Late Night Music Club with Gerry Mulligan and Antonio Carlos Jobim
By Andy K Sunday Nov 22, 2009 8:00pmA little bit of ephemera from an early sixties documentary, we join, in progress, a bit of a work session in Gerry Mulligan's apartment. Tom Jobim is playing his One Note Samba when Mulligan joins in on clarinet. They jam for a bit, but Gerry isn't happy with a note or two that he blows, so they stop, discuss, and swing the song out perfectly.
I'm no trained musician, and I'm still not quite sure what exactly they were discussing, but I love watching great artists in the process of working a piece through.
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not me....
Sorry for the mishap on the byline Andy!
I'm not the one with kids in school who's also working on at least two blogs! Someday I've got to learn to enter these things in myself without explodin' the tubes, if only to give you a few minutes of "bluegal time". :D
On edit: Long, tight hugs when we finally have a face-to-face. ; )
...it was the rhythmic phrasing that Jobim was trying to school him on. Those Brazilians and their crazy rhythms, I tell you.
Despite what it says, I wrote the post (I still haven't mastered the guts of C&L, so I send 'em in to bluegal, who made an honest little typo :D), and I was hoping someone could fill me in. Thanks, sharkcellar!
it's the rhythm that threw him. It's quite an unusual syncopation, and it's really amazing (to me anyway) that Gerry Mulligan nails it within just a couple of tries!
What a great clip!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J71FLwVNps8
...the things that ol' Tom (his friends, such as Frank Sinatra, called Jobim "Tom") could do with that note.
Here they are together. Tom's on guitar.
Thanks, bluegal!
there is a movie " the lost city " in one scene ( Andy Garcia leaving Cuba ) a duet breaks out between a piano and a sax , perhaps one of the most if not the best duet i have ever heard .
YSB post a link if you find it . Hi CL
I'd so love to hear that musical numba!
Walking Shoes
w/Mulligan on baritone and Zoot Sims on tenor
Truly fine, Andy!
Bossa Nova Beats - FreeDrumLessons.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNyQEMlxSnY
Eydie Gorme - Blame It On The Bossa Nova
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIGwKUqbTGc
Stan Getz live in california bossa nova medley 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo1SiVwVqic
I really enjoy it a bunch when different artists get together and they get do each other's music. A couple of days ago I listen to Stan Getz's version of this song and Girl From Ipanema with Astrud Gilberto.
Steve Winwood, Tito Puente and Arturo Sandoval - Latin Crossings:
http://www.divshare.com/playlist/632937-56f
...That Mulligan fellow's only playing one note. Crazy bebop kids!
;>)
Thank you, darkblack!
Dom Um Romão - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL9TpXql4FA&fm...
Ver ver! :D
Now that's Brazilian! Except, of course, for the non-traditional keyboard instruments...
That is outstanding, miss_kitty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-sWTPYExh0
I love the title of the song, 'I'll Marimba You'.
Those guys were wild, crazy and talented!
Haiti - Caetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil
Águas de Março
I've heard her voice before but... wow!
Jorge Benjor - Mais Que Nada
good one
Yummy, m_k!
Sympathy For The Devil
From the Jean Luc Godard film of the same name- all about the process, baby.
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and its ( i love it ) snowing and cold , time for bed with your squeeze , candle lite and a little Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis .
Speaking of day's end, it's bedtime for me. Goodnight to all.
Thanks for a wonderful LNMC this evening, Andy!
Thanks Andy .
One minor point... bossa, samba and most Latin music does not 'swing' a la American jazz.
...are extremely specific on what's being played by whom. They are very close to traditional African rhythms, which are tightly blended, multi-percussion pieces, in which some very disparate cycles are played by different instruments which blend in amazing ways.
Swing, on the other hand, grew out of Dixieland, in which group improvisation was key.
...swing(verb). The latter is very difficult to define(Cootie Wiiliams on defining "swing": "Define it? I'd rather tackle Einstein's theory!"). The verb is akin to the modern day verb "rock" ("That rocks!")
Concertguitar: I beg to differ. The style in which a song is originally written doesn't preclude it from being remade in a jazz style. Amongst others, listen to Louis Armstrong's version of Stardust or Coltrane's My Favorite Things...or Stan Getz's collaborations with Jobim!
Samba/Bossa Nova is, at it's core, a time signature, and in this clip Jobim is laying down the time signature on piano while Mulligan is improv-ing over that rhythm. Mulligan isn't quite getting the feel for the song at first, but when he does, he really swings, if only for a brief moment, before the song ends.
that's the best. I am in love with that sound. Jobim is the absolute best.
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