Mingus Bassically Speaking

[Marc Decho]

just wanted to drop a little Mingus praise and say that out of all the 100's of his tunes he composed and recorded, this one ranks right up there with my all time fav bass solo, this tune is so dark and haunting...his timing and phrasing are so slick... I wonder if sheet music exists for this one ? any of you cats ever attempt to play this ?

once I get a new comp i'm gettin' me some of that fancy shmancy "slow it down" software to start my own transcriptions I think winamp offers something to that effect

[spc]

What album is this on?
Thanks!

[Marc Decho]

Originally Posted by spc

What album is this on?
Thanks!

The only place I know of it is the Complete Debut Recordings, there's 3 takes of it on there....there's always a short sampler on Amazon.com

[Matthew Tucker]

Originally Posted by Marc Decho

right up there with my all time fav bass solo

never heard it but ... hmmm ... my all time fav bass solo was "tensions". Mingus was pretty good, huh ;-)

There's a freeware program called "best practice" that slows down CD playback.

There's open source "audacity" for more control over mp3 and wavs

mt

[Marc Decho]

Originally Posted by Matthew Tucker

never heard it but ... hmmm ... my all time fav bass solo was "tensions". Mingus was pretty good, huh ;-)

There's a freeware program called "best practice" that slows down CD playback.

There's open source "audacity" for more control over mp3 and wavs

mt

hey thanks for the tip......"Tensions" is definately badass, got that one in the car right now....

[Rob Knight]

Mingus is the man, his music is always popping up. Moanin' was used for a TV beer ad here in the UK. Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus was pretty much the departure lounge for my discovery of Jazz.

On the other thing. I use Transcribe to slow down WAVs and MP3s. I think the web site is seventh-string. Something like that.