Only half à propos this thread, Bill Evans' version of "The Dolphin" is just freaky. It's one thing to play a complicated tune the way he does, but then he goes back and comes up with a great reharmonization for it on the fly. Humans aren't supposed to be able to do that.
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Well maybe we are the only two left then [:D] - kind of being in a G. A. Romero film...
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@Christian Marcussen said:
Well maybe we are the only two left then [:D] - kind of being in a G. A. Romero film...
Or...........
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Hehe. Thanks for all your kind words Alex. here here.@hermitage59 said:
Besides, Evan's got a horrible sense of humour, shares considerable amounts of knowledge with others he often doesn't know, and drinks Port. ... Alex...
Evan Evans
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You know ... right after I posted my reply I went back and skimmed your post again and realized that it might not have been meant to be insulting at all. But I still needed to say what I said, even if it was in the wrong reflection of the moment. I still hold it true, it's just not directed at you in any way.@Laurent said:
Evan, sorry if my post has been misunderstood.
I didn't mean by any way to be insulting....
No problem. Water under the bridge.
Cheers,
Evan
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Nick, there are so many great examples of that in my father's oeuvre. He was an enigma to be sure. It can be mind blowing.@Nick Batzdorf said:
Only half à propos this thread, Bill Evans' version of "The Dolphin" is just freaky. It's one thing to play a complicated tune the way he does, but then he goes back and comes up with a great reharmonization for it on the fly. Humans aren't supposed to be able to do that.
Many times he said he was not naturally gifted. Not a freak of nature. That he practiced at least 8 hours a day every day of his life, and that what you hear as very complex and sophisticated was indeed the result of incredibly hard work. I witnessed this as a child, and my mother has told me the same.
On a side note, it was rather touching for me to learn, after I chose film scoring as my passion in this life, in an interview with my father a year before his passing he was asked if there was anything he wanted to do besides Jazz ... He answered "I would like to get into scoring films." Talk about freaking me out. First of all, you have to understand that my interest in music was purely genetic. There was a piano in the house. My mother never pushed me at all. I naturally gravitated towards it, asked for lessons, wanted to have an hour lesson twice a week at the age of 7, which by 8 turned into 3 lessons per week, 1 hour theory, 1 hour Piano, and 1 hour Trumpet. I did not even know my father was a musician (or realize it per sey, make the connection), until I was about 10 years old. And yet the moment I turned 9, I heard some music in the film THE 39 STEPS by Alfred Hitchcock, and it was the first time I realized that movies had music in them. At that point I said "that is what I want to do with my life. Write music for movies." I got my first job at age 12. I got my first film at age 21. It was when I was 24 that I learned of what my father had said. It was 15 years of confirmation in a single instant, that I indeed was following in my father's footsteps. He died when I was 5. So it's just incredibly touching to have his "approval", in that sense.
Anyway, alas I rambled on.
Basically I just wanted to say, that as a musician, an artist, I think he was much more than most people realize, and that music at that level is not an accident, improvised, or universally accepted without intending to do so.
How many of you have decided that your contribution deserves 8 hours of fortification through practice every day of your life? That is dedication of the highest. And it is very inspiring, at least to me.
Evan Evans
P.S. By the way, i recognize and love my father's music, completely unbiased from the fact that he was my father. I can assure you of this, since I disliked Jazz music for most of my life. It certainly was not something that was drilled into me. I discovered my father just like the rest of you ... through his music. And most people I meet in his circles, knew him better than I did. Yet, I consider him to be a genius of the 20th Century, as was Bernard Herrmann who wrote in pen and did not make mistakes.
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haha. Plus it was supposed to be about how the demo's aren't up to snuff. Stream of consciousness is a bitch.
Evan Evans
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I asked him the same question and this is his reply :
Pro Ed only: Everest, Graveyard, Sunlit sorrow, Toy Soldier, Diabolical.
VI and Pro Ed: Donald and Westron
*VI = strings and woodwinds
*Pro Ed = Brass and Percussion
The brass, woodwinds and perc in VI will be sent later,
that is why I worked this way for now. But my intention is to
use only VI. The 24 bit makes it better quality also.
Guy ; )
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@Laurent said:
Really good, especialy "black panther strikes again" !
Is it only the VSL (or VI) samples ?
Thanks Laurent, but it's the wrong version, the website guy got it wrong, the final version is longer and has a neat ending, "Ã la Batman", and also has been refined more. I'll have the switch done by the end of the day.
R.K.
Yeah, I am a bit of a quacky, but really am a nice guy. (most often)
But I don't think you'll see me posting much again, so you could always PM.
ps Sometimes messages get a little too tricky for me....
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Yeah I already realize posting here can be a bit waste of time, but I still do it because I don't let other people change who I am. I want to post something, and am going to get torn apart to shreds, I don't care. That's they're business. I'll make my posts regardless. I've been banned from this forum before for telling the truth.
Evan Evans