Sounding good. Nice tone. Good feeling and time.

In Billies Bounce. A little too much of the slightly staccato articulation for me. Play around with making your phrases longer and not relying on the back beat too much. It's hard to build momentum if you don't vary your playing style at all through the performance.

In Autumn Leaves I get the same impression in your solo. You're playing the melody with such beauty and soul and then as soon as it comes time to solo you get caught up in this single way of phrasing. You should be putting as much effort into the solo as you do the melody. You use chromatics very well and you certainly don't have any trouble with the changes to the song.

I only noticed intonation issues in the higher register. I think it keeps you from playing up there more and connecting the whole range in your solo. That just takes time and getting used to your equipment. You've got to sit down with a tuner and really figure out where each note is and what you need to do to keep it in tune. Also not biting at all. You should really only be changing the back of the tongue to arch up more like an "eeee" sound in the higher register instead of adding pressure with your lips and jaw.

All the best.

 

Yes, you've got the chords progressions in your mind and playing, that's a great point.
Nice !

 

all going in the right direction, just need to loosen up i felt it is a little stiff but that happens to us all and will come with time and playing, nice 1.

 

I get into trouble every time I "answer the call" but here goes - regarding Autumn Leaves, why have you chosen a background of one style and played your solo in another? I would think the whole point in choosing differing backgrounds is to generate different phrasing and articulation ideas in the solo. Something to consider.

I liked Billy's Bounce a lot better because the background and melody/improvisation were more integrated. Good phrasing and technical control on the head. There's an interesting conflict between your phrasing on the head and in the solo, and that is that the head is pretty much stylistically sound in phrasing and articulations but then in the solo it's kind'a ricky-tick in some places. In other words, your bebop language is mixed with a more square way of playing. As pointed out above, some of that is articulation and too much tonguing. Work on slurring upbeats into downbeats, vs tonguing on downbeats so much.

A real plus is that you have the head and changes memorized. Extra points. :bluewink:

 

Thank you for your comments and suggestions. Softer tonguing and correct articulation will be my net 'global' goal.

 

double post

 

And on a side note,
I think you look like Howard Webb, (English football referee, GOOGLE HIM )
keep up that playing and recording, it is all going well.

 

Ha-ha!

I'm a rugby player, so I'm not really interested in football (soccer), but today several people told me that they saw me as a football referee - so you are definitely right!