Op zondag 11 juni speelt de Utrechtse jazzviolist Thailo van Ree in het Jazzcafé Zeist Early Jazz (Swing), Bossa Nova en Blues in de Orangerie van Slot Zeist. Hij wordt bijgestaan door Wouter Poot (gitaar) en Marijn van de Ven (contrabas).

Zie https://www.zeistermagazine.nl/jazzviolist

#zeist #zeistermagazine #jazzcafe #jazzcafé #jazzviolist #viool #violist #jazz #slot #slotzeist #orangerie #thailovanree #swing #earlyjazz #bossanova #blues #gitaar #contrabas

Mid-afternoon #music:
The Versatile Four was an American string band that didn't have much luck at home, settling in London in the 1910s and 20s, performing and recording.

They cut this number in February 1916 for HMV. The ODJB didn't show up at Victor until a year later. Is it #EarlyJazz before #jazz had a name? Whether it is or not, they really step on the gas. A lot to love.

"How's that?"

#VersatileFour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDpdLeuGke4

Evening #Music:

From 1917, a gentle-but-sprited counterpoint to the insistent drive of the ODJB, with Wilbur Sweatman's clarinet in front of an all-saxophone backing band....and no drums, which definitely feels like a statement this early in the history of recorded jazz.

Joe Turner Blues - Wilbur Sweatman and His Jass Band

#Jazz #EarlyJazz #WilburSweatman #clarinet #saxophone
https://youtu.be/t-jEUxjv9WQ

Speedy Boy - #BenSelvin and His #Orchestra ( 1928 ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6XO9rfPW5I
#Jazz #EarlyJazz #JazzMusic #JazzAge #1920s

Finally picked up California Feetwarmers' latest, it's very good of course

https://thecaliforniafeetwarmers.bandcamp.com/album/gloryland

#jazz #hotjazz #earlyjazz #tradjazz #nowplaying #np #tootradio #californiafeetwarmers

As mentioned in a previous post, I've challenging myself to learn one new jazz standard per week for the next 60 weeks.*

This week's tune is "After You've Gone" by Henry Creamer & John T. Layton, written in 1918 and now in the #publicdomain.

In case anyone wants to play along, I'll try to be faithful about posting a new lead sheet every Sunday; I figure Saturday is a pretty good "due date" for many people who have the day off, and Sunday's a good day to start working on a new one for the same reason.

Until/Unless I can think of a snappy challenge name and hashtag, I'm going to call it Jazz Tune of the Week (#jazztotw.) The goal is to learn a tune well enough to record an audio or video clip of yourself playing it... whether that's singing, playing the melody, or vamping chords, or laying down a smooth bass line. You don't have to commit to grinding for 60 weeks if you don't want to, dropping in and out is fine.

Please boost! I'm going to do this myself regardless but the more the merrier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlHUqFSDD9A

*60 weeks because I'm working through an arbitrary "standards every jazz banjo player should know" list that has 60 songs on it

#fediversemusic #music #weeklychallenge #jazz #earlyjazz #mastomusic #leadsheet @musicians

PLECTRUM BANJO HELLTHREAD

I'm back on my #earlyjazz bullshit and revisiting helpful links I've found over the years, and as links like this have a tendency to disappear I'm going to try and download copies of these materials as I add them here.

Plectrum banjo is a four-string, 22-fret instrument with a ~26-inch or so scale, more or less the same as a modern 5-string banjo, but lacking the short drone string it's typically played with a plectrum (hence the name, which was originally used to distinguish them from 5-string instruments. Tenor banjos came along slightly later.) They're tuned CGBD, also inherited from 5-string banjos as they were originally tuned. (Some people will also tune them DGBE like the top four strings of a guitar.)

I don't know who andy(at)olive13.net is, but I've had a print-out of their enormously helpful, public domain collection of chord shapes kicking around my desk for over a year now, and refer to it pretty much every time I'm working through a song.

http://13olive.net/chords/plectrum_inversions.html

The deal with jazz banjo "chord melody" is that as you play a tune, you try to map the melody to the highest string and find the chords that map most closely to it; so the goal is to

1) Memorize the different movable chord shapes in terms of which note of the chord falls on the 4th string (I, III, V etc)

2) Memorize the I, III/iii, V, and vii notes of the most commonly-played chords, so you can easily figure out which chord shape to play and where

#plectrumbanjo #jazz #chords #banjo

Tuba Skinny are just so goddamned good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb1134T4BUM #hotjazz #nola #earlyjazz #jazz #tubaskinny

May I recommend some more very fine, west-coast old-school jazz, newly available on bandcamp by the California Feet Warmers: https://thecaliforniafeetwarmers.bandcamp.com/album/silver-seas #hotjazz #earlyjazz #californiafeetwarmers #nowplaying #tootradio

May I recommend some fine old-school jazz for your Saturday morning enjoyment:

https://tubaskinny.bandcamp.com/album/owl-call-blues

#nowplaying #tootradio #tubaskinny #hotjazz #earlyjazz

This week's #earlybanjototw is "Pea Nut Girl" by W.H. Gassner, from James Buckley's 1868 banjo guide. I gave it more of an #earlyjazz treatment here with #plectrumbanjo and #parlorguitar:

https://youtu.be/Jga9f8cYWno

#banjo #earlybanjo #arcanebanjo #classicstylebanjo #4stringbanjo #5stringbanjo