Re: [Harp-L] YouTube - AFTER YOU'VE GONE-- shtreiml

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randy;
            I'd say about a quarter of my record collection is jazz. While I'm no jazz player, I understand the harmonic progressions, substitutions, etc. I just don't think this sounded very good. I might add here that I'm no Levy fan either. He does play some nice stuff, but a lot of the time it sounds like what Toots was quoted as saying in Hunter's 'Jazz Harp' book: 'Look Ma! No hands!.
RD
            

>>> Randy Singer <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3/12/2008 14:55 >>>
hard to make this clear. He is not doodling at all.

it is like viewing the water from the surface. You cannot tell how  
deep the water is..........it might only be two inches or two hundred  
miles deep.

Same thing with jazz. Those who do not understand jazz do not realize  
there are complex chord changes going on and that a jazz musician is  
navigating those changes expertly.  He is playing the notes that  
correspond to those changes and creating mini melodies on top. This  
extraordinary level of musicianship is also similar to a pilot or race  
driver operating and processing at top speed with total clarity and  
command.

Perhaps if it were SLOWER you might be able to better appreciate the  
genius of a jazz musician.

Great music is a very subjective term. However I have learned that the  
more I learn about any subject, the more I am able to appreciate it on  
a deeper level.

It ain't the blues but if that is all you like, there will be plenty  
of blues music for you. I love it all.

randy singer





On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Rick Dempster wrote:

> I'd have to go with Effjay on this, though I don't just think it's  
> intonation; where's the music?
> With the exception of a few phrases, it sounded like a lot of  
> doodling, with the express
> purpose of overblowing everything possible.
> RD
>
>>>> Randy Singer <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3/12/2008 13:53 >>>
> incredible diatonic harp playing IMO
>
> he plays it like a chromatic (howard style)
>
> congratulations
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edEuO9TOWLM&sdig=1 
>
> ________