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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Django tunes! | | Date: | Monday, April 7, 2008 07:13:30 (-0700) | | From: | Tom Foote <footet @.........edu>
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On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:19 AM, Matthew Snook wrote:
> I've been wanting to step out and start doing gypsy jazz, but
> without folks to play with, the incentive was just not there.
> Picking buddies are just very few around Eastern Oregon (unless you
> like 50's country). Well...
Aha!! 2 years ago at River City Bluegrass in Portland, OR
there was a FANTASTIC gypsy jazz jam going on
the top floor of the Red Lion Convention Ctr Inn, the host
hotel in the corner by the elevator... 2 jazz violinists
(that's fiddle players for you East Coast folks.. : > )
great Swing Guitar and reso player who was tuned in
Faux 6 (4th string raised from D to E) It was mesmerizing and
what I took away from that was get to work on
your scales and licks.. er, ah... let's see what's my excuse
today? and while
some of us (no names mentioned... but, I am looking in the
mirror : > ) were playing our tired old breaks
in other jams, these guys were improvising all over the
place... nice... in any case, Matt Snook's tiny mind
is blown out anyway along with his tweeters, so he must have
been at that jam... that's, no doubt, what
probably did it... and if he wasn't, he'll be eating his sox
when he sees this... : > )
Okay Matt, let's get a list together of jazz stuff for the next
River City Festival in January 2009... I'll have to check
Youtube for this Nuages tune.. assuming I can tear myself away
from David Hartley... Oops! now look what I've
done...forget I mentioned him ..I take it back... don't go
there.. it's addictive : > )
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> We do a blues-folk-grass-whatever jam on Tuesdays down at Ten Depot
> (a pub here in La Grande). Sam the bass player had hinted strongly
> about doing some Django tunes, but the next week nobody had done
> much, so the next time he brought in the chart for Nuages. I took
> that to be an even stronger hint, so I’ve finally broken the ice
> and learned both Nuages and "Peche a la Mouche" (fly fishing?) as
> my first Django tunes. Great fun! It’s a whole new world!
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>
I'll say... does it even translate from the French? oo-oo la la...
laissez le bon temps rouler!
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A. Nonnymoose
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