Re: Subject: [Harp-L] Summertime help

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:59 PM, EGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Mike:
>
> My answer to your "Summertime" dilemma?  Jason Ricci doing it   
> impromptu with
> Todd Edmunds (Buckweed) as backup on bass at Terra Blues  last  
> May....I was
> lucky enough to be in the audience that night. Had  all of us on  
> our feet.
> Garry Hodgson captured it (as he does  all of Jason's East Coast  
> gigs) for
> posterity, for which we should all be  ever grateful...give a  
> listen. Summertime is
> No. 19 on the set list:
>
> _Click  here: Internet Archive: Details: Jason Ricci and New Blood  
> Live at
> Terra  Blues on 2006-05-04_
> (http://www.archive.org/details/jrnb2006-05-04.flac16)
>
> ...Otherwise, play it on a chromatic...and get to pick and choose   
> your key
> (my way of playing it).
>
> Side note:  Jason said he was retiring his version after hearing   
> Smo-Joe
> play it during a gig in Florida...
>
> Elizabeth

Joseph will be playing Summertime at the Buckeye gathering. It will  
be a dirge on a diatonic in second position into a jazz-waltz in A  
minor on a chromatic.

Mama Cass (the live one)

> "My band hosts an open jam and last night someone
> called  Summertime.  I know the melody and play it in
> 4th.  However,  I've never thought so soloing through
> the piece.
>
> Any  advice?  The chord progression seems pretty nuts.
> I don't mind  learning its harmony and following it
> rather then picking a diatonic  scale.  I have forever
> to figure it out, but thought it would be a  great
> challenge to play it from a jazz persepctive rather
> then  blues.
>
> I think we'll be adding it to our regular set
> eventually  along with Watermelon Man (thanks Gussow!).
>
> Mike  Fugazzi"
>
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