White Lights - Jon Lawton

The first song from my bro's upcoming album has been released, with yours truly on bass of course!

Go check it out on Soundcloud, it's super catchy too so make sure to send it around! 

Bass was recorded on a '93 Wenge/Maple Fretless Warwick Fortress One, DI'd at Crosstown Studios. I played the bass on most tracks from this album too so keep your eyes peeled for more soon!

Lick Of The Month #8

To kick off 2013, the first LOTM is a nice chilled out ii V I from valve trombonist, Bob Brookmeyer that appears on Stan Getz's version of Misty. This version of the song is down a whole step from the way it is usually performed, which I must admit did cause me a lot of confusion trying to figure out the theory behind this lick. Moral of the tale is 'Always Check The Chords!'

Lick Of The Month #6

LOTM#6 is actually a bit of a mashup between a lick that of my own that I've been working on this month with an ending of Cannonball Adderley's.

Parker's Mood Bass Line

Sticking with my jazz blues studies this month I've transcribed the bass line under Bird's solo on the great tune, 'Parker's Mood'. There's a lot that I've learnt from looking at this bass line, most importantly the simplicity of a good bass line!

The first thing that I noticed about this line is that out of the 24 bars (2 full choruses of 12 bars) 22 of these bars start on the root note

Lick Of The Month #5

Hey everyone! This month's lick is another walking bass lick and is one I've pulled out of my transcription for the bass line on Charlie Parker's 'Now's The Time' available here!

Below is the video for the full transcription but you can hear this month's lick at 10 seconds and again at 32 seconds.

First Stadium Gig!

A bit of a departure from jazz theory for today's post... Just to let everyone know I've just played my first stadium yippeee!!!!