Where I come from the best way is to just get them together.
Don't recall any jazz, with or without strings, being involved though.
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On the with Strings thing, seems like you guys about covered it. Just adding my perspective. In many but not all applications the strings seem too heavy handed and forward in the arrangements. Almost jarring to me and detracting from what I am trying to focus on. I often have a similar reaction to larger horn section orchestras. My preference, I repeat my preference is for something more understated, solo or just a couple guys playing off each other than in the en mass sound I often get from strings. I can completely appreciate why someone might have the polar opposite of an opinion on the topic, but it’s simply not the direction my tastes run in. The spacing and interplay doesn’t represent as well to me and that’s a driver for my enjoyment of jazz.
With that said a couple of the LPs I played recently went against that general statement. As mentioned Stitt with Strings and that Colman Hawkins both had strings throughout but in didn’t overwhelm the primary players and distract me from what they were doing. I suppose like everything else in music there are good and bad ways of doing things. In my experience it has seemed like more often than not I could do without the strings and be just fine.
Yeah, and it's gonna hit 100,000 posts today, too. What a bunch of nerds!WOW - 5000 pages of Jazz enthusiasts!!
Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session
Duke Ellington-p, Stephane Grappelli-vl, Ray Nance-vl, Svend Asmussen-vla, Ernie Shepard-b, Sam Woodyard-d, Billy Strayhorn-p, with Russell Procope-as, Paul Gonsalves-ts, Buster Cooper-tb
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That's an incredible bust you have there - really great detail and likeness. My Great Grandfather was a sculptor...
Yeah, and it's gonna hit 100,000 posts today, too. What a bunch of nerds!
Whoever drops that post should make sure it's a good one.
It just smells funny, lol.Who sez Jazz is dead??
Are y'all waiting for that ticker to reach 99,999?
I'll move it along with the album that got me going with jazz; John Coltrane - Blue Train.
I'm going to throw a CDR of my Mofi copy into my truck player while running some errands.