Duo Stream

[Mark Kleinhaut]

Ed Green cello

[fep]

Fabulous!

[Mark Kleinhaut]

Fabulous!

Thank you!

[ccroft]

Hey Mark. I think you already know I love this stuff with Ed.

You mind if I geek out about gear for a minute? I used to play cello. Interesting tailpiece. Seems he has a transducer under the bass leg of the bridge. So what is that knob-like thing in his top? Can't be a volume control can it?

I'm guessing we're hearing a mix of pickups and room sound?

Anyways, you both play and sound really good. Feels like you're digging the new guitar a lot.

[Mark Kleinhaut]

Hey Mark. I think you already know I love this stuff with Ed.

You mind if I geek out about gear for a minute? I used to play cello. Interesting tailpiece. Seems he has a transducer under the bass leg of the bridge. So what is that knob-like thing in his top? Can't be a volume control can it?

I'm guessing we're hearing a mix of pickups and room sound?

Anyways, you both play and sound really good. Feels like you're digging the new guitar a lot.

Thanks so much. That little black knob is actually a magnet that holds some kind of metal rod in the inside of the cello to dampen the top in such a way as to reduce wolf tones. I never noticed any issue before but Ed says it’s an improvement.

[Gitterbug]

Very impressive, thanks! This is bordering on, if not inside, contemporary classical music. The cello ought to have a more prominent role in jazz. Chamber jazz by a guitar-cello-double bass trio? Perhaps it's done, I just don't listen to music as much as I should.

[Mark Kleinhaut]

Very impressive, thanks! This is bordering on, if not inside, contemporary classical music. The cello ought to have a more prominent role in jazz. Chamber jazz by a guitar-cello-double bass trio? Perhaps it's done, I just don't listen to music as much as I should.

Thanks so much. I do really dig the sound of cello and guitar together. There is a very classical quality to the textures and the type of playing it evokes from us, but what we’re doing is 100% improvised. Not even a rough sketch or plan whatsoever, so from that side I still think of this as jazz fundamentally. Names and labels don’t really matter much in the end, however.