🚀 JIM RIDL Harmonic Discovery (3-Day FREE Trial!)
DETAILS: JazzHeaven.com/live Exploration & experimentation on the piano - for ALL musicians #jimridl #jazzmasterclass #jazzheaven
✨Jim covered:
👉🏼 Pedal tones with floating harmonies:
Explanation/Exploration
In application: Thirty Foot Ceiling (J. Ridl) - PDF
Left-hand ostinato with right-hand shapes
Review PDF examples
👉🏼 The Tritone Relationship:
Explanation/Exploration
In application: Only Half a Cup (J. Ridl) - PDF
Blues in Bb & E
In application: Palisade (J. Ridl) - PDF
Tritone key centers
3-bar phrases
👉🏼 Unusual Blues Progression:
Explanation/Exploration
In application: River Quarter Blues (J. Ridl) - PDF
12-bar blues with bitonal harmonies
👉🏼 Progression with chord on every beat:
Explanation/Exploration
In application: Sun On My Hands (J. Ridl) - PDF
Voicing every beat
Changing key centers
🗣️ WRITES JIM:
"This masterclass will provide you with various avenues of discovering harmonic sounds and shapes.
It is foundational for improvising, composing and arranging!
My goal is to deepen and expand your own individual voice."
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📃 About JIM RIDL:
Jim is a seasoned NYC-based jazz pianist, composer and teacher, and performs & records worldwide with the likes of Dave Liebman Big Band, Joe Locke Quartet and the Mingus Big Band.
He attended the University of Colorado at Denver, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Scoring and Arranging, and was awarded its Student Achievement Award for composing “Ocean Sojourn,” an orchestral tone poem which he performed with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, James Setapen, conducting.
Jim is well-known as a “musician’s musician" and his own groups had a 7-year residency at the renowned 55 Bar in NYC, and at Brooklyn’s Soapbox Gallery.
He is on the faculty at New York Jazz Workshop and The City College of New York, and maintains an active private studio for over 30 years, online and in person.
Jim has 9 recordings as a leader, including Ask for the Ancient Path (May 2022), and Standards Live (August 2022), and has been featured on hundreds of recordings of other artists.
His tenure with jazz guitar legend Pat Martino included performances around the world in quartet and duet, and produced 4 outstanding recordings: Nexus, Interchange, Night Wings and The Maker.
Additionally, Jim has performed and/or recorded with Steve Wilson, Randy Brecker, Marc Johnson, Bill Stewart, Jay Anderson, Wayne Krantz, JD Walter, Rudy Royston, Ralph Bowen, Donny McCaslin, Terrell Stafford, Vic Juris, Francois Moutin & many more.
He has toured with the US State Department American Music Abroad program, performing and offering workshops in Asia-Pacific, Russia, South Korea, China, the Philippines, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Slovania and Malta.
Jim has conducted masterclasses and subbed for colleagues at New York University, City College of New York, Temple University and William Paterson University, was the Art Tatum Memorial Scholarship Artist at the University of Toledo, and Visiting Jazz Artist at Princeton University, where he also directed several ensembles.
✨MUSIC CREDIT👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Lazy Afternoon- Tim Armacost Quintet
Tim Armacost, sax
Joe Locke, vibes
Jim Ridl, piano
Kenny Davis, bass
Rudy Royston, drums
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