Koh Samui Free Music Collective #1

Free improvisation, of post-jazz music,
for getting out of that 'hotel gig rut'.
And a sound test of the new studio room.
It passed. I still have some interior things to build, but the basic sound is big enough and no nasty rings or echos fighting.
Featuring:
Norman King; Tenor Sax,
Barry Wedgle; Guitar,
Mark Tweedale; banging about,
David Donald; bassis of it all
and video manipulation, amps and audio.

Recorded using Two Earthworks SR-71 mics just off camera, no eq or reverb added.
The room sounds like this.

Barry is playing an amp that I built this spring;
Single ended, dual parallel 6V6/6L6, 1x 15". And a '84' hybrid overdrive lead preamp/eq, that he isn't hardly driving hard. It can go from clean jazz/blues to Soldano style scream at the turn of the dial.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Electric
• acoustic
• Free
• Jazz
• Koh
• Samui
• guitar
• tenor
• sax
• Wedgle
• Norman
• King
• Tweedale
• David
• Donald
• Exit
• Records

[baantalingngam]

Giant Steps on Samui? wow. (lady singers should learn to sing in nice keys before they get their licence. No more than 3 flats or sharps? or make that 2?) I might make my first visit to Samui in 9 years this July.

[Samuijazz]

@baantalingngam

Lady singer licences! Love it. If they can't count the sharps and flats they can't do the song.

OK 'Body and Soul in C#, 12/8, and swing it please'.

Reminds me of the classic Nashville line for open mic nights.

Q. How many chick singers does it take to sing Patsey Cline/Willie Nelson's 'Crazy'

A. Apparently ALL of them.

[baantalingngam]

Cheers. So that's what's been going on since I left my hotel gig on Samui, 97-99

[Samuijazz]

@baantalingngam LOL. The sax player and I played together at Red Snapper last night. We had a Thai upright bass and drummer, Austrailian piano, and myself on guitar instead of bass. We even pulled off Giant Steps. I admit to never doing a guitar solo on G.S. before, it was interesting. What would Pat Metheny do? There was also a lady singer and that meant lots of transposing. So this was somewhere between classic hotel cover gig and bebop jam session.

[Samuijazz]

That's not Jazz?

Tell that to Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor.

Free jazz is a movement with in Jazz, of improvisation without form.

Many 'classic jazz' buffs think this is pure jazz, and intensely dislike the more pop stuff.

It's of course a matter of taste, but this is jazz and no other category. Like it or not.

[Shadow15379]

nice

[tonyfreejazz20]

Nice one.  Thanks for posting this.