So What: Local News, Notes & Links

Here's StLJN's latest wrap-up of assorted links and short news items of local interest:

* Singer and actor Alice Ripley's cabaret show  was previewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Calvin Wilson.  Ripley performs here tonight and Saturday night for the Gaslight Cabaret Festival.

* Electronic musician and composer John Wiese will present a free, public composition workshop at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 8 in Room 4 of Tietjens Hall on the Washington University campus. Wiese (pictured) will be in St. Louis for a concert presented by New Music Circle on Saturday, November 11 at St. Louis University's Xavier Hall theater.

* The 2018 St. Louis International Film Festival, which will take place November 2-12 at various venues around town, includes a number of films with musical subjects, notably the local premiere of Mr. Handy's Blues, a documentary about "St. Louis Blues" composer W.C. Handy.

The festival's screening of the Handy bio at The Stage at KDHX will be paired with a live performance by singer Valerie "Miss Jubilee" Kirchoff, cornetist TJ Muller, and pianist Ethan Leinwand. You can see the entire festival schedule here.

* Drummer Dave Weckl and bassist Tom Kennedy are headed for Europe next month, touring with guitarist Mike Stern and saxophonist Bob Malach as the Mike Stern/Dave Weckl Band. The group will play dates in Germany, Austria, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, The Netherlands, Switzerland, England, Slovakia and Poland, and then return to the USA for a half-dozen shows in December on the West Coast.

* Pianist Peter Martin's music education video company Open Studio Network was featured in an article on AVClub.com.

* Saxophonist and St. Louis native Greg Osby was interviewed on Philadelphia radio station WRTI's program "The Bridge"

Music Education Monday: Guitar lessons from Pat Martino

If you had a chance to hear guitarist Pat Martino when he performed in St. Louis a couple of weeks ago, you may have wondered how he does what he does.

Today for Music Education Monday, you may get at least a partial answer to that question, as you can see Martino (pictured) explaining some of his concepts and musical ideas via a series of video lessons.

Excerpted from an "interactive video master class" called The Nature of Guitar, the lessons total more than 70 minutes of material spread across 11 individual videos.

The first clip, "A Compositional Journey," is the longest of the set at nearly 25 minutes, followed by segments titled "The Utensil & The Experience," "Seven Primaries: Triangle," "Chromatic Scale: Octavistics," and "'Stairways' & Chromaticism."

Next up is "Parental Forms Revealed," followed by "G7 Improv: Minor Form," "Diminished Parental Form: Dom7," an overview and breakdown of Martino's original "Welcome to a Prayer," and a performance of an improvised blues.

All 11 clips have been compiled into a YouTube playlist, which you can see in the embedded window below.

Music Education Monday: Six-month index, November 2015 - May 2016

It's now been a year and a half since StLJN's "Music Education Monday" feature began, spotlighting free music education resources available online.

To help keep the information easily accessible to as many people as possible, here's an index of posts from the last six months. (You can see indices of the first year's worth of posts here and here.)

The series will continue with a new entry next week. In the meantime, here's a chance to catch up with previous posts you may have missed:

* Developing a theme into a big band arrangement
* A master class with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill
* An online course in improvisation from MIT, and more
* A master class with David Liebman's Expansions
* Summer 2016 jazz camps in St. Louis
* A master class with percussionist Airto Moreira
* Expand your musical mind with Brian Eno and John Cage
* A jazz trumpet clinic with Etienne Charles
* A jazz guitar workshop with Barney Kessel
* A master class in improvisation with Gary Burton
* Feeling the funk with Paul Jackson and Mike Clark
* Jazz drumming tips from Lewis Nash
* Workshops with saxophonist Steve Coleman
* A master class with pianist Bill Charlap
* Learning jazz violin with Christian Howes, and more
* A workshop with saxophonist Dewey Redman
* A master class with composer John Corigliano
* Yale University's open online course "Listening to Music"
* "Jazz Fusion Master Class" with Zakir Hussain
* Master classes with saxophonist Chris Potter
* A Latin jazz bass clinic with Oscar Stagnaro
* A master class with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire
* Two Q&As with saxophonist Kirk Whalum
* B-3 for beginners, part 2
* Guitar lessons from John McLaughlin, and more

(All previous posts in this series also can be seen in reverse chronological order by clicking on the tag "Music Education Monday.")

