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09-25-2008, 10:08 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: 01824 | | | Jaco Solo cover tunes
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This is a post I've been meaning to start for awhile now. Basically I am interested in all the "covers" Jaco quotes in his solo playing (unaccompanied) that has been recorded. To get it started (with some obvious ones to get those out of the way, but I'm more interested in some of the "not so" obvious)...
Donna Lee - Charlie Parker
Dexterity - Charlie Parker
Blackbird - The Beatles
Third Stone from the Sun - Jimi Hendrix
Alfie - Dionne Warwick
Sound of Music - Rodgers & Hammerstein |
09-25-2008, 10:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Houston, TX | | | IIRC he liked to quote Louie Louie sometimes, often accompanied by distortion and feedback. I think some of the later 'bar' recordings capture him doing a lot of this type of thing. Haven't listened in awhile so I might be mis-remembering. |
09-27-2008, 04:03 PM
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09-30-2008, 09:35 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | | the 3rd phrase of Jaco's solo on "Havona" quotes the bassoon line from the opening of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" |
09-30-2008, 02:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Houston, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoover  the 3rd phrase of Jaco's solo on "Havona" quotes the bassoon line from the opening of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" | Also quoted by Jaco in Joni Mitchell's "Talk to Me"
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09-30-2008, 02:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Madison, WI. | | | He quoted Tommy Cogbill's great bassline to 'Funky Broadway' quite a bit IIRC. |
10-03-2008, 08:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: 01824 | | | Who's got a better memory?
OK I give up, name this tune...I tried my memory banks and searched the net but I can't find a clue. What tune is this? Where does it come from, a TV show a movie...please help before I go off the deep end.
Thanks...but ya'll have to probably been "Born in the 50s" to know:-)
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10-06-2008, 06:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Madison, WI. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by babaseen OK I give up, name this tune...I tried my memory banks and searched the net but I can't find a clue. What tune is this? Where does it come from, a TV show a movie...please help before I go off the deep end.
Thanks...but ya'll have to probably been "Born in the 50s" to know:-) | It doesn't sound remote familiar to me. Sorry. |
10-06-2008, 07:19 AM
| | | "Holiday for Strings", written, I believe, by David Rose, the same guy who composed "The Stripper."
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10-06-2008, 12:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: 01824 | | | dougjwray RULES!
Doug;
Thank you very much, you just made my day!
It's from the Red Skelton Show which I remember now that you loosened the brain cramp.
--Tom
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10-07-2008, 09:06 AM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | In terms of standards, he often quoted the first bar or two of "Invitation" - and interestingly, his m7 ostinato on that tune was/became one of his signature riffs.
Good idea for a thread. That short little mp3 above is the perfect example of Jaco's attack. Each note is just pronounced perfectly. |
10-08-2008, 10:52 AM
| | | | Great thread!
BTW from what Jaco album is that live recording? |
10-08-2008, 11:06 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New England | | | He quoted the melody of What's if all about Alfie in his instructional video and a few other lines of Jemmots.
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10-09-2008, 10:29 PM
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BTW from what Jaco album is that live recording?
| Live from the Players Club...last track, Early Slang |
11-20-2008, 12:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: 01824 | | | a few more...
Sing A Simple Song - Sly and the Family Stone
Had to Cry Today - Blind Faith
Them Changes - Buddy Miles |
11-20-2008, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by studioblogic "If I only had a brain" was one of his favorites. | I have played this on local television on tuba. One of my proudest moments. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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