Jazz gigs coming back, outdoors

[Doug Elliott]

This is from a gig I played last Thursday.

[ithinknot]

Nice!

[Fidbone]

Nice one Doug, hope you got paid with money?
We've been offered hampers, beer or great exposure here in the UK.
Lot's of bookers/venues trying it on with us "desperate to play" musicians

[FOSSIL]

Very nice playing indeed....big sound...
Too risky to play open air gigs in Scotland at the moment.... still snow showers, strong winds etc between the sun...changes rapidly....a whole new meaning to playing the changes ! We are supposed to be doing open air perfs of Verdi Falstaff in Glasgow and Edinburgh festival in June- July.....could be interesting.

Chris

[Bach5G]

I am always impressed by how far north Scotland is. And that’s coming from a Canadian.

[greenbean]

Nice work!

[Doubler]

Applause!

[Trombo]

Bravo maestro!

[Wilktone]

Well, shoot. I had meant to record myself playing this before Doug posted it here and then accuse him of plagiarism.

http://wilktone.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... ombone.pdf



Didya mean to play that?!

[Doug Elliott]

Do I get extra credit for the camera work?

[Redthunder]

Well, shoot. I had meant to record myself playing this before Doug posted it here and then accuse him of plagiarism.

http://wilktone.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... ombone.pdf



Didya mean to play that?!

Doug Elliott Omnibook when?

[Wilktone]

Do I get extra credit for the camera work?

Yeah, you're a natural photographer.

[imsevimse]

Nice playing. Seems like you had a lot of fun

Here in Sweden we still have some snow in parts of the country. Where I live in the south it can still be below freezing point at night. Outdoor concerts will be a bit cold in daytime and Corona is still behind each corner so still no concerts over here.

I will have my first vaccine shot the 15th of May. My guess is life will return somewhere in late June or early July. I might find someone starved in music that want to rehearse in summer. I will accept, I want to play. I don't need an audience, I just want to meet with friends and play.

/Tom

[Mikebmiller]

My big band has our first concert tomorrow. We have been rehearsing for 3 weeks will an all vaccinated band. I’m psyched!

[Wilktone]

Outdoor jazz gigs are coming back for me too. Last weekend I played a porch concert with a early jazz/swing band. I threw my phone on my music stand and recorded a couple of tunes. Unfortunately you can't really hear much of the other instruments, but since the trombone is right by the mic you can at least hear the most important one.



Yes, I still have my pandemic hair.

[afugate]

Outdoor jazz gigs are coming back for me too. Last weekend I played a porch concert with a early jazz/swing band. I threw my phone on my music stand and recorded a couple of tunes. Unfortunately you can't really hear much of the other instruments, but since the trombone is right by the mic you can at least hear the most important one.



Yes, I still have my pandemic hair.

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed that!
--Andy in OKC

[ArbanRubank]

That sounded like an easy and fun piece to play. I like how you grooved your part into an old-timey feel.

[Wilktone]

Thanks! It's a fun group. Our clarinet player (actually a bassist playing a secondary instrument) writes all the arrangements. His charts are fun with a nice blend of pre-arrange passages with collective improvisation. Everyone in the group is committed to playing as stylistic as possible.

[timothy42b]

Finally got to listen to Wilktone's group. Nice! I like that he doesn't have to blast to be heard, the others listen and get out of his way, that would be a fun group to play with. I wish some in my area could get that concept.

[ArbanRubank]

Amen to the above! It is precisely why I quit a group; everybody just had to blast and the director encouraged them to blast over solos.

I want to add that Wilktone proved a point I have been making for a long time, that one need not play terribly intricately to sound terrific! I got the sense that he kept his playing very well within his abilities and resisted the urge to junk it up - as so many others might try. And then there was his stylistic approach that blended in very well with the group. Just a great, clean and fun performance. Inspiring, actually.

[imsevimse]

Finally! A first concert after Corona with the Johan Stengård Jazz Big Band tomorrow outdoor in Västerås, it will be our hundredth concert since the start 2015 and my first real Concert since the pandemic started. I did play two church gigs but nothing more. It will be a one and a half hours drive to get there.

In August we do two outdoor concerts/dances in Stockholm at "Skansen" which is a park with lots of old houses and nordic animals, restaurants and enjoyments. It's the place in Stockholm where tourists and families enjoy themself and is the best Disneyland we can do. Think much smaller and not as fast and not very expensive, lots of trees, grass and sun, just perfect.

I've also heard we are booked from September to Christmas every Monday at the theatre where we used to play before Corona. We will do about 10 concerts there.

Slowly the life returns. I've heard several of my fellow musicians have changed careers during Corona, they have quit playing and are now studying to become policemen and computer programmers instead. I'm lucky I did that change long time ago. I haven't had any economic troubles since.

I haven't played with the band for about one and a half years, but it is from the Count Basie repertoire we've done 99 times. This will be very exciting, I bet everyone's eager to play.

(Edit added a picture from the hundredth concert in Västerås - happy to se my trombone college is in heaven during my solo )

/Tom