[Michael_A]

here is my mood...

 

[billpf]

here is my mood...

OMG Michael - that is absolutely gorgeous!

What a sound - it was like listening to Ben Webster on alto! I loved everything about it, especially the way you kept the melody front and centre, but still managed to tell your story. And what a story! Very sensual, full of beauty and happiness, but also in parts wistful and melancholy. In other words, all the feelings that this tune should inspire in us. A great version! Thank you so much for sharing it with us!

Bill

 

[J-Moen]

Here's a take, It's not quite where I want it to be yet but maybe it's halfway there.
https://soundcloud.com/user-650929438%2Fmood-indigo-alto-solo

Well done! I love the sweetness of the tone you're getting up in the register. I also felt you had a very controlled, and well chosen path through the changes for your solo! however, I felt that your take spent too much time up high - just like mine spent too much time down low haha. Exploring the full range of the horn more frequently will add another dimension to your recording!

 

[J-Moen]

here is my mood...

Wonderful Michael. I really enjoyed your note choice and embellishment of the melody. It really does feel like you have a great connection with this song and that brought a beautiful flow to your playing that made it all the more enjoyable to listen to. I will digress - I didn't enjoy the tone as much as your usual - but this is a personal opinion .

 

[Michael_A]

Wonderful Michael. I really enjoyed your note choice and embellishment of the melody. It really does feel like you have a great connection with this song and that brought a beautiful flow to your playing that made it all the more enjoyable to listen to. I will digress - I didn't enjoy the tone as much as your usual - but this is a personal opinion .

THANKS Jared! Tone ... it's not me . It's reed/mouthpiece combo . Changing, trying, like, not so... but love to play.

 

[Michael_A]

OMG Michael - that is absolutely gorgeous!

What a sound - it was like listening to Ben Webster on alto! I loved everything about it, especially the way you kept the melody front and centre, but still managed to tell your story. And what a story! Very sensual, full of beauty and happiness, but also in parts wistful and melancholy. In other words, all the feelings that this tune should inspire in us. A great version! Thank you so much for sharing it with us!

Bill

Bill, really appreciate your feedback! And it's good for me if you feel what I feel . One thing is common - we love JAZZ and SAX.

 

[billpf]

Here is my Take 2. Still needs work, but a definite improvement on Take 1!

Bill

https://soundcloud.com/user-826011730%2Fmood-indigo-take-2

 

[mrpeebee]

Here is my Take 2. Still needs work, but a definite improvement on Take 1!

Bill

https://soundcloud.com/user-826011730%2Fmood-indigo-take-2

Yeah Bill, that's a big improvement for sure!

Played with a very relaxed attitude. The solo was really interesting with nice lines flowing over the scheme, not cut off in small building blocks like in take 1. Can clearly here the late grate Lester in your solo approach, you played some beautiful melodic lines which would have brought a smile on his face! Also nice how you went from the solo into the last 8 bars of the theme, in a free spirit and not afraid of exploring (improvising!) alternative solutions.

Only thing I could give some critic on is that your sound in the openings theme was a bit off in the higher register. In the bottom you sound loud and clear, the upper register was way softer and seemed to have been played on another distance (or angle) to the mic.

So overall good to hear that the work you did put in came out in this second take Bill, very well done.

 

[Michael_A]

Here is my Take 2. Still needs work, but a definite improvement on Take 1!

Bill

https://soundcloud.com/user-826011730%2Fmood-indigo-take-2

Bill, I agree with Peter's detailed review. Nicely played tune!

 

[dexdex]

Hi All. Just quickly flying over the forum, I noticed this June's tune, and remembered I did an overlaid version with 3 clarinets in the past.
A quick search: it was in 2012, on a pretty beaten old Selmer 9*, with a nice rich tone, but a tricky intonation.
Normally I try to behave like a gentleman: own a clarinet, and NOT playing it.
Joke aside, clarinet was the original horn I started on at 12, saxes came later. So 50 years later, I'm not really a beginner.
Anyway, you ain't gonna escape, here it goes.

Moody Dingo

"This guy really knows how to make the clarinet speak. And you know what it says ? Please, stop it, and put me back in the case".
Quote by Eddie Condon, don't remember about whom. Was it Mezz Mezzrow ?

