Wasn't Gina a bit old for you? By the way she's still living, at 93, single and waiting for the right man
The thick Italian accent did it
And just like that, your thread turned into a throwback to our teenage fantasies, @FiftyfiftyIf anyone can look half as good at 93...!!! Incredible
Yep the original Italian sex siren.. Accent & Assets
Yeah, quite likely you'll find ol' Macheath sneaking in here! I'm sure Quentin Tarrantino loves this
Wes was indeed a legend. Did you know "Instead of using a guitar pick, Montgomery plucked the strings with the fleshy part of his thumb. He developed this technique not for technical reasons but to keep neighbours from complaining, he played quietly by using his thumb"
I knew about the first part but didn't know the part about keeping the neighbor's from complaining. One of the great regrets I have is that I lost the SACD of the Incredible Jazz Guitar. I need to get the vinyl copy of this album, definitely worth it. I do have the Wes Montgomery DVD that was presented to me my a relative who plays the guitar professionally. When I first discovered Wes I set out to collect as many of his CDs as possible. Wes is one of those guys where knowing the music is also about knowing the musician.
Although I have quite a few of Wes's I haven't really connected to the others. It's the same with Kenny Burrell, I gravitate towards midnight Blue and little else although I have a few others like Soul Call. These two albums are must haves in any music lovers collection, these two albums have cross over appeal and dot easily give themselves to easy categorisation. I am going to dustoff those other Wes albums and rediscover.A pity re the SACD
Just picked this up from a website. Very impressive!
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The Thumb
Wes was entirely self-taught and early on decided to sacrifice speed for tone by using the right-hand thumb instead of a plectrum. The fat, warm sound he was able to produce with the thumb created a very vocal, soulful 'voice' that's very difficult to obtain with a pick.
Most players who try this technique find it stifling, as upstrokes are so difficult to articulate. Jim Mullen, himself a thumb player, points out that Wes "had a double-jointed thumb, which meant he could play both up- and downstrokes like a pick player".
Ultimately, Wes became so good with the thumb that any drop in speed became irrelevant, as Steve Howe points out: "His technique seemed to allow him to play anything he wanted."
Listening now, over 50 years after some of his most celebrated recordings were made, the velocity Wes could generate when needed is still astonishing. A prime example is his solo on the John Coltrane tune Impressions, which he takes at a breakneck speed. In fact, there isn't a single moment in any Wes recording where you would think he'd do better with a pick!
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WE INSIST! Max Roach"s Freedom Now Suite
"Forty-one years after the recording of the Freedom Now Suite, the work still sounds fresh, modern and haunting. A close look at the interplay between the social, the political and the musical that it embodies reminds us that jazz tradition has always been in dialogue with the social and cultural movements going on around it, and has often been at its most inspired when engaged in social commentary."
"The legacy of the spiritual is especially strong in “Triptych,” a movement that is itself divided into three parts: “Prayer,” “Protest” and “Peace.”
“Triptych” is a duet between Lincoln and Roach that moves from expressive interplay between wordless voice and percussion (on “Prayer”) to extended screaming (on “Protest”) and back to “Peace.”
Also beautiful is the song Drivaman.
Oh yeah, we fought. We never could finish it. It [still] isn’t finished.” The problem, he suggested is that “we don’t really understand what it really is to be free. The last song we did, ‘Freedom Day,’ ended with a question mark.”
JazzTimes
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My thoughts too on both counts, Kishore. I could try and make a comment on the beautiful music but also the perfect set of teeth, she has.
