Jazz/Blues Whistle

Revdgh · Post by **Revdgh** » Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:13 am

Hi Folks,

I am new to this forum but have been playing the whistle from a good few years now. I was wondering does anyone here play blues/jazz on the whistle?

I pretty much play blues/jazz exclusively now after starting out with Irish music.

Anybody else out there?

Steve Bliven · Post by **Steve Bliven** » Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:52 am

Well, there's the whole Kwela (South African whistle jazz) school—search here and Google and YouTube—should that be of interest.

Best wishes.

Steve

irishmuse · Post by **irishmuse** » Tue Aug 16, 2016 7:17 pm

Greetings Redgvh and welcome to the forum. Ah Greenloaning by the sweet Allan Water. I assume you're pretty much in Session off the A9 territory geographically and musically there. Some years ago there was a member who posted here as "educciman", he was a maker as well as a player and mainly interested in jazz applications for fipple flutes. He had a good few videos on youtube at the time playing freeform jazz but a lot of the links seem now to be dead. I don't think he currently posts here but if you google "educciman", I know he still has a website and there are several videos of him playing jazz pieces. Ditto if you use that search term in Youtube. I know this may not be much use to you if you're looking for others to play with in deepest Perthshire but it might give you some ideas/inspiration? I'm of no use to you personally as I now live in Australia (tho' I used to live in Bridge of Allan) and stick pretty much to the Scots/ Irish tunes. Anyway hope this helps in some way.

Sirchronique · Post by **Sirchronique** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:37 am

This might be of interest

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-penny- ... taylor.php

Tor · Post by **Tor** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:36 am

educciman still posts here, there were some postings about his ongoing research into creating a whistlehead/flute chimera, not so long ago.

ytliek · Post by **ytliek** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:36 am

I was expecting John Coltrane to appear.

Steve Bliven · Post by **Steve Bliven** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 10:07 am

Coltrane doesn't show until well into the new year....

Best wishes.

Steve

Revdgh · Post by **Revdgh** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 4:50 pm

Thanks for the reply I will need to check out the YouTube stuff.....yes I do live just off the A9in Perthshire. Nice to have someone on the other side of the world who knows where Greenloaning is...!!

I play jazz/blues in a duet with a guitarist who also sings. We mainly play old blues songs and jazz standards we also have played a bit of kwela too. We have posted a few videos on YouTube . If you search for "Rev Dgh" you will get an idea of the type of stuff we play.

Thanks again and regards

Bretton · Post by **Bretton** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:39 pm

Hey Rev Dgh. Listened to a couple of your YouTube recordings. Great stuff, and very similar to what I've kind of stumbled into. I started playing whistle and improvising with three of my neighbors that play guitar and it ended up working really well. Then I went to the local open mic and just randomly asked some of the guitar players if I could jump in on a tune with them and that worked well too.

I did play baritone sax in jazz band in high school, so I'm not new to improvising, but that's been quite a while ago.

I was just playing along with your "Money Getting Cheaper" recording.

Thanks for sharing!

-Brett

Sirchronique · Post by **Sirchronique** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 2:25 am

ytliek wrote:I was expecting John Coltrane to appear.

Yes, I figured it was inevitable, so just wanted to go ahead and get that out of the way early on..

Revdgh · Post by **Revdgh** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 2:37 am

Hi Brett....thanks for getting back to me. Glad to hear you like the stuff on YouTube. Like you I also play baritone sax but I wanted to try doing something "different". The turning point for me was meeting a blues & jazz guitarist/vocalist who was into the same music as I was.

I think the whistle works quite well on jazz and blues... particularly blues IMO.

One of the biggest issue I faced when I started playing whistle with a band was getting a decent microphone set up. I have now solved this problem with a clip on sax mic and a novel way of mounting the mic on the whistle. I can send you details/photos if you are interested?

All the best

Rev Dgh

Revdgh · Post by **Revdgh** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:22 am

Now that would be something......"Giant Steps" on tin whistle.....!!!

rubenroks12 · Post by **rubenroks12** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 8:51 am

Les Leiber immediately came to mind

he has clips floating around YouTube.
https://youtu.be/3vuKRiyXdxI

ytliek · Post by **ytliek** » Sat Oct 01, 2016 2:08 pm

Today is a jazz day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e3CpX9O1PE

Mikethebook · Post by **Mikethebook** » Sat Oct 01, 2016 2:45 pm

Check out https://vimeo.com/63243672 for blues on a low whistle. Awesome stuff.

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