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05-20-2008, 07:52 PM
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05-20-2008, 09:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | Thanks! Very cool video. Walking solos are so sick!
Gotta love all the quotes in the bass solo. Old Macdonald, Here Comes The Bride, I dunno if theres more haha.
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05-20-2008, 09:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Houston, Tx | | | What a nice, crisp, big sound. I like the flute juice from Frank Weiss, too! |
05-21-2008, 12:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Check out the Basie episode from the JAZZ CAASUAL series, it's a small band (Basie, Freddie Green, Eddie Jones and I can't remember the drummer but it's not Papa Jo). It's more of a conversation with Basie punctuated by music, but when they play, it SWINGS.
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05-21-2008, 05:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mattfong  Thanks! Very cool video. Walking solos are so sick! | I don't know if you're serious, but the meter was up to 320 when he started soloing. He was working behind a big band with no amp. You were expecting Jaco?
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05-22-2008, 11:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Tokyo, Japan | | | I took mattfong's comment to mean he really liked walking solos, the word "sick" meaning "cool", or "really neat".
To the original poster, many thanks. I know Eddie's daughter, and sent her the link. She was really excited to see it, and told me how much she's looking forward to showing it to her mom.
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05-22-2008, 12:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | | Thanks. Sometime back, there was a thread about walking solos with some overreaching put-downs.
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05-22-2008, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: West Orange, NJ | | | There was a nice article about Eddie (and Chuck Andrus, Woody Herman's bass player around the same time EJ was with Basie) in last summer's ISB Bassworld magazine, written by Jeff Campbell. Jeff is an excellent bass player in his own right, and he's also on the jazz faculty at Eastman.
And walking solos are great, how about Doug Watkins at the beginning of "Blue 7"?
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05-22-2008, 11:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Higdon I don't know if you're serious, but the meter was up to 320 when he started soloing. He was working behind a big band with no amp. You were expecting Jaco? | Haha, by 'sick' I mean awesome, that kind of thing. Sorry for the misunderstanding. It's some kind of teenage bastardization of the English language haha. I love walking solos!
And I have yet to be able to play anywhere close to that fast, or loud! I was blown away by the video!
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05-23-2008, 12:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | I like how when Eddie Jones moves his bass away from the mike he lifts it over the head of the tenor player who just ignores him completely! |
05-23-2008, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by milomo And walking solos are great, how about Doug Watkins at the beginning of "Blue 7"? | That was the first thing I ever transcribed.
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05-23-2008, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: New York City | | | I don't think I ever understood swing until I heard Eddie on the Atomic Basie record. What a giant. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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