[Dixielandjazz] Solos

[Marek Boym]

On 15 June 2010 02:33, Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> No what?  Are you disagreeing with Paul Edgerton?

He asked whether "they," whoever they are, should all agree with my opinion.
To that I repled: "no."  To eash heir own.
Perhaps I should have pointed out thet "too many notes, too fast" was
Louis Armstrong's description of bebop.
Cheers
>
> On 6/14/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> No.
>>
>> On 14 June 2010 23:38, Paul Edgerton <paul.edgerton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > OK, Marek, I'll bite...
>> >
>> > Should we all go with *your* opinion of which notes to play, or we we
>> > just take more time doing it?
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> When this conversaton turned to the matter of the listener's
>> >>> interpretation
>> >>> of a solo I was bound and determined to stay out of it.
>> >>>
>> >>> However, following what Bob just had to say on the subject, I must
>> >>> briefly
>> >>> inject the fact that I must be a freak of nature as I fit the
>> >>> description of
>> >>> how a musician listens to a solo, rather than that of the
>> >>> non-musician.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Probably so am I - I don't like too many notes being played too fast!
>> >> I have long ago reached the conclusion that playing slowly requires
>> >> much nore "soul" (for lack of a bettr word) than playing loud and
>> >> fast.
>> >>
>> >> And as to playing very high - remember Muggsy Spanier's remark about
>> >> piccolo player!
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >>>
>> >>> I guess what it really depends upon is when Bob offers this analysis
>> >>> of the
>> >>> situation is he pronouncing the silent "t" in often
>> >>>
>> >>> Chuckles,
>> >>> HC.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 6/14/10, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Musicians hear music and solos differently than non-musicians.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> A musician will hear a solo and recognize the beautiful melodic
>> >>>> lines,
>> >>>> choice of notes and feeling that a good musician puts into it.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Unfortunately often, a non-musician will like a solo because the
>> >>>> musician
>> >>>> played a lot of notes, played a lot of high notes, looked as if he
>> >>>> was
>> >>>> really putting something into it, because he smiled a lot  or just
>> >>>> because
>> >>>> they like the musician personally.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --Bob Ringwald
>> >>>> Amateur (ham) Radio call sign K6YBV
>> >>>> www.ringwald.com
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>> >>>>
>> >>>> "Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together."
>> >>>> --Mel Brooks
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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