[Dixielandjazz] Chet Baker and Lack of Melody???

[Bob Romans]

Hi Steve...please send me some of the good stuff you're smoking...seeds and 
all! :~)
Imagination can be a wonderful thing...at times!
Louis Armstrong said once that you should be able to follow the melody in 
your improvised solo...quoting Oliver I think...
I always thought they set (especially Louis) the bar for all of the jazz 
musicians that followed...
My thought was instead of taking a beautiful tune like "My Funny Valentine", 
and camouflaging it with dozens of extemporaneous notes, just say, "Here 
folks, is a jazz exercise I'm having fun with, playing as many notes as I 
can, on the interesting chord changes to a well-known tune".
Don't ruin "My Funny Valentine".
Bob Romans

> As for me, I hear the melodies in all of Baker's playing.
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
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