[Dixielandjazz] [Dixielandjae -MOre added for the hell of it.

[Don Ingle]

AL LEVY wrote:
> Rebecca Thompson wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me? I have heard this
> reference before when the band leader might
> instruct to do such and such "at the realease."
> --------------
> Funny you should mention that. First, to answer
> your question. The release is the part of the song
> where the tune changes, usually the 17th - 24th measures.
> Classicaly if a tune is [a] [b] [a] in construction the B
> section is called the "bridge", the "release", the "channel",
> the B section, the "tunnel", the middle or perhaps
> something else depending on your area of the world or
> the age bracket of the people wiht whom you are playing.
> =========
> I quit music sometime in the 1970's. I returned in 1997.
> To get started again I played around with midi sequencing
> and music notation software just to get myself going.
> I managed to play with a few bands within a year.
>
> It took me a few years to realize we did not speak the
> same language.
>
> I said something like "you take it at the release" and
> got blank stares.
>
> I handed out a chart and somebody asked me if I intended
> "swing 8ths".
> Ole Rip Van Levy didn't know how to answer so I said
> "what do you think?"
>
> I since learned that swing 8ths meant play like an 8th
> note triplet with the first note = to a quarter.
> (I did hear Mancini talk about this, and how dotted 8th/
> 16th was not correct back in the 70's.
>
> One member of a big band asked why I wrote the "SHOUT"
> chorus twice.
> Shout? The only I associated with shouting and music
> was James Brown.
>
> It seems a bit of a tragedy to me that the younger
> generation - teen agers thru twenty somethings
> only know the "Real Book" and not the real harmonies
> or tunes.
>
> 'nuff said,
> Al
> Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Teacher and Music Prep.
> Please visit me at
> http://alevy.com
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To pile on, this forms is a typical classical SONATA form -- AABA, which 
means that we are truly followinginthe wake of the masters...sort of.  
But then what is else new? Just rmember when yu mention "bridge" or 
"release" you are talking Sonata.You remember him -- Frank Sonata! Oach! 
What do you expect -- it was -10 last night here n Balmy No. Michigan. 
Be thankfullyou are not a brass monkey!
Don (too frozen to even begin to talk modal forms) Ingle.