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Joe Sample's piano solo! in F

 

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Nice. :thu:

 

Two completely different takes on the same song.

 

As anyone who has participated in the last two or three Richmond area meet ups knows, this has been my song of choice to play with the guys.

 

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I love Joe Sample but Sample's playing here is really too much. The song doesn't call for it. The first clip is more visceral.

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I do think the Zawinul cut needed a couple of percussive accents - one towards the beginning and another one at the end - with someone bitch slapping the annoying German broad who was jabbering over the music.

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On this live date, Kevin Eubanks is joined by pianist James Williams and bassist Robert Hurst playing "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy".

 

Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 700 of Harry’s piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and jazz piano tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas

 

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Interesting, I saw Joe play this song several months back at the Blue Note in NYC with a few original members of the Crusaders. They played it much more like the Zawinul version.

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I thought that Joe Sample's solo was excellent. What makes Joe Sample great is that he is so soulful and musical. Zawinul's solo seemed somewhat collegiate in comparison.

Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 700 of Harry’s piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and jazz piano tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas

 

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Surely you are joking?

Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 700 of Harry’s piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and jazz piano tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas

 

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I don't care for either version's solos. Mostly due to the original, which the club atmosphere with people egging on Joe to "get down," and that the Wurlizter is immortalized, IMO, as the piano of choice when playing that tune. Sample's version needed to use the form of the song. IMO, you shouldn't stray away the form. That's what gives the solo its quality, when you bring in sections.

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Surely you are joking?

 

Joe's whole approach to this song, both in the head melody and the solo, is defined by the use of "2 note with hammer ons". This is also definitional of the "Floyd Cramer" style of Country piano playing.

I'm making no other comparison other than to notice that it's amusing when two musicians so vastly apart in all a other respects, both use so similar a technique in this one case.

Not joking.

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Oh I see your pointy now, thanks.

Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 700 of Harry’s piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and jazz piano tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas

 

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I'm laughing my butt off, I thought the exact same thing Steve. Good grief he's playing this like Floyd Cramer. His Cannonball version solo is not quite so obvious.

 

Actually, I'm listening to this again and it's really in there isn't it? Quite a bit of Floydisms.

 

And I loved the Crusaders version.

 

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