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LISTENING AND PLAYING 101
of 213 Bromley Road, London, S.E.6.—Telephone HITher Green 3134 (but if you write to them, do send a stamped addressed envelope for their reply).
One such specialist shop I can warmly recommend is that conducted by James Asman himself (see Appendix "B"). It is the James Asman Record Centre at 23a New Row, St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C.2., Telephone COVent Garden 1380. Mr. Asman has been recognised for many years as one of the world's greatest authorities on jazz records: he is specialist advisor to the Record Mirror, The Gramophone Record Review, and other publications and authorities. He gives personal attention to all orders, whether you call at New Row or write to him.
Now some advice on playing jazz. Great British jazzman Humphrey Lyttleton (see page 95) rightly insists that you must start your playing by listening and then copying by ear what you hear. If you insist from the start on reading, you train yourself to look rather than to listen—and it is far easier to train the eye than the ear. So don't give way to the lazy impulse to train your musical eye; if you do, you will end up by being dependent on the 'dots', and you won't be able satisfactorily to improvise and memorise.
Tuition
Don't start learning your instrument from an academic 'straight' teacher. A 'straight' teacher will insist on a pure, accurate, chaste tone. But jazz is |
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