While thinking about Ben Webster this morning, I began messing around with Duke’s tune “In a Mellow Tone.” I was working on the ascending minor 6th leap and came up with this fun little exercise to develop fluency with that 6th skip. Although this phrase sounds more like Duke’s tune “Do Nothin’ Til You Hear From Me,” and the band was in a Bossa mood, the lick is meant to go with Webster’s “In a Mellow Tone.”
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CRAIG BUHLER JAZZ 