These sessions had music students accompanying on piano, drums and bass. The notes are short, rather telegramic in style, and maybe of most interest to those who attended the jazz classes.

• (A.V to player) This was nice!
• (A.V. to the rest of us) What was the form?
• Standard tunes has standard number of bars - this one 32 bars (A A - no bridge)
• You play by feel - but not by counting
• Listen to Max Roach - he changed drumming
• A.V. join in and they play the tune again each taking a chorus.
• A.V. admits he has no absolute pitch: has to check the chords in the music.
• "Talk to us" says A.V. to the young player (kind of an interview):
• "How long have you played?" - 8 to 9 years. Now studying jazz at NMH.
• "How do you learn a tune?" - First the tune, play along with CD, I play myself into the music, practicing the chords, then a scale on the chords.
• What is jazz? - a feeling, music mixed from blues with a swing, has to be improvised, commercial music is not jazz

• play the chords
• try to start on the 7'th and go down.
• A.V. and player play's the chords.

Improvisation can be:

1. jazz
2. free music - some of it even sound better than a lot of the contemporary pieces.

• can also use scales to get a more melodic feel
• imitate patterns or pitch
• don't like patterns book. The solo tend to sound like patterns
• learn from othr folk's solos. Write them down (transcription)

• leave space (for endurance) - but also composing
• stay away form strong beat
• play ending on nine's (sometimes tonic)

• a modal tune
• two dorian scale
• form 16:8:8
• What are you trying to do?
• A.V. comment on the player playing to soft:
• The record "Kind of Blue" is a bit misleading (dynamic)
• Miles producer, Tale Mazur knew the sound Miles liked from his recordings.
• Miles played strong
• Not many E's in the E-dorian (on trp) mode.
• The dorian note (6^th) - use it
• Melodic & rhythmic - fragment - basic
• A.V had the pianist take a rhythmic pattern and use it for the whole chorus
• A.V plays "duet" with piano
• The more you relax the better you'll play
• The player does it once more (stronger)
• A.V "a nice flow"

• I like the way you play it
• Clifford could play smooth but with accent
• "ghosted notes"
• II-V-I progression
• Using and believing your ears
• "laid back" in soloist is important in this type of music
• lay back and catch up

• get right equipment - make right sound
• Callichio trumpet for someone
• Style of mouthpiece dictates color
• A. V. uses several mpc's (dark, bright)
• Concept of sound

"Beautiful Love" (trombone player)

• Great!
• Let us just play (A.V. has nothing to say)

"Blue Bossa"

• A.V. play fl.horn with trombone player
• Just a great playing session!