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Blue-Jay

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Thu Apr-01-04 08:19 PM
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6. Trane, Bird, and Paul Desmond. The holy trinity.

Don't laugh about Desmond. Sure, he was a geeky white guy, but he was much more than a good improviser. He was one of those few guys who was a "composer" on stage. I've had to analyze his improvised solos, and that guy was a friggin genius at laying down a motif and building on it. His sense of "composition' was second to none. Every solo (albeit understated) was the jazz equivalent of a sonata. He was almost baroque in his returns to his original musical statements.

Listen to his solo on Brubeck's version of "Take The A-Train". It's perfect and beautiful. I had to transcribe it, and offer up a theoretical analysis for an assignment.

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