Re: [Harp-L] Re: Fly Me to the Moon

[Grant Walters <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeri:

As always, I am impressed with your playing and wish I was sitting as this cafe….
nice group and a favorite song ….
With a trio..sometimes it is nice to hear someone expand the boundary of original…as you have done nicely here….
my guess is that others might be more on board with the great improvisation if you at least lay down the melody clearly,
smoothly and with great feeling first…then expand…for me…I say…great job…just roll back the treble…( aways) 
I bet you have a very accurate and expensive mic…that really revels the steel reeds…( just a guess) 
as it slightly hurt my ears on anything above the 7 hole.  I've notice the same high ring on shure beta 58's…just needs a slight roll back...
keep up the good work…you always inspire me to look at these great tunes..

Grant


On Sep 20, 2012, at 11:52 PM, peter lind <pjazz_peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jerome,
> 
> I've been working on this song for a while and have been listening quite a bit to the Ray Brown/Monty Alexander/Russell Malone version as well as Diana Krall to remind myself of the lyrics. Sounds great to me. I know where you are in the song. Seems like a good organic development to the solo. I've listened to it a couple of times. I have no problem with the choice of the "high note" in question. Seems to fit with the the music and the lyrics. I particularly like the segment right after that from 2:11 to 2:22. There are some places I might different choices, but overall I like it.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Sep 21, 2012, at 6:52 AM, JersiMuse wrote:
> 
>> I had the same remark from another person on a forum.
>> The funny point is that I posted this one because I had the feeling that for
>> once I was quite cool & didn't do too much :-)
>> 
>> To be clear, to me these are not acrobatics, and I don't play these licks
>> because I can, but because I hear the tune that way.
>> I'm in "real improvisation" 90% of the time here.
>> I mean these are not licks I've worked in advance. I hear the music that way
>> & play what I hear at that moment.
>> So if I hear few notes, I play few notes, and if I hear a lot of notes, I
>> play a lot of notes. I don't count them when hearing in my head before
>> playing :-)
>> 
>> But to me, as I said, this one was quite cool compared to many other
>> choruses of mine.
>> When I listen to it, I don't hear any note that I think I shouldn't have
>> played (contrarily to what usually happens when I listen to myself).
>> Maybe we just don't hear the same. You'd like it probably extremely cool &
>> soft.
>> 
>> Thanks anyway for your feedback, which helps me in any case,
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Jerome
>> www.youtube.com/JersiMuse
>> 
>> 
>> -----Message d'origine-----
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>> de David Fairweather
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>> 
>> I dunno Jersi,  I usually like your playing, but on that tune I think the
>> song would be better served by laying back, not playing so many notes and
>> focusing more on creating a mellow mood.  Are the accelerated acrobatics and
>> 10 blow squeal really appropriate to that tune?  Just because you can,
>> doesn't mean you should.  ;>
>> 
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