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Marta Altesa is a very young woman from Barcelona.
She of course is not a new Victor Wooten. But criminy, I get so entranced with what her left hand is doing that I have to tear myself away to watch her right hand!
I'd like to think that the run-up is unfeigned and natural--she looks a little antsy, nodding along with the headphone track, and she has to wipe her left hand on her pants leg.
She looks like she is pulling herself together with some effort, and then a nervous gesture becomes her pulling a downward gliss. out of nowhere, and then she is off and running.
Yowzers.
And for all of those who think that I spend my life waiting for the butler to bring me a fresh Martini as I evaluate string quartets, let me let you in on a secret: Jamiroquai is a "guilty pleasure" of mine, of many years' standing. Cuz, ya know, ya never know when you will have to convince the girl that this boogie is for real.
What has me totally won over is first of all, Marta's great left-hand technique--lightning fast grace notes on her second finger, whew; and the fact that she is, to my ears, usually a bit ahead of the beat--the recording is not pulling her, she is pushing it.
And also that she is not an actress; she is a bass player. God bless her.
Oh, yeah. Those lips, those eyes. I wish her a long and happy life.
ATB,
jm
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She is good and even better to look at.....
My colleague Jack Baruth has already claimed her as his Future Ex-Wife #2, right after Este Haïm.jm
Edits: 01/14/15
I'm walking away, very slowly. No one needs to get hurt....
jm
Laughing...my kind of gal...
Even less impressed with sports fans of the same.
Who cares?
As I've posted previously, there are millions of others doing exactly the same thing. All around the world; add them all up, and the number of electric guitar/bass, synthesizer players, and pounders ["drummers"] must number in the sheer millions. If almost everyone can do it, how hard can it be?
Now, finding someone with Elman's tone and Heifetz's clarity - that's something.
Back to the alcoholic beverages for you.
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"We are all in God's hands... and God is a malign thug."
-Mark Twain
NT
I saw a whole bunch of snobs at the supermarket, demanding actual fresh food for their money. What a bunch of snobs! One lady said she wanted fresh meat, not stuff that was several weeks old and decaying. What a snob!
And then all of those snobs who go to buy a car and expect it to be free of defects? What a pile of stupid snobs. I say, be glad that they even give you the keys to the thing. If the ignition doesn't even start, don't be a....snob.
Or, those traitor snobs who actually demand that surgeons perform medical procedures on the correct internal organ or limb. Give me break! What a pile of snobs. If the doctors remove the wrong leg, or sew you up with a scalpel inside of you, so what? Don't be snob!
What's with all these disparagements from guys that failed Third Grade Flutaphone?
Let's you and I meet tomorrow at Sam Goodys; you'll show me how easy it can be to pick up a Stratocaster or Bassman and play.
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Aren't you the cheerful one!
I actually thought that Elman (and also Francescatti) was a bit too honeyed in the tone department, and I even rather like Szigeti's tone, but all that is de gustibus... .
So here is my continuing favorite Barber slow movement:
Can't beat it with a stick, I say.
And, by the way, Mr. Sourpuss, Ms. Altesa is really playing that instrument. It's not a drum machine... . I bet she could acquit herself on a standup acoustical jazz bass... . Would that make you less grumpy?
jm
Let's not be too hard on Elman. Here's a guy born to a poor family, not only without money, but without connections or any musical background, and parents who were very skeptical at first about his ambitions to become a violinist. He wasn't even tall or handsome. (Though not ugly either, in his young days.) And he quickly became the world's leading violinist, until Heifetz came along.
Contrast with Heifetz: Also born to a poor family, but with a professional violinist father who devoted his life to turning his son into a great violinist, starting at the age of three.
Contrast with Milstein: Born to a well-off family, son of a successful fabric importer who could afford to get his children a Swiss governess who taught them French and German, and happened to live down the street from one of history's greatest violin teachers, who also taught Oistrakh and Josef Roisman and many other great violinists as young children.
"The conductor George Szell once told Isaac Stern that if he spent less time doing other things and more time practicing he could be "the greatest violinist in the world." Since those "other things" included saving Carnegie Hall from the wrecker's ball, generously sponsoring young artists like Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman, and touring the world as an ambassador of American classical performance, music lovers can only be grateful that Stern settled for being one of the world's great violinists."
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Even those who despised him had to admit he worked tirelessly, even obsessively, behind the scenes for things and people he believed in (including himself). That may have been a distraction detrimental to his violin playing, but it's a major part of who he was.
Sweet Babe- JM!
Perhaps playing a viola da gamba tuned to A = 415... .
But fetching nonetheless.
jm
She's good, but she's not even coming close yet to the supremely talented young bassist, Tal Wilkenfeld. What a solo!
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
Edits: 01/08/15
When she can play an upright acoustic 5 string bass (unfretted) then I
might be impressed.
I'm sure you meant to add: when she can play as well as you do?
You do play, right?
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jm
If you offered a drink every time a poser posed around here, the bar tab would quickly get out of hand, but thanks.
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this is what the real bass playing is supposed to be for Jamiroquai.
Yep- love Jamiroquai!
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