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If it is the same Dave Biller I knew in Bloomington, IN
a few years ago, he can play contemporary jazz like nobody's business. At a jazz clinic in Louisville, he played a standard (Stella, I think) with Jim Hall and he sounded very Michael Brecker - Pat Metheny ish. Everyone was impressed.
He learned quite a bit of contemporary stuff from a book by Jack Grassell. It is called "Monster Chops" and deals with the interval a fourth a lot and other larger intervals. He was working in sheet music in a local store then, and he ordered a copy for me. Beware, this book is very complicated and standard notation only.
He later moved to Austin and began playing with someone there, and a bass player friend of mine (and Dave's) described the music as something like Ernest Tubb meets Charlie Parker.
-Scott
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Scott M
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