Re: Subject: [Harp-L] video- CHEROKEE by Yvonnick Prene

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Where is the "phrasing" and more importantly WHERE is the melody?

Rob Paparozzi
Melodymeister,-)



Excuse my brevity,
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On Sep 27, 2014, at 2:36 PM, EGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Randy: I already love everything about YOUR music, and greatly admire your  
> love for Toots and HIS playing. I'm a huge fan of Will's as well for that  
> matter.
> 
> I too think Yvonnik is a brilliant young musician with chops for days and I 
> can assure you I'm not remotely jealous of you, Toots, Will, him or any  
> chromatic player. Quite the contrary--I have the utmost admiration for those 
> who  can play so brilliantly....but here's the thing.
> 
> I'm just not THAT into bebop, while I DO love Jazz. How does this  make me 
> (specifically)'not open enough for anything other than what you(I)  know'?
> 
> Seriously: that's a pretty big condemnation of those who have wide-ranging  
> tastes in both music and jazz. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Cherokee. 
> But  I'll tell you this, I could NOT sit through an entire evening (as an 
> audience  member) of that level of jazz on chromatic. 
> 
> While it might be everything you say--at a higher intellectual level than  
> we mere mortals are intelligent enough to grasp (that IS your strong  
> implication?) --I have sat through countless evenings of 4 hour  non-stop 
> performancess by Jason Ricci playing at equally  fast speeds of mostly improv. HIS 
> music 'spoke to me', is the main  difference. Bebop on a chromatic just 
> doesn't. 
> 
> But why should it? We're all different - my first exposure to music  was 
> Scottish bagpipes - I'm sure entirely different from yours or most others  
> here, and if everyone in the civilized world loved to hear this as you seem to  
> think we should, I suspect it wouldn't really please you since there's a 
> certain  satisfaction in considering one's musical tastes 'special'. 
> 
> Personally, I love Big Band era Jazz. I can also get into many of Davis,  
> Cochrane, Parker performances - depending on the time of day (or evening)  
> --or my mood at a particular moment. But bottom line is that this extremely  
> fast playing on chromatic wouldn't be my first choice to listen to on my CD  
> player for entertainment. What I DO enjoy is more mellow and melodious 
> music.  Does that put me well down the rung of intellectuality in your book? 
> Perhaps.  Not a problem, but I can't imagine thusly judging someone's intellect 
> by the  kind of music they enjoy recreationally.
> 
> Something to ponder: perhaps some truly do like bebop on piano, bass,  
> trumpet and/or bari sax but not on chromatic harmonica no matter how  talented 
> the player because it simply sounds too 'sharp' to their  ears. Possible?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
> "Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:18:26 -0400
> From: Randy Singer  <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] video- CHEROKEE by Yvonnick  Prene
> To: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: William  gallison HARMONICA _wgalison@xxxxxxxx 
> (mailto:wgalison@xxxxxxx) 
> 
> Another astounding jazz chromatic solo!
> 
> Many players do not like  bebop for many reasonsâ.too many notesâthey donâ
> t understand itââetc.
> 
> I  believe that it is just jealousy that they are not in command of their  
> instrument and therefore do not like hearing others in total musical  
> command.
> 
> It is the highest calling of a musician to be able to improvise  in any 
> key, at any tempo to any song and jazz is the vehicle for the highest  form of
> music imo. I read somewhere that the brains of jazz musicians are  almost 
> super human or something like that.
> 
> Many will argue, go ahead but  if you donât like jazz it might because you 
> are not open enough for anything  other than what you  know.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x7gUEs_Cvc&list=TLoQxUyobdxPSvtykG01RjNpjpv
> cGmtNTY&index=2
> 
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