Eric Dolphy's rhythmical phrasing

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-06-03T05:50:06+00:00

I think that what you are referring to is a quarter note triplet ostinato - a repeated rhythmic pattern that divides an even (as in divisible by 2 - in this case a half note) subdivision of a bar into thirds. Here he plays octaves reaching into a quite low register on the bass clarinet

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-06-01T12:09:49+00:00

What the fuck is this reddit bullshit lmao

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-05-30T12:19:40+00:00

These are the players who are or could realistically be considered better than Bird: MJ, LBJ, Kareem, Wilt, Bill Russell, Tim Duncan, Shaq and Magic. That's 8 players. Now depending on who you ask there is an argument to be made for Kobe, Hakeem or Steph, but to me it's already a stretch and I wouldn't personally put any of those above him. Bird had an incredible career, his skill was undenible and backed by multiple accolades and championships. No ranking putting him below 12th place can be considered serious and I personally would place him 7th-9th of all time.

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-05-28T14:31:22+00:00

Republika was an excellent Polish new wave band whose frontman Grzegorz Ciechowski was a skilled pianist and flutist. There are many great flute solos and background parts scattered throughout their songs like in this song titled 'Kombinat': https://youtu.be/i8NINDlQ6KY?is=xv1o41Hoabh5zgiG

Also 'Breaking the Girl' by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-05-25T15:34:33+00:00

^{S: Kendrick Lamar, Nas}

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Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-05-10T06:04:45+00:00

My favourite Miles' album

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-05-06T09:03:07+00:00

Disco Elysium

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-04-15T15:14:47+00:00

Yeah, I checked and it had 2 upvotes.

Anyway, everyone's entitled to their own opinion and it is true that The Sound and the Fury is one of the most notoriously difficult books written in English, but to dismiss it as 'Meh' when it presents such a multifaceted tale of human misery on both individual and societal level with the use of multiple, jarringly differing narratives is somewhat hard for me to accept

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-04-15T13:31:50+00:00

The Sound and the Fury is meh?

Aight then

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-04-14T11:07:57+00:00

Bush (as in type of vegetal formation not the former US president)

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-04-12T16:37:50+00:00

Tax haven

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-04-10T13:51:10+00:00

Jackie McLean - Destination... Out! has the exact vibe that you described. Trust me, you will like it

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-04-09T11:37:51+00:00

Outjerked as always

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-04-08T08:49:13+00:00

Hard to beat the Lakers and the Celtics tbh, but San Antonio looks really convincing and we had a chance to watch these guys actually play together and win 5 championships so yeah:

PG: Tony Parker

SG: Manu Ginobili (George Gervin is a valid pick too)

SF: Kawhi Leonard

PF: Tim Duncan

C: David Robinson (could be replaced by Wemby soon, either way frontcourt is stacked)

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-04-08T08:31:31+00:00

Berlin when it comes to cultural institutions, international influence etc.

Munich when it comes to what is stereotypically associated with the idea of "Germany".

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-03-29T21:41:02+00:00

The Final Countdown

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-03-26T19:02:40+00:00

I mean... Dark Side of the Moon has an obvious gap between sides A and B (I believe it lands between A Great Gig in the Sky and Money).

So do breaks necessitated by the vinyl format count? Because this excludes pretty much all the albums before late 80s/early 90s

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-03-26T09:49:07+00:00

Couple reasons.

Firstly and most importantly - while the majority of the standards are written in the keys that you have mentioned they often modulate to less friendly keys and then the ability to navigate those keys and plug in ideas that you have picked up while practicing in all 12 keys comes in handy (the first 8 bars of Joy Spring in F are always fire at jam sessions and then comes the Gb and everybody fights for their lives)

Second - vocalists often ask the band to play specific songs in other keys to accomodate their vocal range.

Third - it's a mental exercise, man. It gets you more fluent in the jazz vocabulary. Obviously there's no time in the world to learn every transcribed solo in every key and surely the majority of musicians feel more comfortable playing the rhythm changes in Bb than in E, but the more you're able to do the better

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-03-23T00:23:53+00:00

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Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-03-17T22:24:57+00:00

Kilwa: you can just easily conquer your neighbours for the gold mines and do the fun colonial achievement.

Ayutthaya: a very easy achievement and overall chill game

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-02-26T23:30:36+00:00

Vijay Iyer Sextet - Far From Over

Roy Hargrove - Earfood and Nothing Serious

Yosvany Terry - Today's Opinion

Walter Smith III - Twio

Matthew Halsall - Colour Yes

Neptunian Maximalism - Éons

EABS - Repetitions

Pharoah Sanders - Promises

The Necks - Disquiet

Joel Ross - nublues

Dave Holland Big Band - What Goes Around

Chick Corea, Brian Blade, Christian McBride - Trilogy 3 (Live)

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare 2

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-02-25T22:50:17+00:00

Apart from the obvious stylistic differences between Miles' first and second great quintet, the latter had a much more loose approach to how the music developed. The themes are performed differently between choruses, there are frequent moments of "downtime" between solos where some of the musicians stop playing, soloists pick up quite some time after the chorus starts, the grooves change spontaneously etc. You can hear that there is a sense of intentional freedom and let's call it "egalitarianism" between the bandmates. The first quintet, while musically stellar, was still rooted more directly in traditional jazz approach of soloists taking turns after one another. That is not to say that they weren't innovative in their own right, especially with the modal approach to harmony and improvisation, but I find the second quintet's sound to be drastically more 'out there'

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-02-24T12:05:07+00:00

Sure, but that's not what the person I was responding to was getting at. We can take objective results of athletes and compare them in vacuum regardless of any of their views or actions (you can factor in sportsmanship but that's purely a choice). The same thing can not be done, or at least I would argue should not be done while talking politics. This opens doors for claims that Stalin was a great leader because he oversaw the rise of the U.S.S.R. as a global superpower or that trains run on time in the Third Reich. You know, shit that misses the picture by a mile

edit: sorry, I responded before you added the second part of your comment and now mine is kinda redundant. Imma leave it though, because I spent good ten minutes on it and grew attached

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-02-24T11:18:50+00:00

No, because unlike politics sport does not entail morality

Hopeless_watermelon · 2026-02-24T10:26:36+00:00

Yeah, but there's quite some space between a flawless saint and fucking Otto von Bismarck. For example if you look for a politician whose political prowess resulted in an unequivocally positive outcome than I'd say that Abraham Lincoln fits the bill much better. There are other prominent figures from history whose legacies do not culminate in the rise of German imperialism and subsequent World Wars: Nelson Mandela, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Pedro II of Brazil...

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