#433203 - 06/20/1703:43 PMRe: What is your "modus operandi" when performing?
[Re: cgiles]
tony mads usa
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Originally Posted By cgiles
The benefit was that the all the tunes well known, well rehearsed, and well liked, by the musicians performing them. chas
chas ... you made me think back to 1978 when I saw the Phil Woods Quartet at a hotel in NYC ... we had a table right in front of the bandstand and on a break Phil came down and spoke with us ... I had an album he recorded in 1976 that had the Janis Ian song "At Seventeen" on it - after hearing his version, our band used to play it during wedding cocktail hours - so I asked if they could play it ... his response was "We don't have it in our book", and I realized that as simple as the song is, he was not going to play anything the group did not have down perfectly ...