Illuminating Educational Vid

[Lazz]

New to me - thought I would share a DVD recommendation:

DONALD FAGEN: CONCEPTS FOR JAZZ/ROCK PIANO (90-minutes)

Playing, writing and arranging - with Warren Bernhardt.

Reveals how basic blues roots can be transformed into more complex original compositions. You get the standard 12-Bar Blues first, and then they take it into the compositional process for Steely Dan’s "Chain Lightning", "Peg", "Josie", and Fagen’s "On the Dunes" and "Teahouse on the Tracks" from Kamakiriad. Many great and useful insights that will give new rewards each time it is viewed.

Check some of it out and see what I mean:

And you can find it for around $20.

Hope someone else finds it worthwhile.

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[Nick]

Hope someone else finds it worthwhile.

Excellent - wasn't that a Gadd2 chord?

Zander's joined my new band and we have always wanted to play some Steely Dan so it's been useful already. Highest on the list is 'Don't Take Me Alive'.

I found Karakiriad disappointing though I really wanted to like it and preferred 11 Ttacks of Whack by the other half that was about the same time I think.

[Lazz]

I found Karakiriad disappointing though I really wanted to like it and preferred 11 Ttacks of Whack

Me too.

Only four or five Kamakiriad tracks made their way onto my iPod.

Morph The Cat disappointed even more.

I really dig the perfect minimalism of Becker's 'Whack' tracks.

Just been listening to some of his new one.

I like the

so far.

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[Nick]

Just been listening to some of his new one.

I like the

so far.

I'll have to go listen. I've just watched videos of them playing FM (love that track and so beautifully produced on the original album - I could listen to the way the strings come in again and again), Reeling in The Years, Don't Take Me Alive, Bodhisattva and Deacon Blue).

Pure joy. Startlingly good musicians in those bands.

Made my evening

[Nick]

Onto Aja now...

And Do it Again next. That takes me back to University days and discos.

Edited April 20, 2010 by Nick