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"Buster’s many years of professional playing and teaching all ages, make him a superb teacher. Whatever your abilities or difficulties, he has great techniques for progressing your skills and knowledge. His love and enthusiasm for music and music education combine with kindness, humour and patience to make every lesson a great experience."

Ian Rowe - guitar and piano​

The Lesson Vault

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The vault contains the entire back catalogue of all my online lessons. Each lesson is approximately 1hr long and includes a complete breakdown of the tune. I walk you through each section, step by step, provide clear explanations of how the music works and give you simple strategies and clear pathways showing you how to construct a solo based on the ingredients of the music. We will practice improvising on each section separately using the custom play-along tracks at a manageable tempo and gradually piece the tune together, culminating in a full performance with you soloing over the whole piece by the end of the class.

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Every lesson includes all of the downloads and class resources including, warm up routines, full band parts, custom-made play-along tracks, transcriptions, links to the original recordings, session details including recording dates, personnel and wiki links to full bios of musicians, plus synopsis of album info. 

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The repertoire is listed alphabetically or you can filter by style to find just what you are looking for!

A Night In Tunisia

Artist: 

Charlie Parker

Album:

Complete Savoy Sessions

Style:

Latin Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Afro Blue

Artist: 

Mongo Santamaria

Album:

Afro Blue

Style:

Afro Cuban 6/8

Level:

Simple

All Blues

Artist: 

Miles Davis

Album:

Kind of Blue

Style:

3/4

Level:

Simple

All The Things You Are

Artist: 

Charlie Parker

Album:

All That Jazz vol 24

Style:

Be Bop

Level:

Intermediate

All of Me

Artist: 

Lester Young & Teddy Wilson

Album:

Pres & Teddy

Style:

Swing

Level:

Simple

Autumn Leaves

Artist: 

Cannonball Adderley

Album:

Something Else

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Simple

Bags’ Groove

Artist: 

Miles Davis

Album:

Bags’ Groove

Style:

Blues

Level:

Simple

Bernie’s Tune

Artist: 

Chet Baker

Album:

Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 1

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Besame Mucho

Artist: 

Nat King Cole

Album:

Ultimate Collection

Style:

Swing

Level:

Intermediate

Big Chief

Artist: 

Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Album:

Medicated Magic

Style:

Funky

Level:

Simple

Blue Bossa

Artist: 

Joe Henderson

Album:

Page One

Style:

Bossa Nova

Level:

Simple

Blue Monk

Artist: 

Thelonious Monk

Album:

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk

Style:

Blues

Level:

Simple

Blue Moon

Artist: 

Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge

Album:

Roy & Diz

Style:

Swing

Level:

Simple

Blues In The Closet

Artist: 

Stanley Turrentine

Album:

Stanley Turrentine And The Three Sounds

Style:

Blues

Level:

Simple

Bye Bye Blackbird

Artist: 

Miles Davis

Album:

Round About Midnight

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Simple

Cantaloupe Island

Artist: 

Herbie Hancock

Album:

Empyrean Isles

Style:

Modal

Level:

Simple

Cape Verdean Blues

Artist: 

Horace Silver

Album:

The Cape Verdian Blues

Style:

Samba

Level:

Simple

Caravan

Artist: 

Wynton Marsalis

Album:

Standard Time

Style:

Latin Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Centerpiece

Artist: 

Scott Hamilton

Album:

Live in Bern

Style:

Blues

Level:

Simple

Close Your Eyes

Artist: 

Gene Ammons

Album:

Boss Tenor

Style:

Hard Bop

Level:

Simple

Cold Duck Time

Artist: 

Eddie Harris & Les McCann

Album:

Live at Montreux

Style:

Funky

Level:

Simple

Come Sunday

Artist: 

Duke Ellington & Mahalia Jackson

Album:

Black, Brown & Beige

Style:

Gospel

Level:

Intermediate

Comes Love

Artist: 

Sue Rivers & Jo Fooks

Album:

From the Very Start

Style:

Swing

Level:

Intermediate

Dark Eyes

Artist: 

Jimmy Smith

Album:

Cool Blues

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Don’t Get Around Much Any More

Artist: 

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington

Album:

The Great Reunion

Style:

Swing

Level:

Intermediate

Doxy

Artist: 

Miles Davis

Album:

Bags Groove

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Simple

Exploring the Major ii-V-I sequence

Artist: 

Album:

Style:

Jazz Harmony

Level:

Intermediate

Exploring the Minor ii-V-I sequence

Artist: 

Album:

Style:

Jazz Harmony

Level:

Intermediate

Fly Me To The Moon

Artist: 

Frank Sinatra

Album:

It Might As Well Be Swing

Style:

Swing

Level:

Intermediate

Footprints

Artist: 

Wayne Shorter

Album:

Adams Apple

Style:

3/4

Level:

Simple

Freddie Freeloader

Artist: 

