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There is a nice chill in the air ,enjoyable and a
welcome.
Everyone has dreams. Whether they are big or small, they have vast
importance in our lives. However, the procrastinator in all of us
doesn't have to win. The Little Engine That Could was on to something
with the whole "I think I can" mentality. With just a little bit of
planning, accomplishing a goal is a simple task.
Start working toward your goals today. Ask yourself, "What can I do
today to get one step ahead, however small, closer to achieving my
goals?" Stay focused and believe in yourself even if others do not
believe in you.Define and describe your goal. Write down when you want
to achieve it. Write down the reasons why you want it. Write down what
it would feel like after you have achieved it and write down your
accomplished goals Figure out exactly what it will take to get it. Be
realistic about the time things will take. Many people don't allow
themselves enough time, and give up too soon.Once you've broken down
your goal into pieces, write down the steps on a piece of paper to make
sure you have everything thought out. One of the worst things that can
happen is you're almost to the point of your goal, but you're not sure
what to do next. Also, give yourself deadlines for each step. Otherwise,
you'll end up procrastinating and never achieving your dream.
Visualize. Close your eyes and imagine yourself accomplishing your
goals. Where are you? How did you get there? How do you feel? Do this
often. Don’t get swayed easily with the noise and happenings going on
outside. Put your attention on what you are trying to achieve. Remember
the goal, and you will have control over the discomforts and
difficulties.. Now that you have the momentum going, don't let it stop!
Some steps may seem less exciting than others seem, but make sure to
stick to your plan until the end!
If this is one of the first jazz albums you listen to, you will be
thoroughly impressed with its virtuoso,it is a exceptional jazz
album.This is one of the truly great albums, an album that epitomizes
the great preoccupations of jazz--the breaking down and building back
up,the old and new schools. It is also more evidence of the Duke's
continued reign as undisputed champ of music in America; he was willing
to do anything, go anywhere. And so he followed Mingus and Max Roach
into their world,a record that is hard-driving and forceful and
beautiful. It's not surprising that Mingus, in the presence of
Ellington, plays as well as he ever has. No matter how far Mingus
reached, no matter how experimental he got, he came from Duke, and worshiped Duke.
And Duke? What can one say... In addition to being a wonderful soul, he
was a very smart man.He didn't sign up with Mingus and Roach to dip his
toes cautiously and quickly into some new horizons.For me one of the
biggest reasons I love this recording all these years is when you play
this record it takes you away, where I don't know,the outer nebula and
beyond even that. Duke's piano doesn't let up. Nobody plays bass like
Charlie Mingus and he's never played better than with these guys on this
record. Max Roach is the quintessential bebop drummer, his tempo is his
own and Duke and Charlie sound so fresh decades later.
These men are jazz, without them it wouldn't be.If you don't own this
record-
you need to.To pick one song here and call it my favorite would be
impossible. These men, these players in this thing we call jazz, may
have departed this mortal coil, but they play on. This music speaks
louder than anything. It will forever because...it was played and
recorded by people who loved and respected the art form.
Lost words - ART FORM. Think about that!
Here below is info for the practice room- and your playing. Check it out- I hope it helps some of you. Till next week- Happy spring?? hahaha- Hey I live on the East Coast...LOL-hahaha.
Stay on your dreams- Tim Price D'Addario Blogger. . .
And- Let me add this ;
SKYPE SAXOPHONE LESSONS WITH TIM PRICE
Personalized Lessons in your home.
Using Skype.
Learn on line from recording artist, author and jazz educator.
( New School Jazz Dept. and Long Island University, and Selmer & Rico
clinician)
I will listen to you play, make suggestions & offer practice
regimens. My online lessons will focus your practicing for maximum
progress towards creating immediate results. My approach is simple.
It combines discipline, creativity & with musical knowledge. Your
playing is examined in real time, on line, Then you are
assisted to reach a new goal right there !
Take advantage of Tim Price's 35 plus years of teaching, performing,
recording & writing experience. Step by step online videos to help
you improve your playing at a logical pace. On screen spoken help
explaining how to reach your next level.
