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| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] Django tunes! | | Date: | Monday, April 7, 2008 09:38:27 (-0700) | | From: | Tom Foote <footet @.........edu>
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> On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:19 AM, Matthew Snook wrote:
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>> 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...
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> 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... : > )
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> 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...
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> laissez le bon temps rouler!
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> A. Nonnymoose
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