Does "phoning it in" refer to the payphone on the wall? LOL! I didn't hear Birk's Works. A Night in Tunisia was the only Gillespie composition I recognized.
Thanks for the comment, Ann. :-) Cheers, frank On 23 August, 2015 2:44:25 PM EDT, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: >Too bad about the busy background -- >he certainly isn't phoning it in.. good capture on the pose >Did he play "Birks Works?" That's my all time fave Dizzy > >ann > >On 8/23/2015 2:20 PM, frank theriault wrote: >> I'm not sure how much I like this one. It's sooooo close. >> >> This guy (and the drummer) ~were~ quite good. First attracted my ear >> with strains of Dizzy Gillespie's ~A Night in Tunisia~, and he >> continued to play lots of Miles and mid-fifties late bebop stuff. >> >> BUT, the light was horribly harsh, and he kept moving from the light >> into the shadows. That moving also made it hard to get him and the >> drummer in the same frame without (to say the least) very distracting >> backgrounds. >> >> Unfortunately this photo has one of those horrid backgrounds, and >he's >> in front of the drummer, but this was by far the best pose he "gave >> me" all 15 or 20 minutes I listened: >> >> http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2015/08/come-blow-your-horn.html >> >> I waited to catch it again, constantly moving about to keep things >> nicely framed, but that pose never happened again. So this is it. >Hope >> you enjoy. Comments welcome. >> >> cheers, >> >> frank >> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
