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I really like this. Fantastic singer, relaxed but steady bass and particularly the contrast between the timbres of the mandolin and the guitar playing in much the same register.

Also nice to hear...

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Here's an alternative approach - coda courtesy of Leonard Bernstein

TAB is genuinely ambidextrous - it does not change because - as UKrobbiej says - the stringing is normally inverted on left handed instruments. I think Jimi Hendrix - who was left-handed - played a...

https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea-160-15082018-1526

I've gone for the Deep Blue Sea - coda courtesy of Charles Trenet. Come on in the water's lovely!

As I understand it flat wound strings are wound with a kind of thin flat tape - bass guitars are often strung this way. Flat tops are wound with round wire which is ground down to make the surface...

Thanks for the kind words Larry. Great swing to yours!

Here's my attempt :

https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/yardbird-suite-160-14072018-1555

This is way the most challenging and way the most fun of the Jazz tunes of the month so far.

So many new challenges - for example I find myself more frequently looking at what my right hand is...

Here's my attempt :-

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I would have preferred if Alex Heflin or David Brown or Pete Martin or somebody - any body - who can actually play, has talent,...

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This tune is far more challenging than it appears at first or second hearing - the way the phrase moves back and forth on and off the beat - the...

Oh wow! that's impressive.

But please Pete Martin don't put it up for the April tune of the month - at least not April 2018.

Soft wind - Lionel Hampton on vibes - Charlie Christian on guitar. mmmm!

I've been meaning to throw the following out there for a while -

Any other mandolin players find the vibes interesting...

https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/split-kick-x-4-14022018-1827

To quote Voltaire

" it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."

So once again I'll attempt to...

How about this for a contrafact written by Horace Silver and performed by him with Art Blakey :



or the smoother Stan Getz version :



Touch of the Star Trek theme about the first 3 notes...

I can only imagine that the reason these terrific clips have elicited no comments is that it's hard to know what to say. This kind of music - though perhaps almost the norm for the jazz you'd hear...

So - yet again - here goes

https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/there-will-always-be-another-you-bossa-140-11022018-1412

[QUOTE=crisscross;1624242]I don't have any talent for improvising, so I gave up trying to play jazz some years ago, concentrating rather on classical and some folk. ]

Really nice music!

If I...

Thanks for the kind words Mark. You rightly spotted that I've been prioritising timing.

I remember reading an interview with Diana Krall in which she said she worked on her timing by watching old...

The standard of playing here up to now is worryingly far too high - time to lower the bar!

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Here's another contrafact which I have found inspirational : Charlie Parker's Scrapple from the Apple. The recording is almost exactly 70 years old.



What's really helpful is that is...

..... said to indicate that one is about to start something difficult or exciting - Here goes!


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You'll find it on Mandozine.com. But that's just the where the notes are on the fretboard. I haven't been able to find how make it swing like John Reichsman does on the internet - must involve...

But when they do ......



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Barney McKenna played a bowl back .........