BOTM 2013/06 - "My one and only love"

visionari1 · Jun 25, 2013

Thanks all,

Yeah not far now to the next one Eh!

I looked back on the BOTM list of tunes. some really lovely tunes...wouldn't do any harm listening or even posting on them ...would it?...well no....first sign of insanity...answering one's self....I'm way past that!

Sue · Jun 26, 2013

Hi Jimu, glad you've joined the BoTM too. 🙂 and nice one to start with. Looking forward to next month's challenge although still trying to really get to grips with this one.

thesaxman71 · Jun 26, 2013

Sue said:
Hi Jimu, glad you've joined the BoTM too. 🙂 and nice one to start with. Looking forward to next month's challenge although still trying to really get to grips with this one.

the key with this and most ballads is to really relax on them, the rest of the things (technique, tone, phrasing) will follow in time with work.

thesaxman71 · Jun 27, 2013

Only a few days left of this months BOTM and i wonder if there will be any more versions posted?

From a personal view i think this ballad choice has been a great success underlined with so many soundclip postings by lots of enthusiastic players and input they have put into this BOTM so i want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone here for taking part and "going for it".
Ian

thesaxman71 · Jun 28, 2013

maybe i will try and post an alto version, if i get time

saxplorer · Jun 28, 2013

I still plan to do my take ... have been playing this quite a bit and enjoying it, but haven't had that block of time needed to record. Maybe this weekend .... maybe .... if not my contribution will be filed under Ballad of Last Month.

dubrosa22 · Jun 28, 2013

thesaxman71 said:
Only a few days left of this months BOTM and i wonder if there will be any more versions posted?

From a personal view i think this ballad choice has been a great success underlined with so many soundclip postings by lots of enthusiastic players and input they have put into this BOTM so i want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone here for taking part and "going for it".
Ian

Thank you Ian it has been such an enjoyable and instructive month. I'm finally getting a chance now to listen to the past week's flurry of recordings - all and all an outstanding BOTM!
Well done! 😀

P.S. I'd love to hear an alto version from you - do it!

dubrosa22 · Jun 28, 2013

TimboSax said:
shuffles nervously onto thread...drops link...

https://soundcloud.com/timbo_music/botm-one-and-only

...legs it.

Mate I really enjoyed this. Great musicality, great ideas and your tone is improving with every recording I hear from you.
Honestly my first thought about 20secs in was 'hmm, I want a tenor so I can sound like that' then I realised it's you, not the horn. Inspiring.

dubrosa22 · Jun 28, 2013

visionari1 said:
Here is a very late comer to BOTM.

After some comments in another post where I asked re adding reverb...... Ian T (thesaxman71) kindly offered to show me what it would sound like with reverb.

So this has gone from New zealand to Norway and back.

He has worked some magic on it....so I intend now to be a regular BOTM'er, now that I've broken my duck.

http://snd.sc/10hPgxT

As they say....yer pays yer money and yer takes yer chance

I've also been working on How High the Moon...but still am struggling with the chords trying to make them sound like an improv!

This is almost starting to feel like fun!

Great to see another BOTM poster 🙂
You seem have lots of improv ideas. It's inspiring hearing new licks. I feel like my own bag is running dry.

Warning: Recording the sax is ADDICTIVE! 😉

TimboSax · Jun 28, 2013

dubrosa22 said:
Mate I really enjoyed this. Great musicality, great ideas and your tone is improving with every recording I hear from you.
Honestly my first thought about 20secs in was 'hmm, I want a tenor so I can sound like that' then I realised it's you, not the horn. Inspiring.

Thanks for the kind words, appreciate it. I can hear improvements from when I started (that's why I record), but there's still something of the mouth organ about my tone!

Speaking of which, I think I might have to work a bit harder on my tone, 'cos that was my alto, not my tenor 😀

thesaxman71 · Jun 28, 2013

dubrosa22 said:
Thank you Ian it has been such an enjoyable and instructive month. I'm finally getting a chance now to listen to the past week's flurry of recordings - all and all an outstanding BOTM!
Well done! 😀

P.S. I'd love to hear an alto version from you - do it!

many thanks fella...
just for you, i will try to do 1 today or tomorrow and i think i might play it in a layed back behind the beat 'Aubra' inspired way 🙂

visionari1 · Jun 29, 2013

dubrosa22 said:
Great to see another BOTM poster 🙂
You seem have lots of improv ideas. It's inspiring hearing new licks. I feel like my own bag is running dry.

Warning: Recording the sax is ADDICTIVE! 😉

G'day Mate!

Thanks Dubrosa...from across the ditch as we colonials say.

Hmmm (You seem have lots of improv ideas.) well yeah...its making them sound musical is where I fall short and getting them to fall with the chords, haven't nailed that at all...yet!

Anyones bag should not run dry, with the amount of influence and opportunity to hear master players, some of which have indeed posted on this very thread!

dubrosa22 · Jun 30, 2013

TimboSax said:
I think I might have to work a bit harder on my tone, 'cos that was my alto, not my tenor 😀

Cripes I'm always doing that around here! I can't tell an alto from a soprano often either :/
Good tone is good tone in my book 🙂

daveysaxboy · Jun 30, 2013

I still need to catch up on the versions.Just busy as a bee.

AlanT · Jun 30, 2013

How about DANNY BOY for July? ..or has a tune been chosen already?

thesaxman71 · Jun 30, 2013

AlanT said:
How about DANNY BOY for July? ..or has a tune been chosen already?

hi AlanT,
The way it works here is that the person who sets the BOTM then picks another member at the end of the month to chose a tune for the following month, a member that has contributed to the thread.

but personally i like this version of Danny boy, always makes me smile...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OCbuRA_D3KU

thesaxman71 · Jun 30, 2013

A big thank you to all the people who have made this BOTM special with many great versions posted and enthusiasm shown in comments.
It is now time i hand over the job of hosting the BOTM selection for July to Vaughan better known as dubrosa22.
I hope you find it as enjoyable and rewarding as i have found it.
regards,
Ian, thesaxman71

visionari1 · Jun 30, 2013

Yeah Ian, that would set the tone for some improvisation of the wild humorous kind...luck of the Irish is right!

I was heading to do some busking in Ireland by bike a few years ago but a truck in Southampton put paid to that!
Danny boy was one of the essential tunes for Ireland...so who knows....I'm all healed now!

Jamesmac · Jun 30, 2013

thesaxman71 said:
hi AlanT,
The way it works here is that the person who sets the BOTM then picks another member at the end of the month to chose a tune for the following month, a member that has contributed to the thread.

but personally i like this version of Danny boy, always makes me smile...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OCbuRA_D3KU

This is also a great version from Bill Evans

http://youtu.be/_Daa-Hj84eo