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WeeklyBeats.com / Music / Jazzaria's music / Smell The Music
Smell, like sound, permeates a space. But smell is physically inculcated onto and into the substances it reaches, where sound simply bounces off. Imagine experiencing music as a smell, allowing the sound to stay with you.
Featuring bass clarinet.
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love this instrument. theme is nice, kinda spy movie ish. music definitely touches me like smells and lingers on for a while after hearing it. it is true for good and bad smells/music too heheh.
well played, nice little moves and evolution between the themes. it's hard to play solo for a very long time and keep it interesting, but (according to Monk) the key is always to play the melody, so different melodies make it easier or harder to keep it interesting for a long time. otherwise you just have to be good at making new coherent melodies on the fly heheh. I feel in this piece the melody is a very short snippet in the bass which is also why it lead to a fairly short piece (would have loved to hear more) - at least I couldn't recognize any other theme that wasn't more like "noodling". dunno if I'm overthinking it, but I like to nerd about this kinda shit
I love a solo (bass) clarinet performance, or sax.
did u ever listen to the solo sax concert by michael brecker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZZqUctpx0
what about the solo clarinet piece by eric dolphy (i think this is also bass clarinet) maybe more appropriate reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZ1c3ixoa4
it amazed me how he outlined the harmonies with just one note at a time, and the same happened on brecker's performance. I realized how powerful this can be for any instrument, with one note at a time you can actually tell many stories about harmony as well and even somehow play parallel melodies by jumping between them. and then going back to piano you realize how much more you can do with more fingers, but not forgetting that a note at a time is still always an option.
well played, nice little moves and evolution between the themes. it's hard to play solo for a very long time and keep it interesting, but (according to Monk) the key is always to play the melody, so different melodies make it easier or harder to keep it interesting for a long time. otherwise you just have to be good at making new coherent melodies on the fly heheh. I feel in this piece the melody is a very short snippet in the bass which is also why it lead to a fairly short piece (would have loved to hear more) - at least I couldn't recognize any other theme that wasn't more like "noodling". dunno if I'm overthinking it, but I like to nerd about this kinda shit
Thanks for the kind words! And yeah it's definitely just a bass-centric theme + noodling - the theme is inspired by this Joshua Redman track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAgK_27CQTw (studio version - there's also a monstrous live version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvcS3PTtpcs but I'd start w/studio)
I didn't particularly plan the theme, or even *really* consciously think about the Redman track at the time (just realized it afterwards) - but that's how a lot of my tracks work.
did u ever listen to the solo sax concert by michael brecker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZZqUctpx0what about the solo clarinet piece by eric dolphy (i think this is also bass clarinet) maybe more appropriate reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZ1c3ixoa4
I've listened to a *lot* of Brecker (and would argue that Delta City Blues was in many ways a predecessor for the Redman track I linked), but - not (in my memory) that particular performance. Definitely adding it to my to-listen-to list...
And 100% to the Dolphy - that particular solo has sort of become a "jazz etude" for bass clarinet, even for classical players. At the moment I'm probably drawing more inspiration from his style here 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVoJk1B93CI
really cool. I checked the Joshua Redman tracks, they are similar indeed - this happens to me a lot as well hahha. see my Dear Limmertz / Love is a wee beastie from week 07...
and great ref that solo from the Mingus concert. been listening to a lot of Mingus lately. would be cool to jam with you someday ehh
