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Let’s talk about theft. Every great jazz musician I know to George Benson to Dee Dee Bridgewater to Darmon
learned to improvise in large part by listening to great Meader (and so many others!) (Figure 5).
improvisers, stealing ideas from them, and modifying Finally, and maybe most importantly: Groove! A
those ideas to build new ideas. Encourage your students melodically and harmonically “simple” solo that locks
to listen to (and steal from) the great vocal improvisers into the swing (or bossa nova or samba) style ALWAYS
from Ella Fitzgerald to Sarah Vaughan to Chet Baker sounds hipper than a melodically and harmonically
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