Comments for david chenu blog

Comment on What’s the difference between 4th and 5th? by Brian Martin

Brian Martin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:09:50 +0000

That is pretty crazy….

Comment on Welcome to the blog by Stankasouras

Stankasouras — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:23:55 +0000

Loved the “machine” welcome. Keep it up. I’m interested in what your take is on life rather than the music. Seems over my head. .. musically speaking.

Comment on Playing the “right” chord changes by Alison

Alison — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:12:09 +0000

What great examples to use to make your point. Wow! She was so amazing, and that’s my favorite song! I love the way she says the word “why.”

Comment on Homogeneous jazz (a rant) by woode wood

woode wood — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:32:44 +0000

this post is excellent david…..

please write more from your perspective, so idiots like me can get more insight…..

thanks

Comment on Homogeneous jazz (a rant) by Beau Sample

Beau Sample — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:58:12 +0000

Yes, it would do alot of folks alot of good to better learn the history of the music they are playing. When you start listening to musicians like Louis Armstrong, Bix, Tram, Bechet and Django you start to realize that these guys and girls (Lil Hardin Armstron for example) were doing alot of things that some people think the bop guys invented. Bird knew his history. Coltrane knew his history.

This whole discussion reminds me of something that was mentioned by a guitar player that I will not name. He said: If you ever get on stage with a bunch of college jazz guys who are playing these tunes like Giant Steps and Stable Mates and you want to see how good they are. Just call a Christmas tune and see if they can hang with the changes and you will be surpised at how many jazz guys can’t hear/play simple chord changes.

I constantly feel like I have too many recordings. Just last night I was at my gig and a tune came on the Juke Box during the break. I knew I had the song on a record, but I could not figure out who it was. The guitar player said that if you ever have a record, and you don’t know you have it you should have to get rid of it. He was joking but it is a good point. Players back in the day were also overwhelmed with the music but they were overwhelmed in a different way. They were overwhelmed with the fact that on any given night in New York you could go see and hear Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Art Tatum, Bird, Trane, Diz, Stuff Smith, etc. I would rather be that kind of overwhelmed.