This week’s lick comes to you from an Oliver Nelson record called “More Blues and the Abstract Truth.” It is an iconic pattern from Oliver

This week we’re coming at you with a burning post-bop solo by David Kikoski on his tune “Cardboard,” off of a 2009 album with Jeff

On his record with Stan Getz in 1973, Bill Evans rips through some solo breaks over the tune “Night and Day.” Check out the way

Have you ever wondered what’s going on when Brad Mehldau goes off into one of his virtuosic solos? Take a closer look at this line

Listen to Benny Green swing his butt off with the Ray Brown Trio on the album Live at Scullers in 1996. He digs into the

This week’s lick is a piece of post-bop vocabulary you can pull out when you want to take this to the next level. It is

Listen to Herbie do his thing on his fourth album as a leader, “Empyrean Isles.” This tune “One Finger Snap” would later go on to

Bill Evans is a master of using upper extensions of chords to create beautiful and colorful harmony. On his trio record, “Explorations” (1961) he begins

Here is a quintessential bit of McCoy Tyner vocabulary. McCoy influenced everyone that came after him when it came to playing in a post-bop modal