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    A.I. "Jazz"

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    20 hours ago, JoJoB3 said:

    80's!! 🤘

    (kind of thinking that old GM is still better than all the Ai I've heard).


    Speaking of GM, Passport produced a bunch of excellent GM midi files back in the day. Some of them got shipped with early versions of Windows and even garnered fans decades after those OSes were released.
     

    Early GM support and sonic performance were all over the place, but it paved the way for Roland's GS and Yamaha's XG formats to come.
     

    Roland hired a Japanese keyboard wiz duo "IDECS" in the early 90's to produce a series of excellent MIDI files for their SC-55 GS synth. It became a line of commercial MIDI packs they sell.
     

    Yamaha soon followed suit and commissioned several American and British musicians to produce a vast library of original demo tunes for their XG synths. Like Roland, they also sold lots of XG MIDI packs.
     

    To this day, these GS and XG MIDI files remain the best sounding MIDI productions I've heard.
     

     

     

     

    Dave Grusin channelling Richard Tee

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    On 3/1/2024 at 8:20 PM, jazzpiano88 said:

    Here is an interlude section between Gospel Midi Piano Blues on "Good Ol' Boys"  that is harmonically marvelous and shows Dave's (or his Brother's -- who knows which) rich mind for harmony:  

     

     

    In my GRP Fanatical years, I was in love with the Dave/Don Grusin Sticks and Stones recording.   I think some of it is slightly self-indulgent, and has a little bit of ageing issues, but I still love a lot of it.  To wit these are marvelous.  Dog Heaven has both Dave and Don channeling Richard Tee in the middle of Beautiful film noir composition.

     

     

     


    Excellent Brazilian Jazz and Bluesy Funk/Gospel!

    Don is a much under-appreciated master player. Here's a collaboration between him and Casiopea's Minoru Mukaiya from 10 years ago, this type of stuff is right up my alley:
     

     

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    A.I. "Jazz"

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    12 hours ago, JoJoB3 said:

    Oh. No no, first will be 'the great battle'.  Cameron was a prophet, Terminator is coming.
    In the meantime please enjoy some General MIDI music.

     

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    Judging by the term "General MIDI", I highly suspect you're one of them T-1000s who just got wormholed here from 1990.

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    A.I. "Jazz"

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    12 hours ago, ProfD said:

    Agreed.

     

    Especially for people incapable of producing tangible goods or services with their own hands.

     

    I'm inclined to believe America wants to move towards a society where very few people actually *work* in the truest sense of the word.

     

    A UBI will provide just enough income for people to pay for essentials without having to take up their guns.

     

    Otherwise, technology could force a labor revolution that inspires people to do real work. Fewer folks sitting in corner offices and twirling around in expensive chairs. 

     

    A visionary skilled person or entrepreneur will always be able to earn a living through a combination of labor and technology. 😎


    Yup, for now, I'd choose living within a self-sustaining "Intentional Community" over being a farm animal in those "15-minute cities", hooked on UBI and VR/Metaverse goodies.

    But I'm not delusional about how weak our species' will power is. The gaming industry has already been bigger than movie and music combined for a few years. And humans are only gonna get increasingly addicted as virtual experiences improve.

     

    Maybe all it takes for me to give in, is a VR trip to VR Caribbean with a VR girlfriend, on my VR yacht. 😆

    A.I. "Jazz"

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    10 hours ago, CHarrell said:

    ...like the recent WGA and actor's guild movements, it seems that now would be a very opportune time to revisit and update those kinds of protections


    This reminds me of another prediction I made back in 2015: Universal Basic Income (UBI).

    It's inevitable that we as a species will become economically "useless", facing challenges from A.I. and robots.

    Oppressive regimes like North Korea can simply "solve the problem" by starving their "excess" population to death. Luckily, we own guns here, and the AI/Robot corporations and their government cronies will have to throw us a bone reluctantly.

    Eventually, we'll exist as code and merge with A.I. Let's just keep our fingers crossed SKYNET doesn't wipe us out before then. 😃

    Rick Beato goes mainstream

    in Craig Anderton's Sound, Studio, and Stage

    Posted

    20 hours ago, mrk7421 said:

    Its good to know now that I am not the only one who has a less than favorable impression of Rick.So rather than go on about what I think Invite you to watch Rick's video ...."How to play guitar like Joe Pass".....which is obviously not going to happen in one easy lesson.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

    Just scroll in at about 5 minutes or so and you tell me if you think very many people are going to stick around to make sense of this. Rick whips through a bunch of chord sequences at nearly top speed.....but does not stick to a logical sequence or anything like that......he just shows off some of what he knows about jazz guitar chords. I am not even sure that these are things that Joe played..Its like trying to put back the pieces of broken glass..... And we are just supposed to "know" what chords he is playing.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Sadly there is just too much of this approach in our schools and universities. After seeing this I wouldn't go near a Beato book or another video of similar demonstration.The reason I speak out about it is ...Rick's many videos  pop up way too much as I search YouTube.It is starting too look too much like a monopoly.    Why would a well known musician agree to an interview after  already doing one with Rick? It's just becoming overkill.

     


    Exactly, I've watched some of his music theory videos and found them to be utterly useless. Just regurgitation of dry text you can easily find online, with little empathy or thought put into them.