Music Education Monday: A jazz trumpet clinic with Etienne Charles

Today for Music Education Monday, let's look in via video on a jazz trumpet clinic presented by  Etienne Charles.

Born in 1983 on the island of Trinidad, Charles (pictured) has a master's degree from Juilliard and a bachelor's from Florida State University, and currently serves as assistant professor of jazz studies at Michigan State University. 

As a sideman, he has performed and or recorded with Monty Alexander, Roberta Flack, Frank Foster, Ralph MacDonald, Johnny Mandel, Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Maria Schneider, Count Basie Orchestra, and many others. As a bandleader and composer, Charles' Eastern Caribbean origins figure prominently in recordings such as 2013's Creole Soul, which incorporates grooves from throughout the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and Kaiso, a 2011 release featuring jazz interpretations of popular calypso tunes. 

The video below was recorded in 2013 during the National Trumpet Competition at George Mason University in Virgina, and features Charles, a former NTC winner himself, talking about a variety of topics including practicing, developing a personal sound, and improvisation, and demonstrating with musical examples. .

Music Education Monday: A jazz guitar workshop with Barney Kessel

Today for Music Education Monday, you can get a video lesson from the legendary guitarist Barney Kessel. Some younger musicians and fans understandably might not know Kessel (pictured), who died of a brain tumor in 2004 and previously had been inactive since suffering a stroke back in 1992, but for a long stretch of the 20th century, he was one of the busiest and most respected jazz guitarists in the world.

Born in 1923 in Muskogee, OK - yes, the very same town later immortalized in song by Merle Haggard - Kessel began his career as a teenager influenced by Charlie Christian, working with local bands and later, interesting, doing a brief stint with a unit led by Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers. After landing in NYC, in the 1940s and 50s he performed and recorded with jazz greats including Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, and many more, and ultimately went on to make more than 30 albums under his own name as well.

His trio recordings with Ray Brown on bass and Shelly Manne on drums offer some good examples of Kessel's signature "chord-melody" style, which, as the name implies, involves improvising by playing chords with (usually) top notes that simultaneously express melodic ideas.

During the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Kessel also was one of the most in-demand session guitarists in America, playing thousands of recording sessions for movies and TV and with the musicians now known collectively as "The Wrecking Crew," who made hundreds of famous pop records with Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, and many others. He was well known enough during this period that Gibson made a Barney Kessel signature model from 1961 to 1973.

Later in his career, Kessel presented guitar workshops and master classes in various locations around the world, and worked in a trio format with Herb Ellis and Charlie Byrd as "The Great Guitars".

The embedded video below, recorded in the 1980s, features Kessel teaching improvisation concepts in the chord-melody style, including "how to play what you hear, fills, turnarounds, the building blocks of improvisation," and the blues.

Music Education Monday: Learning jazz violin with Christian Howes, and more

Although there have been jazz violinists ever since the music began, formal jazz education programs in schools usually are set up to cater mostly to trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm sections, leaving many aspiring string improvisors to forge their own musical paths.

Fortunately, there seem to be plenty of instructional materials available to help chart that pathway, both for purchase and for free online.

And since pointing out free music education resources available on the internet is the stated premise of Music Education Monday, today's installment spotlights a few useful videos and articles that are readily accessible to any violinist who wants to learn jazz:

* The well-known jazz violinist Christian Howes (pictured) offers lessons online and has written several books you can buy on how to play jazz violin, but he's also shared some materials for free on YouTube.

At the end of this post, you'll find embeds of five short video lessons by Howes, covering "How to play Jazz Violin"; "Blues for Jazz Violin"; "Improvisation for Beginning to Intermediate String Players"; "Arpeggios for Jazz Violin, Cello, and Viola"; and "How to use Modes on violin from Light to Dark".

* Jazz violinist Regina Carter was interviewed last year by the "string blog" ElbowMusic.com for two articles offering "some advice on exploring the genre."

* For more ideas about violin improvisation, check out the "how to" articles by Tracy Silverman of the Turtle Island String Quartet; UK violinist Chris Haigh; and violinist Martin Norgaard, an assistant professor at Georgia State University who's written ten jazz string method books for Mel Bay Publishing.

* For further reading, you can peruse "A Guide to Pedagogical Resources for Improvisation on Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass", a 101-page PDF put together by a doctoral of musical arts student that serves as a handy guide to the commercially available materials that are available for string players who want to learn jazz.

