[Dixielandjazz] Swinging

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Sometime try recording into a computer if you want to see something weird. 
If it's set for exactly what you play no one including you could play it. 
But it is accurately depicting what you did.  Jazz musicians don't play 
accurately if they are playing well.  They just don't stay in the lines.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Swinging


> One of the hardest recorded sessions I ever played on (& I did sessions, 
> in
> all styles, for 25 yrs!) was surprisingly enough on a jazz record!  There
> were only a handful of jazz musicians on the sessions, so the arranger 
> wrote
> the swing into the arrangements.
>
> No! No! No!  Never!!!  They were the blackest scores I have ever seen.  He
> must have used a ton of ink writing all those 64th, 32nd, 16th, & 8th 
> notes
> in there.  It was one of the least "swinging" experiences of my life, and 
> I
> found it impossible to read.
>
> The stock session musician were doing all this "tucketa tucketa tucketa"
> sub-division noises with their mouths trying work out what comes natural 
> to
> many of us.  It was just terrible.  Surprisingly enough, the recording is
> actually quite nice, but it was hell for me.
>
> In contrast, I played Henry Mancinin scores with Henry Mancini directing 
> for
> a live tv show once.  None of that black stuff written before the notes.
> Just play it with "anticipation", and the swing is there!  They were the
> easiest scores I've ever read.
> Mancini had swing just standing there!
>
> Nope, it's not written, swing.  It's felt.  And, it's there, or it's not
> there.
>
> Jim
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