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Grant Green I-VI-ii altered licks hard bop blues licks Oct 04, 2018

You can hear Grant Green play something like this on "Blues For Juanita" from his 1962 Blue Note LP The Latin Bit. As far as I can tell, as the one...

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Kenny Burrell I-VI-ii Doubletime altered licks hard bop blues licks Sep 21, 2018

At some point about a year ago, I got really annoyed that I knew almost nothing about Coleman Hawkins except how large he loomed in the history of...

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Stanley Turrentine I-VI-II altered licks hard bop blues licks Sep 07, 2018

More Stanley Turrentine! The G7 altered part of this lick does not sit quite so obviously on the guitar but with a little doing it can start to...

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