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” ‘Jazz Jungle’ is from John McLaughlin’s CD from a few years back called ‘The Promise’. It’s a good old fashioned fusion barn burner. It has an all star cast that includes the late great Michael Brecker on sax, Dennis Chambers on drums, James Genus on bass and Jim Beard on keys. It’s a fast funk feel and the tune is modal and is really just over D-7. It has a few changes on the Bridge but it’s primarily just centered around D-7. John’s solo is highly chromatic and in future columns I’ll feature some of John’s solos over modal changes. I highly recommend picking up McLaughlin’s 3 DVD Instructional program called ‘This is the Way I Do It.’ You can buy it here www.abstractlogix.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17686
It’s the best jazz improvisation program I’ve come across and is applicable to ALL instrumentalists. But for now see if you can work up ‘Jazz Jungle’ and be able to play along with it on the CD. It’s pretty fast and has some interesting twists and turns. When it comes to playing jazz, it really is a jungle out there.”
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Lucas Pickford has written 26 articles in BMM.
I grew up in both Southern and Northern California and started playing the bass at age 13 after hearing and falling in love with the sound of Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report. My father Loren Pickford is a tremendous jazz musician and pretty much taught me everything I know about harmony, theory, and chord scales. He threw me in the deep end so to speak and I started gigging professionally with him at age 14. My dad dropped me off in Boston in 1988 at age 17 to attend Berklee College of Music on a scholarship. I graduated in three years with honors in 1991.
After Berklee I spent time in New Orleans and New York City. I returned to school and received my Masters Degree in 1996 from the Boston Conservatory. Along the way I've had the good fortune to travel around the globe and play with some great musicians like Mike Clark and the Headhunters, Charles Haynes, Aaron Goldberg, Matt Garrison, Robert Randolph, Brian Blade, Steve Hass, Jorge Rossy, Erik Jekebson, Will Boulware, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Dr. John, Scott Kinsey, Vinx, Kai Eckhardt, Bruce Flowers, Mino Cinelu, Susan Tedeschi, Steve Houghton, George Garzone, Dow Brain, Kei Akagi, Tiger's Baku, Greg Tardy, Antonio Sanchez, Steve Hunt, Bob Moses, and many others. I taught college for a couple of years in Massachusetts but recently my wife Kristin and I have returned to living on the West Coast and now live in the Bay Area where we enjoy it very much.
My debut CD with Steve Hunt called "Blown Fuse" has become a "post-fusion classic" of sorts and has recieved some great reviews from some really special musicians. Be sure to pick up a copy while you're here!
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