Adventures in Mamboland
"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen
Yeah. That sounds about right.
Yeah. That sounds about right.
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Date: 2016-10-28 04:23 pm (UTC)"Harder than it sounds" maybe? Also that phrasing really applies to people who don't know anything about what's being done, sort of a "tricks that impress the masses" vs "tricks that impress other performers" kind of thing.
The timing actually isn't what I see as the hard thing: it's either rhythmic or simple-syncopated, there's not a whole lot of trickiness going on there. What gets me is how bloody difficult it is to get reasonable-sounding multinote chords out of an orchestral stringed instrument in the first place, and for him it's ... effortless.