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Jazz / Commercial

Love the music of Miles Davis? Big Broadway fan? This is the place to chat.

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@Dr-Mark said in Unbelievable. Too young and for no reason.:

@flugelgirl
A fellow West Virginian, Bill Withers has just passed.
Just damned.

Ain't no sunshine since he's gone.
Classical / Orchestral

A place for the soloist and symphony connoisseur to meet.

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Mrs. and I are both 67 y/o. We are ordering groceries for delivery, which has been working out OK. We are also keeping my 88 y/o mom supplied with groceries. I dropped off her portion of the latest order this morning. She is doing well. She has her very old standard poodle for company and Mrs. and I visit her once a week and share a meal. She (mom) is still an active accordionist, and while the band she leads is on hiatus she is working on some solo pieces. Her comment about her music making this morning was that “Brahms must have been crazy!” She asked me what I was working on now that my community band was no longer meeting. I told her that I was working on arrangements of Stardust and Moon River that require transposition, along with my normal stuff. Mrs. has been playing her piano more frequently, which I always enjoy. The last couple days, though, she has been captivated by a new jigsaw puzzle. All told, we three seniors are adjusting well enough to “The New Reality”.
Miscellaneous

Anything from R&B to New Age...if you hear it, it's probably in a genre.

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@Kehaulani said in CLEAN YOUR HORN!:

... having less resistance from the sudden absence of junk in it = change in pulmonary airway from aerosolization of growth in the brass"

This is an appropriate English to Medical Language translation.
Rock / R&B

Did you know that the Beatles have a song with a trumpet in it? If you didn't, you need to!

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@Kehaulani said in Introducing Lis Sorensen:

First discovered her on a tour of northern Denmark at a time of the year when the sun never sets. Laying on the bed back in my room at 2:00 in the morning after a night of playing and partying and walking through grassland to get back. Nothing like it. (What am I doing here?!)

You've lived an interesting life, Kehaulani.

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S.H.I. Spontaineous Harmonic Improvization
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Hi Dr-GO,
Amazing isn't it. I often perform with two sax players and when we use SHI, it sounds great. Whenever we pull off an especially good motif, I'll say "Just like we rehearsed it" which of course we never rehearsed anything. It was all spontaneous
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@Dr-GO said in Set lists:

@Dr-Mark said in Set lists:

Hi Dr-GO
..."If you play a wrong note or passage, do it twice. That way the audience will think it was intentional and you were just being
avant-garde"

That's EXACTLY what I do! That's EXACTLY what I do!

And then you write it twice, too, also.
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@Vulgano-Brother said in Fun with Scales:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur6GOoSNGN0&feature=youtu.be

Exhausting! I need a nap.

Jim
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Don Thomas an Unbeleivable Sound
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Wynton Marsalis on Practice and Discipline
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Wynton said something elsewhere very colourful and so true. "Everybody wants to be the hero but no one wants to slay the dragon". There you have it.

When I first started playing, a few weeks in, I had a similar experience with my teacher that Wynton had. He gave me a lesson one day for which I was unprepared. I'll never forget it. When we came down the stairs my parents asked how'd it go and he said matter of factly, I had to practice or it was "a waste of my time and your money". And he was fully prepared to walk if it didn't get better. He didn't care. Man, I practiced after that.

Wynton also says that "You have to practice". I think I've written it before, but Dave Liebman in his book on sax playing wrote, "Practicing isn't something you like or dislike. It's just something you do."
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Likewise, in my wind ensemble, I have played Alto and Tenor Saxophone, French Horn and Trumpet depending on circumstances.

While I am not in favour of frequent, regular "challenges" for seating, a periodic evaluation by either the section leader or conductor seems to me productive. If that had've been done in my band, I'd probably still be playing alto sax, my first choice in wind ensemble.

But good-ole-boy expediency trumped skill over the path of least resistance from the director.

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