Bale Pandiya

Some time last year i was asked to play a couple of songs for the new Tamil movie Bale Pandiya with music by composer and singer Devan Ekambaram.

Here is one of the songs, a nice ballad with a short soprano solo in the middle.

http://www.raaga.com/player4/?id=207392&mode=100&rand=0.4338272410921462

More Rhythm training

Recently i have been back working on ear training with software such as GNU Solfege, in particular memorising and recognising rhythmic patterns. Looking on the web for more things to work on, i found this great site called worldjazz.ce that has pages of rhythm training exercises with mp3 files attached. Just click on the exercise you want to work on and play along till you feel comfortable. Great stuff!

http://www.worldjazz.ch/rhythm_training.htm

If you havn't already got it do download GNU solfege too. Its a wonderful tool for improving your ear.

www.solfege.org/

jazzandsaxmonthly.com

I came across this by accident. Its a website for saxophone lessons and techniques by Evan Tate. Ive seen some of his videos before on youtube and have found them very good. You can try the video lessons for free for 7 days, after which you have to pay. Evan offers monthly lessons on subjects such as improvisation, intonation, altissimo, of at least 30 minutes in length with PDF exercises. He also offers the option to contact him via email or SKYPE for any further questions.

http://jazzandsaxmonthly.com/

Like Sonny: The Story of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane

Here is one of my favourite Podcasts from Bret Primack's you tube videos. It features Sonny Rollins talking about John Coltrane. Fascinating stuff. You can also follow jazz video guy on Twitter for blog updates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckpQYnrozQ

Jazz Video Guy

If you haven't already seen his video podcasts do check out Bret Pimack - Jazz video guy - on you tube and his own site http://www.jazzvideoguy.tv/

There are many very interesting videos on famous jazz personalities with commentary by Bret himself. A wonderful resource.

Sale at Mouthpiece Cafe

This looks like a nice site and they have a sale for the whole of July.

http://www.mouthpiececafe.com/

Bill Evans

Truely inspirational stuff - a must view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QdM0oxWOZw&feature=related