I mean Monroe took the part of the clarinet in the big band sound of the thirties and played it on the mandolin.
I mean Monroe took the part of the clarinet in the big band sound of the thirties and played it on the mandolin.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
That was fun.
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Okay, that was cool!
Ed Helms of The Office and The Hangover, right?
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Playing lately:
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Best video I’ve watched in a while. ‘Billy’ is a great tune to swap the melody back and forth.
Play em like you know em!
That was indeed interesting. BTW, I think that was a soprano saxophone.
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Yep. He got hooked up with the Largo (L.A.) crowd and started doing the Bluegrass Situation there about a dozen years ago and that led to the Whisky Sour Radio Hour.
https://www.laweekly.com/bluegrass-s...ut-of-a-banjo/
Yes, it was. If it's Kenny G, yup. BTW, a much as I loathe his music, he shows here he's got some chops. And when he's not playing his brand of elevator music, what he plays can be fairly palatable. I learn something new around here almost every day. This is today's lesson.
I believe Mike's comment was a general observation, not specifically referring to this. Similar cross-pollination has occurred in other genres, perhaps most significantly how Bob Wills and others mixed big band arrangments and country instrumentation, creating Western swing.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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Gotta post it ...
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
Not wanting to bash the unabashed yet very bashable, just trying to be helpful to members who might have some difficulty hearing all the words - they do come around pretty quick - if you follow the video to youtube, you'll see the lyrics. Or maybe it's my setting. So here:
I agree with Pat Metheny
Kenny's talents are too teeny
He deserves the crap he's going to get
He overdubbed himself on Louis
What a musical chop suey
Raised his head above the parapet
Well Louis Armstrong was the king
He practically invented swing
Hero of the twentieth century
He did duets with many a fella
"Fatha" Hines, Big Hoagy, Ella
Strange he never thought of Kenny G
A meeting of great minds, how nice
Like Einstein and Sporty Spice
Digitally fused in an abortion
Kenny fans will doubtless rave
While Satchmo turns inside his grave
Soprano man's bit off more than his portion
Oh brainless pentatonic riffs
Display our Kenny's arcane gifts
But we don't care, his charms are so beguiling
He does play sharp, but let's be fair
He has such lovely crinkly hair
We hardly notice, we're too busy smiling
How does he hold those notes so long?
He must be a genius. Wrong!
He just has the mindlessness to do it
He makes Britney sound like scat
If this is jazz I'll eat my hat
An idle threat, I'll never have to chew it
So next time you're in a rendezvous
And Kenny's sound comes wafting through
Don't just wince, eliminate the cause
Rip the tape right off the muzak
Pull the plug, or steal a fuse, Jack
The whole room will drown you in applause
Yes, Kenny G has gone too far
The gloves are off, it's time to spar
Grab your hunting rifle, strap your Colt on
It's open season on our Ken
But I await the moment when
We lay off him and start on Michael Bolton
I agree with Pat Metheny
Kenny's talents are too teeny
Oh, and in the interest of fairness, what I said previously includes what is doubtlessly the nicest thing I've ever said about him.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
I'm amused by things like this. Kenny G isn't my cup of tea but he's managed to do something the vast majority of us have not been able to accomplish even though we'd like to. Give him his due, he made a living playing music.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Correct. Most people would have problems seeing "The Benny Goodman type Big Band sound" in the early Monroe years but you have to understand that while he was creating that whole Bluegrass thing he was taking live music to the masses and many of those folks had been listening to something totally different on the radio. Most of them probably came to dance back then. I'm sure there were standards he was doing in the early years he never played again as his repertoire of his signature songs increased.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I always enjoy the first track on this album. Andy Statman’s break just after the one minute mark is smokin’.
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I've seen a few young and up and coming "folk" groups with bass clarinets ....an odd choice, but it works.
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