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In this June 18, 2006 photo, Chuck Mangione performs during the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, Calif.
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I was listening to the radio the other day, and heard a song that is in my collection. It’s a song I like, but not for the reason you would suspect. I like it for the brass instrument solo.
In many popular songs from the mid 1960s until present solos are performed by either guitar, saxophone, or keyboards. Those instruments make for very good solo instruments because of their sonic qualities. Either acoustic or electric or a combination of both, a guitar can capture any mood or voice, and convey emotion. Just listen to the guitar in Chris Isaak’s song “Wicked Game” and you may feel the melancholy emotion cascade over you. Keyboards and saxophones have the same abilities to transport listeners to other experiences.
Vinyl Cave: Dollar bin diving with Jethro Burns, Phil Driscoll, Max Demian, Streetwalkers
January 2, 2021
Bob Koch
Your dedicated crate digger is back with another report on what music can still be found in the bargain bin. Although the prices for used albums by well-known artists just keep going up, there remains a lot of interesting music to be found for a buck or two. And as long as sellers keep chucking lesser-known LPs in the bargain bin â in stores or online â it will keep this perpetually curious writer occupied.
Bob Koch
The well of obscure rock band albums issued by Mercury Records from the 1960s on sometimes seems inexhaustible. (An LP by a band called Dry Dock County is one I m on the hunt for currently, after finding a 45 from their lone Mercury LP a few months back.)
I enjoyed John Scheinfeld
’s film, and I
’ve been listening to the box set, which is kind of like rehearsing my entire life. Let me start with a question musician to musician. I love what you say about finding your voice as a player, and how after a period of imitation and learning from what others have done, you look for that moment when at last you sound like yourself. How do you know when you ve arrived at that point?
That s a good question. There s no: Stop, you found it. I think you know that internally. I think you get the feeling. I guess I ve told you I tried playing like Louis and Miles. When I heard Clifford Brown for the first time, I felt like putting my horn in a cave. “Holy s%&$. This guy is so far above and beyond.” But I kept going. I guess it was a breakthrough for me when I was listening to a recording of Les Paul where he stacked [doubled with an overdub] his guitar on the recording. I tried doing that with the trumpet, and I hit on the sound that really
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