Woody Shaw_Tension & Release

This is a two bar break (three bars all together) from Green Street Caper off of the album called United which was re-released on a Mosaic box set. I am discussing how Woody Shaw plays over chord changes and his use of tension and release.

Here's a youtube link to the track. Break is at 1:05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K1bXpCPU2U

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• woody shaw
• trumpet
• jazz
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• learn trumpet
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• lee morgan

[arcjazzsax]

Good stuff! I would analyze the last 5 notes of the first bar as A Major pentatonic (5 2 3 1 5), the next 3 notes as Gb Major scale OR pentatonic (1 2 3), and then Bb Major pentatonic throughout the whole rest of it. So you could almost say the chord progression he is actually PLAYING is EbM AM/GbM Bb7/EbM.

I hope that is of some help! Keep putting these up!

[kcandfen]

Yes. I like it. Thanks for pointing that out!

[burger1113]

mm gotta love material like this! Your horn sounds pretty nice on this vid, tho. is that a soloist? gah even if it was, I dunno if I can find a decent one, huh.

[kcandfen]

Hey thanks for checking it out. Ya, I am playing a Selmer C* Soloist. It is brand new. My vintage one was stolen a while back. (sadly) However the new one plays just great.

[burger1113]

@kcandfen I know It's been a while since the last comment, but could you tell me the reed you use for the Soloist? I'm trying to apply to a university jazz studies program, and I would love to have a bit of that sound for when I play standards...

[kcandfen]

@burger1113 I use a Lavoz med/hard with the soloist. Let me know if I can help you further. Cheers

[SkiCoach1]

BTW - Very nice vid. Please post more like this! It motivates me to want to put some of the tunes I've analyzed up!

[SkiCoach1]

@arcjazzsax In the first bar I think that he's doing a basic tri-tone substitution with A7 tonality substituting for the Eb Maj 7 tonality. The substitution starts on that E Natural on the third eighth note in Bar 1. Consecutively the notes are E, B, C#, A, E. That's an inverted A9 chord. Eb and A both share a common b7 and major 3rd: G and Db(C#).

[SkiCoach1]

@arcjazzsax It really helps if you don't just look at them as notes but the chords that are spelled out if you sound all four notes together.

[burger1113]

@kcandfen Thank you! I am currently playing a beechler custom metal 6 with a java 3, and I like the sound, but I just can't stop thinking it doesn't fit the standard jazz genre. Hope you have a great new year! (oh, and it'd be great to see some of your work. any media? vids? cd's?)