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Title: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 12 August 2005, 00:34: Totally of topic:
Today I tried out the new friend I am getting - a beautiful Amati tenor sax. Hell that baby packs a wallop. I reserved it and can't wait to pick it up on the 23rd. 19600 CZK... = $830.77 = like all my cash...
A bit more to get the accessories, but then it's mine!
It'll look a little like this (http://www.saxonline.nl/amati1.jpg) - I wish. In fact, I'm getting a gold one. These are much more expensive (about 24000 CZK = $1017). You pay for the silver galvanising and silver is especially expensive these days... oh well, maybe next time. Maybe once I get a soprano (http://www.bonnersmusic.co.uk/acatalog/blacksop.gif).

Anybody else here have similar passions?
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: hm_murdock on 12 August 2005, 08:50: How long have you been playing sax? What's your style? For some reason, you strike me as a jazz guy.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Kintaro on 12 August 2005, 16:28: Sax is sexy.

Raaaad.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 20 August 2005, 15:30: Haha... playing for... umm nine years. You have quite some guessing skills I tell ya, jazz's my bag. But I'd go for funk or combinations of jazz-and-something-else anytime.
I'm a big admirer of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. For you p2p folks, the golden age of DBQ is 1959, with "Time Out":
"Take Five" - that's a 5/4 must by Paul Desmond
"Blue Rondo a la Turk" - Constantinople-inspired incredible 9/8 beat
"Strange Meadow Lark" - a sweet and gentle piano piece with a sax solo
"Three to Get Ready" - an amazing cross-rhythm 4/4-4/4-3/4-3/4 piece.
the three remaining pieces on the album are: "Kathy's Waltz""Everybody's Jumpin'"Pick Up Sticks"
The big day is coming. I'm spending my life's savings... got it all here... two more days. Can't wait.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 22 August 2005, 18:47: YES!!! It's home! WOOT...
Flashy, golden*, deep, strong and beautiful. I haven't played in two months, so I kinda suck, but the sound is incomparable to the alto - that was just sqeaking!
I also had the alto cleaned. It look like new. It's silver** (when I had it repaired in Canada, they said they have never seen one like it).

* to express the color, and my undying love, not the material
** to express the color, but also the galvanisation - which happens to be real silver
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: skyman8081 on 22 August 2005, 22:29: (http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/3662/bkgodjpg4fe.jpg)
poop.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 22 August 2005, 23:30: Kintaro: I don't think I got that one...
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: worker201 on 22 August 2005, 23:37: "Take Five" is the only jazz song in my music collection. I got it on iTunes, and it was a great deal - a 9-minute song for the same price as a 3-minute song.

Screeching Weasel and Public Enemy and Sonic Youth make up probably 20% of my music collection.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 23 August 2005, 18:46: The names sound... great :D
BTW: the neighbours gotta love this...
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Kintaro on 23 August 2005, 19:16: Quote from: Jenda
Kintaro: I don't think I got that one...

Well have another look and at least get that it was skyman.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 23 August 2005, 20:37: OK... I think I got that part now.
Sorry...
feel like a dipshit now.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Calum on 23 August 2005, 22:08: one of my favourite lps i have is dave brubeck live at carnegie hall part one.

you guys need to listen to some jazz if you haven't. take five for a start, but also tons of other stuff...

can't think now, but will probably fill in many artistes later.

aha! the jacques loussier trio for a start! they play the music of johann sebastian bach (a german classical era composer) but in the style of a sixties jazz trio. and they're shit hot too.
and benny goodman too.
fire up yer gtk-gnutella and go for it!
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 24 August 2005, 19:18: I've heard a band jazzing up Beethoven - that was real cool. I myself used to play piano, and most of what I played was classical - so I sometimes entertain myself by playing it Jazz...
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 24 August 2005, 19:25: Oh, and all of you with p2p: You gotta try "Blue Rondo a la Turk"!!!
It's an absolute masterpiece!
9/8 crazy ass rythm gives way to 4/4 for the solos and the bass still plays in the exact same bom bom pum pum bum pom tempo (he does 3 strokes for each 9/8 measure and 4 for each 4/4, binding the whole piece together).... GENIUS WORK I tell you.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Kintaro on 24 August 2005, 19:34: That certainly does sound interesting.

Oh, and I play guitar.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 28 August 2005, 19:23: Long live AUDACITY!!! It let's me slow down my oggs so I can listen and learn to play them. No crazy sax player is a chalange any more!!!
Tested on a piece I'm attempting: David Sanborne - Tin Tin Deo
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Kintaro on 29 August 2005, 16:38: Audacity really sucks for me.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Jenda on 29 August 2005, 20:28: Consider me a noob - I know no better. But audacity let's me slow down stuff, and that's irreplacable for me.
Title: Re: My new friend
Post by: Kintaro on 29 August 2005, 20:38: The problem I had with Audacity was that when I would record a second track of stuff it would record it to fast, and so playing it would come out slow, and I could not speed it up properly, it was rediculous.