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Scott Hughes: Brown Bag
by John W. Patterson
Hughes is back after an earlier strong release called Lapse. As I love to hear, he has greatly improved his art on this latest effort. I was actually quite shocked to hear the wonderful amount of fusion happening this go round. Hughes is more than deft with the olde digits and can lay down some mean riff-rock jams but this time his jazzier finesse comes through more clearly. He even approaches Allan Holdsworth in phrasings and voicings but a split ...
read moreThrow Away Your Real Book: Tonic Wants You To Lose The Baggage And Improvise Like A Child Again
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Scott Hughes
"Tonic", a card game that helps all musicians learn to improvise without theory or advanced training, is now available on Kickstarter. Designed to teach students and seasoned players how to relax and improvise freely and naturally, Tonic is an unconventional approach rooted in the free jazz and modern classical movements. It takes the form of a card and dice game that requires no theory or prior experience to play. Instead, each card has a prompt that challenges players to create ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson