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The "other" solo pieces

gitpickergitpicker Beijing/San Francisco✭✭✭✭ Gibson, Favino, Eastman
edited November 2007 in Unaccompanied Django Posts: 213
Hi Michael, I noticed in the book you mention that Tea for Two, Improvisation #4 and Belleville are omitted.

Tea For Two: I was unaware of a solo performance of this tune. Which recording has it?

Improv #4: Any plans to include this in a future edition of the book?

Belleville: I see the other thread, problems with liscensing. Darn!

It's not as if the book isn't complete as it is. I was just wondering about these others. Thanks for your years of hard work in producing such a fantastic resource for us all! 1,000,0000,000,000,000,000 Thanks!!!!
Doug
www.dougmartinguitar.com
Live life and play music like it's your last day on earth. One day you'll be right- Russel Malone
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  • MichaelHorowitzMichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator
    Posts: 6,152
    Hi Doug,

    Tea for Two is here:













    Maybe someday I'll add those few extra pieces to a future edition of the book. But quite frankly, I wrote that book as a labor of love. It's not a really huge seller, and I'll never make enough to warrant the time put into it. So adding to the book is not really a first priority...but I would like to someday!
  • scotscot Virtuoso
    Posts: 653
    There is a pretty good transcription the first chorus of "Tea for Two" by Joe Carr in the March/April 2002 issue of Flatpicking Guitar magazine, along with many more transcriptions and solos of Django tunes. The solo of Tea For Two is not much like the other solo pieces and this transcription gives another look at Django's thinking and how could play beautifully through a set of changes, and how economically he managed to achieve the things he did. A great solo! On top of all that, the first chorus isn't difficult to play - unfortunately the choruses get harder as the piece moves along.

    This issue of Flatpicking Guitar magazine is positively worth having because the articles, transcriptions and solos are from a much different perspective than what we are used to around here - the flat-pickers perspective instead of the hard-core djangophiles, and that's a good thing.

    The 1986 live solo version of "Tea For Two" by Matelot Ferret is also an original and astonishing piece of guitar playing, especially so as it's a totally in the style yet owes nothing at all to Django.

    Best
    Scot
  • gitpickergitpicker Beijing/San Francisco✭✭✭✭ Gibson, Favino, Eastman
    Posts: 213
    Many thanks guys! I'll look into those resources right away!
    Doug
    www.dougmartinguitar.com
    Live life and play music like it's your last day on earth. One day you'll be right- Russel Malone
  • MichaelHorowitzMichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator
    Posts: 6,152
    Hi Scot....Doug is talking about the unaccompanied solo version of Tea for Two. Not the one Django recorded with the whole quintet, which is what I think you're referring to.
  • scotscot Virtuoso
    Posts: 653
    No, the one in this magazine is the first chorus of the solo "Tea For Two" recorded 27 December 1937. I listened while reading the chart and it's a reasonably accurate transcription of this solo, not bad at all. It does not contain the turnaround - instead it has the arpeggios of the last ending and there are no fingerings given. You could learn the tune from this chart, no problem.

    Best
    Scot
  • czeckoczecko ✭✭✭
    Posts: 42
    Maybe someday I'll add those few extra pieces to a future edition of the book. But quite frankly, I wrote that book as a labor of love. It's not a really huge seller, and I'll never make enough to warrant the time put into it. So adding to the book is not really a first priority...but I would like to someday!

    Really? It's not a big-seller?
    I love this book.
    And I learned alot from it.
    And the new Gypsy Rhythm book is awesome!
  • MichaelHorowitzMichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator
    Posts: 6,152
    Really? It's not a big-seller?

    Well. any book about Gypsy jazz will never be a big seller :( . There's just too few of us. But consdier that the Unaccompanied Django book is an even smaller market. Only people that are

    1) Gypsy Jazz guitarists

    and

    2) want to learn these fairly obscure solo pieces

    will buy the book.

    So it's a niche of a niche. But it sure was fun writing it! :D
    I love this book.
    And I learned alot from it.
    And the new Gypsy Rhythm book is awesome!

    Thanks...nice to hear that. That's why I write the books!
  • Craig BumgarnerCraig Bumgarner Drayden, MarylandVirtuoso Bumgarner S/N 001
    Posts: 795
    Tim Robinson (aka Thrip) posted his transcription and mp3 of Improv #4 on the Django Swingpage UK site a while back. I've only worked about half way through it, but looks like a very good transcription to me.

    http://www.hotclub.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2897

    Scroll down to the bottom of the thread for the link to the transcription.

    Craig
  • DiggerDigger New
    Posts: 77
    He (Thrip) has also done this lovely rendition of "Echoes of Spain"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCRzf9jR8uI
  • gitpickergitpicker Beijing/San Francisco✭✭✭✭ Gibson, Favino, Eastman
    Posts: 213
    Thanks gentlemen! This forum is the best!
    www.dougmartinguitar.com
    Live life and play music like it's your last day on earth. One day you'll be right- Russel Malone
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