Miles Davis

Album:

Kind of Blue

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Simple

Fungii Mama

Artist: 

Blue Mitchell

Album:

The Thing To Do

Style:

Calypso

Level:

Intermediate

Honeysuckle Rose

Artist: 

Fats Waller

Album:

The Real Fats Waller

Style:

Swing

Level:

Intermediate

How Deep Is The Ocean

Artist: 

Ben Webster

Album:

Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson

Style:

Swing

Level:

Intermediate

I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free

Artist: 

Billy Taylor

Album:

I Wish I Knew

Style:

Gospel

Level:

Intermediate

I’ll Remember April

Artist: 

Chet Baker

Album:

Chet In Paris

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Jazz Blues Harmony

Artist: 

Album:

Style:

Jazz Harmony

Level:

Intermediate

Jitterbug Waltz

Artist: 

Eric Dolphy

Album:

Conversations

Style:

3/4

Level:

Intermediate

Lester Leaps In

Artist: 

Illinois Jacquet

Album:

Desert Winds

Style:

Rhythm Changes

Level:

Intermediate

Little Sunflower

Artist: 

Freddie Hubbard

Album:

Backlash

Style:

Modal

Level:

Simple

Love for Sale

Artist: 

Miles Davis

Album:

58 Miles

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Mack The Knife

Artist: 

Heads South

Album:

Record Flight

Style:

Salsa

Level:

Simple

Mercy Mercy Mercy

Artist: 

Cannonball Adderley

Album:

Live at The Club

Style:

Gospel

Level:

Intermediate

Moanin

Artist: 

Charles Mingus

Album:

Blues and Roots

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Moanin’ (Bobby Timmons)

Artist: 

Art Blakey

Album:

Moanin’

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Simple

My Little Suede Shoes

Artist: 

Charlie Parker

Album:

South of the Border

Style:

Calypso

Level:

Simple

Night And Day

Artist: 

Stan Getz

Album:

Stand Getz and Bill Evans

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Nutville

Artist: 

Horace Silver

Album:

The Cape Verdian Blues

Style:

Latin Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

On Green Dolphin Street

Artist: 

Miles Davis

Album:

58 Miles

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

One Note Samba

Artist: 

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd

Album:

Jazz Samba

Style:

Samba

Level:

Intermediate

Recordame

Artist: 

Joe Henderson

Album:

Page One

Style:

Latin Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Sack Of Woe

Artist: 

Cannonball Adderley

Album:

Live at the Lighthouse

Style:

Hard Bop

Level:

Intermediate

Señor Blues

Artist: 

Horace Silver

Album:

Six Pieces of Silver

Style:

Afro Cuban 6/8

Level:

Intermediate

Sidewinder

Artist: 

Lee Morgan

Album:

The Sidewinder

Style:

Funky

Level:

Intermediate

Sister Sadie

Artist: 

Horace Silver

Album:

Blowin’ the blues away

Style:

Hard Bop

Level:

Simple

So What/Impressions

Artist: 

Miles Davis

Album:

Kind of Blue

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Simple

Song For My Father

Artist: 

Horace Silver

Album:

Song For My Father

Style:

Latin Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

St Thomas

Artist: 

Sonny Rollins

Album:

Saxophone Colussus

Style:

Calypso

Level:

Simple

Stella by Starlight

Artist: 

Stan Getz

Album:

Stan Getz Plays

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Summer Time

Artist: 

Sonny Stitt & Art Blakey

Album:

A Jazz Message

Style:

Be Bop

Level:

Intermediate

Sweet Georgia Brown

Artist: 

Ella Fitzgerald

Album:

Whisper Not

Style:

Swing

Level:

Simple

Take The A Train

Artist: 

Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington

Album:

Ella Sings Duke

Style:

Swing

Level:

Simple

The Chicken

Artist: 

Jaco Pastorius

Album:

The Birthday Concert

Style:

Funky

Level:

Simple

The Girl From Ipanema

Artist: 

Stan Getz

Album:

Getz Giberto

Style:

Bossa Nova

Level:

Intermediate

The Preacher

Artist: 

Horace Silver

Album:

The Preacher

Style:

Gospel

Level:

Intermediate

The Sticks

Artist: 

Cannonball Adderley

Album:

Live at The Club

Style:

Funky

Level:

Simple

There Will Never Be Another You

Artist: 

Chet Baker

Album:

Young Chet

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Tune Up

Artist: 

Sonny Rollins

Album:

Newk’s Time

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

Well You Needn’t

Artist: 

Miles Davis

Album:

Steamin

Style:

Modern Jazz

Level:

Intermediate

What is This Thing Called Love

Artist: 

Sonny Rollins

Album:

Live at Basin St

Style:

Be Bop

Level:

Intermediate

Work Song

Artist: 

Cannonball Adderley

Album:

Work Song

Style:

Hard Bop

Level:

Simple

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