From tonysounds@yahoo.com Sat Jun 10 11:01:03 2006
Subject:Re: really hot organist...

Wow, that is really the antithesis of what I saw and heard. Joey D leaves me feeling the way you described, but while her technique was incredibly dazzling, what really got me fired up was her soloing!!!! Not technique for its own sake, but graceful, melodic, and yet very very intense: like Keith Emerson to me, with a much more subdued tone.

Remember, this was an out-of-context clip, where we don't know what the head was, and of course, it lead right into the horn player's solo next. But I thought it was exquisite jazz, very melodic. And her soloing had a very definite arc (something I am still trying to develop in my own improvisation). I had no problem making out her pedal playing nor her comping, especially considering we're watching stepped-on video through a computer. I do have a Harmon Kardon speaker set up for the computer, but it's nothing that elaborate, but it's definitely better than the crap I have at my office.

But this is not to demean how it affected you, or to say that your opinion is any less valid than mine. Viva la difference!

T

jake92028 wrote:
--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, NJmm973@... wrote:
> In a message dated 06/09/2006 1:19:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> dta3923@... writes:
> That was about the 5th time I viewed that clip. I saw it
originally on
> Hamtech. Barbara has the most amazing pedal work I've seen, plus a
very unique
> style.
>
> Barry <_bardian@..._ (mailto:bardian@...) > wrote:
> Jumpin' Jiminy! No clone, but a MIDIed B3 playing the bass, piano,
and organ
> parts. Personally, I would like it better if they were all
traditional organ
> sounds, but who am I to argue...

I can see she's a very good and unique player, but I didn't care for
what I heard. It sounded like 'organ gibberish' with an occasional
momentary recognizable traditional riff or flourish, couldn't even
pick out the comping or pedal notes. The song or jam (?) didn't go
anywhere or come back to anything and left me wondering what was the
point. I like toe-ing the pedals myself, but this didn't seem
realistic ..along with the pitch which seemed like the music was
maybe speeded up.

How fast can you play and how many notes from pedals, lower and
upper manuals at the same time is not good music IMO ..like
fingernails grating on a blackboard was the effect on me. I can play
pretty fast jamming but work on slowing down a bit and trying to be
more musical so I can work within some developing structure that can
turn back around on itself. Yeah I know ..it's easy to be a critic
but???

Walter j

>
> I cant even imagine how she gets 3 parts of her body working so
> independently.. I have a hard time separating left from right.
Its amazing.



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