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06-02-2009, 01:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | New NEAL MINER disc - HAPPY HOUR
On Gut String Records! I just got a copy yesterday and it's a nice, swinging affair. Neal plays so great - time, sound, ideas- definitely one of my all time favorites. HAPPY HOUR with Mike Kanan on piano and Joe Strasser on drums. HIGHLY recommended.
Check out BYE BYE BABY....
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06-02-2009, 03:01 PM
|  | Velvet Strings Customer Service | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: SWITZERLAND | | | Thanks Ed, i just bought it on iTunes, Neal is a great player, like you said, sound , feeling, ideas, everything sounds great to my ears...
back to listening...
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06-02-2009, 06:22 PM
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Ha! How REFRESHING! Ordered.
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06-02-2009, 09:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New Albany, MS | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua  On Gut String Records! I just got a copy yesterday and it's a nice, swinging affair. Neal plays so great - time, sound, ideas- definitely one of my all time favorites. HAPPY HOUR with Mike Kanan on piano and Joe Strasser on drums. HIGHLY recommended.
Check out BYE BYE BABY.... | Awesome!
Seems like every time lately I hear something that really has a great feel lately it turns out Joe Strasser is the drummer.
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06-03-2009, 06:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Albuquerque | | | Wow, that's some swingin &#$% right there. Just put my order in. |
06-07-2009, 07:27 PM
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I'm giving this thread the ole bump because I enjoy supporting players I'm not familiar with, who tickle my musical bone.
I haven't yet received my copy, but I thought I might give some observations that I've made based on a few moments with the clips.
"Bye, bye Baby" is from that old Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell movie, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". I really dig when players pull out odd, obscure tunes outta nowhere. Bill Evans loved doing this. The little counter-line that Neal plays with the piano is really neat.
The few solos from Neal are simple, BUT musical. His left hand ornamentations remind me of early Red Mitchell gut stuff.
If you are a bit weary of so-called bass "virtuosi", all thumb posititioning with strings laying on the board, this may be your cuppa. It IS mine.
Make no mistake, though. This doesn't mean that I think that Ed Fuqua has ANY taste. In anything. 
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06-07-2009, 08:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton "Bye, bye Baby" is from that old Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell movie, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". I really dig when players pull out odd, obscure tunes outta nowhere. Bill Evans loved doing this. | I flat-out love this tune. Dave McKenna and Ed Bickert swing the living hell out of it on a recording that never got to CD, only tape or LP. You can imagine what Dave's left hand does with the changes.
Paulie, you're right about Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlgVJ9iNzM8 Note the people clapping on 2 and 4; must be musicians, not actors.
Paul, can you see Gloria DeHaven doing this?
Gotta buy this. Thanks, Ed.
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06-08-2009, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Make no mistake, though. This doesn't mean that I think that Ed Fuqua has ANY taste. In anything. | Listen buddy, I have NOTHING but taste.
and very little of that....
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06-08-2009, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Don Higdon Paulie, you're right about Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlgVJ9iNzM8 Note the people clapping on 2 and 4; must be musicians, not actors.
Paul, can you see Gloria DeHaven doing this?
Gotta buy this. Thanks, Ed. | Wow, Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. What a pair! (Oh, and Marilyn is nice too). |
06-09-2009, 02:39 AM
| | | | Just heard neal for the first time last night at the ear inn (greenwich at spring, ny). Great swinging .. lots of great smiling. Do check him out! |
06-09-2009, 12:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: New York City | | | If I'd known he was at EAR I'd probably have gone. He gets the greatest sound. I've heard his sextet with Chris Byars at Smalls and have also heard him backing up Annie Ross. I totally dig his first two records. The Evening Sound is one of my favorite jazz recordings, period. Looking forward to hearing the new one. |
06-30-2009, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton I really dig when players pull out odd, obscure tunes outta nowhere. | I was playing with Mike Kanan Sunday and we did a nice little arrangement of his on HE LOVES AND SHE LOVES...
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