06/04/2022
Deep Thinking: Using The Pentatonic Scales
The last couple of Deep Thinking columns that featured one of Jaco Pastorius’ best pieces (IMHO) have maybe made the learning ...
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Deep Thinking: Weather Report’s Teen Town (Part 2)
Admittedly it's been a while now, but in the last NZM issue we tackled one of Jaco Pastorius’ compositions for Weather ...
READ MORE >11/01/2022
Celebrating 40 Years Of Flying Nun With Hocken Collections
Amanda Mills has been writing and reviewing for NZ Musician since 2007, and since 2011 has been employed at Hocken Collections ...
READ MORE >08/06/2021
Musicians Recognised In 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours
Seven members of the Kiwi music industry are among those recognised with 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Singer Hinewehi ...
READ MORE >15/09/2020
Deep Thinking: Cross Hand Exercises
Hi everyone! Many movies have a prequel delivered after the main feature has been released, but this article is the other ...
READ MORE >21/04/2020
Long-lost Chills’ Video Released
A long-lost Chills video of the band’s 1982 debut single Rolling Moon has risen out of unfinished obscurity. Veteran cinematographer ...
READ MORE >17/01/2020
Deep Thinking: Carol Kaye Of The Wrecking Crew
In this Deep Thinking session, we are going to look at a couple of tracks recorded by legendary US session bassist, Carol ...
READ MORE >30/08/2019
Caroline Easther: Lucky
Caroline Easther ’s debut solo album has been a decade in the making, recorded between other musical projects. Lucky by ...
READ MORE >02/08/2019
Deep Thinking: Weather Report’s Birdland
For this issue, I have transcribed the opening bass part on the seminal Weather Report track Birdland from the band’s 1977 ...
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