General Music Chat

i hear ya.....i dig those other guys too. funny how they all cite Jim Hall as being their biggest influence! (i'm a HUUUUGE Jim Hall fan)

Seems all of the contemporary Jazz players site Hall as a major influence. Scofield claims he was the most 'accessible' among all of the older players (for himself).

a cpl of wks ago we were talking about great upright players and i wanted to recommend Red Mitchell as someone you should check out if you're not already hip to him.

Thanks for the reference! Yeah, this cat IS killing it. Very melodic and yeah, killer tone. VG+ stuff!
Tune a double bass in 5ths? Heck, I have trouble enough playing the damn thing in 4ths!!!

I would think you would have to jump around a LOT more w/ that tuning. That's one busy cat!

well, here's the deal.....i PLAY an instr tuned in fifths ALL THE TIME, right? >>> mandolin!

so my brain can get around that part. but man, you have to rethink even the most basic stuff...like how something as simple as a root/fifth bass line just lays....well.....wrong!

the advantage to that 5ths tuning, and why it works so well for instr that are tuned that way is that you actually get a lot more notes crammed into the same length of say five "frets" as you do w an instr tuned in 4ths.



I love how easily Hall and Mitchell shift gears and trade soloing/comping hats! and when Hall turns off his amp volume and he just chugs along w that old school tone.....and THEN brings it back to his gorgeous elec tone.....yeah, baybee!

I'll definitely check this out & thanks for the link!

Here's Bill w/ Cuong Vu & this gets pretty 'out' @ times but you have to listen to this bass player, man.
Bill is pulling out the delays & ring modulator for this one for a very wild soundscape.

Again, check out the bass player, here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQCFTnDpfRM

YEAH! loved it!

great playing all around and the bass player IS killing. LOVE HIS TONE! thanks.

kinda funny... the fiddle lady in Mere Mortals (great player) recently picked up an upright and is undertaking getting her 5ths thinking brain around playing an instrument in 4ths!!!