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12-16-2008, 11:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  Attention RedHeads!
I've been asked many times to help explain Red Mitchell's ideas on why he switched to fifths tuning. (in nine days!) Gene Lees' Great book "Cats Of Any Color" has a chapter where Red explains the WHOLE thing.
This wonderful book, that I mention on another thread here, deals with ethnomusical issues and history, but is also valuable in many other ways, including chapters about many of our jazz giants. The one on Red Rodney is colorful as hell....his years with Bird, Red Rodney's addiction and recovery, and his brilliant scams to make money. 
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12-16-2008, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC, Astoria | | | Solid! Thanks for the heads up, Paul. |
12-16-2008, 11:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Just searched the Hawai'i State Library database... they have it! I think I'll request to have it sent over to my branch.
Unless Treyzer beats me to it, of course.  |
12-16-2008, 01:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Princeville, Kauai | | | Rats!!! I got dibbs next! |
12-16-2008, 01:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Hah! Go for it Trey... I can read it anytime.... Christmas break would be good for you. Me..... well, it's not like I have a job or anything.  |
12-16-2008, 02:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Princeville, Kauai | | | Aloha marcus,
That would be very cool if you don't mind.... By the way, in some cultures being a musician is a highly regarded profession!!! Maybe not in this culture but.... What other job is there that calls going to work "playing"? |
12-16-2008, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Well, I don't know.... I have some friends I'd call "playa".... but they don't own any musical instruments. |
12-16-2008, 02:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | You know, I tried like hell to do this when I was learning the Chapman stick - - you stick folks know that the bass side is tuned in 5ths, while the guiltar side is tuned in forths... this drove me NUTS...
And yes, I eventually gave up on the stick. I tried a bunch of different tunings, but it never really worked for me. Pity.
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12-16-2008, 02:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | I'm an ex-Sticker myself. Just never "heard" it. I'd rather sit down at a nice piano. |
12-17-2008, 10:19 AM
| | | | Great find. Thanks Paul. Just ordered it on Amazon for next to nothing. |
12-17-2008, 12:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Treyzer  What other job is there that calls going to work "playing"? | Before I played music full-time, I was a professional gambler, and got to "play" poker for a job!
By this point, I'm totally sold on only having jobs that involve the word "playing" in them. |
12-24-2008, 07:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC, Astoria | | | Paul, just wanted to say THANK YOU for hipping me to this book. I took it out of the NYPL and have been enjoying it quite a bit. For any other NY'ers here, I believe there's one (or maybe two) more copy at the performing arts library. Oh yeah, and a merry xmas and happy chanukah to all. |
12-24-2008, 07:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil Rowan Paul, just wanted to say THANK YOU for hipping me to this book. I took it out of the NYPL and have been enjoying it quite a bit. For any other NY'ers here, I believe there's one (or maybe two) more copy at the performing arts library. Oh yeah, and a merry xmas and happy chanukah to all. | You're more than welcome Phil...
And same Holiday sentiments from me, to all you " Cats of Any Color "
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