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Full Moon Moan (from America: The Rough Cut


AllenLowe

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A few years back I caught some flack here for criticizing a very good musician (Allison Miller) for having no clue about playing in a so-called funky manner. Truthfully I find that both contemporary jazz audiences and jazz musicians  rarely have a clue about the deep blues. Mindful of the belief that "those who can.....," since I also teach and write about that history, I wanted to submit the following from our upcoming CD, America: The Rough Cut.  This is how you do it, not with cliches and dopey vamps, and a lotta flat thirds and bad drumming in search of a backbeat. The old blues players weren't slick or playing scales, they were looking deep inside themselves and letting the feeling  out.  I offer this, Full Moon Moan, based on some early blues-like forms which held a single chord while melodically slipping and sliding through the standard old-time blues changes. This is myself on tenor, Ray Suhy guitar, Alex Tremblay bass, and Krestin Osgood drums.  if you like it, buy the CD:

 

 

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