Herbie Hancock – Dolphin Dance (From the album “Maiden Voyage”) [LOTW #66]
To kick off the Herbie series I started with simple line from Dolphin Dance. Simple yet extremely pretty and elegant sounding to play. Herbie is playing triplets that start on the 11 which resolves to a the E, a chord tone. From there he simply is moving up in thirds diatonically and repeats the same […]
Bill Evans – Minority (From the album “Everybody Digs Bill Evans”) [LOTW #65]
Here is a nice one over a 2-5-1. Bill starts his line on beat 3 in the first measure which I love. He was always so aware of the beats he started and ended his lines on. Definitely something to practice in our own playing. In this line he goes up to the b5 then […]
