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Originally Posted by E Tha Real

Yeah in my jazz band we started bringing in charts because the prof was on some 1920's shit. You'd be surprised, he let us run some goodwin and jaco tunes. Maybe your school needs forward thinkers, who challenge the professors to play newer music.

Yeah i don't do reharms., my piano skills aren't their yet. I just rip through chord changes o i can hear them for my horn. Yeah i love jazz but gigging with legit bands seem locked up to profs and old dudes. I just moved out to NC thinking i should take a few years to hardcore practice and get lessons from the big names out here while teaching. Then try to get in a legit symphonic job, since the money is more competitive. But as you know those spots are professors too and music at their level isnt picked up with a bachelors or masters. Good isnt good enough.

I gig around playing jazz. It's just knowing people and being a good business person

My college's band was progressive, ton of contemporary latin/maria schnieder kinda shit. Just playing in the big band is constricting as fuck and really shouldn't even be called jazz. It's just a wind ensemble. But you don't need to actually need to use piano to reharm just operate under those changes... its a sense of harmony and aurals. I literally teach other music majors how to do it because they don't get this sort of shit playing in schools

jam sessions man

I got some free time tonight before going out and I'm all for reharmonizing the FUCK outta a few tunes if you want a lesson


either way good luck with the symphony shit, I can't really stand practicing technique and playing a bunch of prewritten music nearly enough to hang with that lol.