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MarkW · 2026-04-07 11:06:56

Vigress & Osborne - Forever Autumn (original version from 1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAaoTanu2Ug

Last edited by MarkW (2026-04-07 17:28:26)

marens · 2026-04-07 17:20:40

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hhh · Yesterday 15:48:33

Watching an interview of Joe Pass explaining simplifying jass chords, basically play just the third and the seventh, maybe add the thirteenth. I've heard or read an interview of The Police (that I can't find now) where Andy Summers describes the same thing. Paraphrasing, "Sting's playing the roots and fifths, so I play anything but that."

Joe Pass (with Oscar Peterson)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kUJa1PueM&list=RDp_kUJa1PueM

Andy Summers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kUJa1PueM&list=RDp_kUJa1PueM

The title track from that (Charming Snakes [1990]) is some of the best in the very narrow field of jazz/dub fusion.

Zappa - Lucille

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFjj63LJTHY

hhh · Yesterday 16:28:57

The drummer on Charming Snakes, Chad Wackerman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUSTgQbXR8Y

johnraff · Today 05:16:10

@hhh That Joe Pass guitar was brilliant, so thanks for that, but...

hhh wrote:

Watching an interview of Joe Pass explaining simplifying jass chords, basically play just the third and the seventh, maybe add the thirteenth...

Where's the interview? I wanted to hear that.

I've heard or read an interview of The Police (that I can't find now) where Andy Summers describes the same thing. Paraphrasing, "Sting's playing the roots and fifths, so I play anything but that."
Joe Pass (with Oscar Peterson)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kUJa1PueM&list=RDp_kUJa1PueM

There's no sign of Oscar Peterson there, just Joe Pass.

Andy Summers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kUJa1PueM&list=RDp_kUJa1PueM

This is a duplicate of the Joe Pass link...

hhh · Today 20:19:37

My bad at posting links and duplicates.

More Joe Pass, at least...

https://youtu.be/0Y5l3oKJjug?si=oSJVF2ebgoxTezIY

Oscar Peterson featuring Joe Pass

https://youtu.be/Uoqk6PHo9TM?si=8bkh70mwAiIRNIQy

Joe is maybe playing a Gibson Byrdland?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Byrdland

I saw Oscar in another video playing a Bösendorfer, so probably that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6sendorfer

Yeah, you can see the piano brand at about 9 minutes.

hhh · Today 21:13:12

Grace Jones had the best management, she is the master of the cover. The Apple Stretching and Yawning, written by Melvin Van Peebles (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uszyrhCw78A

Demolition Man (1981, as well as the rest, all from her album Nightclubbing, the best album of the early 80s IMO)... written by Sting, I think he gave it to her and then later put a vastly worse take on Ghost in the Machine, one of several filler tracks from that album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CycmnUbD7k

Private Life, written by Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G881Z2CoI8Y

Use Me, written by Bill Withers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNa-8Xcl7IA

RIP Sly & Robbie