It has recently been brought to my attention that the chanting aspect
is indeed part of the prayer process and serves to open a clear
channel to God(or whomever one believes in...) so that the person
praying/playing and the listener are both involved more fully in the
blessing. I suppose, in other
It could well be an something that was fostered or developed,
conciously or unconciously, through prayer, and given the mystical
themes of some of Mr. Statman's albums and the emotion his playing
gives voice to in his klezmer albums, music and prayer seem to exist
in the same sphere for him. What i
It was either Oscar Peterson or Erroll Garner who always "hummed" or
vocalised while playing. Even more interesting is that the
vocalisation captured on disc was several bars ahead of what he was
playing on the ivories. It always sounds like a tuneful "eh eh eh eh
eh." I think I have a Garner 45
Thats not a bad theory at all... i don't mind admitting that i am far
more familiar with Mr. Staman's clarinet playing than i am with his
mandolin playing (a clarinet is the only other instrument i have in
the apartment, though i can only do geese honks on the thing). Overall
though, i have learned
I was just chewing on the bones of that very tune yesterday :)
I'm gonna try and find some different versions of it, just to help
flesh it out... i'll see if i can sniff out that Arthur Smith version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEPBTsxT1N8
Heres a fiddle version i found on youtube, just in
Hey Mark,
If you'll look in the "files" section, you'll find the tab for
"Fiddler's Blues" by Arthur Smith. Same one that Andy plays, but more
OT. I tabbed it off the original recording. I didn't bother to try and
write in every nuance, just the meat of the tune. No bourbon was
involved.
Tbug
On J
Mark,
I was sort of under the impression at first that Andy's vocalizing was
possibly a chant of some sort, but then it dawned on me(duh) that he's
also a very accomplished clarinet player and maybe, when he's caught
up in the music, that he feels the need to push air out of his lungs
the same way
One of the nice surprises of this group has been the liberal helping
of linkage to various video goodness available from Mr. Statman... I
have had the video of him playing Fiddlers Blues on a loop for the
last twenty minutes and i'm no where near tired of it yet... what a
cracking wee tune.
But, b
