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Warren, very cool blog, I've just read a few of the entries but it's very interesting. I feel kinda the same about jazz, where I've worked at playing it for years (including formal study in music school) but when playing with "true jazz" players, I feel out of my element, outclassed. Reading your blog is inspiring me to get out the Real Book again. The blog is very well-written, with a nice balance of technical harmony and insight. The only thing I'd suggest is to be consistent with linking to the tunes you mention, for instance you have an entry on Miles' "Solar", and sometimes link to that entry and sometimes not. Links all over the place makes a blog seem more lively, much like Wikipedia. On memorization techniques, I've just read an excellent book written by Bob Harris, who is a big Jeopardy champion, called <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307339564?ie=UTF8&tag=bobharriscom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307339564>"Prisoner of Trebekistan". Though the book wanders all over the place between Jeopardy games, life philosophy and some very funny stuff, he talks in some detail about memorization techniques that he used for the games. It's a great read. compulsively, I must link: *http://tinyurl.com/2ncafz* I love "Solar", especially when I found that's the piece inscribed on Miles' gravestone. cheers, Daryl Shawn www.swanwelder.com > Thanks, Jim. I've been keeping an eye on the list, but mainly I've > been off blogging about the process of memorizing jazz tunes, which is > my project du jour (the memorizing, not so much the blogging - that's > kind of incidental to the process): warrensirota.com/blog. (I'm new to > blogs. It seems like you have to read this from the bottom to the top > if you want it in posting sequence). > > BTW, if anyone cares to educate me on what I should be doing or not > doing with this blog, I'd welcome the info. I'm pretty clueless about > it. Right now, I'm just logging these entries with the thought that > maybe someday it'll be the basis of a music book, and hoping for a bit > of feedback. > > Warren > http://www.warrensirota.com/Blog/default.aspx > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.24/668 - Release Date: >2/4/2007 1:30 AM >