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Interesting Discussion on Red Garland

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:

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