I’m participating in an interesting discussion concerning Red Garland’s solo to “Billy Boy” from Miles ’58 record at my sometime forum haunt, All About Jazz It’s really for pianists concerning technique and how to go about learning these solos and the right fingering to choose. Here is the discussion thread And this is the solo on you tube:

Yesterday morning I had a flood of ideas entering my head about jazz piano. A full blown post in my head. Video clips, music clips, explanatory text, etc. So much that I thought I had better not commit it to one post but a planned series. What better idea than to pace things out and have continuous content, right? Of course I needed to get to work and it was getting on the late side. This morning (Saturday) I get up. I have no idea what the F$$k I was thinking about