    And there were poor souls in the comment sections saying those were way better explanations than what they received in school. Really makes you wonder just how terrible their teachers were, or how bad their YT search skills are.

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    Dave Grusin channelling Richard Tee

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    Was listening to some YT playlist and heard this juicy piano "pumping" (starting from 3:58 below) that I assumed was done by Richard Tee.
     

    Turns out it was Dave Grusin.
     

    This is a side of his playing I'm not familiar with, is there any style Sensei Grusin doesn't play well?
     

     

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    Brad Mehldau

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    8 hours ago, jazzpiano88 said:

    This is really great!  (I skipped much of the intro, which is also nice but I really like the tune).

     

     


    I had the pleasure of hearing the backing track of Tony Bennett and Faith Hill's version of "The Way You Look Tonight" on a wedding a long while ago.
     

    I was lucky. Both of Tony and Faith are great singers for sure, but in the original recording, their voices were a total distraction from Jorge Calandrelli's beautiful arrangement. It was traditional, effective and elegant.
     

    Here's a snippet of a decent transcription of Jorge's work:
    https://www.karaoke-version.com/karaoke/tony-bennett/the-way-you-look-tonight-duet.html

    Brad Mehldau

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    11 hours ago, CyberGene said:

    I actually like the studio version from his album and I initially posted it in my reply above but edited it later to replace it with a live version that is however a bit boring indeed. Here’s the studio version with sheet music:

     

     

    If you still ask me what I love about it. Well, everything 😀 I love that it’s in odd meter, it’s kinda polyphonic, almost baroque-like, I like the (sometimes implied) harmonic progression, the left hand ostinati, his staccato accents. It just melts me and is so much different than anything else. I also experienced a jazz burnout 10 years ago and I couldn’t bear listening to jazz ever since. I occasionally enjoy analyzing chords and stuff but that’s rather an inertia. Jazz and jazz related music doesn’t bring me pleasure anymore. And that Mehldau composition is closer to classical music (classical music is my all time love, it’s the alpha and omega of my music tastes since it’s what hooked me to music as a kid and stronger as ever, as an adult). That’s why it still brings me an enormous musical satisfaction. But it’s OK if you don’t like it, we’re all different 😀 I see that we share almost the same fascination with harmony and music styles. Maybe the difference is I overate too much and seriously burnt out myself in the process😕 

     

    That’s funny. It was the other day that I argued with some other guy on my forum about how I never liked the Köln Concert since it always sounded to me like a non-jazz pianist trying to imitate jazz 😀 Here it is:

    https://pianoclack.com/forum/d/1322-brad-mehldau-interview/40


    Thanks for the thorough reply, brother.

    I too, preferred the studio version you shared. The first minute and half is quite enjoyable. Afterwards it became too "mechanical" for my rustic ears, as do most Baroque pieces.

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    A.I. "Jazz"

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    jazzpiano88 and ReezeKeys both know what's up.
     

    Back in 2015, the copywriters and graphic designers around me had very similar responses to the self-assured brothers above, when I told them it's just a matter of time Deep Learning is gonna replace them professionally.
     

    "A.I. will 'NEVER' challenge our creativity." is what they said.
     

    It only took 8 years for Large Language Models and Generative AI to seriously threaten their revenue streams. 😃

    Rick Beato goes mainstream

    in Craig Anderton's Sound, Studio, and Stage

    Posted

    4 hours ago, HammondDave said:

     

    I really do not wish to go into details about this technology. Let's just say that it takes VERY little effort for the user to create the "Perfect AI Girlfriend".  In fact, many psychologists are saying that this technology will seriously affect young men and women's abilities to have meaningful relationships with real people.  Enough said... back to Beato. 


    We are all just atoms optimizing for the continuation of our genetic code. What we call "love", "lust", "care", "fairness"...etc, are all just result of that process.
     

    And that optimization often goes absurd places when the "signals" and the "substance" have long de-coupled.
     

    This story about beetles obsessing over beer bottles serves as a perfect reminder:
    https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/the-love-that-dared-not-speak-its-name-of-a-beetle-for-a-beer-bottle

    Rick Beato goes mainstream

    in Craig Anderton's Sound, Studio, and Stage

    Posted

    While Beato's interviews are enjoyable, I never found him a great "educator". Scrolling 10 pages through his YT videos, I don't see a single title hinting at anything "educational" that interests me.

    I'm not being difficult, a short video from Matt Johnson often makes my day.
     

    And my reaction to vast majority of Beato's "What Makes This Song Great" series has been a consistent "Who T F Said It's Great?"

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    OT - What are you listening to right now?

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    17 hours ago, jerrythek said:

    I love Dave G - always nice to hear an arranger who is a strong player. Tunes aren't just an excuse to blow, they put real thought into crafting an arrangement/setting for their playing. Bob James is the same, although he is usually doing that in a small group/trio setting these days. Here's a few examples from him:

     


    Speaking of arranging, there has been a trend of moving from the "Poppier" arrangements of the 80's/90's to a more acoustic sound. This happened to Bob James, David Benoit, Russell Ferrante and many others.
     

    While there's nothing wrong with a simpler setup, my ears get bored after a while. It's like stripping away the seasoning from a prime rib.
     

    Nostalgia perhaps, but the original version of Restoration is more enjoyable for me personally.
     

     

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