He turns 79.
Hope he's having a great one, and may he play for 50 more years!!
A nice interview taken from his site:
He's my favorite, I'm looking forward to see him live in Milano, on 2nd November!!
p.s.: check his website!
lunedì 7 settembre 2009
Happy Birthday, dear Sonny!
Today, Monday the 7th September, is the birthday of the finest jazz living legend, mr. Sonny Rollins!!
He turns 79.
Hope he's having a great one, and may he play for 50 more years!!
A nice interview taken from his site:
He's my favorite, I'm looking forward to see him live in Milano, on 2nd November!!
p.s.: check his website!
He turns 79.
Hope he's having a great one, and may he play for 50 more years!!
A nice interview taken from his site:
He's my favorite, I'm looking forward to see him live in Milano, on 2nd November!!
p.s.: check his website!
Racer X Forum Jam 8 -- my take!!
Hi guys, I'm on the Racer X Forum and user Pao usually host a forum jam.
How it works?
Simply (for us players!, not for Pao), we jam over a backin' track provided by Pao and then he 'pastes' all the solos on an extended version of the track; the result is a loooong (usually more than 10 mins) track with us showing our abilities :D
At last I recorded my own solo.
I'm not very satisfiedwith it.. I can find a proper groove nor I can be very comfortable with the fast tempo (fast for me).
But the nice thing I did was on the Bbmin-Eb7 progression, where I played Bb dorian, then F dorian followed by D dorian and at last B dorian, returning to Bb dorian.
If you're smart enough, you can notice that F is the 'dorian note' (maj. 6th) of Bb, D is the 'dorian note' of F and so on.
It's a great trick commonly used in progressive/fusion and some jazz music; Lazarus usually does this kind of stuff, and I learnt it from him.
This time the Backing Track is here.
My take is here.
If you have any suggestion/advice, please tell me!
p.s.: when the Jam is over, I'll post a sum here.
How it works?
Simply (for us players!, not for Pao), we jam over a backin' track provided by Pao and then he 'pastes' all the solos on an extended version of the track; the result is a loooong (usually more than 10 mins) track with us showing our abilities :D
At last I recorded my own solo.
I'm not very satisfiedwith it.. I can find a proper groove nor I can be very comfortable with the fast tempo (fast for me).
But the nice thing I did was on the Bbmin-Eb7 progression, where I played Bb dorian, then F dorian followed by D dorian and at last B dorian, returning to Bb dorian.
If you're smart enough, you can notice that F is the 'dorian note' (maj. 6th) of Bb, D is the 'dorian note' of F and so on.
It's a great trick commonly used in progressive/fusion and some jazz music; Lazarus usually does this kind of stuff, and I learnt it from him.
This time the Backing Track is here.
My take is here.
If you have any suggestion/advice, please tell me!
p.s.: when the Jam is over, I'll post a sum here.
domenica 6 settembre 2009
2 new CDs
On Thursday (nice to understand that the name of this day is after the God 'Thor'!) I went to the super market to buy 2 tickets for Gardaland (a great fun-fair on the Lago (lake) di Garda) and come across a special offer: two CDs for 6,90€.
I picked up these two:
I knew Grieg's work because of some studies when I was about 12 (one of the great moments of school), ''La Mer'' is partially new to me as I already knew some parts of it.
I highly suggest these two beautiful operas; they are made by composers who lived almost at the same time, they worked in the last half of the XIX century through the early years of the XX century. They are similar and different, but they will astonish you with their incredible atmoshperes full of.. karma.
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I picked up these two:
I knew Grieg's work because of some studies when I was about 12 (one of the great moments of school), ''La Mer'' is partially new to me as I already knew some parts of it.
I highly suggest these two beautiful operas; they are made by composers who lived almost at the same time, they worked in the last half of the XIX century through the early years of the XX century. They are similar and different, but they will astonish you with their incredible atmoshperes full of.. karma.
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Giovedì sono andato al supermercato (un Esselunga per la cronaca) per prendere due biglietti per Gardaland a mi sono imbattuto in un' offerta speciale: due CD a 6,90€.
Ho preso questi due: [immagini più sù]
I knew Grieg's work because of some studies when I was about 12 (one of the great moments of school), ''La Mer'' is partially new to me as I already knew some parts of it.
Conoscevo l' opera di Grieg a causa di alcuni studi alla scuola media quando avevo circa 12 anni (uno dei grandi momenti della scuola), ''La mer'' è parzialmente nuova dato che conoscevo alcune parti.
I highly suggest these two beautiful operas; they are made by composers who lived almost at the same time, they worked in the last half of the XIX century through the early years of the XX century. They are similar and different, but they will astonish you with their incredible atmoshperes full of.. karma.
Suggerisco di comprare questi due opere; sono state fatte da compositori che sono vissuti circa nello stesso periodo storico, lavorarono nella seconda metà dell' Ottocento fino ai primi anni del Novecento. Sono simili e diversi fra loro, ma ti strabilieranno con le loro incredibili atmosfere cariche di... karma.
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