You can see the Christian Howes instructional videos after the jump...

Music Education Monday: A workshop with saxophonist Dewey Redman

Today for Music Education Monday, you can take in a workshop with saxophonist Dewey Redman, the late Texas tenor man known for his big, bluesy tone, his associations with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett, and these days, for being the father of saxophonist Joshua Redman.

The elder Redman, who died in 2006, was born in 1931 in Fort Worth and went to high school with Ornette Coleman, forming a friendship that would last a lifetime. He played in Coleman's band from 1968 to 1972, and later started the group Old And New Dreams with fellow Coleman alumni Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell, releasing four albums of music influenced by their former employer.

Redman was much more than just a Coleman disciple, though, putting out a dozen albums under his own name, and a dozen more with Jarrett, recorded during the 1970s when he was a member of the pianist's "American Quartet." He also also performed and recorded with Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Paul Motian, Pat Metheny, and numerous other jazz musicians active during the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1993, Redman went back to Texas to conduct a workshop with students at Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and fortunately, someone had the presence of mind to record the event on video. You can see that video of Redman's workshop, presented in three parts, after the jump.

And if you're curious to know more about Dewey Redman, he was the subject of an award-winning documentary film, Dewey Time: The Sound of A Giant, released in 2001. You can see that film in its entirety in the fourth video embed below...

Music Education Monday: "Jazz Fusion Master Class" with Zakir Hussain

Percussionist Zakir Hussain is known as a virtuoso of the tabla who has spent his career bridging Indian classical music and jazz, in the process helping to invent and popularize the notion of "world music."

Hussain (pictured) was a co-founder of the band Shakti with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, and in addition to leading his own groups also has performed and recorded with many other well-known musicians from diverse traditions, including Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's groups Diga Rhythm Band and Planet Drum, Dave Holland, Joshua Redman, George Harrison, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Jack Bruce, Tito Puente, Pharoah Sanders, Billy Cobham, and more.

In the embedded video below, you can see a master class recorded last March during Hussain's visit to the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, in which he and lead faculty member Myra Melford listen to and work with two of the university's jazz-fusion ensembles.

For some additional context, check out the essay "The influence of Indian music on jazz" by Marc Rossi, a professor of piano and jazz composition at Berklee College of Music who's studied both Hindustani and Carnatic Indian music. For more about Zakir Hussain, listen to the interview he did last year with NPR's "Morning Edition."

You can see the video master class after the jump...

Music Education Monday: Master classes with saxophonist Chris Potter

Whether it's as leader of his own bands or as a sideman to the likes of Dave Holland, Paul Motian, and Dave Douglas, Chris Potter (pictured) has been one of the most in-demand saxophonists in jazz for most of the 21st century.

Potter, who will be 45 years old this Friday, has released more than 15 albums as a leader and appeared on more than 150 recordings by others, winning critical acclaim for his technical mastery, harmonic imagination, and rhythmic fluidity.

He's also been the subject of intense study by many young musicians hoping to emulate his improvisational skills, and so today for Music Education Monday, StLJN presents two opportunities to glean some useful knowledge from him via video.

In the first video embed after the jump, you see a master class that Potter presented to students at this year's Jamey Aebersold's Summer Jazz Workshops. The second embed is an extended interview with Potter from 2014 conducted by NYU professor Dr. David Schroeder, in which they discuss the saxophonist's career and various technical and philosophical aspects of his playing.

For a deeper dig into Potter's playing, you also can check out a number of his transcribed solos linked from the website Saxopedia. You can see both videos after the jump...

Music Education Monday: A Latin jazz bass clinic with Oscar Stagnaro

Unless you follow Latin jazz and/or jazz education fairly closely, you might not know Oscar Stagnaro by name, but the veteran bassist has the knowledge and the chops to rank with the best in the business.

A native of Peru, Stagnaro (pictured) has been a professor at Berklee College of Music since 1988, and has written three books and numerous magazine articles about Latin jazz bass techniques and concepts. He's also been the regular bassist for saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera since 1992, and has performed and recorded with many other well-known jazz and Latin musicians.

Earlier this month, Stagnaro visited the NYC "Artist Loft" of amp maker Aguilar to present a bass clinic, in which he demonstrated a variety of Latin feels and grooves and took questions from the audience. You can see that clinic in its entirety in the embedded video below.

