solo jazz piano

OLDUDE

New member
Thanks Mat,
There seems to have been a good discussion over the banning of Martin. I had never ventured into that particular thread so missed out on that discussion.
Just one observation - like Colin and Steve, if this ever happened to me I would wish all of my friends on the forum to be made aware of whatever infringments had occurred.

Cheers John
 
teddy

teddy

Duckmeister
John, I get the impression that it may have been his language that got him banned. he was certainly a bit extreme in some ways and maybe he went too far. As I have said elsewhere although I have never set out to upset anyone, I am sure I may well have done it accidentally.

teddy
 
John Watt

John Watt

Member
As a long time forum member, for me, this has been very informational.
I read through that entire thread. Alban Berg is someone I know from an American guitar forum,
and I can understand the difficulties trying to share a proper dialogue, especially in English.

I too would like all font follies displayed, if I was ever banned.

You never know who you're going to bump, up, into or out, in a solo jazz piano thread.

If McCoy Tyner was looking, I think he'd be thinking "I need more cadenza".
 
White Knight

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
John Watt said:
As a long time forum member, for me, this has been very informational.
I read through that entire thread. Alban Berg is someone I know from an American guitar forum,
and I can understand the difficulties trying to share a proper dialogue, especially in English.

I too would like all font follies displayed, if I was ever banned.

You never know who you're going to bump, up, into or out, in a solo jazz piano thread.

If McCoy Tyner was looking, I think he'd be thinking "I need more cadenza".
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Good one, John! :grin:
 
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John Watt

John Watt

Member
Thank you, thank you. It's nice to get into the flow with music forums,
but I have to be understanding. I still have difficulty with my online mentality.
This affects my psychology even more than being onstage,
and being onstage has shown me many things about human perception.

My new apartment is in the downtown core, so I visited a bar with a nice street view,
a bar where I made signs for the original owner, so I knew about this window perch.
But I got asked to join the karaoke, huge prizes, lots of prizes, and now everyone thinks I'm winning.

This has been important for me. For the first time I'm onstage singing without playing guitar,
and obviously playing guitar takes up more of my brain, thinking singing is a third or quarter.
I'm bopping around like I normally do, letting my body feel the rhythm so I can play off it,
but I'm looking at myself wanting to dance, move my arms, thinking to myself while I'm singing.
Please don't think I'm bragging about my voice. I know I've been taking care of that for a long time.
But what's turning everyone on is my jamming along to the instrumentals,
harmonizing and adding Jimi trails and accents to horn and guitar solos.
Of course I'm singing songs I know, making it easy not to look at the words.

This does prepresent a big change in my stage mentality, and I can hardly wait to go back.
I've always been able to play along with my singing, or sing along with my playing.
But this is a new contrast in concentration, making the whole bar, and stage, my playground.
 
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John Watt

John Watt

Member
Interesting? At my age, 60? This is a diva experience.

Free pop and cherry cheesecake, young people coming over to talk?

It doesn't get much better, for me.

I stopped in during the day, just to feel it again, and talked with the owners' wife.
The karaoke judges are old musical friends from another city,
and she said they were telling her about me in bands and playing guitar.
She offered me a summer house gig, playing a patio on the weekends,
with another big room to move into for bad weather.
This will be the only local band gig in Welland, downtown too. Uh, no, that's uptown.

It would be more than just interesting, to get an untitled Mr. Frederik Magle tune down, even just some,
and make a Youtube video of it, for my friends here.
 

OLDUDE

New member
It all sounds great John,
looking forward to the youtube link if it works out

Cheers,
Another John
 

OLDUDE

New member
john on youtube

John Watt said:
Interesting? At my age, 60? This is a diva experience.

Free pop and cherry cheesecake, young people coming over to talk?

It doesn't get much better, for me.

I stopped in during the day, just to feel it again, and talked with the owners' wife.
The karaoke judges are old musical friends from another city,
and she said they were telling her about me in bands and playing guitar.
She offered me a summer house gig, playing a patio on the weekends,
with another big room to move into for bad weather.
This will be the only local band gig in Welland, downtown too. Uh, no, that's uptown.

It would be more than just interesting, to get an untitled Mr. Frederik Magle tune down, even just some,
and make a Youtube video of it, for my friends here.
Click to expand...

Any progress with your project John?
 

OLDUDE

New member
I think the following Wiki ref. is worth following up.
Jan Johansson (16 September 1931 – 9 November 1968) was a Swedish jazz pianist. He is little known outside Scandinavia, and his records are not widely available, though Jazz på svenska (Jazz in Swedish) has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and is the best selling jazz release ever in Sweden.
Johansson was a native of Söderhamn, in the Hälsingland province of Sweden. Studying classical piano as a child, he would also go on to master the guitar, organ and accordion, before turning on to swing and bebop as a teenager. He met saxophonist Stan Getz while at university. He abandoned his studies to play jazz full time, and worked with many American jazz musicians, becoming the first European to be invited to join the Jazz at the Philharmonic package.
The years 1961 to 1968 produced a string of classic albums, which would help define his style of re-imagining traditional European folk tunes via jazz and the avant garde. These included Jazz på svenska and Jazz på ryska (Jazz in Russian) which are both available in an expanded form on CD. Jazz på ungerska (Jazz in Hungarian) together with Danish Jazz violinist Svend Asmussen is the third album in that series. Jazz in Swedish comprises variations on sixteen Swedish folk songs with Georg Riedel playing acoustic bass. During this period, Johansson also made several recordings with Radiojazzgruppen.
The Grammy award winning albums Musik genom fyra sekler (Music from the past four centuries) builds on traditional Swedish melodies, but this time uses larger groups of musicians. There were also 300.000 and two trio sets, 8 Bitar and Innertrio, which have been reissued as a single CD.
With his career including film & TV music, Johansson is also best known as the composer of "Here Comes Pippi Longstocking" ("Här kommer Pippi Långstrump"), the theme song of the famous Swedish TV series, Pippi Longstocking. With lyrics by character/series creator Astrid Lindgren and sung by the series' young star Inger Nilsson, it would also be one of Johansson's last works.[1]
His album "Barnkammarmusik" (two translations: "Children's Chamber Music" and "Children's Room Music") should be a standard component of every music appreciation class worldwide.
In November 1968 Jan Johansson died in a car crash on his way to a concert in a church in Jönköping, Sweden. His sons, Anders Johansson and Jens Johansson, run Heptagon Records which keeps their father's recordings available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN74qJW6IA8&feature=player_detailpage
 
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gord

gord

New member
hi mike, thanks for all the superb music, i love the peterson,basie duo, and all the mel powell tracks. jazz just doesnt get any better than this , does it.spent the last couple of hours listening to these great swinging tracks. gord
 
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