[Harp-L] re: Tea

[Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There seems to be some confusion (well, several, as you'll see).  I'm  
not jazmaan, rather, I'm me.  I was quoting jazmaan in stuff before I  
responded to what you (Slim) had written.

"I still don't hear it the way you do, but nothing wrong with that."

Not at all.  Indeed, the world's a much better place for everyone  
having their own tastes.  Otherwise I'd never be able to listen to  
Sun Ra or Schoenberg due to the tastes of most people.

"Just wanted to point out that in the snippet below, you chopped off  
my sentence, and thereby lost the meaning. What I said was related  
only to interval jumps, not other musical aspects. We do agree on  
this point. "

Ah, I see.  Sorry, (my confusion) I thought the part about interval  
jumps was a specific statement and the part proceeding a generic  
statement which ended with the "etc...".  Sorry for the mis- 
interpretation.  Then, yes, we do most certainly agree about the  
specifics.

"And, actually, if you listen to some Gary Burton recordings, he has  
been known to actually bend notes on the vibes, although I have no  
idea how he does it ;-)"

I do (well, I know how I've seen it done), and that's why I  
specifically said xylophone not vibraphone:).  You can't do it on a  
xylophone unless you modify it significantly, and even then it  
wouldn't really work well.

Actually, it's not that the piece is all that hard on chromatic if  
taken at a slower pace (perhaps even slower than Toots'), but trying  
it at the speed Ellington first recorded it at is quite another  
matter.  Again, I'll have to hear the Chris Bauer(sp) and see about  
that.



 ()()    JR "Bulldogge" Ross
()  ()   & Snuffy, too:)
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