Thank you
@LiveeviL2000 for being on top of the scoreboarding, if not the Deluxe Apartment, in the Sky-iy-iy!
It's a big job and you are performing it magnificently, and I hope making some decent side money too.
The forum Summer Jazz Fest continues!
Taking the stage first was
@Sapient warming up the crowd and thinking outside the box yet again with "Oh Baby, Baby" a vocalization'd Jazz Side Hustle and lyrically, which said about as much as most jazz noodling on guitar does, maybe less. There was enthusiastic applause, even a couple of "Oh Yeah"s from the audience - Nicely mixed. Also enjoys a boost
in status to "Rocker" with that submit - actually I think
@Randy Van Malmsteen snuck over the line too recently
The
@Ku² kucabra brings his Northeast stylie urban Jazz hop, "Don't Make Me Jazz On You/I'm Gonna Jazz"
with doubled lines and a fair bit of what seemed like scale practicing, but overall a pleasantly melodic theme repeated, not much a hint of the implied sexiness of the title tho, and why does it seem to get slowly more introspective?.. then around
the three minute mark, even a bit dark towards the end? I guess that's the transition to the "I'm Gonna Jazz." Still wonderfully played and recorded, a lot of precise doubling work and mixing, but SUPER musical, and enjoyable.
I am so glad you are enjoying this, sir... RiffMasters was from day one about musical joy, and fostering creativity.
Both came, saw and Jazzed, for five solid points. And really, what's a proper Jazz Festival without something totally oddball, strange and off-format? Sometimes I look at summer jazz festival lineups and shake my head, what the hell? I guess they like to explore boundaries.
Announcing our Saturday Night Headliner:
Wierd Al Yankovic!!!
Speaking of weird...
@LiveeviL2000 served us a hot steamin' pile of the groovin' Jersey Funk with "Get the Funk Outta Here!" I imagined when listening it would be a far superior theme for most movie title sequences than what we get normally, particularly the kind of movies I like watching. Might be a pretty cool spy theme too. Really worked that wah hard, and the recording moves even beyond his already high standard. Makes me feel like swaggerin' down the street in platform shoes with a leopard print suit, a foxfur stole, silk cape and my crystal skull capped cane to check on my girls. Again, L2K never fails to surprise, proving yet again he is at least three times more creative than he is handsome.
Finally
@Aynirar27 brings us his reverb/tremolo-drenched vintage "Spy's Lament" Main Event #7 Spy Game theme, with cool harmonics work and a wonderfully moody, dark ambiance, until the end where it goes all hot tub musak for whatever reason? Leaves one
to consider what a spy might lament about, perhaps getting caught, losing a super cool gadget, or feeling guilt or something? Or perhaps the situation with 007 in Fleming's OHMSS chapter, where his new wife Contessa Teresa is taken out by Spectre's Blofield?
I think with that commendable submission,
Anyhoo has completed all possible challenges possible in this round, the first to do so.
Plenty of interesting work came in, still plenty of work to be done by others, and plenty of time to do it, about two weeks remaining
in Round 7. The way things are ramping up I am very sure I will not be residing in the Penthouse long, and feel I am really undeserving
to be in the top five actually... but I promise to get rid of all the rats and roaches
@Ku² and
@LiveeviL2000 encouraged to move in, and I'm sleeping on the floor because I'm pretty sure the mattresses need steam cleaning. Those two cats and myself are also within one challenge completed of reaching the next "Status" level past "Rocker"