From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1543 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 Wednesday, December 3 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1543 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Mingus, LHMF, etc [Dave Blackburn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:32:04 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Mingus, LHMF, etc Itbs Peter Erskine on drums throughout Mingus, Sue. The Tony Williams takes are still in the vault somewhere. Sweet Sucker Dance was quite an involved transcription, as the form is so long and some of the harmony so dense. If you know your jazz guitar chords check out my chart on the websitebs transcription page. It was also a hard melody to nail for Robin on our last show, due to the big intervallic leaps, wide pitch range and angular scales. Dave > On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Susan E. McNamara wrote: > > I am loving the new box set ... Act IV was amazing. I was completely struck > by Sweet Sucker Dance. What an amazing, moving song. It reminded me that, > unlike a lot of others, I loved the album Mingus as soon as I heard it. Every > song thrilled me, and I remember hawking it to anyone who would listen to me > at the time. I was no stranger to jazz at the ripe age of 21 when Mingus came > out. I have my brother to thank because, as a gifted trumpet player in high > school, he introduced me to Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bix > Beiderbecke. We actually called Jimmy Bix during that time because he was > always playing his trumpet. We also listened to a lot of fusion including > Return to Forever, so Mingus and the band Joni played with were not unfamiliar > to me. After listening to Sweet Sucker Dance again in this format, I am once > again awed by Joni's depth, the lyrics, the arrangement, everything, the > drummer was even freaking me out ... I guess it was Tony Williams on that cut. > Wow. > > Susan Tierney McNamara > email: sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1543 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------