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</div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Apart from one or two private recordings which survived from studio dates, and an occasional one with less aggressive language (Ms. Bogan can be heard very rude on YouTube and was discussed by Paul Oliver in a chapter called THE BLUE BLUES) she did like one or two other unladylikes manage to skate-sing, as it might be called, deliberately off-pitch. This gave performances a remarkable edge, when she managed the resulting dissonances -- there are some striking examples recorded with her frequent accompanist Walter Roland, who as far as I can make out also engaged in what might be called drumming on the piano, not rolling but attaining to a tremolo effect by striking right hand chords in rapid repetition. </div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I should imagine that could ruin a normal pair of hands. </div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There is also a complete recording of Verdi's opera NABUCCO on which the massive baritone singer Giangiacomo Guelfi puts an edge to his voice by likewise distancing the lines he sings from accurate pitching. Sometimes I have despaired of a "folkie" type singer being unable to do anything of the sort, and sounding plain dull, tame. Like the man on pitch was afraid he sounded when he'd to follow a guy who played sharp. </div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I gather that one of the reasons why musicians who came to the fore in the 1930s set such store by the Great American Songbook was that like Art Tatum, and of course Willie the Lion Smith, with his Jewish background, there were practical demonstrations of harmonic complexities and possibilities of transcribing by ear various relationships. I remember the outline of a lecture on the topic from Jake Hanna one afternoon in Edinburgh, just before Jake for the very first time heard the 86-year-old Benny Waters and declared him the greatest living saxophonist. At the same time, Benny for the first time heard the guitarist gypsy Fapy Lafertin, whom guitarists have told me knew more chords than anybody dead or living -- the fact that Benny and Fapy were playing together minutes after their first meeting (the festival gig had been billed for months) was another novelty. The duly esteemed bassist Dave Green also heard Jake's pocket lecture, and then he was bowled over by Benny's clarinet playing,</div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">happy daze, and MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY !!!!</div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Robert R. Calder</div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></div><div class="ydp237c350cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">
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On Tuesday, 24 December 2019, 19:20:02 GMT, dixielandjazz-request@ml.islandnet.com <dixielandjazz-request@ml.islandnet.com> wrote:
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Re: Sarah Vaughan - > Listen To Quarter Tones (Charles Suhor)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Message: 1<br></div><div dir="ltr">Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:51:44 -0600<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: Charles Suhor <<a href="mailto:csuhor@zebra.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">csuhor@zebra.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: Al Levy <<a href="mailto:alevy@alevy.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">alevy@alevy.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <<a href="mailto:dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Sarah Vaughan - > Listen To Quarter Tones<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:29D8A3B5-987E-45FA-9AEE-D490F5A92E91@zebra.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">29D8A3B5-987E-45FA-9AEE-D490F5A92E91@zebra.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks, Al. I'm far from having perfect pitch, but as a drummer I could usually tell when one sax player in a section was out of tune, or when a trumpeter had the annoying habit of playing sharp. My bro Don used to complain that in the latter case, he would seem to have a "dead' sound when he soloed after the trumpet man. "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?"?Naw, not the Dixie of romantic legend. But so many are stuck in the legend. Have I sent the attached article?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Charlie<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> On Dec 14, 2019, at 3:00 PM, Al Levy <<a href="mailto:alevy@alevy.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">alevy@alevy.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Hi again Charlie, <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> I am repeating this message because you couldn't hear my midi file. <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> I have attached an MP3 of the same "score". (F to G)<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Any person in this group can request a copy of the notation file and I'll send something along. <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> For the record - <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> a) I do not have perfect pitch. I have pretty good "relative" pitch. <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> b) Intonation is very important to performance! Musicians hear it. <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> c) Musicians (and music lovers) do not need theory books, they need ears. <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> And just to keep this message in tune with the group title "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> I just love Phil Harris. <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> ---------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">> On 12/13/2019 4:00 PM, Charles & Jane Freeman wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> Dear Al -<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> <br></div><div dir="ltr">>> I couldn?t open your file, but I?ll weigh in anyway.<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> <br></div><div dir="ltr">>> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <QTONES.mp3>_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">> To unsubscribe or change your e-mail preferences for the Dixieland Jazz Mailing list, or to find the online archives, please visit:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <a href="http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Dixielandjazz mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <a href="mailto:Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------- next part --------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br></div><div dir="ltr">URL: <<a href="http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielandjazz/attachments/20191223/2d0f6f7f/attachment.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielandjazz/attachments/20191223/2d0f6f7f/attachment.html</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------- next part --------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br></div><div dir="ltr">Name: COLONEL REB piece.docx<br></div><div dir="ltr">Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document<br></div><div dir="ltr">Size: 508725 bytes<br></div><div dir="ltr">Desc: not available<br></div><div dir="ltr">URL: <<a href="http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielandjazz/attachments/20191223/2d0f6f7f/attachment.docx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielandjazz/attachments/20191223/2d0f6f7f/attachment.docx</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------- next part --------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br></div><div dir="ltr">URL: <<a href="http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielandjazz/attachments/20191223/2d0f6f7f/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielandjazz/attachments/20191223/2d0f6f7f/attachment-0001.html</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">To unsubscribe or change your e-mail preferences for the Dixieland Jazz Mailing list, or to find the online archives, please visit:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dixielandjazz mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">End of Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 204, Issue 21<br></div><div dir="ltr">**********************************************<br></div></div>
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