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Further conversations with Matt Otto

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2008-09-06 01:32:33 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
...music, or do you strive not to sound too much like them? Do you see what I'm getting at In my own case I've gone through phases of trying to sound like a particular player and phases when I've fought against sounding like a particularly strong influence of mine. Some teachers tell t heir students to absorb everything they can about a great...
 
 
 
 
 
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Trane interviews

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2008-09-04 00:53:03 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
1963 Trane interview 1966 Tokyo Trane interview Stockholm interview
 
 
 
 
 
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Paul Desmond interviews Bird

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2008-09-04 00:40:54 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
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Ralph Towner Interview

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2008-09-04 00:31:31 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
Interview with Ralph Towner
 
 
 
 
 
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Warne Marsh interview

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2008-09-04 00:20:53 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
Warne was a very, very bad man Warne Marsh interview 1 Warne Marsh interview 2 Warne Marsh interview 3
 
 
 
 
 
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BopLand- automated BeBop licks!

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2008-09-02 02:02:26 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
An automated online Be-Bop lick search engine What is this world coming to Is this some sort of Be-Bop Star Trek lucid dream that I'm having Have I finally flipped my wig Hell no, this is the only true cool reality and the Bop future is happening right Fu&%$#g now! Kick A Bop Land.org
 
 
 
 
 
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Sonny's battle with Heroin

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2008-08-28 15:31:56 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
...music spoke of cool rebellion; like Mort Sahl, it did so with wry commentary and wit. In the late 50s, working with such towering figures as Monk, Roach, and Coltrane, Rollins emerged as perhaps the genres most innovative structuralist But then he withdrew. In 1959, at home in New York City, he took a couple years off to woodshed and rethink...
 
 
 
 
 
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Yusef Lateef- Quest for the Exotic

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2008-08-28 11:56:49 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
...musicians to incorporate exotic scales and modes into the Jazz idiom, years before Trane became interested in them. Other notable Jazz musicians later utilized exotic tonalities in their own ways, like Charlie Mariano and John McLaughin. The exploration by Jazz musicians of th e musical traditions of India, Arabia, Indonesia, Africa, Asia and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Studio notes- Philosophy of Art

2008-08-20 16:53:28 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
 
...musicians are From my studio notes, June 22, 1985 Oakland, early morning We are a tangle of vibrations searching for harmony. Beauty is harmony. A work of art can give beauty, harmony to its owner. That is, in a sense, the purpose of the collector, to find harmony in himself and in his world. That, too, is the purpose of the artist, to...
 
 
 
 
 
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RIP Griff- The Little Giant

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2008-07-31 14:22:18 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
...bandstand. Griff gave him a dirty look and made a snide comment as Charnette setup his bass. As soon as Charnette was ready to play, which must have been well before his fingers had thawed out from the blizzard outside, Griff counted off the fastest blues I had ever heard anyone play in my life. It must have been approaching somewhere near...