Posts made by Dr GO

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

Great! We've achieved neutrality!

I also remember an interview I heard of Jaco Pastorius that commented he remembered vividly listening to his Father's album of Charlie Parker playing Donna Lee. The speakers being very distorted he said sounded more like a bass lead than a sax lead. And as they say, the rest is history:

Neal085, your reply brought up my first experience to "jazz". My father had a Earl Grant (Hammond B-3 organist) and I just loved that sound. I listened to that album over and over again, not knowing what it was I was listening to, but that I really loved that kind of music.

@Dr-Mark said in Theo Charlier:

@Dr-GO

Just beautiful. I had split screened the score of this second etude against the actual solo, and what came out to me, that was most influential as to his artistry, was not how he played the notes he played (that was amazingly accurate) but the way he used the written rests and pauses and how he made this work with the printed ink. THIS IS HOW AN ETUDE needs to be executed. I encourage all listening to this presentation to watch the manuscript come to life in simultaneous execution.

Dr. Mark fixed the link... it has come through for me. Thanks Ssmith1226 but I was able to get this link!

I tried to copy and then paste it but also was not able to get the file to download. Looking forward to is as if it's from Dr. Mark, it's gotta be good!

@Shepherds_Crook said in Getzen Club:

...I once owned a magnificent 90PB ‘Power Bore’ already pictured in this thread. ...would love to have the new 900 pictured just before my post.

Common Blaine. Really? Over this one (Closer view of the "90BP Power Bore already pictured in this thread"):

My first: The Olds Ambassador. Got me from 5th grade through Jr. High. Don't have a before, but here is the after... after Tom Green took the dents out of the bell, bends out of the leadpipe, red rot leading into the valve casings, then gold beaded it to blend it all together... and it sounds very close to my Committee:

This song kind of defines what jazz is. Share it!

@GeorgeB said in Lip Flexibilities:

@Dr-GO said in Lip Flexibilities:

@GeorgeB said in Lip Flexibilities:

Both flugelgirl and Dr.Go indicated they did lip flexibility exercises as a warm up. I am now wondering why I never tried doing them as a warmup for my afternoon ballad playing session. Well, it is on the table for this afternoon's session...two hours from now...

Looking forward to your review on how this works out for you!

Hey, Doc.
I have been doing a 5 minute warmup routine of whole note long tones that always seemed to benefit my tone in the first pece of music I play, but the 5 minute flexibility I used yesterday did something that long tones never did. They eliminated a stiffness, especially with intervals, that I often encountered with my first or second song in my afternoon sessions. Now, maybe my chops were just in a better condition yesterday. I don't know. But I am going to warmup with flexibilities for the next couple of weeks to see how it goes.

Great to hear this! I really think the octave slur component of the Blee warm up exercise is what it takes to get the blood flowing through the lip muscles. Getting oxygen (and glucose) to highly toned muscles is key to optimizing muscle activity out of it's resting threshold.

@GeorgeB said in Lip Flexibilities:

Both flugelgirl and Dr.Go indicated they did lip flexibility exercises as a warm up. I am now wondering why I never tried doing them as a warmup for my afternoon ballad playing session. Well, it is on the table for this afternoon's session...two hours from now...

Looking forward to your review on how this works out for you!

@Comeback said in Lip Flexibilities:
...If pressed for time, tunes will get sacrificed before flexibilities. This approach seems to be working for me, but progress is never as rapid as I would like it to be.

Jim

Jim, I would support that you have the right priorities with time management!

I find that the Eugene Blee lip warm ups work really well at getting the blood flow and lips into a supple mode. The Blee warm ups have been posted elsewhere on this site.

@Comeback said in Getzen Club:

Listened to that ballad twice, Dr GO. Thank you for posting it...The piano soloing was pretty cool too!

Jim

The piano solo was performed by Kenny Drew Jr. Both Kenny Drew and Kenny Barron were contacted by Eddie for this CD and both were wanting to record this, but Eddie chose Kenny Drew due to the high energy of the songs Eddie chose for this album. I think he made an excellent choice with Kenny Drew. Kenny Drew and our drummer, Mark Lomax really fed on each other's energy as you may have noted from listening to these recordings. This album has a song called Trane Thing where both Kenny and Mark just explode with the emotion, certainly not a recording for the weak of heart!

@Kehaulani said in Getzen Club:

Dr. GO, I thought you played a Committee for everything.

Nearly everything (at least 80% of my performances) as I play the Committee for most small group ensemble pieces, will use the Kanstul flugelhorn for soft, slow ballads. So these are the two horns that follow me on MOST gigs (as most gigs use the small group - quintet)

I use the Harreslon for big band and large outdoor venues as well as the Getzen flugelhorn at outdoor events.

By the way, we have at least 3 well known members here that use the 4 valve Eterna flugelhorn. Rowuk, Vulgano Brother and tmd. It would be nice to get their feedback on this flugelhorn as well.

As for the flugelhorn question Jim, I use it for outdoor concerts as it too has a large bore and projects well. I also use it for soft rock and recording more up beat ballads.

Here is a link to a recording I made using the Getzen Eterna on an up beat ballad:

Switching between 3 and 4 valves is easy as your ears almost guide you into knowing when you will need that quarter tone adjustment and using it to bridge into the pedal tones just feels so natural with 4 valves.

@Comeback said in Getzen Club:

Thanks for sharing, @Dr-GO ! I have no experience with the Power Bores. How would you characterize its tonal color?
Jim
Tonal color is bright, crisp and projecting. Perfect as a lead horn.

@Comeback said in Getzen Club:

Thanks for sharing, @Dr-GO ! I have no experience with the Power Bores. What mouthpiece do you use with it?

Jim

Jim I use my Jettone Studio B for 2 reasons. 1) I use the Power Bore for lead playing. 2) The Studio B backbone matches the gap characteristics of the Power Bore leadpipe perfectly.