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From: Sue Morton on 20 Apr 2008 11:26
An even better key for Dan, and no wonder -- since he invented it :-)
--
Sue Morton

Organfreak wrote:
> Actually, it was written in the key of "indeterminate."


From: Michael on 20 Apr 2008 17:42
Bah.

Yma Sumac invented it. ;-)

Sue Morton wrote:

> An even better key for Dan, and no wonder -- since he invented it :-)
>
> Organfreak wrote:
>> Actually, it was written in the key of "indeterminate."


From: polymod on 21 Apr 2008 07:01

"Organfreak" <plonk(a)plinkety.plunk> wrote in message
news:o0qm04517bjruj82d9tese7pfp57godv9s(a)4ax.com...
> "Sue Morton" <867-5309(a)domain.invalid> blatted:
> >An even better key for Dan, and no wonder -- since he invented it :-)
>
> For keyboard players:
> It's funny-- Dan favors the most difficult keys, not because they are
hard, but
> because he likes the flavor of them. Keys like Bbm, B, F#m, Ebm, etc.
Different
> key signatures really do have different flavors, and because of the
slightly odd
> tuning scheme of the Hammond organ, which has to do with the mathematics
of gear
> ratios, the differences between keys are even more obvious on a Hammond.
>
> His playing sounds slightly primitive, until you realize that not only is
he
> playing in these tough keys, but that his technique is unique: the thumb
> beats-out the time while the other fingers do something else, and
sometimes the
> pinky does yet something else. His organ playing is more akin to drumming
than
> anything else. I've been playing jazz organ for forty years but I can't
come
> close to whataver the hell it is Dan is doing. It's patented!

I liken this to trumpet players trying to play like Louis Armstrong.
His phrasing was so unique, it was hard if not impossible to cop.
Every trumpet player I know says so. He was basically 'singing' his trumpet
parts.

Poly


From: gregor on 21 Apr 2008 09:30
polymod wrote:
> "Organfreak" <plonk(a)plinkety.plunk> wrote in message
> news:o0qm04517bjruj82d9tese7pfp57godv9s(a)4ax.com...
>> "Sue Morton" <867-5309(a)domain.invalid> blatted:
>>> An even better key for Dan, and no wonder -- since he invented it :-)
>> For keyboard players:
>> It's funny-- Dan favors the most difficult keys, not because they are
> hard, but
>> because he likes the flavor of them. Keys like Bbm, B, F#m, Ebm, etc.
> Different
>> key signatures really do have different flavors, and because of the
> slightly odd
>> tuning scheme of the Hammond organ, which has to do with the mathematics
> of gear
>> ratios, the differences between keys are even more obvious on a Hammond.
>>
>> His playing sounds slightly primitive, until you realize that not only is
> he
>> playing in these tough keys, but that his technique is unique: the thumb
>> beats-out the time while the other fingers do something else, and
> sometimes the
>> pinky does yet something else. His organ playing is more akin to drumming
> than
>> anything else. I've been playing jazz organ for forty years but I can't
> come
>> close to whataver the hell it is Dan is doing. It's patented!
>
> I liken this to trumpet players trying to play like Louis Armstrong.
> His phrasing was so unique, it was hard if not impossible to cop.
> Every trumpet player I know says so. He was basically 'singing' his trumpet
> parts.
>
> Poly
>
>


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