SummerInTheLofi (replaced PureLofi with Augmented Mallets)
Lousy weather in north eastern America
A little hope. I haven’t touched my sax for six months. Gotta practice.
Bass: Jup-8000, Euro Contretemps
Vibe: Augmented Mallets, Dreamy Vibraphone
Drums: DrumBrute
Sax: Yamaha tenor YTS-62
Eq-Sitral, Delay infinity, Lx-rev, BusPeak
Hey @francoise
Now THAT is an interesting take on a classic standard! 
Pleasantly surprised actually, i still love Miles’ version though… 
francoise,
Thank you for the song review! OK, I guess you’re located in North Eastern USA. Your song is pleasant. My favorite part of your song is your (apparently real) nice sax playing. I briefly played in a rock band where a sax player showed up to play sax on an INXS song, which was cool. But he only knew one of our songs. And then the rock band fizzled out after 3 practices, which is not unusual in Southern California. That’s why I am primarily a one man band home studio project.
The four recordings by Miles with Gil Evans (conductor) are classics, Summertime is from Porgy and Bess. I like the fourth one, less known, Quiet Nights, a bossa album with an uneasiness feeling, remote from muzak bossa…
I’m alone in my salon (my saloon) with synths, guitar and a sax not played for many mouths. I tried to use new Arturia instruments (Jup, Augmented Mallets). It’s not easy to record a sax in my living room. It’s not a studio.
Thank you, Aaron,
I used to play sax (alto, tenor) a lot more. It’s real and not satisfying.
I played guitar in amateur jazz quartet and it fizzled out after four years. I’m now playing alone with my VSTs. For jazz, I use Addictive Drums, Amplesound Upright and Pianoteq. I wanted to involve new Arturia instruments.
I guess if you’re from California, you don’t don’t know how lousy this spring has been for us, lucky you!
On the sound “review”, I just felt it reminded me of the punk ear (probably quite wrong) and it it reminded me of this recent opinion in the NYT on the need fot a punk attitude.
Yes, i have Their Columbia Recording of Porgy & Bess and it is SUPERB!
I actually prefer it as an instrumental.
francoise,
Four years in a band is pretty long in my experience. My best bands lasted less than a year each. Though I continued playing with some of the previous band members in bands later on. Since you are from Canada, I have a story for you. It was the early to mid 1970’s, and my family went to Maui (overall my favorite place ever). At the resort we stayed at, there were a bunch of little huts, and they had no telephones or TV’s then. By chance, Pierre Trudeau stayed at the same resort at the same time. I never saw him, but some interesting things happened. I walked by the hut he was staying at, and it was surrounded by the Canadian equivalent of the Secret Service: they were all in suits, while most people dress casual, and in shorts, and short sleeved shirts in Maui. They had to install a noticeable temporary phone line to Trudeau’s hut, so he could use a phone. I later found out Trudeau broke the diving board at the pool; I saw the broken diving board. Back in the 70’s, it was not unusual to see big Canadian flags in Maui.
Jazz is not as popular as rock. If you want to play with other jazz musicians, you can’t easily let them go; they’re scarce.
So you met Canadian “men in black”!
In the mid 70’s, Trudeau was considered a communist by the US.
Maybe the men in black were not Canadian. I’m joking.
Maui is certainly a paradise. I went to Vancouver Island in 2002; I enjoyed the calm Pacific Ocean (wonderful Pacific Rim) a lot.
My mother was a Lavery, probably catholic from Northern Ireland. I guess the unruly Atlantic is partly in my blood.
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