[Harp-L] YouTube - AFTER YOU'VE GONE-- shtreiml

["John F. Potts" <hvyj@xxxxxxx>]

I don't have enough musical knowledge to qualify me to assess  
proficiency with jazz changes, but i do know a little about groove--- 
and however proficiently this player gets around on the harmonica,  
overblows and all, the notes he is playing have absolutely no  
relationship to the groove, beat or meter.  His note selection may be  
very sophisticated, BUT he is playing those notes without any  
consistent relationship to the beat. He is not putting notes on (or  
off) the beats or anywhere in any sort of variation in relationship  
to the beat. There is no meter or syncopation . He is not maintaining  
any sort of groove which is why Rick says this sounds like doodling  
to him.
	
Listen to Diana Krall sing.  Much of her material is in the style of  
jazz standards, with no back beat.  But her placement of the notes  
she sings on or in relation to the beat is mesmerizing.  None of that  
sort of note placement going on here.  The note selection may be  
sophisticated and he playing technique highly proficient, but there  
is a total disregard for meter and groove.

Randy may be right, but Rick isn't wrong.

JP