Bebop head no. 5

[Christian Miller]

The most unusual thing is that one player plays with the thumb, the other with a pick.

It’s not unusual for Jim

I love that he plays as well as anyone using the exact technique I tell my child students not to use every day…


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[Mick-7]

There appears to be a pile of logs onstage, also quite unusual!

And I turned down the gig at the lumberyard, how was I to know?

[Mick-7]

I found a lead sheet for Miss Ann (version #2) that Dave Creamer gave me. He only wrote the notes out, not the chords, so I borrowed the ones from the Jazz LTD chart. The fingerings shown are mine. His key is 1/2 step higher than the Real Book/Jazz LTD and there are a couple of notes that are different. I'm unsure about the chord in measure 12, Jazz LTD has a m7b5 whereas the Real Book has a full dim.7.

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So, coming into the home stretch of this race, Groovin' High has taken the lead and Miss Ann is in 3rd place but never the less, I wish to comment on her.

As you can see in my chart above, Dave played the first 6 notes of the phrase that starts on the last beat of measure 4 (C > Bb, etc.) down an octave. I like it better as Dolphy plays it, an octave higher. Probably inconvenient in these keys for those with shorter scale guitars though - we could lower it.

Dolphy and Dave play the two notes before that, first beat of measure 3, as an octave leap from G to G (F# > F# in the original). I heard a cover of the tune by Vic Juris on YouTube in which he just repeats the note, no octave jump. That's easier because you don't have to shift position to play the octave, however to me it sounds just as good if you play the second note down rather than up an octave, and you won't have to shift position to do that. Dave's notes sound correct, I see 1 or 2 wrong notes in the Real Book lead sheet.

[lawson-stone]

Then why do they call it the digit blender?

The Flintstones theme is pretty easy. I don't know why it would have a reputation for difficulty, except that the notes are spaced over the chord changes in such a way that if you play the melody at a reasonable tempo, your're going to be soloing over the form faster than you expect. Kind of like "Cherokee" that way.
Here's my effort on Flintstones for whatever it's worth

[GuyBoden]

I saw Jim Mullen the other night, he finished his set with the ‘University Challenge’ TV theme - another rhythm changes contrafact.

Not the first time he’s done it apparently, here’s one a few years ago (full of cheeky quotes!)

A bought an Aria FA archtop guitar about 30 years ago after seeing Jim Mullen play.

He gets a great tone out of his guitar, that I never could, it's in his hands and ears.

Edit: That's Adrian Ingram on the other Guitar, a locally well known and good player.