That's FANTASTIC Goran. The passage at about 13:40 in the second video is positively mind-blowing. File under; "if I had two lifetimes I still could not think that fast"... Wow!


I'm also reminded that in addition to just practice in general, I need to work on my 5-string upright project. 

Joe Pass - All The Things You Are

That was really nice. *Fluid*. Someone in the comments suggested that's Stephen King on bass... whoever it is in those shadows, they are laying down some cool lines.


Here's "Satin Doll" I think from that same show.

Very nice, Dave & Greg! 

Peter (who, on New Year's Eve '78-'79, was nailed a serious kiss by the woman who inspired "Satin Doll")

And a very nice Satin Doll!

The bass player looks quite comfortable sitting on a stool with the bass in a more reclined position than usual for an upright.

Peter; from what I've been able to ascertain, Billy Strayhorn named his composition Satin Doll for his mother, Lillian Young Strayhorn, who died in 1966. 

Brit Floyd - Comfortably Numb


Very nice performance.  Currently on tour in North America.

More Brit Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Cool! I'm gonna see Brit Floyd this summer in San Francisco!

Quote from: David Houck on March 26, 2019, 09:43:06 AM
The bass player looks quite comfortable sitting on a stool with the bass in a more reclined position than usual for an upright.

I saw Alex Blake with Randy Weston about ten years ago, he sat really low behind the bass, and sometimes it would be nearly horizontal. Also an Alembic player, with Manhattan Transfer.

Quote from: mica on March 26, 2019, 11:21:29 AM... I'm gonna see Brit Floyd this summer in San Francisco!

Cool!

Saw Brit Floyd years ago...they got it dialed in!

Wow, that Joe Pass video was great!

Yeah, of the Joe Pass videos I've seen, those two might be my favorites.  I might try to find the whole concert.

A correction on the bass player.  It's Bob Magnusson on bass and Joe Porcaro on drums.

Hmm.  I guess she - and several others who had known her long enough to have gone to clubs with her where he was playing  when she was young - may have misinformed me, Dave.  Or, given the state both she & I were usually in in those days, perhaps I am disremembering the details.  She was supposed to have had some connection to the tune & to Duke.


(And, at about 60, living on a bar stool, her spine twisted with rheumatoid arthritis, chain-smoking while constantly wrapped around a G&T, she still had enough of whatever it was [/size]she'd had back then[/size] that my 22-y-o eyes could see it; this was one high-class dame, I'm tellin' ya!)


Peter