Dave Horne

Thanks SK. I just finished listening to Dave Ferris playing Isfaham. I must confess to not knowing that tune. I could have played a big band arrangement of it, but if I did, I don't remember. Nice playing! I also listened to a Singer Unlimited type version of a Beatles's tune. I very impressed by the arrangement and the performance by the singers. If I hadn't known, I would have thought it another Gene Puerling arrangement. I played on a just tuned Steinway grand (a six footer I believe) last night for a private party. The job was a success - I was paid in cash.

You're right ... Liza. (I knew it didn't look right but it didn't register.) Fortunately no one will tell George. I have a private job tonight (wealthy person's home with a Steinway grand) where I get to play all those tunes that are out of fashion. Lucky me.

I'm really behind in listening ... and paying deserved compliments. I'll try to catch up. I'm spending less time here because of the ankle biters; it just gets too tiring defending stuff that really shouldn't have to be defended. I added a new mp3 to my site ... and dedicate it to those heavy metal\stainless steel players out there - you know who you are. The tune is Lisa and was composed by one of those restaurant composers - George Gershwin. If I have the time I'll redo it and add distorted guitars and also a singer screaming the beautiful lyrics. http://members.home.nl/davehorne/mp3/Liza.mp3

SK, thanks. I must confess I used those white boards to help. I had to knock out a wall to accommodate them but I think it was worth it.

I just added 's Wonderful, a great Gershwin tune. What I play is pretty much how I would play it in a restaurant - a gentle reharmonization, an easy to listen to jazz lite version; with a trio I would certainly expand the soloing. http://members.home.nl/davehorne/mp3/'sWonderful.mp3 I wrote earlier in this massive thread that I thought an anti-virus program was the culprit in adding noise to the files. I really don't think that was the case. I have a set of headphones with a loose connection and even though that was 'output' it might have added noise to the 'input'. If it wasn't that it was the cheap Ikea lamp I have on the piano. At any rate, I simply use different headphones and turn the offending light off. The problem seems to be solved. (I was surprised that an apostrophe was allowed in file naming.)

I mentioned this in the past and just added it to my site. I did this very quickly .... Just One Of Those Things http://members.home.nl/davehorne/mp3/JustOneOfThoseThings.mp3 It was just the idea of an approach and not the finished product per se.

I knew you'd be back, missed your playing. Also, thanks for the birthday greetings.

Dave, I own a CP300 and at first I wasn't thrilled with the sound of the piano in your recording. As I listened more it grew on me. The only real changes I've made (and I use Mellow Piano 1 on jobs) were to add more and richer reverb (Hall 2) and tweak the EQ. I do have to say the piano sounded like a piano - you could have told us it was an acoustic piano you miked and added room noise and I would have been fooled. I'm also not 100 perecent thrilled with my GranTouch and add more bass when I listen (not record) to my own playing. Your playing is great, thanks for starting out my day as well with it.

Linwwood, very nice! I kept seeing a love scene in a film and that was the music. SK, great playing, great tune. That tune sounds very familiar. I had an LP of Pete Jolly and I swear that tune was on it but the LP would have been from 1980 or earlier. I'll have to look up at tune and learn it. I'm working on 's Wonderful, a great Gershwin tune. It should be ready this week.

The versions of The More I See You I know were by Chris Montez and a classic B3 version by Richard Groove Holmes. I saw Richard Groove Holmes in a Philadelphia jazz club when I was in high school or college. His young kids were running around the club while he was working. He really was a great player.

OK, just for gangsu ... The More I See You ... and I included the verse. http://members.home.nl/davehorne/mp3/TheMoreISeeYou.mp3 This was the most frustrating recording I have ever done. I lost count of the number of takes - they were all marred by electronic noise. I think I solved that problem and disabled a brand new anti virus program I just installed on my wife's laptop. Once I disabled it, the random noise stopped. I really wanted to play an arrangement but simply settled for a play through. The only part that I would consider a reharm would be the bridge. I'll get around to redoing this sometime .... but not now. My mind is fried from trying to narrow down this problem.

Hardway, since I'm not really familiar with the original tune and since what you play seems to be rather basic, perhaps you could enlighten us as to what the reharmonizations actually were.

