Here’s a musical link dump for you to surf this weekend.
Learn about the evolution of dance music from around the turn of the last century to today in this animated chart.
Bassist Michael Thurber takes us through the history of the bass with 45 songs and 9 different instruments in the below video.
On January 24, 2011 James Boldin started an etude recording project where he video recorded himself performing etudes from Kopprasch’s Sixty Selected Studies Op. 6. Start here with No. 1. You can read his final thoughts after completing this three year project . A great resource for horn students and teachers.
Tim Minchin sings about the key of F sharp.
1959 was a significant year for jazz. There were four seminal albums recorded that year, Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um, Dave Brubeck’s Time Out and Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz To Come. Learn more about these albums and the context of the history of jazz and the civil rights movement in 1959 The Year That Changed Jazz.
Thanks for the link Dave! Hope you are well.
-James
Thanks for posting all those Kopprasch etudes. A fantastic resource for horn players.