Barry Harris Approaches to "Dance of the Infidels"

Barry Harris Approaches to “Dance of the Infidels”
A great archetype for how to play over blues in this style, Bud Powell’s “Dance of the Infidels” is a great lesson in how to create a scale outline, comp over a particular set of changes, and how to think about this music.
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Bud Powell was the man

[@Oliver-vu6su]

Thanks, I would have never (ever) figured out that this was a blues on my own... :P Very helpful

[@daveshep]

Thanks for this dive into Bud Blues. (Not Bird Blues.) I've had my transcription of this one around for awhile without thinking much about its harmonic structure. This helps a lot.

[@cwise7]

Thank you 🙏🏾 again for these wonderful lessons from a wonderful soul.....l have a request.....Dr Harris does two beautiful songs ...I’m a Can and The Breeze song ......can you do a chord breakdown and analysis of them .....Artists House Class Barry Harris-Performance 27:03 and 29:52

[@camtaylormusic]

Fantastic Isaac. I adored this tune when I first heard it on a Bud Powell record I got when my piano teacher recommended I listen to him. I must have been 14 but it left an impression, and only now have I really got the understanding to really get how to listen to and play pieces like this. Your lessons are helping things fall into place, and I'm using many of your versions of Barry's concepts in my own lessons (though my students are not quite so advanced yet to simply follow along with your videos). There is so much jam packed in here, have been sitting and practicing with just the first 15 minutes worth, and will come back soon to do more work. Really appreciate this kind of repertoire explained in these kinds of terms.

[@Pizaz0]

Instant sub thank you

[@LokeyeMC]

Wow I've just had the biggest smile on my face throughout this whole video. Thank you so much! I'm so glad I read Wail and came across Barry and found you and TILFBH and Thomas Echols in this lifetime. Y'all are like my Mt. Rushmore of community around these concepts. I moved to Oahu and everyone is so snobby about the bebop here it seems. Nobody wants to just hang out and jam and practice BH concepts. You either have to be professional already here or nobody will give you the time of day =( Anyway, sorry about that rant, haha, I really man to say that your videos feel like a great replacement for community around these treasures of concepts. Thank you so much!

[@LokeyeMC]

Ok I just subscribed to your Patreon account today. Thanks for putting up all that content. My goodness!

[@johnrothfield6126]

Take up gypsy jazz... It is much less snobby.. LOL

[@knopf1er17]

Are they any good in oahu? Do they play uptempo, songs at tempo?

[@pickinstone]

Don't forget Mike Longo teaching Dizzy Gillespie's concepts of the rhythmic PILE. Can't have jazz without a solid understanding of the "Polyrhythmic Nature of Jazz."

[@iagomann]

Hi from Madrid, Spain...

[@deneisraelealine8939]

Deus abençoe

[@cmb_cworld]

hey isaac! in barry's class you have a few time sent a dropbox link to a scan of a tune dex card. does that dropbox folder have a large collection of tune dex card scans? would you be able to share that dropbox folder? cam

[@isaacraz]

Try this archive.org/details/TDavidFranklinMillionDollarCollectionofSheetMusic_0

[@cmb_cworld]

@@isaacraz wow thanks man!!

[@isaacraz]

It’s a game changer!

How did these dudes come up with this?

[@paxwallacejazz]

I'm not interested in Identity politics at all but are you Native American? If so I salute this completely outa the box creative direction. Clearly you're deeply steeped in functional theory as well as the tradition. Ok all that said I can guarantee If I were approaching this Bud Powell classic I'd be looking for as many notes outside the key that the sound of the harmonies could functionally accommodate. I didn't notice any altered dominants being pointed out. Bud loved the dimwt scale.