Music Education Monday: A master class with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire

Today for Music Education Monday, it's a master class from trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire.

A rising star in the jazz world, the 33-year-old native of Oakland, CA studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Southern California, and in 2007 was the winner of both the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition.

Akinmusire (pictured) has performed and recorded as a sideman with musicians including Vijay Iyer, Esperanza Spalding, Jason Moran, and Aaron Parks, and was featured on the last track of hip-hop performer Kendrick Lamar's critically acclaimed 2015 release To Pimp a Butterfly. He's also released three albums as a leader, the most recent of which, The Imagined Savior is Far Easier to Paint, came out in March 2014 on the Blue Note label.

The video below documents a master class that Akinmusire presented in 2012 to young musicians associated with the Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation orchestra.

For more from Akinmusire, you also may want to check out the "Before and After" feature that he did in 2012 for Jazz Times magazine, in which he listens to and comments on recording by a number of well-known trumpeters.

You can see the master class video after the jump...

Music Education Monday: Six-month index, May 2015 - November 2015

It's now been slightly more than a year since StLJN's "Music Education Monday" feature began, spotlighting free music education resources available online.

To help keep the information easily accessible to as many people as possible, here's an index of posts from the last six months. (You can see an index of the previous six months of posts here.)

The series will continue with a new entry next week. In the meantime, here's your chance to catch up with any of the previous posts you may have missed:

* A master class with Michael Brecker, and more
* A master class with Ramsey Lewis
* A rhythm section workshop with Rufus Reid
* B-3 for beginners
* A master class with Tony Williams
* Pat Metheny and John Scofield on improvisation
* Paquito D'Rivera on composing and playing clarinet, and more
* Master classes with Wynton Marsalis
* A master class with trombonist Bill Watrous
* Saxophone workshops with Dave Liebman and Bill Evans
* Exploring world music
* New Orleans piano with Jon Cleary and Tom McDermott
* Drum clinics with Greg Hutchinson and Ralph Humphrey
* Master classes with saxophonist Ernie Watts
* Standard tunes every jazz musician should know
* A master class with Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer
* Songwriting with Jason Robert Brown
* Vocal tips from Kurt Elling and Frank Sinatra, and more
* The Purdie Shuffle
* Master classes with pianists Chick Corea and Kenny Werner
* Audio recording basics
* A drum lesson and conversation with Ginger Baker
* Electric bass lessons from Jaco Pastorius and Bob Babbitt
* Trumpet solos transcribed, plus master classes with Ingrid Jensen and Brian Lynch
* Summer jazz camps in St. Louis

Music Education Monday: A master class with Michael Brecker, and more

Saxophonist Michael Brecker was a prolific and influential jazz, rock, pop, and session player for the better part of four decades, starting at the turn of the 1970s and continuing until his untimely death from complications of leukemia in 2007, when he was just 57 years old.

Brecker's distinctive sound and approach, drawing on the innovations of John Coltrane but also incorporating other influences, personal interpretation, and technical refinements, inspired many young musicians during his lifetime, and he continues to be listened to and studied today.

In 1984, Brecker (pictured) presented a master class for students at the University of North Texas, and fortunately, someone had both the good sense then to videotape the class, and the generosity now to upload it to YouTube. You can see that master class in the first embedded video at the end of the post.

While you're at it, it's also worth checking out saxophonist Bob Reynolds' annotation of Brecker's workshop. (It's the same video, just broken into multiple parts due to YouTube's old restrictions on the length of clips.)

Twelve years later, Brecker sat down with Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack for an interview about his 1996 album Tales From The Hudson that produced a couple more brief segments of particular interest to aspiring musicians. You can see those two clips, in which Brecker talks about his practice routine and how to develop a personal sound, below the master class video.

Brecker also has served as the subject of a number of academic papers and studies, and some of these can be read for free online. And so, while yr. humble StLJN editor, not being a professor of music, admittedly isn't fully qualified to judge, those interested in some really in-depth discussion may want to read the PDF files of "Brecker and Patterns: An Analysis of Michael Brecker's Melodic and Instrumental Devices," a master's thesis from 1999 by Ari Poutiainen of Sibelius Academy in Finland; and "Brecker's Blues: Transcription and Theoretical Analysis of Six Selected Improvised Blues Solos by Jazz Saxophonist Michael Brecker," written in 2003 by David Rawlings Freedy as part of his work toward a doctor of musical arts at The Ohio State University.

