Comments on: Caravan (rehearsal)

Caravan (rehearsal)

miss lynnster — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:04:09 -0800

The Smoke Alarm Sessions, cont'd. I've been learning Caravan. I love the way Ellington did it a lot. Nowadays so many people play it very straight ahead, & I think that gets boring. So we experimented. At first Barry tried to put a funk beat behind it, but I'm not sure about it. On the second chorus I was thinking that since I've been to Egypt I should use that as inspiration to experiment with different melodies. I think in the future I'll probably take that a lot further, I kind of liked the feel. So, we'll see.

By: allaboutgeorge

allaboutgeorge — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:22:24 -0800

*claps* One of my top-five favorite standards, delightfully MeFi'd! Thank you.

By: benign

benign — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:31:45 -0800

Yeah, nicely done!

By: snsranch

snsranch — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:43:08 -0800

Also clapping-that was sweet.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:22:55 -0800

Mmmm... yes.

This would be great with some brushed jazz kit playing.

By: nicolin

nicolin — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:10:33 -0800

hi,

very nice version. dig the guitar playing which is both light and very supportive, dig your voice which has some splendid qualities. Great interplay. Thanks.