bright size life
John Rixon
actually mean, if anything? It appears to just be three pretty much
unrelated words.
Also, in the Real Book, why are Unity Village and Missouri Uncompromised
titled as Exercise 6 and Exercise 3?
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Metheny wrote several tunes from this record as exercises for his
Berklee students and retitled them for the record. The title cut was an
exercise in intervallic leaps, if I remember right. I doubt the title
phrase has any special meaning.
Pat Buzby
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Tom Pohorsky
>Hopefully not a stupid question: what does the phrase "bright size life"
>actually mean, if anything? It appears to just be three pretty much
>unrelated words.
>
>Also, in the Real Book, why are Unity Village and Missouri Uncompromised
>titled as Exercise 6 and Exercise 3?
I dont' know either of these, but note that Pat Metheny has just released
his own songbook, maybe there's some info in there.
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Dennis J. Kosterman
>Hopefully not a stupid question: what does the phrase "bright size life"
>actually mean, if anything? It appears to just be three pretty much
>unrelated words.
In my dictionary, under "bright size life," it says "best damn record
Metheny's ever made." Other than that, I have no idea what it means.
Dennis J. Kosterman
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Matt Snyder
>Hopefully not a stupid question: what does the phrase "bright size life"
>actually mean, if anything? It appears to just be three pretty much
>unrelated words.
They're kind of poetic, I think. Some of Metheny's titles over the
years have been a bit too sentimental for me, but others like this
one, "Song For Bilbao" and "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls"
can be by turns heartfelt, hilarious, or senseless.
>
>Also, in the Real Book, why are Unity Village and Missouri Uncompromised
>titled as Exercise 6 and Exercise 3?
Berklee guys are the ones who wrote the original Realbook in the early
1970's, and I've always assumed that since Metheny was there at that
time the writers knew him and maybe learned these tunes in lessons
before he recorded his first record as a leader and named them. He
has never named tunes until he had to provide a title for a recording.
But I could well be very wrong.
Matt Snyder
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John Rixon
: Berklee guys are the ones who wrote the original Realbook
Do we know who these guys were? ie, anyone famous?
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Thomas F Brown
>Matt Snyder <msn...@NOSPAMdragonfire.net> wrote:
>
> : Berklee guys are the ones who wrote the original Realbook
>
>Do we know who these guys were? ie, anyone famous?
One was a sax player currently in Portland OR name of Joe Sorce.
Ask him about it.
pbu...@surfnetcorp.com
msn...@NOSPAMdragonfire.net wrote:
> They're kind of poetic, I think. Some of Metheny's titles over the
> years have been a bit too sentimental for me, but others like this
> one, "Song For Bilbao" and "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls"
> can be by turns heartfelt, hilarious, or senseless.
FYI, Metheny's songbook says that Steve Swallow came up with the
title "As Falls Wichita.."
Sean Andrews
what they did for the real book, as it's generally considered
illegal, right?
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Sean Andrews <srandrew...@juno.com.invalid> wrote:
>I doubt these guys would be very interested in talking about
>what they did for the real book, as it's generally considered
>illegal, right?
Illegal in the sense that driving 56 mph on the freeway is illegal.
The people who compiled the book were students who collected the
lead sheets they had acquired at school and put them together,
mostly for the use of other students in the school. It wasn't
begun as a criminal conspiracy to defraud composers of their
copyright. Photocopying machines were a brand new cutting edge
technology back then. The school I was in at that time was
still using mimeographs. Only in retrospect can we say
that there might have been a better way for this thing
to evolve.
james...@my-deja.com
"bright size life" but I do know that "Unity Village" and "Missouri
Uncompromised" were originally just exercises that evolved into songs,
thus the names "Exercise 6" and "Exercise 3".
later,
james
In article <8mmsek$ikj$1...@slb6.atl.mindspring.net>,
to...@netcom.com (Tom Pohorsky) wrote:
> In article <8mma82$p5j$1...@news.ox.ac.uk>, John Rixon <jo...@areti.com>
wrote:
> >Hopefully not a stupid question: what does the phrase "bright size
life"
> >actually mean, if anything? It appears to just be three pretty much
> >unrelated words.
> >
> >Also, in the Real Book, why are Unity Village and Missouri
Uncompromised
> >titled as Exercise 6 and Exercise 3?
>
> I dont' know either of these, but note that Pat Metheny has just
released
> his own songbook, maybe there's some info in there.
> --
> - Tom Pohorsky tomp at Netcom dot com
>
kens...@gmail.com
> Hopefully not a stupid question: what does the phrase "bright size life"
> actually mean, if anything? It appears to just be three pretty much
> unrelated words.
>
> Also, in the Real Book, why are Unity Village and Missouri Uncompromised
> titled as Exercise 6 and Exercise 3?
>
> John Rixon
> jo...@areti.com
steve swallow