You can see the Michael Brecker master class and the other two clips after the jump...

Music Education Monday: A master class with Ramsey Lewis

Since pianist Ramsey Lewis will be in St. Louis this Saturday to perform at the Sheldon Concert Hall's annual "ArtSounds" gala, this seems like a good time to share a video of a master class that he gave in June of this year for the jazz fellows of the Steans Music Institute at the Ravinia Festival.

In addition to his ongoing work as a musician, broadcaster, and educator, Lewis (pictured) also serves as artistic director of Jazz at Ravinia, which is part of the famous outdoor music festival that takes place every summer in Highland Park, IL, not far from his Chicago home. The institute is the festival's pre-professional summer conservatory program, with separate tracks for jazz, classical piano and strings, and classical singers.

(For more Ramsey Lewis, you can see some performance videos in this post from a week ago Saturday.)

Music Education Monday: A rhythm section workshop with bassist Rufus Reid

Today for Music Education Monday, you can watch the veteran bassist Rufus Reid as he leads a workshop in jazz rhythm section performance with students at Loyola University New Orleans.

A California native, the 71-year-old Reid (pictured) studied music at Northwestern University and began his professional career in Chicago before moving in 1976 to New York City.

He's recorded 17 albums as a leader, and worked with well-known musicians including Eddie Harris, Stan Getz, Art Farmer, J.J. Johnson, Dexter Gordon, Jack DeJohnette, Andrew Hill, and many more.

Reid also is a veteran educator who taught jazz studies and performance for 20 years at William Paterson University in New Jersey, where he still serves as professor emeritus. He's also been a popular clinician and guest instructor at many other colleges, universities, and jazz camps, and wrote the book The Evolving Bassist, first published in 1974 and still used by many bass teachers.

You can see the video of Reid's workshop, recorded in 2009 and presented in two parts, after the jump...

Music Education Monday: Pat Metheny and John Scofield on improvisation

Pat Metheny and John Scofield (pictured) are two of the top guitarists and bandleaders in contemporary jazz, and today's Music Education Monday post features video sessions with each of them talking about their personal approaches to improvisation.

Both first came to prominence in the late 1970s, and both share a connection to Berklee School of Music, where Scofield studied as an undergraduate and Metheny once served as a teaching assistant to his mentor, vibraphonist Gary Burton.

Scofield first became widely known in the heyday of fusion as a member of the Billy Cobham/George Duke Band, and made a couple of recordings as a leader before joining Miles Davis' band for three years in the 1980s. That gig helped raise his profile significantly, and his subsequent mid-80s electric albums like Blue Matter and Loud Jazz cemented his status as a significant and popular voice on his instrument. More recently, Scofield has emphasized his funk and gospel influences on record and in concert, also forming a recurring partnership with the jam band trio Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Metheny, who grew up in Lee's Summit, MO near Kansas City, got his first significant exposure playing in Burton's quartet. After a couple of early solo recordings, he joined with keyboardist Lyle Mays to form the first edition of the Pat Metheny Group in 1978, enjoying immediate success with both jazz and rock audiences. That band continues, albeit with different personnel, into the present day, though Metheny also has been involved in many other projects, from the free-jazz influenced Song X project with Ornette Coleman in the 1980s to his solo Orchestrion tours of recent years.

You can see both videos after the jump...

Music Education Monday: Saxophone workshops with Dave Liebman and Bill Evans

With the unveiling of the Miles Davis statue in Alton set for this Saturday, today's Music Education Monday offers an opportunity to hear from a couple of his former sidemen, the saxophonists Dave Liebman and Bill Evans (pictured, from left).

In addition to playing with Davis at the turn of the 1970s, Liebman also had a notable stint early in his career with drummer Elvin Jones' group. In the ensuing decade, he's performed all around the world and appeared on hundreds of recordings, including more than 100 as a leader or co-leader.

Liebman also has been involved with jazz education for most of his career, and in 1989 founded the International Association of Schools of Jazz, which seeks to bring together jazz educators from all over the globe. He can be seen in the first video embed after the jump, presenting a workshop in December 2014 at the Woodbrass music store in Paris, France.

Evans, who was once a student of Liebman's at William Paterson University in New Jersey, had his time with Davis came more than a decade later, as he was part of the trumpeter's series of "comeback" albums that began with The Man With The Horn.

