Jazz Kat

But fortunately, you actually spelled my user name right. Yippie! You can read also!!!

How bout you take that cork out of your ass.

I believe I mentioned Joe Sample, but did not delete any of my posts. Perhaps it was someone else mentioning the tune besides me...?

Straight ahead stuff?

You could, but left handed basses are made with the E string on the oppposite side as a right handed bass.

COUNT ME IN!!!

Soul Brothers! Milt Jackson and Ray Charles. That should convince anybody.

The other guys always go to this gig. We just call out whatever tunes we want. One of them happened to be A Night In Tunisia, in which we did it in the arrangement my trio always does.

My band is a sax player, bassist, and me. Our guitarist moved to Las Vegas for school, so we been a trio lately. Yesterday, they call me up and ask me if I can play this gig where the people in my band would be there, plus several other guys. After we played a few, the other guys left and us as a trio started to play our arrangement of A Night In Tunisia. After about the first chorus the guitarist jumps in, not knowing the arrangement. (We play the melody in 12/8)

Don't listen to Afro-Cuban music often, but I love Mongo's version of Watermelon Man. Ray Baretto was great on those classic albums, but I saw him on tv, and he looked like he was in pain, just soloing over a simple latin rhythm.

I loved when I saw him on Channel 21 with Lawrence Welk. They did some Halloween song, and it was pop, but it was enjoyable.

It was a nice experience. We played Maiden Voyage, Watermelon Man, There Will Never Be Another You, St. Thomas, Girl From Ipanema, Mr. P.C., Triste, Equinox, Night In Tunisia, All Blues, All The Things You Are, Four, On Green Dolphin Street, Summertime, and a couple more. There were two guitarists, a saxophonist, keyboardist, bass player, and me. It was pretty cool. Afterwards, the guy who runs it asked me if I would be apart of this group full time. It worked out pretty good, except this guitar player played A Night In TUnisia with us and messed it up because he hadn't done the arrangement me, the saxist, and bass player worked on for weeks. It turned out ok.

Has anyone heard this? I saw a review of it in a Downbeat issue. The cover is pretty interesting, and I'm curious as to how this sounds.

Will do. I hope I don't let my sticks fall out of my hands from me greasin my hair. I guess we'll play some standards, blues, ballads, and of course, my favorite, Watermelon Man!!!

I got my first gig tonight. My drum teacher recommended me to play at this club. Their usual drummer can't make it, so I got recommended. I can't wait! Packing up my drums and about to head out soon. This should be awesome!

Yeah, I mean what teen wouldn't like Soulive's image. I can groove to that music, but that's pretty much it.

Well let's see. LP- Round Midnight, cds- KOB, Milestones, Session 57, Cookin, Workin, Relaxin. That's it. Couple cheasy compilations too.

Will NOT be buying this any time soon.

We just played Yardbird Suite last night. Happy B-day bird!!

I used to be a Soulive freak like, a couple of weeks ago, and a couple of months before that. They groove like mother fuckers! The things I don't like about them is that, sometimes, they put real hip hop tunes on their with rappers as special guest stars. However, I think it's great that a band that doesn't really play jazz, and that is on the hip hop scene, can use improv and jazz elements into their playing. I don't see that much wrong with Soulive, except that they got their basic hip hop beat that they definately perfected, but they don't seem to be versatile. The drumer hasn't used brushes on one song they ever recorded yet, no latin rhythms, no swinging, (except for a song called Joe Sample which appeared on the Doin' Something album) no use of percussion, not much use of dynamics, etc. I just think that some of their melodies are pretty creative. Cashes Dream from the Get Down album has a pretty catchy hook, and the rest of the album is pretty good. That is a good album. Their best ever. The next one Doin Somethin' had a few songs that were catchy, and had some horns in them. But their third studio release, Next was pretty pitiful. Their new album is due in September. They have moved from Blue Note to Concord, and I'll probaly get the new album to see where they're going, and as this point, it looks the saxophonist isn't an official member, as he doesn't even appear on the cover of the new album coming out. I'll spend my time listening to some classic Blue Notes, but it's nice to hear some modern stuff.

You mean skin flute. :

I was jamming last night at my friends house. After everyone else had split, I was looking through my friend's dad's record collection. About a couple 1,000 of Blue Notes, Prestiges, Verves, etc..It was like heaven. (next time we hang out all we are going to do is put some of those records on cd's) I found a lot of BN's that I am dieing to hear. I am pretty familiar with a lot of classic Blue Note albums, and love the cover art. There's about 500 that I want to hear really bad. This is how this thread was started. So what BN's haven't YOU heard?

What's wrong with this. I don't keep my mouth shut when I wanna say Coltrane is my favorite, so Miles wont get affended. Randy, you cooked!

Perhaps the one Peter White worked on for days, then wrote it down so he didn't have to make it up as he went along, during recording time.