and I have been wanting to play a instrument either Trumpet, Piano (really just those two). Any advise into how to get started on wanting to learn a new instrument??

I want to get out and play more at my Local Jazz Lounge as the owner said that he wants to see me around more but it's pretty hard to get a group together. I'm a Trumpet player and ive been playing Jazz since 2020 and didnt really dive deep into it until my Senior Year of H.S. (last year).

Should I go play at the Local Jazz Lounge by myself? Do I need to bring anything besides my horns and mutes? My Trumpet professor (who is a huge Jazz guy) mentioned using a speaker with a backing track, but I don't know the etiquette for that. The gigs at the lounge are 3 hour sets. If you play then you play for the whole night, which In a quartet/quintet I love because theres a lot more room to interact with one another but I'm hesitant as a solo horn player that doesn't have the most gigging experience in the world.

Anyone have any advice on how I should approach this?