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In this video, Davy Mooney explores his composition “Checkup,” the final track on the album “Way Back.” The song is incredibly dense harmonically, and Mooney attempts to illuminate some of the chromaticism and darkness of the composition.
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Check out Davy’s album on Sunnyside, “Davy Mooney and the Hope of Home Band Live at National Sawdust”.
Davy Mooney’s “Into the Labyrinth: An Anatomy of Position Playing for Jazz Guitar”
Davy’s Mel Bay book “Personalizing Jazz Vocabulary“
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