[Dixielandjazz] Louis Armstrong

[Marek Boym]

"Monk pointed to the keyboard and said: ³It can¹t be
> any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there
> already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to
> pick the notes you really mean!²"
A great comment!


On 25/07/07, Steve Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  Richard Broadie at rbroadie at dc.rr.com wrote: (re West End Blues)
>
> > Did you notice the varience between the written solo and the way Louis
> > actually executed it?  A fairly good demo of how difficult it is to
> > transcribe the timing/phrasing of Mr.  Armstrong.
>
> Hi Dick:
>
> You nailed it shut. Jazz is so much more than written dots. Same for Swing
> which folks write as triplets. IMO, one can read dots and play what one
> reads expertly, but that still won't make one a real jazz musician, or a
> swinging player.
>
> And jazz musicians like Armstrong, Monk, Pee Wee Russell et al, are almost
> impossible to copy because their timing, tonal variation and sense of swing
> cannot be written down.
>
> E. G. Once, when someone asked him how he managed to get a certain special
> sound out of the piano, Monk pointed to the keyboard and said: ³It can¹t be
> any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there
> already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to
> pick the notes you really mean!²
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
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