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Gary
Social climber
Monza by the streetlight
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Sep 10, 2012 - 10:39pm PT
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The drum solo by Joe Morello at the end kicks ass.
He was a violin prodigy and a genius on the drum. He's really under-rated.
And Brubeck's comment about Bach and jazz is spot on. If Bach were living today he'd be playing jazz.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 10, 2012 - 11:41pm PT
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All I know is Brubeck is cool. UOP. Only hot people in Stockton now, though. Lost their cool.
Thanks from the bass of my heart, John.
This is a perfect lay-me-down night-night. Cool.
Edit:
this may seem really dumb, but I was confused mentally for a moment when I tried to come up in my mental imagination the theme to Peter Gunn. Now I find I'm mentally thinking of the theme from the 1960s Batman series with word and theme by Neal Hefti. One word, one bass line.
Hate to call you a party pooper, zBrown, but now I can't get it out of my noggin. Do something before I go mental. Is there a Batman inhibitor in the house?
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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zb, I am saddened by the loss of my brother in arms; am posting of some edited peter wolf lyrics (written for thoughts along another line) but work here:
I feel the passing in the teardrops
I see shadows everywhere
But I still do carry on
Though there's a lot of good ones gone
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Thanks for everything.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Mouse & zBrown,
"Edit:
this may seem really dumb, but I was confused mentally for a moment when I tried to come up in my mental imagination the theme to Peter Gunn. Now I find I'm mentally thinking of the theme from the 1960s Batman series with word and theme by Neal Hefti. One word, one bass line.
Hate to call you a party pooper, zBrown, but now I can't get it out of my noggin. Do something before I go mental. Is there a Batman inhibitor in the house?"
Here is "The Gunn Guitar": Bob Bain used it the original recording as well in the Pink Panther movies, Batman and The Munsters TV Series.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Last night at the jazz gig in Toronto, this black guy walks up to the mic and says he wants to sing Take Five in memory of Dave. One of the two guitar players looked a bit flummoxed at the 6 flat key signature, but I was sitting in front of the piano and said, "I can play that!"
After the verse, when we opened for solos, I shouted "bridge!" at the appropriate moment - perhaps not a bad idea when there 16 identical bars in a row!
I, um, left my trombone sitting on its stand for that little number. Need to practise a wee bit more, at least at the tempo buddy was singing it.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Most people don't realize Dave was an excellent classical musician,
and many tried to encourage him to go that route. But he loved jazz.
Many of my good friends who are classical musicians can also play
jazz very well. I started out as a jazz saxophone player with
classicl beginnings and played in
various bands until I finally took up piano and songwriting. Really
the various genres are more connected than most realize.
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
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I'm with ms55401: Emasculated...Brubeck did for Jazz what Elvis did for rock and roll. Made it accessible to white audiences which was a good thing. But the music was hardly nonpareil at any point in time. Coltrane's take on 5/4 (My Favorite Things) makes Desmonds Take Five (which I like) look like the watered down cool jazz that it is. Some good music though. Ben Ratliff's "John Coltrane: The Story Of Sound" is a great read and has a sound argument of what many have pointed out; That jazz died the day Coltrane did. I think Largo also posted a Coltrane thread? I'd like to know why Largo thinks Brubeck is nonpareil......
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Holy frig, wstmrnclmr...
Have you been drinking, or just a brain fart?
My Favourite Things is a jazz waltz, in 3/4 not 5/4 time. I was just playing it on the piano an hour ago, trying to figure out the open voicings for solos on the E dorion.
However, I emphatically agree that Trane's version is the gold standard.
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
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Pass the Piton...So effin right. Wrong tune brain fart indeed. Replace My Favorite (still makes anything by Brubeck look pedestrian) with "Nature Boy" off the seminal "The John Coltrane Quartet Plays". I hate getting old...
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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It's not a zero sum game, boys.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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The man put out some great tunes. RIP Dave.
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