'Blue In Green' - jazz piano tutorial

I recently revisited some of the videos uploaded by my youtube friend Roger (Lot2learn). I had forgotten that he had done an excellent version of 'Blue in Green' - that classic from the best selling jazz album of all time - Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue'.
Despite Miles' name being given as composer on most fake book leadsheets, most seem to think that it was written by Bill Evans.
Roger based his version http://www.youtube.com/user/Lot2learn#p/u/28/jMKjpEsgTxM
on one by Eliane Elias from her album ;Something For You', which I am also familiar with.
Roger added some very helpful annotations to his version, and I hope that this may add some additional ideas.
The backing track is on my website
(http://www.bushgrafts.com/jazz/Movies/BlueInGreen7.MP3) and the printable transcription on my DVD.

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• In
• Green
• jazz
• piano
• tutorial
• improvised
• Doug
• McKenzie
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• Evans
• Miles
• Davis

[mynameaborat993]

Had never thought of using the diminished scale. You are a genius!

Thanks so much.

[susanaqnunes]

You and Roger are the Best.

[samdew]

You are awesome - thank you for sharing your style with us - I don't exactly know what all this notation stuff means - I only know a few simple chords - most of the music is in my head. I feel/ hear it and try to bring it out right, but I wish I knew a bit more about notations :)

[karimzadehmusic]

Dear Master Mc kenzie... thanks a lot for this lessons... I hope that I will make my problems of jazz Piano about harmony and technic(with you lessons)... you are the wonderful jazzman. I am blest that I find your videos .......I am of Iran Tebriz city....

[PianistaItaliano]

Great play on great tune Doug

[sclogse1]

@balow7

Depending on the player, you can sight read this material after about 3 years of steady playing. Don't worry..a lot of us still have to look twice to figure out the high notes...one of the benefits of playing tough material, is that you tend to memorize it by the time you really play it well, as opposed to easy stuff. I'm not kidding...it just happens. Well it's not that dense compared to say Doug's work on Horace Silver's Strollin, also on youtube.

[MichaelKingsfordGray]

@balow7

Practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, and then some more practise.

[pickinstone]

@balow7 just keep playing and forget about a time-line. I hope to get more of this beautiful language under my finger tips, but until then I will just enjoy listening to my instrument and absorbing as much as I can. Keep on playing and play like it's life or death.

[hkk22fan]

Like the part from 0:08 onwards - it's like düdüdüdüdüpdüp - so fine!

[Lot2learn]

Wow Doug - so much great playing on this!! Your block chording really sets the tone intermingled with your wonderful and logical single note lines. The chording at 2:22 and 2:28 - great! Thanks so much for posting some more great material to listen to and study!

- Roger