August 2024 - Autumn in New York

[M-ster]

Our standard for Sep 2024 will be Autumn in New York (Vernon Duke, 1934).

Background:
Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Autumn in New York)

[grahambop]

Ooh I can jump in first here, I did this one a few years ago.

(I used a Boss OC3 pedal to get the low bass notes.)

[Hyppolyte Bergamotte]

[ragman1]

I'm not 100% at the moment but I got through this so you can have it. Not that it matters much here :-)

[ragman1]

And here's a slow one. It's different. You never know how it's going to turn out.

[Bobby Timmons]

Happy I got BH together in time in the head and improv.

Also, the thread title is a typo. It's September not August. M-ster you're fired! :P

[Bobby Timmons]

AINY

AINY? Like where PPs go?

Sorry, couldn't pass that one up.

[ragman1]

Bobby -

Look, I know you want my attention but I'm not going to like your clip. It's not good playing. In fact, it's really not good at all. The chords don't sound right, I don't know what you're doing with the left hand, and so on. It's terribly unmusical. I know this isn't very kind of me but I'm not going to say it's good when it's not.

I'd like to hear you play just one thing properly, with movement, with skill, with beauty. That would be enough. But all this plonky stuff isn't really musical.

Sorry, has to be said.

[Bobby Timmons]

I wasn't trying to get your attention about my tune, I actually just thought it was a funny coincidence that you named your tune ainy. But I see if you don't like it. I was wondering how it came off to others. I'm happy with it, but I know there's always room for improvement or ways to do things that is more attractive to most listeners.

[grahambop]

I prefer Bobby’s version to ragman’s!

[Bop Head]

I prefer Bobby’s version to ragman’s!

Me too! Seems like the Open Studio lessons are worth their money. It sounds really pianistic and quite musical.

[ragman1]

I prefer Bobby’s version to ragman’s!

Me too, as it happens, but that wasn't the point :-)

[pamosmusic]

This has been fun. Thank you all.

[Bobby Timmons]

^ Just a silly joke.

I prefer Bobby’s version to ragman’s!

Me too! Seems like the Open Studio lessons are worth their money. It sounds really pianistic and quite musical.

Me too, as it happens, but that wasn't the point :-)

Thank you!

[ragman1]

This is how your namesake did it. I find it all a bit flowery personally but each to their own. I must be a minimalist.

[Bobby Timmons]

^ I'm not a minimalist but I don't really like the Tatum school of frantically changing tempos and spazzing out the whole time haha.

[kris]

Ooh I can jump in first here, I did this one a few years ago.

(I used a Boss OC3 pedal to get the low bass notes.)

Very good solo playing.
Very good jazz sound and very good jazz taste and feel.
Best
Kris

[kris]

This is how your namesake did it. I find it all a bit flowery personally but each to their own. I must be a minimalist.

The real Bobby is great.

[ragman1]

I'm still trying with this. All the others were basically using subs, which I thought were more interesting hearing-wise. This one just plays the chords and is therefore more melodic. Not as good, I don't think.

[grahambop]

Very good solo playing.
Very good jazz sound and very good jazz taste and feel.
Best
Kris

Thanks kris. I ought to do it with some improv next time.