farmmm livin is the life for me.
What is he listening to??
Keanu Reeves' band, obviously.
Grant Green...
OK kid.
Grant Green had some damn tone! He used to use extra heavy strings; strings that would make bass players smile. It really did wonders for his tone. I have a double CD of his stuff with Gershwin's It Ain't Necessarily So on it (with Blakey on drums) that just rocks.
Bill Hardman, a trumpet player, played often with Blakey (messengers era)...we drank together at The Romanian Gardens on Myrtlyle Ave, Brooklyn (88 - 90). He often started at 10 am...I only had the nerve to start at noon (like my grandfather). He said Blakey hit harder and softer than anyone (whatever that meant). Anyhow, most of the time the poems dont get written down. Honesty is the best policy.
what's it with all the sheep?
(Man I love that dark slavic tone...)
I'll raise you a gangsta Barney.
Bill
I actually just discovered Grant Green last weekend.:oGrant Green had some damn tone! He used to use extra heavy strings; strings that would make bass players smile. It really did wonders for his tone. I have a double CD of his stuff with Gershwin's It Ain't Necessarily So on it (with Blakey on drums) that just rocks.
Oh, don't say that, it's bullshit. That's what those types would like you to believe - it justifies their relatively small audiences - but it's bullshit.Too many jazz musicians turn me off when they launch into endless meandering displays of their technical abilities. Maybe its just me not being an experienced enough listener to appreciate those things.
Oh, don't say that, it's bullshit. That's what those types would like you to believe - it justifies their relatively small audiences - but it's bullshit.
Different kinds of music appeal to different kinds of people. I'm sure a person could learn to appreciate certain kinds of initially off-putting music if they really want to devote themselves to such a pastime, but what's the point of doing that?
Maybe its just me not being an experienced enough listener to appreciate those things.
Too many jazz musicians turn me off when they launch into endless meandering displays of their technical abilities.
As a (jazz) musician it's an interesting line to walk; you keep things spare and simple and some people will refer to your stuff as elevator music or claim you can't really play that well.
Tear it up and you are thought of as... well "endless meandering displays of their technical abilities" will do nicely.
End rant.
...some people will refer to your stuff as elevator music ...
So I see what you're saying, maybe I just wasn't clear.