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Showcasing the RT artists 3: P.J. Perry, melodist supreme #200176 04/04/13 02:17 PM User Showcase
Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 958 aleck rand OP Expert
OP aleck rand Expert Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 958	(In My) Solitude is a 1934 jazz standard, composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Eddie DeLange and Irving Mills. RealTracks artists Mike LeDonne (Hammond B3) and Craig Scott (jazz brushes) back up the featured RT artist: P.J. Perry (tenor sax). Aleck Rand does the vocal and plays guitar. Allow a brief digression to discuss two kinds of improvisers. The first type you might call an ALGORTHIMIC player, who blows scales/modes/upper structures/etc. in formulaic succession. In the worst cases, you can begin this player's solo at any point x and it sounds like what you'll hear if you begin instead at point y. The second type I call the MELODISTS. A melodist plays solos that you can sing. In other words, at their best, these players improvise beautifully shaped melodic ideas that illuminate the chord changes, sometimes with unexpected insights. Pat Metheny says that he learned to sing every one of Wes Montgomery's solos on one of Wes's most famous albums (Live at the Half-Note (1965); Metheny calls it the greatest live recording in jazz guitar history and I agree with him). Wes Montgomery was a supreme melodist and the following video is a MUST SEE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnzMIPNySws I can sing all of P.J. Perry's gorgeous tenor solo in this performance - that's how coherent and accessible his big-toned ideas are. P.J. can tell it proper. Listen to IN MY SOLITUDE here: https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand/in-my-solitude-2 Last edited by Callie - PG Music; 04/08/13 07:23 AM. Sweetwater Creation Station. BIAB 2018, Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio, Izotope Nektar 2, Ozone 8, KEYBOARDS: Kurzweil Artis 7, Crumar MOJO, Hammond XK-3, BASSES (fretted & fretless by Ibanez, LTD, Warwick. GUITARS by Guild, Gretsch, Ibanez, Eastwood (12 string)

Re: Showcasing the RT artists 3: P.J. Perry, melodist supreme aleck rand #200177 04/05/13 09:58 PM User Showcase
Joined: May 2000 Posts: 15,656 PeterGannon PG Music Staff
PeterGannon PG Music Staff Joined: May 2000 Posts: 15,656	Great job Aleck! Have Fun! Peter Gannon PG Music Inc.

Re: Showcasing the RT artists 3: P.J. Perry, melodist supreme PeterGannon #200178 04/06/13 07:15 AM User Showcase
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 2,888 Karlsruhe, Germany boehm Veteran
boehm Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 2,888 Karlsruhe, Germany	Hi Aleck, very soulful vocals and guitar. A real ear candy (the sax too). Guenter

Re: Showcasing the RT artists 3: P.J. Perry, melodist supreme boehm #200179 04/06/13 08:59 AM User Showcase
Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 958 aleck rand OP Expert
OP aleck rand Expert Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 958	Thank you Peter and Guenter. It is very gratifying to get favorable comments that mean something. If I have to be the sole representative of straight-ahead, in-the-pocket Jazz on the Forum, then so be it. Peter, please (in italics) don't stop adding more Jazz real tracks. Jazz may have been exported to Canada, Holland, etc. but it seems quite alive in the custody of American universities. BIAB/RealBand is an unsurpassed teaching tool for fledgling improvisors and arrangers.

Re: Showcasing the RT artists 3: P.J. Perry, melodist supreme aleck rand #200180 04/06/13 11:54 PM User Showcase
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Don R Enthusiast D Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 65 Sacramento, CA	Wow... nicely done.

Re: Showcasing the RT artists 3: P.J. Perry, melodist supreme Don R #200181 04/08/13 07:37 AM User Showcase
Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 958 aleck rand OP Expert
OP aleck rand Expert Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 958	Thanks Don, I appreciate your favorable comment. Aleck Last edited by aleck rand; 04/08/13 07:38 AM.

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