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Aaron Parks has made the lead sheets from his album ‘Invisible Cinema’ available for free on NextBop. It’s a lovely idea and I found it very illuminating to listen to the album again with the lead sheets.

I find writing a lead sheet is always about finding a balance between giving enough information and giving too much information. It’s interesting to be able to hear more clearly where composition stops and improvisation begins.

(This assumes that the musicians played off these lead sheets but I can’t imagine why Mr. Parks would go to the trouble of writing new scores only to release them for free on the internet!)

Oct 23, 201123 notes

#jazz #piano #aaron parks #lead sheets #transcription #nextbop

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Oct 11, 20113 notes

#Music for 18 Musicians #video

Thank You Steve

minimalmac:

aaronmahnke:

This is my favorite photo of Steve Jobs. Leaning forward to connect with his wife after his keynote presentation at the 2011 WWDC. You can almost feel the relief and accomplishment radiating from him.

When I see this photo, I see a man who bent every fiber of his will toward a goal so lofty, so seemingly unattainable that no one thought it was possible, and at the end of that race, with the task completed, he closed his eyes and rested.

Thank you Steve. I’ll miss you.

Enough.

Oct 6, 2011359 notes

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October 2011

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