How to Play Jazz on Your Ukulele: A Primer
The first trick to playing jazz on ukulele is overcoming “jazz imposter syndrome,” the way blues and rock players often feel when they try to play jazz standards. ... Read More...
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Learn to Play ‘Daytime Moon,’ a Jazzy Uke Tune by Victoria Vox and Casey MacGill
“Daytime Moon” might sound—and look—complicated, but it’s actually pretty simple. Here's how to play this song by Victoria Vox and Casey MacGill on ukulele.... Read More...
Review: Uke Books on Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker from Paul Hemmings
BY JIM D'VILLE | FROM THE SUMMER 2020 ISSUE OF UKULELEPaul Hemmings has the cool credentials. He lives in the Big Apple, digs Duke and Bird, and is a maste... Read More...
The Muse and Magic of Jazz Ukulele Maven Curt Sheller
BY LIL REV | FROM THE SUMMER 2019 ISSUE OF UKULELE
If the ukulele world had its own trading cards, there would be no shortage of superheroes. We know their nam... Read More...
How to Jazz Up the Ukulele
Here’s a peek at a few jazzy ideas for ukulele to start you on the road to thinking like a jazz player. ... Read More...
From Backing Don Ho to Redefining Jazz Uke, Benny Chong Can Do it All
BY AUDREY COLEMAN | FROM THE SUMMER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE
Benny Chong and I are chatting amiably at Happa, the L.A.-area restaurant and music venue where he’ll... Read More...
Lyle Ritz Lesson: Learn to Play His Arrangement of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”
From the Summer 2017 issue of Ukulele | BY JUMPIN' JIM BELOFF
Click here to download a PDF of the arrangement.
Lyle Ritz, who passed away on March 3, 2017, at... Read More...
Gods of Uke: The Influence of Ukulele-Jazz Pioneer Lyle Ritz, 1930–2017
Jazz ukulele pioneer Lyle Ritz’s 2 albums for Verve, How About Uke? (1958) and 50th State Jazz (1959), were hugely influential among a generation of Hawaiian ukulele players.... Read More...
Lyle Ritz: The Leader Of A Quiet, Mellow Revolution
By Greg OlwellWhile most people have probably heard Lyle Ritz, they may not have known it. As an A-list session bassist whose career began in the late-’50s,... Read More...
Gods of Uke: Remembering ‘Duke of Uke’ Bill Tapia, Jazz Ukulele Pioneer
Jazz ukulele pioneer Bill Tapia's career spanned 9 decades and put him at the center of both the 1920s ukulele explosion and, more recently, the uke revival.... Read More...