Of courseā¦ funny memory from meā¦ Stomping at the Savoy by Chick Webb was one of the audio identification questions on a test in my history of jazz class at UVa. Our instructor said only a few people got the question right when we reviewed the exam the next week! Haha!\
My sonās are currently both in love with swing and new age improvisationā¦ theyāve been playing classic Christmas songs using swing and a lot of ornamentals throughout.
One of my favorite jazz songs is Song for my Father due to the South American influence from the Horace Silver quintetā¦ played this with a few of my friends at a concert in HSā¦ we did not sound this good though.
I was just preparing to type āJoao Gilbertoā when you posted this. Of course, I just pulled a CD off the shelf to find the answer. Google didnāt occur to me. I guess that makes me an old fart!
Who did you have for thatāwe are many years apart but my professor was a young guy back in '82. I loved that classāour ātextbookā was the Smithsonian Collection. I wore those albums out!
Scott DeVeauxā¦ i asked him to be my thesis advisor because my thesis was using MIDI. He declined telling me he knew nothing about computers or computer science. fantastic jazz pianist however.
Ended up having to convince Thomas Hutchinson in the Systems Engineering department to be my advisor even though he knew nothing about MIDI.
fantastic jazz pianist however.