After making his reputation with Davis, Evans has continued to work steadily as a sideman, a collaborator in groups such as Soulgrass and Elements, and as a band leader, putting out nearly 20 recordings in his own name. You can see Evans in the second video embed after the jump, giving a master class in 2012 at the Mariachi music store in Moscow, Russia.

You can see both videos after the jump...

Music Education Monday: Master classes with saxophonist Ernie Watts

For this week's Music Education Monday, you can take in a couple of master classes on video from the veteran saxophonist Ernie Watts.

In addition to his own recordings as a leader, Watts (pictured) has played with an exceptional range of jazz, rock and soul musicians and groups, including Buddy Rich, Bobby Hutcherson, Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show band, bassist Charlie Haden's Quartet West, Marvin Gaye, the Rolling Stones, and many more.

He last performed in St. Louis with Severinsen and the Tonight Show alumni band in 2013 at the Touhill, and also was heard here in 2012 with pianist Laurence Hobgood's quartet at Jazz at the Bistro.

In today's first master class video, recorded in 2012 at the Jazz Education Network conference in Louisville, KY, the saxophonist offers his thoughts on "A Melodic Approach to Improvisation." The second video also was recorded in 2012, at the Mariachi Sax Boutique in Moscow, which seems to be the Russian equivalent of St. Louis' Saxquest.

You can see both videos after the jump...

Music Education Monday: Saxophone master classes with Greg Osby

For this week's "Music Education Monday," we've got some ideas and information for saxophonists in both video and audio form, courtesy of St. Louis native Greg Osby.

Osby (pictured), now 54 years old, attended Howard University and Berklee. Moving to NYC, in the early years of his career he performed and/or recorded with many jazz greats active in the 1980s, including Jack DeJohnette, Jim Hall, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and many more.

Osby also worked closely with fellow alto saxophonist Steve Coleman and other colleagues developing the concepts for what came to be known as M-BASE (which probably deserves a "Music Education Monday" post of its own one day).

More recently, after recording 13 albums as a leader for Blue Note, Osby formed his own label, Inner Circle Music, to release his recordings as well as music from others. Through the label and live performances, he also has emerged as a significant mentor to younger musicians, having already provided early professional experience in his bands for current stars such as pianist Jason Moran and drummers Eric Harland and Nasheet Waits.

Osby often does master classes in conjunction with his gigs, and after the jump, you can see an embedded video of one he recently did in Moscow, Russia. It's a long session, nearly two hours and 45 minutes, and though it's extended quite a bit by the need to translate from English to Russian, there's still a lot of material there.

After that, there's an audio-only recording of another master class he did in October of last year at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. (Note that the embedded SoundCloud player used to deliver the audio occasionally can be a bit glitchy; if you don't see it when you click through, try reloading the page.)

As lagniappe, there are a couple of short videos Osby recorded as part of his endorsement deal with saxophone maker P. Mauriat. In the first, he talks about intonation and the difference in sound and approach between jazz and classical saxophone; in the second, he demonstrates a special limited edition signature model alto made for him by the company.

Reflecting his interest in sharing musical information, Osby's website has a "Resources" section that includes sheet music and MIDI files for a number of his original compositions. He also shares some interesting thoughts about music in a couple of interviews, done in 1995 and 2008, with journalist Ted Panken, which are archived together on Panken's website.

You'll find the video and audio material after the jump...

Music Education Monday: Video workshops with Urbie Green & Delfeayo Marsalis

This week for Music Education Monday series, we've got a bone to pick with someone, via video workshops from jazz trombonists Urbie Green and Delfeayo Marsalis.

Green, now 88 and retired from music, was known for his technical prowess, both as a soloist and bandleader and as a sideman with the big bands of Woody Herman, Gene Krupa and others, while Marsalis (pictured) is part of the famous New Orleans family that includes his dad, pianist Ellis Marsalis, and brothers Wynton, Branford and Jason.

Also worth a look (though we can't seem to get the embedded version to work on this page) is the episode about jazz trombone produced for the "Building Blocks of Jazz" segment of HEC-TV's program I Love Jazz.

Featuring St. Louis trombonist, bandleader and educator Dave Dickey with Jazz St. Louis education director Phil Dunlap on piano, the video covers "the evolution of the trombone style, from New Orleans to BeBop" and can be seen online here.