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Anyone know why he withdrew? It was a good track.

I did a remix of mine with REAL drums (recorded by a drummer friend at his place and dropboxed to me) and more bass (still could have been better but no time). Link still works but now takes you to a new version of the same track.

Ref: lines. Not necessary. You can't see them most of the time and, if you are reading charts or watching for cues, you are screwed. Muscle memory is the skill you need to acquire, not 20:20 vision.

Not read the thread but, for my money, the 'transition' takes minutes/a lifetime. You can play a convincing fretless part within moments; it really isn't that hard. But, for the next couple of decades, you will ebb and flow in term,s of the relationship you have with your own intonation. For me, it all gets a bit lairy up the dusty end where a couple of mil can make the difference between the smell of freshly mown grass and a fart in a space suit. It's a life long quest.

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I am not 100% sure but I think Telephone was an album by Ron Carter and Jim Hall, not Joe Pass, which may explain why you cannot find it. I guess Pass may have recorded it with Carter on another album but you may know better than me. Anyway, here is the CD on Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ron-Carter-Jim-Hall-UCCO-90319/dp/B00KY9VWGS/ref=sr_1_sc_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427454010&sr=1-3-spell&keywords=jim+hall+ron+carete

I'd buy that.....

Mindfullness is marmite. It was rolled out locally as a training event and some think it is the answer to everything whilst others think it is a load of old b*ll*cks. Bit like rap I guess.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1427395430' post='2729943'] Nice music stand - did the audience walk out [/quote] Ha! I can play better [i]with[/i] a music stand than most people can without!!!

Made In Japan was one of the first rock cassettes ( ) I ever heard (a friend had it when we went on holiday) and I love it but Machine head is right up there alongside it. But I have to say, the one ! go back to again and again, even now that I am a Jazz nazi, is 'Burn', one of the best rock anthems in the canon. (Rainbow Rising remains a favourite as well, for Airey and Powell as much as the rest)

It played for me and I voted for it!!

Jazz East at The Fludyers in Felixstowe, Suffolk. My own little Jazz venture. This week I get to play with Phil Robson and Christine Tobin (again ). Details at www.jazzeast.vpweb.co.uk

There are inexpensive drone apps as well.

Wow! What a fantastic line-up!

Got a new audio interface and that hum has gone at last!!!!!!!

Some people just don't understand how language works, how it develops and grows. I would rather 'So...' than 'Forsooth...' Grammar nazis? Worserer than apostrophe nazi's.

Try Holst's 'Planet Suite' and Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherezade'. Both stunning pieces of music that I have adored for decades.

There are plenty of world/folk musics that can do that, scalpy. A lot of world music carries dual meanings such as the Brazilian saudade which means is a sort of melancholy happiness. The blues is the same; 'we sing happy things because it helps us cope with being sad' kind of thing (I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings). Flamenco does it. Argentine Tango does it too, and reggae - I think it is more common than these perspectives indicate. I also suspect that Tilson Thomas may have a bias

I find I submit shorter posts nowadays as a lot of what I have said has been said by me before and I get bored typing it. To be honest, I only go to the threads I monitor (Performance), Gen. Dis and Off Topic unless something catches my eye. A lot of it is to do with devices and what I can use on my mobile devices as opposed to PCs (eg my mobile and kindle won't play posted videos). The biggest problem I have is I can type quite quickly on a keyboard but these touchscreen devices really slow me down and p*** me off so the points I make are often quite brief now.

A blog on how to play Moondance? I think I will write one on why you shouldn't.

I was assuming you were talking about beginners who were coming to Jazz fresh. I think that understanding the context of a walking bass line would be easier to explain/comprehend with RB and PC (who studied with RB) than, say, Marc Johnson with John Abercrombie or Dave Holland with Circle etc. I don't think that most beginners would be overly concerned with [i]sounding[/i] like PC, GP or anyone else for that matter let alone whether their strings were gut or otherwise. That would come later. For the first six months, they would be trying to get through a whole song without bleeding!!

[quote name='notable9' timestamp='1427105080' post='2725697'] ha.. can anyone actually play TT apart that is from Will Lee... [/quote] Richard Bona. Actually, the trouble with Teen Town is that everybody learns it but never plays ot so, when, ten years later they try, their chops aren't up to it! For me, it would be Charlie Parker heads. Something like 'Cheryl' or 'Dexterity' (at the Paul Chambers tempo, not the Parker one) works nicely. Or sometimes I go for the head to Charles Mingus's 'Dry Cleaner From Des Moines' which works well down low (as Charlie Haden played it with Mingus Dynasty. That's three blokes called Charlie in one post. Marvellous.

13 entries? How cool is that? No tag on Soundcloud. Skol just posts links to everyone's individual track.

Interesting that the two tunes you mention are both featured in films as I think the best comparison in contemporary music is film music. A lot of classical music was written under commission by the church or state and it could be argued that the modern equivalent is the multi million pound movie industry. Who else can afford to commission orchestras etc. There are also parallels with conttemporary Jazz in that the music is art as much as it is entertainment. Try Maria Schneider for instance.

Yes but what has that got to do with this thread?