From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1545 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 1545 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Mingus, LHMF, etc ["Susan E. McNamara" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:30:40 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: Mingus, LHMF, etc I'm not great with remembering session people, thanks!! Right now, I feel my guitar playing is improving to the point that I want to upgrade my "guitar arsenal!" My interest was piqued, Dave, when you mentioned the Albanez baritone guitar (did I get that right?). On my wish list is a performance grade Martin or Taylor acoustic of excellent caliber (meaning pricey), and an electric guitar (which I could probably get on craigslist). These thoughts are competing with my need to also do some needed home maintenance (oh so boring). That said, to perform Sweet Sucker Dance, I would probably get my brother Jim (great jazz guitarist) to read your charts, and I would do my best to sing/garble Sweet Sucker Dance ... I really really hope we can hear you and Robin recreate some Mingus magic at Bobfest. :-) Susan Tierney McNamara email:B sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: Dave Blackburn [mailto:beatntrack@att.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 12:32 PM To: Susan E. McNamara Cc: JMDL JMDL 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 #1545 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------