@georgeb said in Things to Come:
Yeah, Doc, and I'd love to see and hear them all but the admission price...well...
And again, my trumpet teacher for 18 of the months when I lived in NYC was a prior alumnus of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Claudio Roditi. The price Claudio charged me for an hour lesson... $20.00. Yes, my, how times have changed.
THEN there was the question as to what to charge. I believe many on this forum may do this for gratis; however, the Union got me this gig and requires a contract and a 10% finder charge. So I looked all over the internet. I found a wide array of charges for Easter Services. The steepest was in NYC; however, I chose a more regional contract that came out of Illinois. I decided to use that fee recommendation, broken down between rehearsal fee, performance fee (fist 3 hours) and travel expenses. Here is the contract to give you an idea as to how this can be put together:
Hope all this is helpful to our readers, as for me, the first time arranging this (Songs and Fees) took a lot of time and research. So for those of our member venturing out for Easter, I am hoping this makes your Hippity a bit easier to Hop... I Hope!
I agree with BOTH moderators.... I did wait a minute or so before I hit the submit button.
@barliman2001 said in A little humour:
@ And you've forgotten their special Guest Star from Indonesia on clarinet:
Fukini Tupand their Sound Engineer:
Mux Preader
I didn't forget, just couldn't hear their announcer, Harmon Mute, call out the names.
@loil said in Christophe LeLoil:
Hi all
you may enjoy this youtube video showing the band:
Deval In TimeAlbum published by Laborie Jazz LAbel available on every platforms
Man do I love the transitions between soloists in this piece. Chirstophe, you take the artistic standard of music to a whole new level!
@trickg said in Easter Services:
I'm playing lead on all of it, so there is that middle section from the Hallelujah Chorus where I'm always wondering if I'm going to make it, but I haven't had an issue with it, so here's hoping that it goes ok on Sunday too.
May your embouchure be firm and your mouth, moist. My spirit will be with you.
@Kehaulani said in Playing risks in Covid-time:
@ROWUK said in Playing risks in Covid-time:
Doesn't Fauci "serve at the pleasure of the President"?No, he does what is right...
What's that supposed to mean? Do you mean that he can't be fired by the President?
No. Fauci cannot be fired by the President. He is a division head under the director of the NIH. The President can choose to kick him off the task force though.
@SSmith1226 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
Key Largo Sunset along US 1:
US 1 is one of my favorite roadways but West is my favorite key... Ab minor isn't a bad key either come to think of it.
The following is illustrative of the response by Trumpetsplus:
https://www.jazzadvice.com/lessons/six-jazz-improvisation-secrets-from-louis-armstrong/
Melody is the key. Being able to sing around the melody is most helpful, and I would say essential in developing an improvisational jazz voice. When you learn to sing a melody around the melody, your have a roadmap to success. This was the foundation Claudio Roditi instilled in me when I took lessons from him in the years I lived in New York City.
Avoiding riffs or patterns? Now, I would caution against a strict rule to "avoiding" patterns or riffs. Riffs and patterns are great techniques to transforming a melodic line into another direction, like an announcement from one reference point to another. Again, let's go back to Louis Armstrong: "Mastering the V7 to I progression is essential for any improviser. In fact, it’s one of the most basic building blocks of functional harmony and an integral part of nearly every jazz standard. The more tools you have for navigating this chord movement the better. And like most things musical, studying Louis Armstrong is a great place to start…"
So using the melodies is key, patterns and riffs can be the glue that threads them together.
@Kehaulani said in Easter Services:
Are you spending the night sleping on a pew, then?
I hope not because as Confucius say:
"He who fart in church, sit in pew!"
@Kehaulani said in Playing risks in Covid-time:
And for the musicians' sake, rubbing elbows with audience members, even though you may have taken all precautions on stage, then puts you at greater risk off-stage. Point is that, even though you may take precautions on stage, as soon as you socialise with others at the venue, all bets are off.
Sadly, this is so true.
Sunset on Key West from our Catamaran:
Social and Technical Structures Used in Developing Jazz Improvisation:
My Easter gig went fairly well but certainly not flawless. The prelude "Let the Trumpet Sound" is written on 4 pages. As I transitioned from page 1 to 2, the left margin of page 2 was covered by page 1, so there was about 3 measures of improv until I could get page 1 out of the way. From that point on, things went rather well.
@Estevao said in Info requested from MD's & pros w/similar issues:
I've been diagnosed with profound (not nerve damage) hearing loss in right ear, severe loss in left. Also, retinoschesis (sp?) In both eyes. Any advice? BTW, I'm 70 & my only goal is to play the hymnbook well enough that people want to sing along. Estevao (Stephan)
It is hard to give advice without knowing the diagnosis causing the deafness. Here are the causes of deafness:
Viral infection of cochlea/auditory nerve:
Inflammation of cochlea/auditory nerve
Syphilis
meningitis
Encephalitis
Acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma)
Other cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors
Then you state that this hearing loss is not related to nerve damage. I am guessing this was based on a evoked response EEG study? If in fact, the neurological pathways were determined normal, this leaves only these possibilities:
Sludging due to hyperviscosity
Polycythemia vera
Macroglobulinemia
Leukemia
Accelerated coagulation
Arteriosclerosis
Aneurysm of anterior inferior cerebellar artery
Hypothyroidism
Not knowing whether imaging studies had been ordered to rule out microvascular disease, whether bone marrow sampling has been performed to look for leukemia causes, or if lipid profile, coagulation or thyroid function tests have been performed makes it very difficult to provide advice at this phase. Obviously, best focused advise would to focused around treating the underlying cause.
@administrator said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
Ok, now you're just making me jealous that it's not sub-zero temperatures in Key West.
Supposedly the only frost free zone in the continental US
Learning from the Greats. A summary of Jazz Quotes:
Charles Mingus: ‘"You can’t improvise on nothin’, man. You gotta improvise on somethin’". AND "In my music, I am trying to play the truth in what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I am changing all the time.
Wynton Marsalis: "In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others." AND "Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them."
George Gershwin: "Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise."
Cecil Taylor: "Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself."
Sonny Rolins: "I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music."
Mose Allison: "As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
Ahmad Jamal: "Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play."
Thelonious Monk: " I don't know were jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens."
Oscar Peterson: "It's group sound that's important. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times.
Miles Davis: "Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
Louis Armstrong: "There are only two ways to sum up music: Either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess with it, you just enjoy it.
Duke Ellington: "By enlarge jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."
John Coltrane: "My music is the spiritual expression of what I am- my faith, my knowledge, my being... When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups... I want to speak to their souls."
Charlie Parker: "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." AND "Don't play the saxophone, let it play you."
Billy Holiday: "I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, than it ain't music. its a close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something not music.
Bill Evans: "What bugs me is when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
Dizzy Gillespie: '"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play"
In all the professional quintets I have played with, they all had a director that was a separate person from the quintet performers. As in any formal classical ensemble, the quintet followed the recommendations of the director of the sessions.
Not sure how the allergy testing is done before I can concluded that there may have been a false negative to allergy testing for metal. For metal testing, the patch test is the gold standard (could NOT resist that pun for the life of me). So my question to the OP, did the allergist rule out nickle, silver or brass testing by patch testing. If not, we still cannot rule out allergies (due to high level of false negative) testing by other methods.