All levels are welcome.
SEE YOU SOON~ Tim Price . . . .
It beats the four walls baby! That's an expression that the late great
Lester Parker used to use. The more you get out and play, the more
aptitude, ideas and energy you have. Today more than ever-to get
something happening with other people face-to-face is of paramount
importance to your playing.
Tuesday night I played a excellent
gig with pianist David Newman. I always tell David set up two sets
worth of music. I look at the sets and it's the best way to refresh
yourself on tunes that you might not of played, and also learn new ones
if that may be the case. Best way to learn a new tune ? Get out of the
house and find out what you don't know! Even get together with a
guitar player and a piano player- you're doing it. I hope this is
making sense, because it is something we are sorely missing in today's
atmosphere in jazz. I look to jam sessions back in the day, when tunes
were called and standards were the call the day. Everybody was on a
common ground-the Facebook world hadn't started to flood the world with bedroom videos
yet. A fair drummer who played jam sessions all the time, could
easily turn himself into a very good drummer in a group circumstance by
playing with other people. Same holds for any instrument.
I want
to say, this is vitally important as well. Once you find the mouthpiece
you really love, sure get a back up. And it's always an asset to have
something that lays in a different area sonic-ally for gigs that you
have
to do a different blend on-if you're that kind of player. E.g. Broadway
shows a rock gigs etc. Don't be foolish-spend your money on studying
records and CDs and reading autobiographies about the great players in
jazz. That will improve your playing in an incredible manner. Check it
out and watch what happens. Today's blog- Is dedicated to Lester Parker.
His picture is below-King Super 20 - Metal Berg Larsen mouthpiece 120
over Zero and...RICO BROWN BOX 5 reeds. The set up of a warrior. Lester
was always up for a session- his expression " ban the books" referring
to guys who opened a fake book for a blues head or " Body and Soul"
would be echoing on the stand.
Imagine what you could accomplish if you could simply get yourself to follow through on your best intentions no matter what.
The
pinnacle of self-discipline is when you reach the point that when you
make a conscious decision, it’s virtually guaranteed you’ll follow
through on it.Be it practicing your instrument, sticking with a
mouthpiece and putting the time in to learn to play it or just daily
goals and jobs.
Your discipline is one of many personal development tools available to
you. Of course it is not a panacea. Nevertheless, the problems which
self-discipline can solve are important, and while there are other ways
to solve these problems, self-discipline absolutely shreds them.
Self-discipline can empower you- imagine the results, if you say to
yourself ... I want to learn all my scales in 3eds...in every key at 120
on my metronome. Not have to...but want. That can be done sooner
than you think with discipline. So can application to study-reading a
new book to open new ideas on things. It can wipe out procrastination,
disorder, and ignorance. Within the domain of problems it can solve,
self-discipline is simply unmatched. Moreover, it becomes a powerful
teammate when combined with other tools like passion, goal-setting, and
planning.
Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger
you become. The less you train it, the weaker you become.
Think of the results- just for you.Confidence
before an audition! Confidence when picking up your horn to play in a
new setting- your primed and ready. Relaxed and confident! We all
possess different levels of self-discipline. Everyone has some — if you
can hold your breath a few seconds, you have some self-discipline. But
not everyone has developed their discipline to the same degree. Check it
out- it takes self-discipline to build self-discipline. Similarly, the
basic method to build self-discipline is to tackle challenges that you
can successfully accomplish but which are near your limit.
This doesn’t mean trying something and failing at it every day, you
must start with challenges that are within your current ability.
Old opportunities will dry up. New opportunities will begin to
appear.Your mind set does change- and so does your ability on whatever
you are working on with discipline. Invitations that once attracted you
will seem boring, while others will become interesting to you.People
will change how they relate to you. Some will become more distant while
others will zoom closer.Gigs will appear, you'll enjoy things more.
Things you used to merely dream about will begin to seem possible for
you. Celebrate your success!
~ Till next week...practice your long tones everyday- Tim Price
It beats the four walls baby! That's an expression that the late great
Lester Parker used to use. The more you get out and play, the more
aptitude ideas and energy you have. Today more than ever-to get
something happening with other people face-to-face is of paramount
importance to your playing.
