GERRY MULLIGAN / PAUL DESMOND. A JOY

Last night at the workshop I heard great exchanges between Mike Pappenheim and Geoff Valenti. They played off each other, mirrored each other - some of the best question and answer we've ever had.
It is SO good when musicians play together (as opposed to knocking out clever solos, with masses of notes to impress the others)

WE NEED ONE OR TWO MORE FRONT LINE MUSICIANS IN THE WORKSHOP. DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO MAY BE FREE ON SUNDAY EVENINGS AT BOSHAM?


Blues in Time. 1957 Sounds like to-day.
Listen to the sheer exhuberance of what they do together. Listen to the patterns, Mulligan does not always play these when he solos but he does when he plays with Desmond - the master at it.

Listen to the effect of the band breaks, when the alto solo comes in after the bass.

Mulligan comes in with the baritone, and the breaks are there again. Someone is nodding to someone to fix these because they are different to the first breaks. You can improvise that when you've just got drums and bass, more difficult if you add piano or guitar, but it can be done.
They finally jam together for the last 12 and it sounds wonderful.

Sheer joy.

John
Ps. When I was a lad of 18 I could hum the licks of all the Chet Baker and Mulligan records, every one. They started me off with Jazz, and girls who danced modern jive did the rest.
Girls either followed trad jazz or modern jazz. The difference was that the modern jazz girls were good looking and very cool, but the trad girls would go camping with you for the weekend. Difficult for young lads.

Next Sunday.
We will do Lover again in C, then D, then E. This is difficult but really paying off. I don't want anyone to miss any of these. (If the chord symbols don't suit you then it takes only a mo to switch them around in BIAB)

We'll also do the funk songs again, Greensleeves, Feel like making love, So What, Chameleon plus we'll give Love for Sale a go with a riff from Dave. Geoff, can you do your six songs demo. And Spooky. Maria is coming in at 6.00 to run through some songs. Vic Bob, Geoff, you ok for this time too?

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