Jobim Tune

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I'm told that Desafinado translates as slightly out of tune.Probably because of all the flat fives and flat nines it has.Composed in 1959 by Antonio Carlos Jobim,who is my favorite latin jazz guy.This is my take on the old standard.

Desafinado
 
very nice-It's nice to hear a guitar doing something different for a change(for me anyway). Funny title-I see what he meant -some of the melody notes seem like a note too low or something-but of course they work against the chords-they're just surprising. Really excellent playing-great solo-you manage to play over the chords rather than just play scales-big difference. Tough for me to comment -this is really out of my genre-I wont even comment on the mix-you somehow managed to get a 6+ minute song down to a tiny file size and its still very listenable. Well done Sir!!

Strat


p.s. How bout a ventures cover?
 
Wow....Desifinado! What a pleasant surprise. I found the mix to be a bit bass heavy and lacks any "sparkle" Wait ... here's the solo........
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........hmmmmmmm...mm.m.....mmmmm....:D

Ok as I was saying....I think you need to bump up the high mids...about 3k or so. Very nice playing man.
 
Cool arrangement, superb playing...your comping alone held my attention for 6:53, not to mention the inventive lead lines.
And all this for 1.61 meg at very good quality.
Very interesting use of a Strat vibe as opposed to the standard jazz box.
Hat's off, Tom!

Mark
 
Wouldn't stream with WMP!
I really wanted to hear it too,darn!
 
Well,

you can certainly play the guitar thats for sure. Nice lead held by attention all the way though and builds nicely. If I was going to criticise I thought the backing guitar sound was little distorted and seemed to loose some of the colour of the chords, the bass was a bit too synth fretless sounding and IMO would have worked better with a more authentic sounding stand up bass sound. I'm not listening to this on particularly good system so some of these points may reflect the limitations of my system rather than your recording.
Overall very good
(PS I thought the ending was a bit abrupt)
 
relaxing

this is some nice stuff, certainly not me genre. but i dug it!!

peace

rick
 
A decent enough rendition, but sounds a little stiff. I thought the first go around with the melody could stand a "little" embellishment...as it just kinda lacked the swing feel and was just too "straight" to listen to. Even some Wes Mont. octaves, at least!!... For what you hear nowadays, I'd give it a B+......for what you'd hear walking down the halls of a decent music school (like Beserklee, for instance), you'll hear everyone and his brother wailing their hearts out, tradin' licks with alto saxes..etc. and I'd give it a C+

One of my favs too, btw. thanks for putting up something a tad different than the norm around here.
 
Hey, Tom.... great track! Just a bit bass heavy as was noted earlier but well done.

I was looking at doing Desafinado one of these days myself on tenor sax lead once I get my studio back up and running (I'm in the process of moving). Always did like Jobim.

Well done!
 
Thanks for all the good words and constructive criticism guys.
I made it and mixed it in about an hour's time,sight-reading the lead line from the New Real Book.A real weakness in my recordings is a lack of technical polish.I'm still more the musician than engineer.But with all you kind ginnea pigs (oops,I mean on-line critical collaborators...) helping me out I'll sure keep trying to get better at it.
Tim,once you get set back up give me a shout.Perhaps we could collaborate on something?
tomh888@hotmail.com
 
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