"Smart trackies" is surely an oxymoron?

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:06, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

-simultaneous insulting of tracksuit bottom fives-

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:07, Reply)

I concur.
How you doing today?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:09, Reply)

I've had a nice sleep, I feel a little more well and I'm not going to do weights until next week or so.
Not that bad, really. How are you?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:11, Reply)

You'll be pleased to know we didn't play All Blues last night
Good session though, and I still have bass envy (in return for travelling all the way down to Tonbridge I get to play her husband's bass, which is an absolute beauty). Still haven't quite woken up this morning but I'm sure I'll come to life after lunch. Or fall asleep again. I haven't decided yet.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:15, Reply)

Fall back asleep. Always a good plan.
I thought my zing was quite good, actually, especially as I am supposed to know/remember the structure of the piece and know that while it's improvisation it's tightly controlled and one soloist uses more notes and another fewer but more expression and surely when you play it you change the solos?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:17, Reply)

In which case you know more about it than we do...
We go for the usual approach of "bash through tune, violin solo over chords, guitar solo, bass solo, try and come back into the tune altogether."

But then I never had to study the piece in obscenely intimate detail. (And that may be why I can still enjoy it)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:22, Reply)

You just had to choose that one.
You have Duke Ellington, early Louis Armstrong and Bennie Goodman. I'd rather you stayed away from the bebop, though, no one likes bebop.

I've just whapped Koko on now, it's one of the pieces I didn't mind doing to death.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:26, Reply)

Hmm...depends what bop
Parker I still can't get into, but Miles' earlier stuff is bebop, as is Coltrane's. And I don't really know where to put people like Oscar Peterson and Grant Green in the grand scheme of things. Oh, and we do a few Thelonious Monk tunes...this is just offending you more and more, isn't it?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:31, Reply)

The earlier Miles we studied were Jeru and Venus De Milo
I was never that much of a fan. I'm a sucker for a nice tune. I wouldn't mind All Blues so much if it weren't so deathly boring, repetitive and a bit wanky, to be honest.

ALMOST 12 MINUTES FFS WHAT ARE YOU DOING
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 12:34, Reply)