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Well, it's very good, of course, but Alone Together is a slowish ballad!
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Yesterday 02:49 AM
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I just felt like it
Grant Green and Sonny Stitt don't play it that fast but Rollins does, with ?Burrell on guitar. But what they have in common is phrases rather than a stream of 8ths. And Grant plays it more like kind of blues, pretty spaced out.
Don't get me wrong, what you did was impressive, what with the singing 'n all. I couldn't do that, not at that speed and complexity anyway.
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Well that sounds like a personal problem.
Grant Green and Sonny Stitt don't play it that fast but Rollins does, with ?Burrell on guitar. But what they have in common is phrases rather than a stream of 8ths. And Grant plays it more like kind of blues, pretty spaced out.
Don't get me wrong, what you did was impressive, what with the singing 'n all. I couldn't do that, not at that speed and complexity anyway.
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No one's as good as Rollins. As for singing while I play, I don't do that. Unless I'm singing, if you see what I mean
I was a singer first, you see
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Oh, come on, it's practically a folk song!
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There's nothing wrong with what you did, it's very impressive as I said. It was just hard for me to follow, that's all. I mean, you must admit you were dashing about a bit.
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So I guess that’s a no
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I'm not sure what this thread is now but I used to claim knowing about 400 tunes. I was self-humiliated onstage in 1993 not knowing Bye Bye Blackbird well enough to transpose for a guest singer. I realised this was unacceptable. I eventually landed a quiet two night a week gig with a smooth muted trumpeter, Ron Davidson who had a book the size of the New York City telephone book. I was working a day job, doing a lot of driving and kept a fakebook on the passengers seat, humming melodies to "Two Minor - Five Seven - One - Six Seven". I soon saw the repetitiveness of the Great American Songbook. For a long time on pickup jazz gigs I never needed a book. It got to be an obsession, I would have a list of tunes (Jazz Standards Introduction: Origins, History, Theory, Musicology, Biographies, and Books) that I would recite in my head between gigs. Because I didn't keep it up most of these songs are gone but would return quickly upon necessity.
Jazz is hard on many fronts.
PS: I claimed to know the changes. Melody and solo performance is a different animal.
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Well, after my triathlon workout, yeah.
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