Tasteful. You play even bad well. Seriously, I'm working on The More I See You. I've got the changes down, now it's just a matter of how I want to play it. Peter the Swede mentioned block chords and I've always liked (loved actually) Shearing - that's an idea. I'll aim for next week. Slow weekend, only one job

I was looking for something on my computer and stumbled across this list. (A friend sent this to my old compuserve address.) 100 Reasons Why It's Good To Be a Guy (from MAXIM Magazine) 1. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. 2. Movie nudity is virtually always female. 3. You know stuff about tanks. 4. A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. 5. Monday Night Football. 6. You don't have to monitor your friends' sex lives. 7. Your bathroom lines are 80 percent shorter. 8. You can open all your own jars. 9. Old friends don't give a crap whether you've lost or gained weight. 10. Dry cleaners and hair cutters don't rob you blind. 11. When clicking through the channels, you don't have to stall at every shot of somebody crying. 12. Your ass is never a factor in job interviews. 13. All your orgasms are real. 14. A beer gut doesn't make you invisible to the opposite sex. 15. Guys in hockey masks don't attack you (unless you smash 'em into the boards). 16. You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go. 17. You understand why Stripes is funny. 18. You can go to the bathroom without a support group. 19. Your last name stays put. 20. You can leave the hotel bed unmade. 21. When your work is criticized, you don't have to panic that everyone secretly hates you. 22. You can kill your own food. 23. The garage is all yours. 24. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. 25. You see the humor in Terms of Endearment. 26. Nobody secretly wonders whether you swallow. 27. You never have to clean a toilet. 28. You can be showered and ready to go in 10 minutes. 29. Sex means never worrying about your reputation. 30. Wedding plans take care of themselves. 31. If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still be your friend. 32. Your underwear is $10 for a three pack. 33. The National College Cheerleading Championship. 34. You don't have to shave below the neck. 35. None of your coworkers has the power to make you cry. 36. You don't have to curl up next to a hairy ass every night. 37. If you're 34 and single, nobody even notices. 38. You can write your name in the snow. 39. You can get into a non-trivial pissing contest. 40. Everything on your face gets to stay its original color. 41. Chocolate is just another snack. 42. You can be president (in this lifetime). 43. You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger's seat. 44. Flowers fix everything. 45. You never have to worry about other people's feelings. 46. You get to think about sex 90 percent of your waking hours. 47. You can wear a white shirt to a water park. 48. Three pairs of shoes is more than enough. 49. You can eat a banana in a hardware store. 50. You can say anything ("Wow, do my balls hurt!") and not worry about what people will think. 51. Fore play is optional. 52. Michael Bolton doesn't live in your universe. 53. Nobody stops telling a good dirty joke when you walk into a room. 54. You can whip your shirt off on a hot day. 55. You don't have to clean your apartment if the meter reader's coming by. 56. You never feel compelled to stop a pal from getting laid. 57. Car mechanics tell you the truth. 58. You don't give a rat's ass if anyone notices your new haircut. 59. You can quietly watch a game with your buddy for hours without ever thinking He must be mad at me. 60. The world is your urinal. 61. You never misconstrue innocuous statements to mean your lover's about to leave you. 62. You get to jump up and slap stuff. 63. Hot wax never comes near your pubic area. 64. One mood, all the time! 65. You can admire Clint Eastwood without starving yourself to look like him. 66. You never have to drive on to another gas station because this one's just too skeevy. 67. You know at least 20 ways to open a beer bottle. 68. You can sit with your knees apart no matter what you're wearing. 69. Same work...more pay! 70. Gray hair and wrinkles only add character. 71. You don't have to leave the room to make an emergency crotch adjustment. 72. Wedding dress: $2000; tuxedo rental: $75. 73. You don't care if someone's talking about you behind your back. 74. With 400 million sperm per shot, you could double the Earth's population in 15 tries, at least in theory. 75. You don't mooch off others' deserts. 76. If you retain water, it's in a canteen. 77. The remote control is yours and yours alone. 78. People never glance at your chest when you're talking to them. 79. ESPN's SportsCenter. 80. You can drop by to see a friend without having to bring a little gift. 81. Bachelor parties whoop ass over bridal showers. 82. You have a normal and healthy relationship with your mother. 83. You can buy condoms without the shopkeeper imagining you naked. 84. You needn't pretend you're "Freshening up" to go to the bathroom. 85. If you don't call your buddy when you say you will, he won't tell your other friend that you've changed. 86. Someday you'll be a dirty old man. 87. You can rationalize any behavior with the handy phrase "Fuck it." 88. If another guy shows up at the party in the same outfit, you just might become lifelong buddies. 89. Princess Di's death was just another obituary. 90. The occasional well rendered belch is practically expected. 91. You never have to miss a sexual opportunity because you're not in the mood. 92. You think the idea of punting a small dog is funny. 93. If something mechanical doesn't work, you can bash it with a hammer or throw it across the room. 94. New shoes don't blister, cut, and mangle your feet. 95. Porn movies are designed with your mind in mind. 96. You don't have to remember everyone's birthdays and anniversaries. 97. Not liking a person doesn't preclude having great sex with them. 98. Your pals can be trusted never to trap you with "So... notice anything different?" 99. Baywatch. 100. There's always a game on somewhere.

