This is a tune from an acoustic duo concert a few weeks back. Lucas Beukers wrote the melody and plays bass. After the theme it's all improvisation on the chords. I play my great Ellis A5 that I bought last year.
New mandolin / double bass cd out! Check www.janoskoolen.nl
Oh so nice, Janos, and that Ellis is indeed great!
Here is a ditty I put together with my Weber Custom Special Edition. Enjoy!
Love the break at :56, that Weber sounds so nice. Great tune by-the-way!
Thanks Tim! I've had this mandolin for a little over two years now, and I think that the cedar top if finally really "breaking-in", it is getting warmer and rounder every day.
his is a cowboy classic I put together recently... (I realize now I should have redone the vocals, oh well)
I have hesitated putting this out for awhile, it is pretty heart wrenching introspective stuff, and so have that in mind as you listen. Catharsis… big big catharsis
Anyway I discovered, making this track, the powerful effect of playing a two mandolin break with one mandolin playing the melody in tremolo and the other improvising, which I dug a lot. Tell me what you all think
peace,
br Michael Paul
Here is a video of my band playing a tune I wrote. We recorded this last night at Rico's, the local jazz bar in Pullman, WA. My jazz saxophone roots definitely come out in my in-progress improv... there's a less-than-discreet Charlie Parker quote at 1:55. Thanks for listening... what do you think?
-2011 Weber Special Edition "Molly"
-2003 Gibson WM-45 Guitar "Woody"
-1932 Ludwig Columbia Tenor Banjo "Wildwood Flower"
-Yamaha YBS-52 Baritone Sax "Evelyn"
***GO COUGS!!!***
Here's a clip from the '09 Green and Bluegrass festival down at Colorado College in Co. Springs. Keith Reed (banjo player from Open Road) runs a bluegrass program there and brings in a guest artist every year to put on workshops and perform at this yearly mini-festival. Back in '09, the guest was my former ETSU classmate and crackerjack multi-instrumentalist Josh Goforth (on guitar in this vid). Rounding out the band is the incredible Gene Libbea on bass, and sitting in for this tune on vocals is Co. College student Juliet Gordon. A little impromtu "I Go Walking After Midnight". The best break I've ever taken on camera happens at @ 2:30.
Terrific! Thanks, Jordan. Always nice to see what you're up to.
Hi Bruce, thanks for the kind words, right back at you! I'll be at Coombs in August, not sure how close we get to Vancouver on the way up there, but would love to meet you and pick a tune or two while I'm up that way. Hope all is well, take care.
I've posted these somewhere else on the site, but I think this is where they are supposed to go, so I'll post here too.
From a couple months ago, a little tune I wrote
And from a couple days ago, the band I helped put together playing a house party/rehersal for the gospel set we were asked to play at a local festival in a couple weeks. This was our first "public appearence" as it were, and our first public attempt at the one mic thing... still a work in progress! 2 originals and one obscure cover (Days of Elijah)
- 2004 Macica A
- 1952 Selmer Centered Tone
- Eastwood electric mandola
(and lots more)
Some of Ashland Breakdown on a Duff A5
Shaun Garrity
http://www.youtube.com/user/spgokc78
Good work, everyone!
I've just noticed Janos' post (#1352), and it is really fantastic. If you haven't heard it, check it out. We're not used to hearing jazz playing of this quality on mandolin.
http://www.youtube.com/marcowoodward
Andy Manson 3 point F5;
Gibson 1920 F2;
Vega Guiseppe Pettine Special;
Weber Abrasoka octave mandolin-
and various others!
Everything posted to this thread is impressive!
Great and inspiring playing by all.
Thanks.
c.1965 Harmony Monterey H410 Mandolin
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+1, Lots of talent hanging out here on the cafe! I had the exteme honor of sharing the stage with one-half of Hot Rize last night, here's Long Road Home (with special guest Nick Forster on bass) doing the Jesse Fuller tune "Ninety-Nine Years".
My cover of Tim O'Brien's cover of Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) in Cincinnati two weeks ago.
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Senor is a Bob Dylan song... and your link doesn't work....My cover of Tim O'Brien's cover of Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) in Cincinnati two weeks ago.
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