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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Mel Brown on Brushes










Thank you to John Riley who forwarded me these clips of Portland's Mel Brown demonstrating a series of brush patterns he learned from Philly Joe Jones:



And here's some more, shown at a different angle:



I believe that all these patterns are taken from Philly Joe Jones' long out-of-print book "Brush Artistry" that can be conveniently found here:

http://www.toddreid.com/uploads/BrushArtistry_small.pdf

or here:

http://www.garber.ca/marc/brush_artistry/index.htm

That's how it's done folks!

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