.... was my name misspelled ? Wait a minute, there's a knocking at the door. Sorry, false alarm - click track.

Just to put all of this in perspective, SK wrote the following: .... to which I responded with ... You bring up an interesting point. Can I assume that we do not quantize or use a click track or anything else that could make recording easier? Is this an unwritten law in this thread? _________________________

Some of the links to my mp3's given here (on page 6) will not work. I just tidied up my web site and created an mp3 folder (instead of placing all these mp3's in the root directory). I went back and could only edit one of the posts here to reflect that change. My posts on page 6 (at least page 6 as seen from my computer) were too old, I'm guessing, to be edited. So, all my mp3 are now located at http://members.home.nl/davehorne/mp3.htm (which is the same link in my signature).

Wow, I ask a simple, rhetorical question, ... directed to no one ... or to every one, and it is interpreted as an ... attack? (I assume a larger than normal font size in a reply is indicative of .... something.) I thought it a simple, honest question. If I were to post something here that was in any way altered it would be so footnoted. (I thought it common knowledge that I play a GranTouch piano - a real grand action with a digital sample.) I find it somewhat disingenuous to record an absolutely fantastic file and then not mention the use of any aids. I don't record everything in one take - no one does. (And if anyone states they record every performance in one take they probably don't masturbate as well.) I find it offensive to either doctor the recording (editing via midi, for example, or using a click track) and then not mention it. It's not the use of an aid I find offensive per se, it's the lack of documentation of the that use. (Jesus H. Christ - is that an issue?) If you want to doctor your performance, do it ... just be honest and state it. This is not directed to anyone ... and for what it's worth, I hold myself up to the same standards; if I alter anything, I will so footnote it. At least Philippe Entremont footnotes his intentional corrections to his recordings. (This is from memory but I have a two CD set of Mozart piano sonatas, I believe, that were performed by PE. He used a midi grand piano and edited his playing to perfection.) While we can have differing opinions on that process, his honesty is on display for all to see. Regarding ... *improvising* your reharms, ... of course we all practice what we play, don't we? I know I do ... I know other piano players do because I hear the same or nearly the same 'improvisation' in person and on their CD. The more we practice improvisation, reharmonization ... any -ation, the better we become as performers. Now, to gangsu - you shame me into recording with the implication that I should put up or shut up, .... and I do exactly that .... and you're still on my case. (I did thank you personally for that as I recall.) Perhaps I should throw it back to you .............. or not. Back to the music .......

You bring up an interesting point. Can I assume that we do not quantize or use a click track or anything else that could make recording easier? Is this an unwritten law in this thread?

Peter, welcome! Like you I am also new to this thread. I did manage to guess the tune from your intro. Keep posting ... and as SK wrote, we hope to hear more. Also, tell us a little about yourself.

I just knocked off two more tunes - The Blue Room in a more classical setting and The Nearness of You. I first learned The Queerness of You when I was 17 or so working with older guys. (No, no, no ....) I was forced to learn their tunes and fortunately they had good taste. I shudder to think what changes I used 40 years ago. I'm really creating these ditties for my web site and am killing two birds by posting them here as well. Enjoy. http://members.home.nl/davehorne/mp3.htm

Great playing on Peace, Carlo! I have to confess not knowing that tune. I'll have to give that tune a look as I always enjoyed Horace Silver. My very first record copy was Song For My Father.

I'm working on The Nearness Of You by Hoagy Carmichael. I'll post that here in a few days. I have an idea for this thread - let's all take a simple, really stupid tune and see what we can do with it. (I don't why but The Doors just popped into my head.) I sometimes will do this just for fun. Another idea - let's give a classical treatment to a regular tune. I've worked up a few quasi arrangements of tunes and I'll eventually post them here. Later ....

I saw Tommy Flanagan perform in a small restaurant\club in NYC about 15 years ago. He played very well and for him I'm sure it was just another job. I remember thinking at that time, I couldn't play at the level he was playing, but I knew what he was playing. That made me feel good. (I can't listen to anything without trying to figure it out in my head.)