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Present passed (remixed)

Did a quick remix of Mark’s wonderful soprano – a track I love anyway:

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List of musicians (and technicians, so far):

Thanks for listening.

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Three versions of “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”

This morning, TeeGee opened an inspiration play list with “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” from Jeff Beck:

And while chatting a bit about Tal Wilkenfeld (the great bass player you see there playing with Jeff), I wrote that until now I only knew the version from Joni Mitchell, who also had one of the great bass players joining her, Jaco Pastorius:

And while Joni’s complete LP “Mingus” is of course a tribute to Charles Mingus who wrote the song, his version and composition is a tribute to Lester Young who wore that pork pie hat – see the German and English Wikipedia pages about the song (yes it has these! And the German one even has a bit of bass score on it!). So here is Charles’ original song. from his album “Mingus Ah Um”:

So there you have it. A great song from a great bass player, covered by other great bass players. The original is two years younger than me.

And, as some say about Jaco, he did some great work with Joni – maybe the best. If you want to learn from a living player, check out Tal – she’s also great!

And goodbye, pork pie hat – thanks for your work as well!

Hope you enjoyed it.

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Dreaming of the present

Couldn’t resist Tom’s lovely guitar template, so I played a simple bass line over it, leaving lots of room for others to join in:

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List of musicians (so far):

Thanks for listening.

Update, same evening: Mark answered with a remix with his lovely soprano added:

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Musicians now (so far):

Thanks again for listening 🙂

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Flor de lis Rita Payés & Joan Chamorro

Joan Chamorro keeps amazing me. Every day I find something new in my Youtube views, and everything I see and hear coming from this man and/or his school and pupils is so good.

For today I think it can’t get any better than this – and it’s not only Rita and Andrea who shine here, I also love Ignasi’s piano solo, and everyone else:

Seems that this is from a CD called “Lua Amarela” – which might be awesome if it’s all on this level. Brava y bravo signorinas y señores!

Update: Almost forgot, here’s what I’ve found yesterday evening. So good that I had to play it again for Zuleikha, and I also commented on it:

What I wrote was: “Quite simply a world class band!” – and Joan gave me a thumbs up for this remark 🙂 And to Zuleikha I said: “Wish I could play that bass as good as Magalí does” 🙂

Thanks for watching / reading / listening, as always.

And also read a dossier by Eva Vila about the Sant Andreu Jazz Band.

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calling wikiloops support line

Yesterday Marc mentioned this track – and it’s the best waiting music I’ve ever heard:

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Totally awesome, ain’t it? Still can’t keep my booty still… 😀

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Si tu vois ma m̬re РSant Andreu Jazz Band

Just received and watched “A Film About Kids and Music“, and was blown away by it. Again. I have written about that music school and Joan Chamorro before, here and here. But just listen to this lovely tune from Sidney Bechet which you also might know from Woody Allen’s film “Midnight in Paris” – and listen to Alba who was nine or ten when she played this:

I really really recommend that film, if you buy only one this year it should be this one. Especially if you have kids.

You won’t believe the story about this piece of music, and you’ll also see Alba’s little sister Elsa who was six when the movie was made. This is just unbelievably good.

A must see.