Bob was at his best.

THE ULTIMATE IN DEUTTING. HAVE A LOOK AT THIS. THE GENIUS WHO IS BOBBY MCFERRIN WITH THE CHICK COREA BAND IN GERMANY.

The way these two interact has to be heard to be believed. Corea changes the key and McFerrin the genius follows. Not only that, I've never heard a double bass solo like the one here. That is a terrible instrument to play fast but this guy does it.




Last night's workshop. Yes, have to say - Bob laid down some very interesting patterns last night on the kit. Good exchanges, good solos. Great, Bob.

Mike Pappenheim came back for an evening and it was a joy to welcome him. I hope we did not do any damage - the problem has now spread to his wrist. He had a tough challenge, because we picked some songs which are hard - Stella by Starlight, Scrabble from the Apple (who gave it that stupid name?) and Have you Met Miss Jones?. He swept through all the changes.

So did Geoff. Geoff has developed a new twist to his playing I think. I might be wrong, but it sounds to me as if he is picking some very nice, melodic lines, and repeating them by displacing them. I like it very much when I hear it, not all that many people do it particularly not semi-pros. It is personal taste, really, but it certainly suits my taste. (Who am I to judge? I don't like Bepbop or Art Tatum. Or trad jazz for longer than ten minutes)

NEXT SUNDAY Dave will be back.
Can we build in some quotes to our solos? There's a challenge. Geoff was doing a bit of this last night as well.

Let's keep trying out difficult songs. Maybe we can start with repeating Stella by Starlight and Scrabble from the Apple.
We will not do all of these so some we will carry over to the following week.
CANTALOUPE
FOUR
STARDUST
DARN THAT DREAM
WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE? Just the instrumental version
LADYBIRD
BLUE IN GREEN
BLUESETTE


BAND REHEARSAL
At 6.00 until 7.00 we have the band coming in to do Sidewinder.
Incidentally, band, if we are to do all the Interplay songs on April 25th at Fishbourne, then we only have he following dates available for rehearsal 6th, 13th 20th. We need one of those nights for the vocalists. Shall we come in for each of these 3 weeks at 6.00 then we will get through the programme. What do you think Andrew and everyone? Maybe the 20th will need 2 hours.

John

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