New territory for the mandolin?

[mando_erik]

I thought this was pretty cool and I've never heard of it done before. I've been playing bass in my highschool jazzband for a year and this year after figuring out my effects box i tried out and am now the official "Mel-Hi jazzband Mandolinist" http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif pretty catchy, huh?

I'm playing my Stewmac 5-string w/ Parsons-White b-bender through a zoom G2 and washburn master series amp. It sounds great and adds a lot of color to our band which recieved straight superiors at State Festival last year. It's also soo much fun to play solos against a rythm section and full horn section http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Bill Snyder]

That is great. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Alex of the North]

Hate to break it to you, but I played mandolin with my high school jazz band in 1992-1993. Only for one song though. Mostly I played bass. I think it's cool that you'll be doing it full time, you're going to open some minds.

[jefflester]

Samples? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[pglasse]

Though not exactly new territory, congratulations on exploring some rarely visited mandolin turf!

In the early 1980s I played five string electric mandolin with the University of Texas Jazz Orchestra (i.e. the jazz band) in what would have been the guitar chair.

You wrote: "It's also soo much fun to play solos against a rythm section and full horn section http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif"

I couldn't agree more -- one of the great things about having an electric mandolin in your toolkit. Bravo! Keep it up!

Paul Glasse
Austin, Texas

[mando_erik]

thats awesome! Cool to hear its been done before. I'll have some recordings up soon on myspace real soon, just bought a whole bunch of new recording software that I'm still figuring out. I also plan on doing some composing/arranging for the band (with a very important mandolin part of course, haha).

[Ted Eschliman]

You go, Erik! Make us proud.

Here's Paul Glasse guesting with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra at Jazz in June (http://jazzmando.com/jazz_in_june_paul_glasse_njo.shtml) last year:

http://jazzmando.com/images/PG_NJO4.jpg