How to Play Progressive Jazz on the Trombone

Video Transcript

"Dennis Garrels with Expert Village. After the swing band era the World War II was ending up and in New York City there was a ferment, an excitement, a brand new world, work for everyone. There was Jackson Pollock on the painting, and in music there was Charlie Parker coming on the scene. Hard bop. Symphony Sid asked him one late night at the Jazz Opera House, "What about this jazz, Charlie?" and he said, "Music is music man. As long as it's good it's music." Charlie wrote a lot of tunes. The apple, The Big Apple is New York City so Scrapple from the Apple is one of them that I like very much. I think that refers that refers to like peeling an apple, peeling the Big Apple. And Move, someone said Red Narvo wrote this tune Move, I thought that Dizzy had. There's lots of great tunes. Many many in the jazz book. Joy Spring Clifford Brown. Get your jazz books everybody. Start learning all those tunes, Charlie Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, all the greats."