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Evergreen Club Live

Evergreen Club Recording

How to Improvise

Cantaloop, Us3 Groovy, groovy, … Below is a live version of Us3′s arrangement of Herbie Hancock’s tune, Cantaloup Island.  Cantaloop refers mainly to the first half of the original, oscillating between Fm7 and Db7. The trumpet/sax horn section integrates a … Continue reading →

What is Groove

Groovy Groovy is an outdated term that comes from jazz slang meaning in the groove, or to be performing well (without showing off). Teenagers in the 1940s used it to mean wonderful and by the 1960s it meant excellent, cool, … Continue reading →