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New Music: My Foolish Heart
by Josh Lawrence
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Hey List,
It's my best friend and drummer's birthday tomorrow, and he loves the Victor Young ballad My Foolish Heart, so I recorded it for him. It's a very humble (read: poor) version of what Bill Evans did. Fans of Evans will note that I dared not attempt the first part of the tune in A with a modulation to Bb, I just stayed in Bb for the whole ride. (Atte I hear you now - "Cheater!!!" :) I'll spare you the blogspam this time, as most of the post is just words about my friend. Actual Link: http://www.hardbop200.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/my-foolish-heart.ogg Recorded in Ardour and literally saturated with reverb from the Calf Plugins. I hope you enjoy! -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: New Music: My Foolish Heart
by Julien Claassen
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Hi Josh!
I don't know the original, but I think if I did, it couldn't be called "poor". It's nice relaxed sounding playing on a nice piano. Very bar-kind of music. You certainly can play more than well enough to give this solo piano without accompaniment its right. I love it and wouldn't want anything besides it. Give us more of that, it's sweet. Jazzy regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: New Music: My Foolish Heart
by bvdp
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Very nicely done ... and not an easy song choice!
My only comment ... and this is a very picky nit! ... is that in the middle of the piece you tend to play more notes with more volume. I would tend (if I were as good a piano player) to play either more notes or increase the volume. Doing both tends to make it sound a bit too full/heavy. But, that's very picky! Thanks for sharing. -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob@... WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: New Music: My Foolish Heart
by Josh Lawrence
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Bob van der Poel <bob@...> wrote:
> My only comment ... and this is a very picky nit! ... is that in the > middle of the piece you tend to play more notes with more volume. I > would tend (if I were as good a piano player) to play either more > notes or increase the volume. Doing both tends to make it sound a bit > too full/heavy. But, that's very picky! hey Bob, no, this is a very good suggestion, and I appreciate it. playing solo piano is a very difficult thing to do, so any suggestions as to how to make it more interesting/better are always welcome! -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: New Music: My Foolish Heart
by ken restivo-3
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:11:46PM -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> Hey List, > > It's my best friend and drummer's birthday tomorrow, and he loves the > Victor Young ballad My Foolish Heart, so I recorded it for him. > > It's a very humble (read: poor) version of what Bill Evans did. Fans > of Evans will note that I dared not attempt the first part of the tune > in A with a modulation to Bb, I just stayed in Bb for the whole ride. > (Atte I hear you now - "Cheater!!!" :) > > I'll spare you the blogspam this time, as most of the post is just > words about my friend. > > Actual Link: > > http://www.hardbop200.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/my-foolish-heart.ogg > > Recorded in Ardour and literally saturated with reverb from the Calf > Plugins. I hope you enjoy! > Yeah!!! Damn that's gorgeous. Can't go wrong with Bill Evans. He's like the holy grail of jazz piano. Those chords are so beautiful. Very nice interpretation. Is that your Roland piano? I'd love to hear it with the Steinway Old Lady Gigasample. As for hitting the piano hard, whenever I did that, the teacher I've been studying with would wince and look hurt, and sadly look at me and say, "Why you mad at the piano?". I'd laugh, but if I kept doing it, he'd say "Stop! You're hurting her!", and he wasn't really kidding either. So, yeah, lighter touch is what I'm trying to learn too. He's a huge Bill Evans fan, and his whole thing is touch and "temperament"-- or even, consistent velocity. He'd play a scale, and I'd look at it with aseqdump, and it was like the standard deviation of his velocity was like 5. A whole row of notes between 65 and 70 velocity, or whatever range he wanted to put it in. Incredible control. Speaking of Bill Evans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3GSrCmzC8 Youtube's got some great stuff. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: New Music: My Foolish Heart
by Frank Pirrone
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Ken Restivo wrote:
> <snip> > He's a huge Bill Evans fan, and his whole thing is touch and "temperament"-- or even, consistent velocity. He'd play a scale, and I'd look at it with aseqdump, and it was like the standard deviation of his velocity was like 5. A whole row of notes between 65 and 70 velocity, or whatever range he wanted to put it in. Incredible control. > Interesting measurement and analysis, Ken. Something worth scrutinizing in one's own playing... Frank _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: New Music: My Foolish Heart
by Josh Lawrence
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Ken Restivo <ken@...> wrote:
> Is that your Roland piano? I'd love to hear it with the Steinway Old Lady Gigasample. yes, it is. love that piano! > Speaking of Bill Evans: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3GSrCmzC8 omg, thank you for posting that. I love that tune, and that brief section in A always gets me! I would also be remiss if I didn't point out Chuck Isreal's playing here...the one and only time I've been to NYC, my friend took me to the Village Vanguard to hear Barry Harris, and Chuck stepped in for a few minutes to say hi to Barry. I had no idea who it was at that moment, but Barry mentioned it over the mic, and I kicked myself for not getting a chance to meet someone who had played with Evans. a lot has been said about Evans' voicings and his touch, but his sense of time! some of the most complex over-the-bar solos I've ever heard. and another thing I love about Evans is his grasp of all of the styles that came before him. for example, I love his block chord solos, very Erroll Garner. amazing stuff! we concentrate so much on this list on the complexities of getting our systems to do what we need them to do. I love that aspect of the list, but sometimes it's nice sit back and focus on the playing. I've noticed an influx in music postings lately, and this makes me happy to no end. I sat in with a big band tonight and played like crap, so it really did my heart good to see this positive note from you, Ken. thank you! -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: New Music: My Foolish Heart
by Atte
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Josh Lawrence wrote:
> ...my friend took me to the Village Vanguard to hear Barry Harris, Barry Harris, who happens to be my favorite piano-player :-) -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk http://virb.com/atte _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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Re: New Music: My Foolish Heart
by Mark Knecht
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Josh Lawrence <hardbop200@...> wrote:
> Hey List, > > It's my best friend and drummer's birthday tomorrow, and he loves the > Victor Young ballad My Foolish Heart, so I recorded it for him. > > It's a very humble (read: poor) version of what Bill Evans did. Fans > of Evans will note that I dared not attempt the first part of the tune > in A with a modulation to Bb, I just stayed in Bb for the whole ride. > (Atte I hear you now - "Cheater!!!" :) > > I'll spare you the blogspam this time, as most of the post is just > words about my friend. > > Actual Link: > > http://www.hardbop200.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/my-foolish-heart.ogg > > Recorded in Ardour and literally saturated with reverb from the Calf > Plugins. I hope you enjoy! > > -- > Josh Lawrence > http://www.hardbop200.com > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@... > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > Hi Josh, Sorry for the delay. I was traveling last week and too busy over the weekend. My loss. Lovely playing. I really enjoyed this. Yeah, maybe at times just a bit heavy handed, and I'd certainly like to hear it on a different piano sample, but it's really great work. Really! Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@... http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user |
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