Tuesday night I played a excellent
gig with pianist David Newman. I always tell David set up two sets
worth of music. I look at the sets and it's the best way to refresh
yourself on tunes that you might not of played, and also learn new ones
if that may be the case. Best way to learn a new tune ? Get out of the
house and find out what you don't know! Even get together with a
guitar player and a piano player- you're doing it. I hope this is
making sense, because it is something we are sorely missing in today's
atmosphere in jazz. I look to jam sessions back in the day, when tunes
were called and standards were the call the day. Everybody was on a
common ground-the Facebook world hadn't been flooded with bedroom videos
yet. A fair drummer who played jam sessions all the time, could
easily turn himself into a very good drummer in a group circumstance by
playing with other people. Same holds for any instrument.
I want
to say, this is vitally important as well. Once you find the mouthpiece
you really love, sure get a back up. And it's always an asset to have
something that lays in a different area sonic-ally for gigs that you
have
to do a different blend on-if you're that kind of player. E.g. Broadway
shows a rock gigs etc. Don't be foolish-spend your money on studying
records and CDs and reading autobiographies about the great players in
jazz. That will improve your playing in an incredible manner. Check it
out and watch what happens. Today's blog- Is dedicated to Lester Parker.
His picture is below-King Super 20 - Metal Berg Larsen mouthpiece 120
over Zero and...RICO BROWN BOX 5 reeds. The set up of a warrior. Lester
was always up for a session- his expression " ban the books" referring
to guys who opened a fake book for a blues head or " Body and Soul"
would be echoing on the stand.
Imagine what you could accomplish if you could simply get yourself to follow through on your best intentions no matter what.
The
pinnacle of self-discipline is when you reach the point that when you
make a conscious decision, it’s virtually guaranteed you’ll follow
through on it.Be it practicing your instrument, sticking with a
mouthpiece and putting the time in to learn to play it or just daily
goals and jobs.
Your discipline is one of many personal development tools available to
you. Of course it is not a panacea. Nevertheless, the problems which
self-discipline can solve are important, and while there are other ways
to solve these problems, self-discipline absolutely shreds them.
Self-discipline can empower you- imagine the results, if you say to
yourself ... I want to learn all my scales in 3eds...in every key at 120
on my metronome. Not have to...but want. That can be done sooner
than you think with discipline. So can application to study-reading a
new book to open new ideas on things. It can wipe out procrastination,
disorder, and ignorance. Within the domain of problems it can solve,
self-discipline is simply unmatched. Moreover, it becomes a powerful
teammate when combined with other tools like passion, goal-setting, and
planning.
Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger
you become. The less you train it, the weaker you become.
Think of the results- just for you.Confidence
before an audition! Confidence when picking up your horn to play in a
new setting- your primed and ready. Relaxed and confident! We all
possess different levels of self-discipline. Everyone has some — if you
can hold your breath a few seconds, you have some self-discipline. But
not everyone has developed their discipline to the same degree. Check it
out- it takes self-discipline to build self-discipline. Similarly, the
basic method to build self-discipline is to tackle challenges that you
can successfully accomplish but which are near your limit.
This doesn’t mean trying something and failing at it every day, you
must start with challenges that are within your current ability.
Old opportunities will dry up. New opportunities will begin to
appear.Your mind set does change- and so does your ability on whatever
you are working on with discipline. Invitations that once attracted you
will seem boring, while others will become interesting to you.People
will change how they relate to you. Some will become more distant while
others will zoom closer.Gigs will appear, you'll enjoy things more.
Things you used to merely dream about will begin to seem possible for
you. Celebrate your success!
