You can take an elegant jazz standard like Autumn Leaves and create a really wonderful emotional trajectory through it, started off technical and then resolving in pure bluesy emotion. One of the things that really struck me about Jay’s playing was how he would build these solos with intense, BIG chords and then settle into a beautiful blues line that would just feel like HOME.Īnd the best thing about the blues is its scales and licks really do work over just about any form, as long as you’re listening and musical with it. Jazz as a genre was sourced from the blues, and as it developed more complex harmonies and chord movements, the role of the blues in a jazz solo became a sort of cathartic release of tension. In our discussion of what Jay deemed ‘The Four Streams Of Jazz Soloing’, he described the blues as a sort of ‘punctuation point’ within his playing to really drive the emotion of his music home. Here is an example from today’s lesson sheet: New Orleans blues piano bass line. These licks give you an authentic blues sound so you sound like a. The later licks are filled with cool techniques like triplet patterns and double-stops. To create a rhumba-tinged bass line, we’ll use an arpeggiated figure that draws on the 1235 for each chord symbol. By learning these 15 licks, youll know how to improvise over any 12-bar blues, but also songs in many other styles as well The first few licks are easier licks that you can master quickly. When Jay came into the studio to film some lessons and share his thoughts with us, I had to ask him about his powerful approach to integrating the blues into his larger jazz playing. Step 1: New Orleans Blues Piano Bass Line Let’s get the party started with an authentic New Orleans piano bass line in the left hand.
In all of his soloing, the heart and soul of his lines always come down to the blues. Acclaimed Jazz pianist Jay Oliver’s approach to the blues is really awesome.
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