Best posts made by SSmith1226

James Morrison!… The mission would at lest be impossible for me. If the video does not play, click on, “Watch on YouTube”.

GeorgeB and barliman2001, thanks for your kind words.
Also, a little known fact, barliman2001 drove me to Schagerl Music in Mank, Austria and skillfully negotiated the purchase of the “Killer Queen” Flugelhorn I was playing in that recording.

@pss said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

@j-jericho said in The 15 Best Miles Davis Quotes:

The one I remember the most is: "My daddy's rich, my mama's good lookin', I've never had a bad day in my life, and I can still play the blues."

Why don’t we assign “16” to that quote.

@dr-go said in The 15 Best Miles Davis Quotes:

"What the F**K do you know about trumpet playing" is what Miles stated as he kicked a 17 year old Eddie Henderson out of his Ferrari for critiquing his performance at a club.

Number 17
At least he had a pretty good day job later in life.

I see the light.

Barliman and George,
Thanks for watching it as well as your kind comments. It was a fun project to put together!

@Niner said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

The beer’ll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be beer!

Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!

When I'm stuck with a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!

The beer’ll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're only
A day
A way!

WAIT, TODAY IS TOMORROW!!!

On August 27, 2022, 95 year old Doc Severinsen, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., performed in his “final concert”. Below are both links to both an article and video about this. Highlights of Doc’s performance start at around 1:45 in this video taken by one of the attendees.

https://bestclassicbands.com/doc-severinsen-final-concert-8-31-22/

@Niner
I wasn’t trying to be fecalitious, I was trying to be facetious. But as long as we are are on the random topic of the “Stool Bus”, this is an inside view of it. It is a rare opportunity to see such a view on a trumpet web site!

@kehaulani said in What Is This Thing Called Swing” Meets “She Blinded Me With Science”:

Good Lord, Jazz is an aural art, more connected to the physicality and rhythms of a basketball court than to a scientific micro-analysis.

You listen, get the rhythm in your bones, and, in the words of Clark Terry, "Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate".

The study was done with the “aural” analysis of professional Jazz Musicians listening and rating samples. “After listening to original and digitally tweaked piano recordings, jazz musicians were more than seven times as likely to rate music as “swinging” when the soloist’s timing was partially delayed with respect to the rhythm section, researchers report….” It analyzes and quantitates the “rhythm in your bones” for those of us who don’t have that gift, or for those who have it but can’t accurately define it and want to better understand it.

@Niner said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

@SSmith1226 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

@J-Jericho said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

ADDENDUM - Don't forget the old adage: "The best way to make a small fortune is to start with a large fortune, and go auto racing."

Or collect boutique trumpets.

You are probably right about the "boutique" trumpets but things you collect for cheap can advance in price. C&R Mosin Nagants and C&R Turk Mausers that were delivered to my door for $50 each, or three for a hundred in some cases, 18 or 20 years ago now go for $300 each or more. I had no trouble in selling a dozen at a gun show in the morning of one day.

Some trumpets that nobody prizes today may still increase in value.... as soon as people realize that the standard of workmanship and materials from many decades ago is better than much of what is offered today at affordable prices. And the trumpets from way back when were made to play the same notes as the ones made today. They don't look as pretty as a new Chinese horn, but the materials you don't see on the surface are better engineered and usually made of finer materials.

I probably didn't ask enough for those old C&R guns, come to think of it.

My specialty is “depreciating”, not “appreciating”, collectable trumpets. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that I will live long enough to see them be recognized in the class of the the “Martin Committee” or the “Olds Super Recording” of today. Even those horns, when you look at what they cost retail 70 years ago and are selling for today, and take inflation into account, at best they have held their value, but not appreciated in the buying power of their current sales price.
They will become valuable and appreciate in value however after my wife, children, or grandchildren sell them in a yard sale and the buyer flips them.

What Is This Thing Called Swing” Meets “She Blinded Me With Science”
Yesterday a scientific paper was released in the “Communication Physics” section of Nature.Com titled, “Downbeat delays are a key component of swing in jazz”.
Most people on this site would agree that in order to “Swing”, a musician extends the duration of their downbeats — every other eighth note — and shorten the beats in between to create a galloping rhythm. But the technique on its own doesn’t explain swing. The scientific analysis presented in this study concludes that listeners judge music as more swinging when the soloists’ downbeats were minutely delayed with respect to the rhythm section, but not their offbeats. This conclusion is instinctively, or subconsciously known by many successful jazz musicians, but is not consciously known by many musicians,
The full link of the article is below. The abstract reads as follows: “To which extent and how do jazz musicians synchronize their timing to create swing?” Swing is a salient feature of jazz music, yet its main psychoacoustical and musical components have remained elusive—save the obvious long-short subdivision of quarter notes. In particular, the possible role of microtiming deviations for swing has been a subject of long-standing controversy. Adopting an operational definition of swing we present a study which ultimately demonstrates a positive effect of certain microtiming deviations on swing. We manipulate the timing of original piano recordings to carry out an experiment with professional and semi-professional jazz musicians measuring the swing of different timing conditions. Thereby we prove that slightly delayed downbeats and synchronized offbeats of a soloist with respect to a rhythm section enhance swing. Analyzing a set of 456 jazz improvisations we find that many jazz musicians do use minute downbeat delays. These results show that systematic microtiming deviations in the form of downbeat delays are a key component of swing in jazz.”

Full Link
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-00995-z

CONCLUSION: 
It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing, and stagger your timing.

According to “M Live”, 

“Wynton Marsalis to help Michigan marching band ring in 125th Anniversary at halftime

ANN ARBOR, MI - Jazz and the University of Michigan Marching Band are around the same age.
Jazz historians say that while the genre evolved over the 19th century, a commonly accepted origin was in New Orleans around 1895, according to NewOrleans.com.
A year after that, Harry dePont gathered gathered around 30 musicians on UM’s campus in Ann Arbor to establish a student-run marching band, according to the band’s website. In the fall of 1897, band leader Lewellyn Renwick and his musicians accompanied the football team to Detroit to perform during a 14-0 victory by Michigan over Minnesota.
This fall marks the band’s 125th anniversary, and during halftime at this weekend’s football game, its history will merge with the legacy of American jazz in a show with one of the genre’s living icons.
Wynton Marsalis, a 9-time Grammy Award winner and the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for composition -- along with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra -- will collaborate with the marching band at halftime of Michigan’s home football game Saturday against Penn State.….”

To read the rest of the article, use the link below. Videos relative to this are below aa well.

 https://mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/10/wynton-marsalis-to-help-michigan-marching-band-ring-in-125th-anniversary.html

@Tobylou8
@Tobylou8 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

@SSmith1226 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

Ennui- a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:
Example 1: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.

Example 2: