Bilbo

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?

Break a [s]finger[/s] leg

This list of great players is endless but, if you want to understand Jazz, I seriously recommend you got back to the giants. Sart with Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Doug Watkins, Scott LaFaro, Charlie Haden, Ron Carter etc and, when you move on to the cats Jaywalker is talking about (who are all monsters and amoung my favourite players). it will make more sense. I think if you start with Gary Peacock, you may struggle with the kinds of gigs you are most likely to start with

I am glad 😎

Not a brilliant effort this month but I had a lot on and am remodelling my studio space so couldn't find the time to spend on the piece (some dodgy notes in there that I would prefer to have dealt with but it ain't going to happen!!) [url="https://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/lucky-bastard"]https://soundcloud.c...1/lucky-bastard[/url]

I have finished writing mine but have tried to get a drummer friend to add real drums instead of my crap VSTs. Trouble is he is busy so I probably won't get it done in time so will have to submit my iffy version. Fingers crossed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tUTsZ78xIw Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly - Flora Purim

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1426691330' post='2720865'] I've always played both I can't say that one has helped the other. In fact as I've recently (2 years or so) started to read music jumping between the Clefs is doing my head in to the point that I'm thinking of concentrating one 1 instrument only. [/quote] Stick with it, bro. Piano players do it all of the time.