Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 5:43 am Post subject: Your favorite screamer performance.
Would love to hear your favorite screamer piece. This is my all time favorite although I prefer the studio recording which is much slower paced. Still, this one is really powerful.
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High notes lose their impact when taken to excess. Tonal quality is important as is the musical composition.
While the Tastee Bros do some funny way high extreme stuff it becomes just that; Humor.
Other somewhat lower toned high notes taken on a more heightened value depending upon the CONTEXT of the chart. Seen in that regard Benny Bailey's mere High G in "Compared To What" (Swiss Movement" Les McCann Eddie Harris 1969) is a superior note musically. As is his whole classic blues solo at 4:10 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzvlivbptXk
Some wouldn't even categorize Bailey's solo as extreme register. It does however have CONTENT and meaning. As well as a few high notes. No double C's.
Probably Ferguson's coda to "Frame For The Blues" involves the best short example. First time I heard his descending Double C cadenza the hair on the back of my head stood up. I froze.
You have to find the original 1958 recording on Roulette Records. The one's on Youtube do not feature that arrangement.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:50 am Post subject:
For a musical performance that sold for the performance and not just high notes, I think it was difficult to beat Bill Chase in his later years, around the release of his first rock band album.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:51 am Post subject:
Doc's licks on "Take The A Train" that he recorded with The Tonight Show Band just blow me away! Can't find a recording on youtube though. _________________ Bach 43
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:00 pm Post subject:
I would say any of Arturo's concerts I've been to, but that's not really fair because he plays so much MUSIC - the high notes are just icing on the cake! _________________ Crazy Nate - Fine Yet Mellow Fellow
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When it comes to screaming like nothing, else, Maynard Ferguson's Maynard Ferguson or the acapella solos of Maynard in Pagliacci wins
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Starts at 1:25. Jon Faddis has always impressed me, as a guy who can lay it down up there, and be cleaner than everyone else in the room. Also, I love this guy as a jazz player, just as much as the dude who plays lead.
...That whole video is pretty great, though. Watch the whole thing. _________________ Jeff Mason
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 5:22 pm Post subject:
I had a fairly decent performance with a screamer in the summer of 1986 I think it was. She was a paralegal from Walnut Creek, CA. Sort of took me by surprise along with the neighbors in her condo building who were all slamming their windows and sliding doors shut.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject:
Trust me, it *was* a performance.
HornnOOb wrote:
I had a fairly decent performance with a screamer in the summer of 1986 I think it was. She was a paralegal from Walnut Creek, CA. Sort of took me by surprise along with the neighbors in her condo building who were all slamming their windows and sliding doors shut.
Sorry, I don't have a video to show.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:42 pm Post subject:
United Nations Orchestra Live at Royal Festival Hall in London. Really the entire disc but if I have to pick a favorite screamer moment it would be Arturo's ending octave licks on Night in Tunisia. Well maybe his licks in And Then She Stopped too... _________________ Jonathan Karnes
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This is a nice build-up, gently going higher and higher to build up the song instead of louder and louder. I think of this song when thinking in terms of playing high MUSICALLY:
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good song ohiotpt, almost picked that but Somewhere won for me. The Airmen of Note are amazing _________________ YTR-6310Z- YTR-14B4 and Curry 1.5TF
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