If this is true please listen to Mr. Plumeri's music else where.
It's amazing how he produces such sounds on his bass. My internet connection is strong today and his music sounds really great/very hifi on my new Terry Plumeri radio station.
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Double Bass RIP Terry Plumeri
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If this is true please listen to Mr. Plumeri's music else where.
It's amazing how he produces such sounds on his bass. My internet connection is strong today and his music sounds really great/very hifi on my new Terry Plumeri radio station.
I'm so fortunate to still have Ongoing and He Who Lives In Many Places as LP's which I got many years ago.
I love those 70's pictures of Terry. That is how I remember him. He was an imposing presence when he walked into a club. Especially if he was there to hang out and listen. Things had a way of becoming more focused and elevated when the supreme standard bearer himself was in the room.
Many people may already know this, but Marc Cohen was formerly a saxophonist. He said it took a tremendous amount of work to transform himself into a pianist once he made the decision to switch. I still have a recording of him playing electric saxophone with lots of effects. From a period when many sax players were plugging in. Even Phil Woods.
Here's a link to a cut from the record:
(I wonder if Chris Cheek has heard that disc. I think he'd want to if he hasn't.)
I love those 70's pictures of Terry. That is how I remember him. He was an imposing presence when he walked into a club. Especially if he was there to hang out and listen. Things had a way of becoming more focused and elevated when the supreme standard bearer himself was in the room.
Many people may already know this, but Marc Cohen was formerly a saxophonist. He said it took a tremendous amount of work to transform himself into a pianist once he made the decision to switch. I still have a recording of him playing electric saxophone with lots of effects. From a period when many sax players were plugging in. Even Phil Woods.
Here's a link to a cut from the record:
(I wonder if Chris Cheek has heard that disc. I think he'd want to if he hasn't.)
Cohen is now Marc Copeland - he is on the new Gary Peacock trio on ECM and has lots of albums with Drew Gress!
Really good...thank you! It is great to listen to sounds from this period. It was a wild time in music, all around.
Hadn't heard this tune. Knew that Cohen/Copeland was a serious sax player first. The record shows that, surely.
I love hearing Cohen/Copeland play some of the same ideas on sax and piano, just I loved hearing Terry play some of the same ideas on bass, through a chamber ensemble, or symphony orchestra. The voice is the same; only the instrument changes...
Yes, Terry was a very focused presence. I know what you mean about a scene changing when he was around.
I was certainly intimidated by him as a teenager. However, he was consistently kind, helpful, and supportive; always gentle and generous to a young player, just trying to learn.
In one of my early lessons, I was berating myself for not being able to play something. He looked at me and said, "You need to treat yourself like a young child. If you had a one year old kid, just learning to walk, would you yell at them every time they fell down? Maybe slap them or call them names? No...of course not! So treat yourself the same way; be gentle with yourself as you are trying to learn new things. It is the best way to keep going."
Another great thing he said in an early lesson that I still remind myself when approaching some thorny, new, challenge, "Never be afraid of working on something new, because when the work is done, you'll have a new friend."
He had developed a number of intensely thorough, demanding technical and musical exercises, which he shared freely. He said his goal was to help his students get to where they could fluidly play anything they could sing; he went right for the heart of the matter.
He always kept developing as a musician, composer, and teacher. His enthusiasm for sharing music and musical ideas never lessened; nearly every time we talked on the phone, he'd lay out a new idea or approach with which he'd been working, or some new piece for a ensemble ensemble combination he'd been imagining. He always wanted to share new musical things he'd come to, one way or another, that worked.
He was always moving into a new composition, a new venture, about which he was enthusiastic. When we last spoke, three weeks ago, he spoke happily about a new piece that he had been working on...
He was a deeply inspired and inspirational teacher and musician. I'm still working on stuff he gave me to learn; they work so well and are so thorough.
I know from talking with him recently that he had a promising young student that he had been helping prepare for conservatory auditions. Terry was excited about the young bassist's growth, progress, and dedication. As an enthusiastic teacher, as well as a composer, conductor, and player, Terry never quit giving...
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This shows some of what he was playing with in the year before he died. As a result of all the orchestral conducting and composition he'd done over the years, he moved to a place where he was channeling the voices of an entire orchestra through the bass, creating textures, accompanying parts, choruses, etc.
The first time I heard him playing like this, in person, with these waves and clouds of texture and all of these different parts, I noted that it sounded like an orchestra. He said, "That's what I'm hearing; I'm glad that you can hear it, too."
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I've watched that a lot since you posted it a while back. It is great bass playing! It really shows how much the instrument can do.
It was reported in the local Florida papers that two suspects were arrested and are being held. The local authorities are confident they have the killers. I'm hopeful justice will be served but I'm still in total disbelief that anyone could be capable of such a brutal and senseless crime.
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He used to stay up all night, every night, writing and playing. I'd be getting to work at 6:00am and we'd talk sometimes, just before he went to sleep. He'd play stuff he'd been working on...
Looks like they probably broke in during the day and found him sleeping, thinking nobody was home. He had moved to Florida to get a little peace, after doing the soundtrack composing grind for many years in L.A.
Music is immortal. We'll have to make do with that.
Here his, conducting his composition, "Pride of Baltimore," from memory:
One of the first tunes he had me learn, really learn, was "There Will Never Be Another You." That about says it, for me.
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Just read that two suspects have been arrested in Ocala FL, and it is expected they will be charged.
Yikes! One Step Down Lounge! "Bees"! I saw him once in a dive in Arlington, just with piano and clarinet. That is sad news . . .
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"Bees" it is!
1971; chromatic head in arco bass (with and without wah wah pedal)/electric guitar/electric piano unison, with the great drummer Mike Smith.
You may already be familiar with the playing of Herbie Hancock, Eric Gravatt, and John Abercrombie from this period...
Post Coltrane, post "Bitches Brew," a lot was going on just then...
Worth listening to for Michael Smith's playing, alone (IMHO)...
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