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Postby Darren Altman » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:10 am

Breathtaking musicality. If you listen to Tristano's prhasing, you'll know how bloody hard this is to do.

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Re: Dan Weiss

Postby percusski » Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:16 am

What's even more ridiculous is that it looks like he's memorised it!!
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Re: Dan Weiss

Postby Morgenthaler » Fri Oct 16, 2015 4:47 am

He's fantastic.

I still revisit this video once a month:

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Re: Dan Weiss

Postby Pocketplayer » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:57 am

A perfect example of out of box intelligence not directly measured in
the school system! He made a context for that inner voice to combat
the drummer's tapping that annoys most people, especially in a business
or staff meeting. This is a guy I'd like to hang with...

--as a kid, he nailed the beat of the washing machine, external noises
most ignore, the repeating pattern of the car on road trips, birds
outside chirping, jackhammer on the construction site.
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Re: Dan Weiss

Postby Odd-Arne Oseberg » Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:05 am

pft... He missed a beat. :o :D

Very impressive. Not just the playing. Quite a bit of work to memorize that whole thing.

The auction thing is hilarious. Reminds me of this old classic.

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Re: Dan Weiss

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Re: Dan Weiss

Postby Avi_drums » Fri Oct 16, 2015 2:21 pm

Darren Altman wrote:Breathtaking musicality. If you listen to Tristano's prhasing, you'll know how bloody hard this is to do.



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Re: Dan Weiss

Postby Darren Altman » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:42 am

Why? Are you being serious Avi? Well in the same way that you took the time to trawl Google images for your hilarious and facetious comment, Dan took the time to study Tristanos lines just as guitarists study Metheny or Charlie Christian or saxophonists study Parer and Brecker. Why? Because he hears something in Tristanos phrasing which he sought to study, transcribe and work at in order to give himself a looseness and freedom in his phrasing on the drums.

This diligence and attention to detail has resulted in Dan touring the world and playing with such respected jazz greats as David Binney, Lee Konitz, Miguel Zenon and Kenny Werner , recording hundreds of albums both as a band leader in his own right and as an in demand sideman.

Out of interest if this had been Vinnie, Brian Blade or *insert your favourite drummer* posting clips like this, would you have posted the same pic?
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Re: Dan Weiss

Postby Odd-Arne Oseberg » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:58 am

Why not?
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Re: Dan Weiss

Postby Avi_drums » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:15 pm

Darren Altman wrote:Why? Are you being serious Avi? Well in the same way that you took the time to trawl Google images for your hilarious and facetious comment, Dan took the time to study Tristanos lines just as guitarists study Metheny or Charlie Christian or saxophonists study Parer and Brecker. Why? Because he hears something in Tristanos phrasing which he sought to study, transcribe and work at in order to give himself a looseness and freedom in his phrasing on the drums.

This diligence and attention to detail has resulted in Dan touring the world and playing with such respected jazz greats as David Binney, Lee Konitz, Miguel Zenon and Kenny Werner , recording hundreds of albums both as a band leader in his own right and as an in demand sideman.

Out of interest if this had been Vinnie, Brian Blade or *insert your favourite drummer* posting clips like this, would you have posted the same pic?



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