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Round ‘Bout Midnight / Yes, with Lagrange
Maybe the most interesting version, IMHO, of Monk’s classic ever. Simply @Spidericemidas’ patch “Leaving” and BeatHawk Total Bass. Jazz played underwater with springs attached.
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You're adding another bead on a long and historic necklace here.
What a great tune... "Monk has left the building"... and discorporated.
Monk's solo piano version:
Mile's understated treatment:
Wes Montgomery adding just the right embellishments:
Bobby McFerrin proving the vocal cords can imitate a great soloists techniques... pretty good imitation of MIle's Harmon-muted trumpet:
Cool one. I like how you take old songs to new places. I’m digging that Lagrange patch, and the twangy bass string now and then.
Dav
That pitch bend triggers me like flashing lights trigger an epileptic. Couldn’t make it more than a few seconds.
Totally agreed.
The perfect fusion of old and new
@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr, lol, stay away from the Andromeda Strain, mate. Sorry I sickened you!
Thanks @dav and @senhorlampada. As you can see it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But, you know, @Spidericemidas built it and I came (well, not literally).
Thnx for posting those @McD. Monk’s uniqueness has been a major influence for my playing. No one could do that drizzle like he did. I love that he had so much stride piano in his make up. He brought the old into the new.
I feel very giddy after that! 🤪
Always up for something different and unusual, and this definitely hit the spot!
I used to play this song on distorted electric guitar in E minor in a country blues style, kind of a slow John Lee Hooker thing. I abstracted the harmony down to the basic three or four chords: Emin, Amin, C7 and B7. It worked surprisingly well.
Folks ITT might enjoy this video. It was played on Glenn Gould's Steinway, and once you know that you can't help but hearing it! Also note the Oscar Peterson-worthy display of chops. I usually don't expect that from Bill Evans.
Nice Mike… I like!
Remember when a vinyl album was left out in the hot sun in a car? The surface warped and the results where pitch mayhem. It's that sort of musical vertigo. @LinearLineman describes it as an underwater performance. Nausea often results when the real world inputs do not match our mental models of reality.
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Now the question to be answered is "Did it sound like this when @LinearLineman recorded the performance or did he record with a beautifully pitched piano and later send the MIDI into Lagrange with the "Leaving" preset? We may never know and many will never care... but a coterie of friends and
sonically damaged readers will come back for the nitty gritty.
"This way to the egress."
This is wonderful. Smack dab in the middle of a Venn diagram of a few things I like.
I love Venn diagrams... what are the labeled circles for you?
Thanks for listening @Dav. @Edward_Alexander. Appreciated!
Well @Spidericemidas, you built that warble. You should be proud of yourself... nauseating some and delighting others.
Thanks @ksound . Now I know what a Venn diagram... as in I vondered ven I’d learn such a thing!
@McD, these synth albums have switched me around. I am always playing the patch first (as I did here), and it is inspiring the improv. Not sure how Spider’s “Leaving” pad became Round Midnight, but there it is. An inter aspect to this switcher op is that I find myself playing notes that aren’t sounding, in an ARP or pad, and then, when I plug in a piano, I hear the music that was missing. The Pisano part in Hersld is an example of this happenstance. Upon further reflection I would say this patch is like playing underwater while eating week old potato salad... you know, that springy zing you get treated to.
Very interesting, thanks. I think of it more as if I’m trying to maintain vibrational synchronicity with the harmonic series so as to maximize quantum entanglement with my physical reality.
@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr... just maintain an even strain, bro
Sounds like the musical theory of relativity, seeking a grand unification. Apparently, it leads to strings.
Hey Mike.
I was listening again this morning and noticed some interesting coincidence or maybe it’s called serendipity?
The original title is a meaning and way of expressing “around about” or approximately or rough estimate give or take a small amount, right?
What you’ve done is to make a piece of wobbly Carousel type music that gives the feeling of dizziness going round and round too much...and over here on the roads we have “roundabouts” and we have rides in children’s playgrounds we call roundabouts, which make you dizzy and giddy if you go round them too much!
“Round ‘bout” and “Roundabout”!
The music perfectly describes a roundabout! How funny!? 🤪
@Spidericemidas, damn, you’re right! I wish I had been so clever... Roundabout Midnight would have been sooo clever. I do have a smart ass title for the next one, tho... “A Lullaby Of Spiders” that uses your “Lullaby” preset. 😎🙏
Haha. Cool title. Now that reminds me of The Cure track “Lullaby”.
“On candystripe legs, the Spider man comes, softly through the shadow of the evening Sun”. 🕷
I saw Yes and Round ‘Bout and thought we were going to get a sick cover of Roundabout 😂