Sheryl Bailey: Queen of the BeBop




http://www.sherylbailey.com/


Bio

Bailey grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of a musical family. She started playing the guitar at 13.At first she was primarily interested in rock music and after a few years she heard Wes Montgomery play on the radio and discovered jazz. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she helped to found the college's first LGBT student group. After college, she taught music in Baltimore before moving to New York City in 1988 to further her career as a performer. She released her first album, Little Misunderstood in 1995. It featured musicians George Colligan, Vince Loving, and Chris Battistone
In 2001, Bailey released Reunion of Souls with guitarist Chris Bergson, featuring Ashley Turner and Sunny Jain. Stewart Mason of Allmusic called one of the tracks "charming" and one "perfectly sweet" but said that the album was "nothing groundbreaking". This was followed by The Power of 3! in 2002 which contained eight tracks all written by Bailey. Allmusic's Rick Anderson said that each track was "a gem" and "more complex than you'd guess at first listen". Overall he said the album was "highly recommended". Her next album was 2004's Bull's Eye. In 2006, Bailey released her fifth album Live @ the Fat Cat and was a headline act at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival. Her sixth album, A New Promise, was released by MCG Jazz February 2, 2010. She also teaches at Berklee, and at Stanford University's summer workshops.
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The debut of the straight ahead Sheryl Bailey 4, featuring pianist Jim Ridl, bassist Gary Wang, and the powerful drumming of Shingo Okudaira.
20% of sales benefit the Ronald McDonald House of NYC - a very special place for children and their families in cancer treatment.
This project is a testament to the healing powers of music!

1. An Unexpected Turn
2. For All Those Livin'
3. A Muse SIngs
4. Masa's Bag
5. 29-11
6. Wilkinsburg
7. For A Russian Princess
8. Moblin'

Albums

Sheryl continues her series on Bebop Flow, where she teaches how to play in any harmonic situation and create long, fluid lines with this concept of applying the Dom7 Be-bop Scale with a group of chord substitutions called "The Family of 4". In this class, Sheryl shows how to combine families for altered II - V's. It includes a review, or introduction if you have not viewed the first class, of the Dominant 7 Bebop scale along with new concepts and written materials in standard notation.
Sheryl Bailey - Beblop Flow Part 2 - Combining Families for Altered II V's

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