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Masters of Improvisation

Julian Joseph looks at the masters in the art of Improvisation with virtuoso guitarist Martin Taylor.

Julian Joseph presents a Masters of Improvisation special in the company of virtuoso guitarist Martin Taylor.

Featuring music from some of the greatest guitar improvisers including Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery and Jim Hall.

The show also includes selections from other great improvisers in jazz including saxophonist John Coltrane, pianist Bill Evans and vocalist Sarah Vaughan. Martin demonstrates the key principles to improvising and also performs an improvisation of the jazz standard 鈥楢ll The Things You Are鈥� composed by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II.

55 minutes

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:02

    Spencer Williams

    Mahogany Hall Stomp

    Ensemble: Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five. Music Arranger: Louis Armstrong.
  • 00:07

    Django Reinhardt

    I'll See You In My Dreams

  • 00:10

    Sarah Vaughan

    All Of Me

  • 00:15

    Jim Hall

    You鈥檇 Be So Nice To Come Home To

  • 00:20

    Herbie Hancock

    Heartbeat

  • 00:24

    Martin Taylor

    Satin Doll (Improvisation)

  • 00:26

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    Big Nick

  • 00:33

    Bill Evans

    Emily

  • 00:39

    Miles Davis

    So What

  • 00:45

    Wes Montgomery

    Unit Seven

  • 00:53

    Martin Taylor

    All The Things You Are (Improvisation)

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