[Dixielandjazz] Willie & Wynton

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Solos in jazz are usually sketched out with chord symbols and not written 
out.  Personally I don't like written out solos because the music gets lost 
in all the notes.

Some players stay glued to chord symbols for the changes playing licks based 
on them.  It's not a type of jazz I really get off on preferring guys that 
play lines or horizontal improvisation.

Changes as represented in the chord symbols are most useful if you don't 
know the tune very well or the solo comes in in the middle of a phrase or 
some other odd spot.

I would imagine that if W.M. was looking at a page it was just to follow the 
chord symbols and I doubt if the solos were written but then again if they 
were, I'm pretty sure he could make them sound better than most.  I don't 
think we should hold a jazz artist to some standard if the arranger put it 
all down on paper.

There are those who feel that OKOM should always be off the top of the 
musicians head.  Head arrangements are great but the written page is valid 
too.  There are many fine reading musicians out there.  Ideally a musician 
should be able to do both.

Our local jazz society members get off criticizing reading musicians while 
they themselves can't play a note.  Sometimes they are pretty nasty about 
it.

One of the big troubles is that those guys who are really good at doing head 
arrangements are dying off a lot faster than they are being replaced by new 
musicians with anywhere near the same skills.
Larry
St, Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Willie & Wynton


> It looks like Marsalis and the reed player were reading all, including 
> solos
> Sheesh.
>
> Ron L
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
> [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen G
> Barbone
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 11:35 PM
> To: lherault at bu.edu
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Willie & Wynton
>
>
> Who says this music can't be updated? Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis
> and friends from Jazz At Lincoln Center bring something new to the
> party:
>
> Bucket's Got A Hole In It. (note the bowed bass)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3pXZ5EcpGE&feature=related
>
> OR
>
> Caldonia, What Makes Your Big Head So Hard
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmeOPpzMcw&NR=1
>
>
> OR
>
> Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS9Qf6EcWzw&feature=channel
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
>
>
>
>
>
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