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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-01-25 04:22
Miff Mole could really play the trombone. I have seen some of his solos in bass clef. Could someone give me an "idiot's version" on how I can convert this to "G-clef" and play these solos on Bb clarinet? Oh, to be able to play like Miff Mole......
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Author: Peter
Date: 2003-01-25 05:07
Miff Mole and his Little Molers (1927 to 1930) was a pseudonym used by Red Nichols Five Pennies when they recorded for the Okeh record lable.
Miff and Red were one of the most prolific recording teams in the history of jazz and their style became known as the "New York School of Chamber Jazz."
I have their history, discography, the biography of 12 of the musician's who played with them and the names of the rest (I'm still hunting down the rest of the biographies. (Music 1 is an ongoing, lifelong enterprise!)
Some of the musician's who played with Miff and Red, at different times, were:
Eddie Condon, banjo; Jimmy Dorsey, clarinet and alto sax; Stan King, drums; Carl Kress, guitar; Gene Krupa, drums; Eddie Lang, guitar; Phil Napoleon, trumpet; Adrian Rollini, bass saxophone; Joe Sullivan, piano; and Frank Teschemacher, clarinet.
They had a very interesting band, to say the least.
I think I have about 30 pieces of their music in Music 1, including: After You're Gone, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Crazy Rhythm, Original Dixieland One-Step, Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble, Darktown Strutter's Ball, Windy City Stomp and You Made Me Love You.
Nice sound. Most serious bone players I know have a lot of respect for Miff Mole, especially the jazz players.
There are a couple of programs that can be a tremendous help with transposing. Noteworthy and Sibelius, for instance. The other suggestion I have for you, is to get a copy of Michael Miller's 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory" and learn to transpose. You can find it at Amazon.com.
I have used his book to bone up on long forgotten subjects and to very good advantage.
Not only that for many (and I mean,) many years, I gave up sheet music and just played anything I wanted to learn by ear, which gave me a lot of freedom to improvise and do as I pleased and turned me nearly illiterate in the theory department; but I originally completed all my music training with European tutors imported by my parents and did some summer sessions in European schools.
The consequence of this is that the number and letter nomenclature, plus some of the terminology used in the U.S. has often escaped me, so his book has helped me a lot. In U.S. school bands, I always had to work hard at understanding certain things. (I still have to count C,D,E on one hand while counting do, re, mi on the other!)
Hope that helps you some.
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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-01-25 13:07
I'd suggest to anyone the fascinating book "Lost Chords" that covers alot of this material.
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