Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Thanks for that, Joel. Amazing how it's all in the right hand, and the economy of the finger movements is a thing of beauty.
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NWR: Jazz and "jazz"
- Thread starter Saina Nieminen
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Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart
Yeaahhh....right hand engines driving the sound; left hand funneling the energy into notes. Both guys' intonation is incredible
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart
...gotta add one note here: check Edgar's left hand at 5:06 and 5:10...just as they are coming out of that funky little interlude, he POPS the A and then the E string a microsecond before laying into it with the bow.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
...gotta add one note here: check Edgar's left hand at 5:06 and 5:10...just as they are coming out of that funky little interlude, he POPS the A and then the E string a microsecond before laying into it with the bow.
Nice! He does the same at 2:12.
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
...gotta add one note here: check Edgar's left hand at 5:06 and 5:10...just as they are coming out of that funky little interlude, he POPS the A and then the E string a microsecond before laying into it with the bow.
Nice! He does the same at 2:12.
Indeed (and again at about 2:21)...would love to hear the explanation behind the move. It's sort of a left hand pizzicato used in combo with bowing. Does it "reset" the string from other overtone vibrations? Increase volume/projection? Sure looks cool.
John Roberts
John Roberts
Fantastic stuff. I've long been familiar with Bela. Anyone have suggestions as to what to get from Edgar?
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
Stanko's work is beautiful. Meyer is a remarkable technician who manages to pull beauty out of the mechanics. Esperanza Spaulding is a beautifully soulful musician who just so happens to play bass. She'd be good even if she played an Ocarina or the Tonette.
And nobody would dare pan this performance...
-Eden (talk about having a set of pipes!)
And nobody would dare pan this performance...
-Eden (talk about having a set of pipes!)
lars makie
lars makie
She's also on the cover of USAToday today.originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Stanko's work is beautiful. Meyer is a remarkable technician who manages to pull beauty out of the mechanics. Esperanza Spaulding is a beautifully soulful musician who just so happens to play bass. She'd be good even if she played an Ocarina or the Tonette.
And nobody would dare pan this performance...
-Eden (talk about having a set of pipes!)
originally posted by Otto Nieminen:
Tomasz Stanko's Leosia is my most recent find. A very well known trumpetist but I had still managed to miss him until now.
"Suspended Night" is a must buy.
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
Coincidentally, obliquely, and surely geeklyoriginally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Thanks! Marcia later researched Esperanza's youtube videos and found this....
Edgar Meyer was suggested to me the same day I saw your Esperanza clip, Oswaldo. Looking thru his work on youtube I had to ask myself, "Where have I been?" Here, he plays a couple of sweet and powerful bowed solos...but apparently he can play the hell out of Bach too.
More obliquely, but certainly relatedly geekly, is Bela's middle name (Anton)....after Weber himself.
(Now...if we can just hook Bela and Edgar up with Roscoe Mitchell and the ghost of Derek Bailey. Barring that, Meyer's Bach work might sustain in the interim.)
I like the classical meyer the best. Although I also played the "skip, hop and wobble" cd to death long ago.
Edgar meyer has long been my rejoinder to Eden Mylunsch's Nashville-diatribes about being forced to go the bluebird cafe and listen to Janis Ian and Eddie Rabbit-wannabes. Not that the Mylunsch diatribes are without merit -- they are grounded in fact --but they miss the essential fact that there was a period of time here when you could also go to very small venues and listen to Edgar Meyer play double bass in small combos with mark o'connor, bela fleck, sam bush, Jerry Douglass, etc. Listening to Edgar Meyer play bass is truly a treat.
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart
Lucky you! That's about half of the cream of the crop (from that generation) right there.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by Bwood:
Edgar meyer has long been my rejoinder to Eden Mylunsch's Nashville-diatribes about being forced to go the bluebird cafe and listen to Janis Ian and Eddie Rabbit-wannabes. Not that the Mylunsch diatribes are without merit -- they are grounded in fact --but they miss the essential fact that there was a period of time here when you could also go to very small venues and listen to Edgar Meyer play double bass in small combos with mark o'connor, bela fleck, sam bush, Jerry Douglass, etc. Listening to Edgar Meyer play bass is truly a treat.
Hey, I'm with you on this. My intimate cultural exposures were more west coast in influence, but I too long for the days when you used to be able to go down to Graumann's Chinese Theater and hang out with Clark Gable, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope and Lana Turner who'd go there because they didn't have anything else to do. Then we'd head over to Schwab's Drugstore to pick up some chicks before taking the Scenicruiser over to Vegas to hang at the Sahara with Frank, Dino, Sammy, and (a very young) George Clooney where we'd smoke reefer and listen to Chet Baker trade fours with Larry Adler and Dick Contino. Wayne Newton would stop in with Steve and Edyie would drop in after their shows to shoot craps and hustle free drinks from conventioneers. These swells used to be so much more accessible back then, but WTF, that was "back then". Those days are long gone, longer gone than buying a Ferrari Daytona 365 GTC for $ten grand and longer than the amount of time I've spent awaiting a followup hit single from Johnny Lee - I know, how could possibly top "Looking For Love (In All The Wrong Places)"? But I wait nonetheless, because it could happen, couldn't it?
I'd be the last person to say that Nashville is culturally devoid (hell, they've even got an Opry House there!) and in fact might argue that it's the commercial aspects of the city's music scene that fosters and almost coddles brilliant musicians such as Meyer, Fleck, et al because they're able to earn a living playing for the innner-city F150 pickup truck demographic and this lets them woodshed on keeping the traditional forms of roots music alive while expanding its influences with the judicious addition of other genres. Not all of it works, but not all of anything works but nothing ventured, nothing gained, and besides, I've already got plenty of Janis Ian and Eddie Rabbit records. Maybe someday they'll do a duet album, like Webb Pierce and Carol Channing did.
-Eden (hearing great stuff about the next Richard Buckner album)
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Thank you, all, for these links. Some wonderful music there. (I just played through them all while sitting in the cellar with a glass of Cheverny (or thereabouts).)