~ Till next week...practice your long tones everyday- Tim Price
In speaking to many people about jazz, as time goes on I realize how
damn lucky I was even as a high school student to be around the caliber
of musicians I heard in small bars. And one of my past blogs I referred
to a local jazz club here in Reading Pennsylvania-that was run by a pimp
called "Macs Place". I was still in high school when I went in there-as
the cats got to know me I was asked to come up and play a tune. Trust
me, I would've never had the guts to be asking cats like that to sit
in at that age.I had heard the big bands as they came through this area, Basie, Duke, Hamp,Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman. Hearing guys like Lockjaw Davis, Sal Nistico and Paul Gonsalvez in high school set my mind straight as to _WHAT_a tenor player sounded like. My mom took me to Lambertville NJ as well to hear guys like Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck and MJQ there in their summer concerts at Lamberville Music Tent.
I was telling a student that recently things to listen to-like Don
Patterson's record with Booker Ervin called " The Hip Cakewalk". I was
telling him about an alto saxophone player on that recording named
Leonard Houston. I did not know about the recording, Leonard had played
here in Reading Pennsylvania in the late 60s with another Philadelphia
organ player I can't remember. There's a good chance it might've been
organist Billy Gardner, when I actually spoke to him he told me about
the recordings he was on with one of my main inspirations George Braith.
But Leonard told me about the recording he had done with Don Patterson
which I immediately went out and found.
That's the way you find things out! There was no Google then Ha ha ha.
Sometimes those clubs were walking distance from my house so I would
just walk in and try to catch a matinee or an early set. I made sure I had a coat and
tie on like everybody else in the club. Once the bartender and staff got to know
me-and I knew I was there for the music everything was cool. I just had to stay low key and not drink or create any attention. I heard
people like Paul Weeden on guitar, Billy Bean on guitar Danny Turner on
alto sax and a host of others I mentioned on my blog before a few years
ago. If you Google those names, they will come up. Check them out.
Remember this is the late 1960's, I graduated from Reading High School in 1969- Then went to Berklee School Of Music in Boston. Which changed to Berklee College Of Music in my freshman year.
When I think about it none of those bands were even advertised, but the
places were always full and people were spending money. Most of the time
there was no cover charge whatsoever. I was always allowed to sit near
the wall and just listen. More often than not, education I got
from hearing people like that was amazing. I've search the recordings
out and check these guys out on vinyl. Still to this day hearing
somebody as a kid like Shirley Scott or trombone player Al Grey were
life changers.
Aside from all that,and my students question about the " Hip
Cakewalk", I noticed one of the pimps from that generation had passed
away this week. Out of respect for him-I dropped by his services. He was
the last one I think. He had a small bar near the Parish Steel buildings that was a shot and beer spot for the steel workers after work. I mentioned guys with names like chewing gum
Jimmy, another pimp they used to call Wat!! Short of course for
Watusi. Along with chewing gum Jimmy, and guys like Honey Boy. Most of
these guys ended up in Reading and were never born here. From what I
said in blogs, you can see that they were a jazz fans, but they saw
where a young guy was like me, checking out the music, and they were
super cool. If I would've never told my mom or aunt about characters
like that, I might've been grounded for life as a teenager ha! God bless them, they were real.
My
point is-anything I put in one of these blogs like a CD cover or
mention a musicians name, please go check them out. There's a good
chance this might be one of the only spots you hear their names.
Sometimes information comes from more than one source - it pays to go
out here live music and I won't be telling you this if I didn't over 50
years ago. Most of that music has held the test of time, and I'll leave
you with this, you find a better record and record than " Hip Cakewalk"
with Don Patterson, Booker Ervin, Leonard Houston and Billy James. I'll
leave you with that! This weeks blog is dedicated to the late great
Horace Parlan. Another musician that spent his life in Europe and was
originally from Pittsburgh. Check out the CD that I have listed below
here with the Turrentine brothers. If that don't knock you out you need
to see a doctor. Tell next week, check out some of this music. OK- The picture above this is probably 1977- of yours truly playing a local bar here in Reading, Pa, probably " Birds Place". A bar on a side street downtown- when I was off and home from road gigs. As with any city, there was jazz here and REAL JAZZ. If you get my drift then you know. For sax peeps- That's my old Couf Tenor saxophone, a Lawton 9starbb mouthpiece and....Rico brown box #5 tenor saxophone reeds. See you next week- Check out Booker Ervin & my man Don Patterson. ~ Tim Price
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