BigEgoHead - WALTZ FOR TALIA

[Ed Fuqua]

Just a head's up, Jon Raney has re-configured and re-released the trio record we did a few years back. He's pulled off the standards and added some more originals, including a lovely solo piano piece.
It's available here, if anyone is interested.

FYI, I leave several treadmarks on a tender piece of anatomy on the tune MOOD ELATION. For those who would be amused by hearing such a thing.

[Paul Warburton]

You keep mentioning in another thread, as well, about you stepping on your JOHNSON on Mood Elation off this side...I happen to have this outing, and I CAN'T hear it...I love this side. I guess you'll have tell me exactly where it is. Like how many beats into what chorus...or?

[Ed Fuqua]

Well that's awful nice PW, I just don't think the solo sings very much. It's a hard ****ing set of changes and it was just real hard to get a line going through them. I just felt I was playing bull****, especially after all that pretty **** Jon was playing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy to have played on this record and I gladly recommend it to people.

[nypiano]

Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua

Well that's awful nice PW, I just don't think the solo sings very much. It's a hard ****ing set of changes and it was just real hard to get a line going through them. I just felt I was playing bull****, especially after all that pretty **** Jon was playing.

Your playing is great on the record so shut yer yapper..ya hedgehog

More partner in ego promo. Got 2 new fledgling writing url's cooking: http://jonraneyblog.blogspot.com/. Paul, I think you'd get a kick out of it. Also started a music forum at my site www.jonraney.com/forum. Feel free to join, post, etc. The main site should be changing over from the "black box" this weekend and Paul your review will be there. Give me that bio and url stuff for you fella!!
Ed there's a nifty flash program that simulates looking thru a photo album of some of the photos you gave me. Will keep you posted

Later fellas! Thanks for your pr and support!

[jallenbass]

I listened to the clips on CD Baby. I now know what my next purchase is. The 3 of you sound great together.

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by NYPNO BLUE

Your playing is great on the record so shut yer yapper..ya hedgehog

+1. 'Nuff said.

[Ed Fuqua]

No, you don't understand...I suck.

[Paul Warburton]

Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua

No, you don't understand...I suck.

Man, you need some tough love. Now look here Dude..... You need a God Damn, F****** SHRINK

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by PULL RANKON'EM

Man, you need some tough love. Now look here Dude..... You need a God Damn, F****** SHRINK

I'll be sending you a bill for whatever it ends up costing to get my lunch cleaned off my monitor.

[Ed Fuqua]

Originally Posted by Paul Warburton

Man, you need some tough love. Now look here Dude..... You need a God Damn, F****** SHRINK

Thanks Unca PW.

I just been focusing on my half empty glass lately. The gigs and sessions I been doing with Jon Easton have been pretty freaking special, but they do point out how my ear ain't exactly in the same league as his ear.

Plus, going out to hear Ray and listening to Chris' new trio disc just help point out how much progress everbody else been making and blah blah blah. Is my hour up yet?

[Paul Warburton]

Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua

Thanks Unca PW.

I just been focusing on my half empty glass lately. The gigs and sessions I been doing with Jon Easton have been pretty freaking special, but they do point out how my ear ain't exactly in the same league as his ear.

Plus, going out to hear Ray and listening to Chris' new trio disc just help point out how much progress everbody else been making and blah blah blah. Is my hour up yet?

Lay back down on that F****** couch and keep talkin'!
Seriously, I know what you mean. I used to get in that frame of mind, when i'd be playing alot. We do take a hell of alot for granted. After my 4 year lay-off, starting back again, everthing seems bright and clear....musically. I don't have the chops I used to have, so I don't get in that rut of licks...I just can't pull them off without some chops, so, everything is new to me.
The big thing we mustn't forget is how lucky we are to be involved in this great music we call JAZZ, and doubley lucky to be playing this most magnificent instrument called the DOUBLE BASS!

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua

I just been focusing on my half empty glass lately. The gigs and sessions I been doing with Jon Easton have been pretty freaking special, but they do point out how my ear ain't exactly in the same league as his ear.

I can dig the half empty thing from time to time, but you know as well as I do that it's just a frame of mind. The glass is what the glass is. You drink the water, then you refill it. As we have discussed more privately, each of us has something going on that might seem kind of "grass is greener" to somebody else.

Plus, going out to hear Ray and listening to Chris' new trio disc just help point out how much progress everbody else been making and blah blah blah. Is my hour up yet?

Not hardly. I've heard all of this great feedback about how far I've come so fast, and while I greatly appreciate the positive feedback from the outside, it doesn't always feel that way from the INSIDE. Because on the inside, I can hear the way I'd really like to play, and it only occasionally comes out without treadmarks on it. I've said it in private, and I'll say it here: your playing has a great relentless bouyant energy to it, which is what I latch onto and try to learn from when I listen to your recordings. It isn't about the chops, or about the tone or the lines (all of which are good, but different from the way I hear stuff in my head), but about the spirit. And that spirit is kicking in your recordings. That spirit is the water filling up half of your glass. Just keep pouring stuff in on top of that, and you won't be able to drink it fast enough.

Now, tell me a little bit about your childhood...

Originally Posted by PULL WORNBLISTER

We do take a hell of alot for granted. After my 4 year lay-off, starting back again, everthing seems bright and clear....musically. I don't have the chops I used to have, so I don't get in that rut of licks...I just can't pull them off without some chops, so, everything is new to me.

Best post on TB for a long time. You are in the perfect state of mind to make music. I should print the above quote and hang it somewhere that I'll see every day before picking up my bass.

[Paul Warburton]

Thank you my Darling.....

[Ed Fuqua]

Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald

Now, tell me a little bit about your childhood....

I was born in a small log cabin in the wilds of Io Way...


OK, I'll stop whining. Although I am thinking about adding a rubber ducky to my business card with DURRL's "...relentlessly bouyant..." quote below it.

I hear what you're saying about "hearing it differently", I went out Thursday night to check out a friend of mine at SMOKE, Brad Jones was playing bass. And he's a good player, very happening. But nothing he did lined up with how I would have approached the gig - not the sound, not the lines, not the solos. So I'm thankful that I'm at least at a place where I have definite ideas that are mine about how I want to sound in a given situation.


Killing drummer on the gig, Donald Edwards. I hadn't heard him before, apparently he's doing a lotta stuff with Mingus Big Band. He's been working with Carlton a lot with some singers , a few other things. But VERY happening.

[Ed Fuqua]

We is apparently being streamed over at JazzIz Radio and, should you so desire, you can go here to request us (or any other artist)...

Jon says the two tunes they are using are WALTZ FOR TALIA and BLOOSELY...