BOTM BOTM April 2016 "Alfie"

[Chris]

I have had a GAS attack and bought a sound interface...

Ron ,I hope it was the Presonus AudioBox iOne, cheap with a great DAW for free and Win 10/Mac compatible.

Chris..

 

[Tenor Viol]

Ron ,I hope it was the Presonus AudioBox iOne, cheap with a great DAW for free and Win 10/Mac compatible.

Chris..

Probably should have asked here... Scarlett 2i2

 

[rhysonsax]

Probably should have asked here... Scarlett 2i2

I've got that and it's fine for home recording. Quite easy to set up and use.

Rhys

 

[Chris]

@tenorviol Ron the 2i2 is fine. Focusrite have some great preamps on there interfaces. Also the bundled software will let you get up and running pretty quick. Like Colin said a decent mic will alos help you out you don't need to spend a lot..

Chris..

 

[Tenor Viol]

I'll post a new thread to avoid clogging BOTM up...

 

[fibracell]

I just did this. First recording for a while, tune plus a couple of twiddly bits.

https://soundcloud.com/fibracell%2Falfie-alto-sax

View: https://soundcloud.com/fibracell/alfie-alto-sax


I changed the chords at the end, as the last 4 bars just don't work for me.😉

 

[Chris]

I just did this. First recording for a while, tune plus a couple of twiddly bits.

https://soundcloud.com/fibracell%2Falfie-alto-sax

View: https://soundcloud.com/fibracell/alfie-alto-sax


I changed the chords at the end, as the last 4 bars just don't work for me.😉

Rob, enjoyed the twiddly bits🙂, you really should post more recordings. Very nice to listen to🙂

Chris..

 

[mrpeebee]

Never heard of this song and since my music reading sucks I had to record it with the wonderful take from B flat (thanks Nick 🙂) on my headphone as example during recording.

Tried to keep it very smooth and clean this time!

- 'Alfie' (Florida no USA 10* - Plasticover 2):
Alfie (Florida no USA 10* - Plasticover 2) by mrpeebee

Also a big thanks to Chris for the wonderful backing 🙂.

 

[rhysonsax]

Never heard of this song and since my music reading sucks I had to record it with the wonderful take from B flat (thanks Nick 🙂) on my headphone as example during recording.

Tried to keep it very smooth and clean this time!

- 'Alfie' (Florida no USA 10* - Plasticover 2):
Alfie (Florida no USA 10* - Plasticover 2) by mrpeebee

Also a big thanks to Chris for the wonderful backing 🙂.

Lovely !

Rhys

 

[Chris]

Peter, glad the botm thread this time brought a new tune to you🙂 You did a very nice version as well.
Most guys when they think of 'Alfie' probably think of the 'Sonny Rollins' version🙂

Chris..

 

[mrpeebee]

Peter, glad the botm thread this time brought a new tune to you🙂 You did a very nice version as well.
Most guys when they think of 'Alfie' probably think of the 'Sonny Rollins' version🙂

Chris..

Thanks Chris 🙂

I for sure know "Alfie's Theme" from Sonny Rollins, a very nice but way different song than the very nice "Alfie" ballad tune of this thread.

 

[B Flat]

Very nice Peter.
Now I need to listen to the Sonny Rollins version as I'm not familiar with that one.
I'd only heard Alfie once before (sung by Burt Bacharach I think).

 

[Colin the Bear]

I also wasn't aware of Sonny's involvement with the film Alfie. I've seen and enjoyed the film several times. I shall have to also listen and pay more attention next time it's on. The clips I've found on the tube are all very listenable. Nice theme. And I thought I didn't like his stuff. Uh oh! Better listen to "everything" again.

 

[mrpeebee]

Now I need to listen to the Sonny Rollins version as I'm not familiar with that one.

Check this clip Nick:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_moRogiog0

 

[Chris]

If you are to believe what you see/hear on tv doc's. 'Sonny' wrote this after a gig at Ronnie Scotts. He asked Ronnie if he could stay in the club all night and by the following morning it was finished???

 

[rhysonsax]

I really enjoy the 1966 Sonny Rollins album "Alfie" on which he plays tunes that he composed and recorded for the 1965 British film of the same name. Wikipedia says that the album "features performances by Rollins, with Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Cleveland, J.J. Johnson and Roger Kellaway, arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson".

But the soundtrack of the film itself features music recorded by Rollins with a group of British jazz musicians. A Tubby Hayes discography says it was:

18 and 22-25.10.65

Alfie Soundtrack

Keith Christie (tb), Sonny Rollins, Ronnie Scott, Hayes (ts), Stan Tracey (p), Ernie Shear or Dave Goldberg (g), Johnny Hawksworth (b) and Phil Seamen (d).

Twickenham Studios, London, UK.

Alfie Theme
Incidental Music

But an interview with bass player Rick Laird in Guitar Player magazine (1980) said:

'Thirsting for more knowledge, Rick studied from 1963 to'64 at London's Guild Hall school. There he learned bowing techniques from a classical bassist and in the meantime continued to pick up ideas from records as well. And from his work at Ronnie Scott's he received a call from saxophonist Sonny Rollins to record the soundtrack for the movie Alfie in 1965. "When Sonny Rollins called me from New York and asked me to do it, I was really thrilled," Laird recalls. "It was really interesting, because we had no music to work from. We just went to the studio, and while they ran the film for us we improvised to the scenes taking place on the screen. We had a few basic themes, but for the most part it was all spontaneous."​

I have the film on DVD and it is very much of its period (and also miles better than the 2004 remake). The music is excellent, but altogether lasts only about 11 minutes, with some of that covered up by dialogue and other sounds.

As far as I know the real music recordings from the film soundtrack has never been released in any form. It's a shame it wasn't included as an extra feature on the DVD, but maybe that would have been problematical because of copyright or maybe the music isn't available on its own.

Rhys

 

[Chris]

Well I can't thank my self But I can say thanks to all you guys that took part in this botm. I didn't know how this version of 'Alfie' would go down but it seems as if it was a winner.

Next months ballad and host have been picked, all the backings etc are in place🙂

Chris..

 

[Jeanette]

I'll thank you @Chris for a great tune and for keeping these threads alive 🙂



Jx

 

[David Dorning]

I thought I would see what I can make of this quartet in just one session tonight. Here it is warts and all.

https://soundcloud.com/davidsax-2%2Falfie

View: https://soundcloud.com/davidsax-2/alfie

 

[rhysonsax]

I thought I would see what I can make of this quartet in just one session tonight. Here it is warts and all.

https://soundcloud.com/davidsax-2%2Falfie

View: https://soundcloud.com/davidsax-2/alfie

Very nice David - I enjoyed that a lot. Can you tell us more about this - for instance who did the arrangement, and is that you on all four parts or a quartet with you playing one sax ?

Rhys