We had a 5 piece group -guitar, drums, stand up>electric bass, ALTO sax, accordion>cordovox>Fender Rhodes- from the late 1950's to 1984 ... 26 years playing weddings/dinner dances/ private parties ... we played music from the '40's to pretty much whatever was being played on the radio AT THAT TIME, and we did it in 'our style' which we got complimented on all the time ... The 4 of us who remain (RIP Fred) talk about how we would NOT be able to do that today ... we were very fortunate to have played in a time that was GREAT for small bands/combos ...

I think that playing big band music IN a big band is different in that people see the size of the band and EXPECT the music to sound like the original ...

mirza ... I agree on the 'going out to listen to records' ... but that may be the 'creative musical gene' in us that has a conflict with that ... wink


Edited by tony mads usa (07/23/13 03:07 PM)
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