Jazz/Blues Whistle
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Jazz/Blues Whistle
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?
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?
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
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
Best wishes.
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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.
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
educciman still posts here, there were some postings about his ongoing research into creating a whistlehead/flute chimera, not so long ago.
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
I was expecting John Coltrane to appear.
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
Coltrane doesn't show until well into the new year....
Best wishes.
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
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
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
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
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
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
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
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..
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
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
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
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
Now that would be something......"Giant Steps" on tin whistle.....!!!
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
Les Leiber immediately came to mind he has clips floating around YouTube.
https://youtu.be/3vuKRiyXdxI
https://youtu.be/3vuKRiyXdxI
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Re: Jazz/Blues Whistle
Check out https://vimeo.com/63243672 for blues on a low whistle. Awesome stuff.