From: "Richard Weintrager" Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 09:13:02 PDT Subject: Nose Noise/Tone/Hunter's Tunes
Nose Noise/Tone/Hunter's Tunes
Just to add to the tone and airflow post I just made. Like many others I'm sure, I am both moved-by and pushed (as a player) by Richard's compositions and style, by his playing. Since first listening to the man's first act of being free a few years ago I've added some of Hunter's compositions to my playing repetoire. I've found at last a good amalgam of his style and mine (which in many ways are ENTIRELY different) but to do so I had to make sure I could play with a style and tightness and fulltone as close-to Richard's as possable. Taught me a lot about technique and things like airflow tightness. Had to learn that the hard-way, meaning by rtial and error and the keeping of the airs inside the instrument as much as possable allowed me to articulate with myown wonky way both my understanding of the tunes and a respect for his approach. Tunes like Winter Sun At Nobska, Hymn For Crow, Widow's Walk, Border Oscillations, Bela's World, and especially Blues for Charlie really required a discipline before feeling I could add them to what I play when playing publicly. I mean, these are brilliant compositions to begin with but their articulation his playing of them is of a quality that must be matched to do justice to what's so very fine in the compositions themselves. It's this way with any great composition, I hope we all feel this; a need to do justice to the tune as well as to ourselves and to the composer/player-initial.
Richard -
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