Re: [Harp-L] Toot s Thielemans plays "Tenor Madness"

[Music Cal <macaroni9999@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well that explains it.

I was wondering how Jon could have watched the same Tenor Madness video
that I had and not come away with the same conclusion that I had. The
pianist walked all over Toots! Then I noticed that Jon mentioned a "band".
Band? What band? There was just a pianist and Toots. OK, something was
amiss. So I followed the link to the video again and this time there was a
band. And they were smokin! What the hey?

Somehow the link that I followed was errant and sent me here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oh_KfY7XVU

So mystery partly solved. We were commenting on two different videos (Tell
me that Toots' solo wasn't lame on the video I saw and that it wasn't due
to a pianist that knows nothing about comping.). So how did that link get
temporarily misdirected? Weird.

Daniel



On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Music Cal <macaroni9999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Rob
>
> Yeh, you are probably right. They had limited time to show off their bop
> chops. All the more reason for Van den Brink to focus on showing off his
> melodic chops during his own solo and showing off his comping chops during
> Toot's solo.  And when it comes to comping less is usually (almost always
> in jazz) more. In fact, in an ensemble setting which includes a bass player
> I would rather that the pianist forget that they even have a left hand. Use
> it for something more constructive ... like throwing cymbals at sax players
> that play too many notes.
>
> Daniel
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