The definitive Jimmy Smith/Kenny Burrell is "The Sermon".

A tour de force in use of the Tritone, the first real song Joey DeFrancesco figured out how to play, learn this one and you've learned a good 60% about playing anything else.

And that goes for guitarists and keyboardists alike.

I'll never forget being a young undergrad taking Classical Music studies when some perfesser started up that stoopid thing about nobody being able to hear which of the two notes of a Tritone were on the top or bottom, the so-called, "Tritone Paradox".

My hand went up immediately.

"But I can hear 'em..."

And, even after identifying every one he played on the piano at the front of the class, the guy went on to try to tell us that I couldn't hear them. But I'd already transcribed The Sermon in entirety by that point. On both instruments.

Over-Educated Idiots, one can still Bing all sorts of references to this "Tritone Paradox" nonsense:

http://www.bing.com/search?FORM=SOLTDF&q=tritone+paradox

To quote the late great Louis Jordan, "Brother Beware!"

Frank Zappa called America's Classical Orchestral Musicians, "Musical Mechanics" who only had to know how to play a standard repertoire of the same 30 pieces, over and over again...


--Mac


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