Jon Burr - Bassist, Composer, Arranger
Musician, Developer, Author, Chef
There are so many essential little muscles hidden away controlling our posture and defining our self-concept, we’re usually not aware of them until something goes wrong.
Every body has different habits, strengths and weaknesses, and different histories …
“Losing weight” is an unhealthy goal to pursue. Using a weight scale as your measure of progress usually leads to muscle loss with fat loss, causing serious damage to your metabolism. Metabolism has to be …
We tend to think of aerobic exercise in terms of calories. Run or walk for 45 minutes, burn a few hundred calories, create a deficit, and eventually lose some weight.
Fair enough. But calorie arithmetic doesn’t tell the whole story, …
Many jazz musicians believe that playing a great solo is a matter of playing melodies that fit over the chords. They learn chordal scales, standard “licks” that fit over them, pentatonics, arpeggios, patterns, etc–and believe that doing this …
Nobody ever told me to do this.
I wish they had, years ago.
As a typical music geek kid, I wasn’t into sports as a youngster, preferring to practice, listen to and play music. Consequently I had poor muscle tone, …
Too many jazz guys tend to think that composition is putting together a string of “cool” chords, writing a melody consisting of patterns that fit over the chords over some hip rhythms, and then improvising by playing more …
“Where the bass puts it is where it is.”
These are not my words – they’re Milt Hinton’s.
If you want your music to feel right, you need a good …
I love taking pictures. Life is beautiful! These are up on my Instagram account.…
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“Burr … went beyond a Buddy Rich, Tony Bennett or Stan Getz because he was the songwriter and lyricist as well as a performer. …
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