From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1732 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Tuesday, December 3 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1732 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: paprika plains [Betsy Blue ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 20:24:35 -0800 From: Betsy Blue Subject: RE: paprika plains Dave, you are the best. A Paprika Plains score is the only thing I wanted out of this group when I joined. I don't always have time to listen to the song when I shuffle around to it, but I am always in the mood. I have remix questions. Why was the line "Gotta get some air" cut? I was kind of attached to it, although I don't think the song suffers without it. Who decided to push the project forward? Was any digital pitch correction done? Why was the volume so low in the first part of the original? Some of the poetic passages I love are the description of all the smells in the ladies' room, the beating drum reflected in the piano, the alliteration of beads/bottles and the double entendre "smashed", the visual depiction of the disco ball, and all the dreamy floating. The music is amazing. Literally Somehow, I only recently realized that Wayne Shorter was on soprano, so now I pay special attention to his part. Betsy On Dec 3, 2013 7:44 AM, "JMDL Digest" wrote: > > JMDL Digest Tuesday, December 3 2013 Volume 2013 : Number > 1719 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Re: paprika plains [Dave Blackburn < > beatntrack@att.net>] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:37:44 -0800 > From: Dave Blackburn > Subject: Re: paprika plains > > Funny you should mention this opus at this time, Marianne, as my recent > Q&A interview with PP orchestrator Mike Gibbs > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2686&from=search also > included me asking him if he might still have the score he wrote. After a > few weeks of searching cupboards and bookcases he discovered a full set of > photocopies of it. They are low res (remember photostat machines in 1977?) > and hard to read but zoomed in on a big screen the notes are legible. So, I > am engaged in the slow but worthwhile job of retranscribing the whole > piece, piano, vocal and orchestra, with Mike s score to work from. I am > inputting it into Sibelius notation software, and it may be 30-40 pages > long when it s finished, but will eventually be a valuable addition to the > website s spectacular transcription library, in which this piece is still > conspicuously absent. Someday, someone will get the idea to perform PP live > with an orchestra and this undertaking will make that possible. In! > fact, Mike told me that it was being considered for Travelogue and he > sent his score to Vince Mendoza who would have had to comb through it as I > am doing now. For whatever reason it was not included; maybe the definitive > version had already been done. I ll blare the announcement from the > rooftops when it s ready for viewing. > > cheers > Dave > > > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 4:20 AM, Marianne Rizzo wrote: > > > Let's turn our attention to paprika plains. > > WOW > > > > Utterly amazing. > > wonderful, amazing, extroadinarily beautiful . . . words, for me do > not seem > > to do justice. > > > > I would like to hear about your reactions to this. > > It is a complete masterpiece. > > Have a great day, all joni wonderful people. > > xoxo > > Love Marianne > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1719 > ****************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1732 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------