Russ Nolan | NYC Jazz Saxophonist – JazzLabNY Adult Jazz Workshops and Small Groups

NYC Jazz Saxophonist – Director of JazzLabNY.com–NYC Adult Jazz Workshops and Small Groups

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Jazz Composition and Improvisation—One and the Same: Part 3

On January 24, 2013 / Jazz Education / Leave a comment

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by Russ Nolan Jazz Composition and Improvisation: The Melodic Development of Sonny Rollins More Oleo Examples from Part 2: Link to this post!

Jazz Composition and Improvisation—One and the Same: Part 2

On January 24, 2013 / Jazz Education / 1 Comment

by Russ Nolan Jazz Composition and Improvisation: Melodic Development of Sonny Rollins’ Oleo Let’s take Sonny Rollins’ classic, ‘Oleo’ as a musical example. I picked Oleo for two reasons: 1) It is an example of melodic development in itself, and 2) It’s common to just ‘run changes’