Links to various blindfold tests and interviews

last updated March 1st, 2005

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Table of Contents

  1. Blindfold tests
  2. Trumpet
  3. Saxophones and reeds
  4. Piano
  5. Trombone and brass instruments other than trumpet
  6. Drums
  7. Bass
  8. Composers and arrangers
  9. Guitarists
  10. Liner Notes
  11. Discographies and album covers
  12. More links to sites which contain interviews
  13. Music Downloads (payment and free)
  14. Useful websites for music study
  15. General websites about important artists and bands

Blindfold tests

 

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Interviews with trumpet players

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Interviews with saxophone and reed players

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Interviews with piano players

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Trombone and brass other than trumpet

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Interviews with drummers

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Interviews with bass players

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Composers and arrangers

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Guitarists

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Liner Notes on the web

Thelonious Monk liner notes

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Discographies and album covers

Great album covers from Blue Note and others

Detailed discographies to various artists, the site in Japanese but all the important stuff is English

Michael Fitzgerald - Jazz Research

www.JazzDiscography.com

Jazz<ma>tazz - Recent Jazz recordings

Very good Mingus Discography and more for John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Michael Gibbs

Free/Open Modern Jazz Discography (Prestige, Blue Note, etc. Various artists)

Discographies of albums produced by Ed Michel

Weather Report: The Annotated Discography

Mike and Kate Westbrook discography

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More links

Mel Martin's Website - contains detailed technical interviews he made with saxophonists and classic audio interviews

A compilation of blindfold tests reprinted from various forums and websites

 

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Music downloads (payment and free)

Charlie Hunter (guitarist)  Also lots of his live shows from various years (free downloads)

Greg Osby free downloads 1

Greg Osby free downloads 2

Arsenal free downloads (Russian fusion band),  Also some music from the leader Alexei Kozlov

"Free" examples from European Avant Garde scene

Jeremy Pelt (free downloads from a young trumpet player)

Jimmy Greene (free downloads)

Lonnie Plaxico (free)

Marcus Strickland (free)

Some free excerpts from Andrew Hill's music

Full albums from Steve Coleman (free)

Steve Lehman (free)

Glenn Wilson (free examples, bari sax)

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

Brett Sroka's Fresh Sound New Talent cd as well as some live tracks

 

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Useful websites for music study

http://www.musictheory.net/ - a great resource for theory and excersizes.

http://www.cliffengel.com/online_lessons/ - very good lessons for bassists but can be used by anyone else.

http://trumpet.voici.org/ - transcriptions of trumpet solos.

http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/part2.htm - transcriptions of Cannonball's solos

http://www.lucaspickford.com/trans.htm - more transcriptions for different instruments.
 

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General websites about important artists and bands

Big Band Music Information

BIG BANDS DATABASE PLUS

Dave Liebman's website

Jeff Helgesen's homepage (informative stuff on many trumpet players and some transcriptions)

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