 

[billpf]

Hey Dexdex,

What a great version! I always enjoy it when special guests pay us a visit at the Beginners and Intermediate TOTM - no invitation required, and yes, we even welcome clarinets! I also started out on my musical journey playing the dreaded agony stick, but eventually transitioned to tenor sax and got rid of my clarinet, so I have nothing but the greatest admiration for anyone who can make it sound like you do! Thank you for dropping by and sharing ‘Moody Dingo‘ with us!

Many years ago I read Mezz Mezzrow’s biography ‘Really the Blues’. He told an amazing story of a very colourful life made up of equal parts crime and music. His descriptions of the drug world that surrounded the early jazz scene were very informative to say the least. And who knows, some parts of it may even have been true!

Bill

 

[billpf]

Yeah Bill, that's a big improvement for sure!

Played with a very relaxed attitude. The solo was really interesting with nice lines flowing over the scheme, not cut off in small building blocks like in take 1. Can clearly here the late grate Lester in your solo approach, you played some beautiful melodic lines which would have brought a smile on his face! Also nice how you went from the solo into the last 8 bars of the theme, in a free spirit and not afraid of exploring (improvising!) alternative solutions.

Only thing I could give some critic on is that your sound in the openings theme was a bit off in the higher register. In the bottom you sound loud and clear, the upper register was way softer and seemed to have been played on another distance (or angle) to the mic.

So overall good to hear that the work you did put in came out in this second take Bill, very well done.

Thank you Peter! There is still a lot to work on - including my recording setup!

Bill

 

[billpf]

Bill, I agree with Peter's detailed review. Nicely played tune!

Thank you Michael!

Bill

 

[Brendan]

This is more of a recording tester than a serious take (caviat !!).
My new (old) computer that I bought is too slow to run windows 10 .. and I can't get audacity to work properly .. grrr .. I need Jared the computer wiz !!
Anyway just a lot of blues licks and some altissimo attempts, none of which are in time or all that musical.

Mood Indignant :

https://soundcloud.com/brendan-sax%2Fmood-indigo

 

[Michael_A]

This is more of a recording tester than a serious take (caviat !!).
My new (old) computer that I bought is too slow to run windows 10 .. and I can't get audacity to work properly .. grrr .. I need Jared the computer wiz !!
Anyway just a lot of blues licks and some altissimo attempts, none of which are in time or all that musical.

Mood Indignant :

https://soundcloud.com/brendan-sax%2Fmood-indigo

Brendan, you r back and it is already the plus. I can understand your frustration and concentration on comp probs - it's heavily reduce the result.
Check your "tester" track and identify not good points. Sure you did. Then try again to improve.
I don't provide the details because you r "big boy" and will come with a better stuff. As a little "what to drop" - packs of 16th for example...

 

[Brendan]

As a little "what to drop" - packs of 16th for example...

You're right ... it needs more 32nd notes !

 

[billpf]

This is more of a recording tester than a serious take (caviat !!).
My new (old) computer that I bought is too slow to run windows 10 .. and I can't get audacity to work properly .. grrr .. I need Jared the computer wiz !!
Anyway just a lot of blues licks and some altissimo attempts, none of which are in time or all that musical.

Mood Indignant :

https://soundcloud.com/brendan-sax%2Fmood-indigo

Hey Brendan,

Thanks for posting our first bari version. We've had alto, tenor, and clarinet versions so far so it is great that you have been able to fill out the section. Despite your various disclaimers I thought there was a lot to like in this version. I enjoyed the looseness of it most of all, and the sense that you were just having fun. I think you are also being a little overly modest in your description of it as 'just a lot of blues licks and some altissimo attempts' because I could hear you following the changes and referencing the melody most of the way through, and liked the way the 'altissimo attempts' introduced a little bit of inside/outside tension! Crazy daddyo!

Bill

 

[Alex Nyman]

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My take on this beautiful number.

Thanks for listening if you have time.

Best, Alex

 

[Brendan]

I enjoyed the looseness of it most of all, and the sense that you were just having fun.

Loose is right ... once or twice through, then record. "Peebee style" !
Anyway the main jist was trying to improve on the sound from my Milestones recording.
So I moved the mic back to about 8 feet away and put a pillow behind to kill the reflections.
This set up seems better "

 

[Brendan]

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Wow fantastic bends and vibrato ! Beautifully done with an understated elegance. Excellent !