by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Pat Martino
What Pat Martino Taught Me! Last week I was very saddened to hear that one of the of jazz guitar passed away. I’m referring to Pat Martino (1944-2021) who will not only be remembered as a major influence guitarists worldwide, but also as a wonderful human being to...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
18 Bebop Licks by Grant Green If you watched and enjoyed my 18 Bebop Licks videos by both Charlie Parker and Wes Montgomery, you’ll love this one. And although Grant Green shouldn’t need an introduction, let me just say that he was one of the most recorded jazz...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Develop Your Own Bebop Vocabulary Do you ever feel like you’re playing the same old ideas over and over again every time you take a solo? If you answered yes, you’re not alone! As a matter of fact, when I graduated from Berklee College of Music in the early 80’s, I...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Jazz & The Zen of Playing Wrong Notes Have you ever transcribed or simply tried to analyze a solo by one of your favorite players and found that in more than one measure, there were notes that absolutely did not relate to the prescribed chord? Strangely enough,...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Wes Montgomery
18 Bebop Licks by Wes Montgomery A few weeks ago I posted a lesson titled “18 Bebop licks by Charlie Parker”. Here is a video doing the same, only that with some Wes Montgomery transcriptions! In the Charlie Parker video I analyzed the makeup of 18 licks and showed...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
18 Bebop Licks by Charlie Parker If you want to grow your bebop vocabulary, you need to resort to its most respected source…Charlie Parker! And that is exactly what I did for this lesson. I carefully analyzed various Charlie Parker heads and extracted 18 licks which I...
