<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">An observation for players and listeners.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I wandered in to a youtube clip of a 1927 composition--see link number one.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I found it be very well played indeed. The melody stated and the embellishments</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and variations passed around with great skill. I couldn't remember ever hearing</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">that melody before. I did some research to learn more about it, I'd like to play it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">(I'm an amateur wannabe, can't claim to be a musician). I thought I had heard</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">a lot of tunes during my listening days but discovered that it has been recorded by</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">many ---both jazz, swing, Motown, and Montavani (easy listening). Wow, how</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">had I not remembered hearing it. Composed as a waltz, but played 4/4 by OKOM.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">You can find many versions on youtube, but don't search for it by the title ("Diane")</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ThotQ3WiE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=i3ThotQ3WiE<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div></a> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"> Link 1</div></font></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div></font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8lP9zeRPjE" target="_blank" style="font-family:"arial black",sans-serif">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=X8lP9zeRPjE</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"> Link 2</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Here's my observation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> To my ears, both of these clips are really good.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Heitger, Barrett, Christopher (and excellent local players where</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> it was filmed in Germany) version began with melody as composed</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> (except for 4/4 instead of 3/4). Following the trombone, the trumpet,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> tenor sax, and piano played creative embellishments and variations</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and then some ensemble play to finish up. Wow---great music.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> After spending some time researching for other versions. I discovered</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> that Eddie Condon many years ago had one with one his all-star</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> configurations. Link 2, of course. Wow---great players playing well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> However, the first chorus, well played of course, began with an altered</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> variation of the melody. Had this my first listening experience with this</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> tune I wouldn't have locked in that melody that rolled around in my head</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> for days. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> My suggestion to performing musicians. There surely are folks like me</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> who need to hear the melody stated clearly the first time around so as</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> to better appreciate the inventive embellishments and variations that</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> follow. Let the bebop and post bebop folks play around with chords</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and extensions of chords as the structure of the tune. They do it well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> But OKOM, I think, is based on melody.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Just my opinion. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Ken Gates</div><br></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><br></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><br></font></div></font></span></div>
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