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Author: Michael Kincaid
Date: 2000-06-03 14:11
Buddy DeFranco is interviewed in the June 2000 issue of DOWNBEAT magazine. I couldn't find the interview on-line, but I was wondering if anyone had read it and could tell me what Mr. DeFranco means by "unedited" when he refers to some of the jazz greats. For instance, he says "Bird was the first almost completely unedited modern jazz player; he had a great embouchure and perfect fingers." He says this about a few other people also. Maybe this is jazz lingo that I'm just unfamiliar with. Michael
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-06-03 20:08
Michael, I'll give you my "guesswork" re: edit and un edit. It may be in the recording-publishing context of documenting ad lib solo performances of the greats, like Bird, who may never have played it the same twice. I've heard some mighty-fine "take-offs" up close and personal[2-3 ft away] that never were on their recordings. Don
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Author: MikeH
Date: 2000-06-06 03:44
I think that Buddy DeFranco is referring to the fact that most jazz soloists in the early days over time worked up "set" solos on particular tunes by gradually settling on a given set of licks (ie "editing" their solos over time) so that on a given tune they pretty much always played the same solo after they had "edited" it. Working up a set solo on a given tune was fairly standard practice in the early days of jazz but became unacceptable and frowned upon wuth the development of be bop. It seems to me that Don Berger in the post above interprets DeFranco's comments in much the same way.
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