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		<title>Jazz Improv Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jazz Improv® Magazine is the most comprehensive periodical reference about jazz improvisation, designed for enthusiasts and improvisers alike. Jazz Improv is a magazine for all Jazz enthusiasts. Each reference-sized edition comes with a companion compact disc that provides jazz lovers an opportunity to preview full-length tracks from new and essential/reissued recordings by leading and emerging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you ready for Freddie?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A transcription of Freddie Hubbard&#8217;s solo on his blues composition birdlike.  This tune was written for trumpeter Donald Byrd, and is featured on the album Ready for Freddie.  This solo is one that every young trumpeter studying Jazz needs to learn and study.  It is packed full of ideas and hip phrasing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikemckennamusic.com/2009/09/are-you-ready-for-freddie/</link>
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		<title>Practicing scales for Jazz improv</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fundamental part of learning how to improvise is becoming familiar with the major, minor, and dominant 7 scales.  This lesson will cover how to practice these scales and can be applied to any other scale you want to use it on.  I learned this method during a master class with Dr. Barry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikemckennamusic.com/2009/08/how-to-practice-scales/</link>
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		<title>Jazziz Magazine Open To The Public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you checked out Jazziz Magazine online?  For the rest of the summer http://www.jazziz.com is open to the public while they update the website.  The website is media rich and features a number of past editions of the magazine free in digital format.  Normally these would only be available to subscribers, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikemckennamusic.com/2009/08/jazziz-magazine-open-to-the-public/</link>
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		<title>Jeremy Pelt live @ Smalls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt &#38; Wired will be performing at Smalls Jazz Club August 21 &#38; 22.  The performance is part of the Trumpet August promotion which features a different trumpet player each weekend.  The Wired band includes Jeremy Pelt on Trumpet, Frank LoCrasto on Piano, Gavin Fallow on Bass, and Dana Hawkins on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikemckennamusic.com/2009/08/jeremy-pelt-live-smalls/</link>
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		<title>Norman Granz &#8211; Improvisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I was at Clark Terry&#8217;s house and he had a video called Improvisation presented by Norman Granz.  Clark told me to put that video on and the first scene in the video was Charlie Parker playing with Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Hank Jones and Coleman Hawkins.  I had heard that there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikemckennamusic.com/2009/07/norman-granz-improvisation/</link>
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		<title>Free Jazz Concerts Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#160;came across the Smalls Jazz Club website recently and saw that they stream most of the concerts online for free.  This is an incredible opportunity to check out the scene in NY, and keep up with all of the local talent.  The shows range from jam sessions to the top NY players on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikemckennamusic.com/2009/07/free-jazz-concerts-online/</link>
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		<title>Body Huff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clark Terry explains what he refers to as the &#8220;body huff&#8221; in this short clip from youtube.  This clip was taken from an instructional video that Clark made for trumpet players.  The body huff is the correct way to use your diaphragm to produce a sound on the trumpet.  Clark always talked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikemckennamusic.com/2009/05/body-huff/</link>
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		<title>Study In Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a transcription of Clifford Brown&#8217;s solo on Gerkin for Perkin.  Transcribed by my top student Andrew D.  Thanks Andrew!
Download the solo

 Purchase Study in Brown
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		<link>http://www.mikemckennamusic.com/2009/05/study-in-brown/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Clark Terry Recordings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 10 must have Clark Terry recordings.  For more information and listening examples click on the title of the recording.

Clark After Dark
Having Fun
Serenade to a Bus Seat
Portraits
Yes, the Blues
The Clark Terry Spacemen
Spanish Rice
The Happy Horns of Clark Terry
Globetrotter
Clark Terry and His Jolly Giants

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