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MP3 Matt Weiner & Del Rey - At the Ukeshack#1
13 MP3 Songs in this album (49:43) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Weird Jazz, BLUES: Acoustic Blues
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Del Rey and Matt Weiner at the UkeShack #1
The Ukeshack is an imaginary place, a luau at the woodshed, a musical cookout, a clubhouse where practice ain''t nothin'' but a party, where the old geezers are whittling a tune, whistling dixie, whetting their mettle, wetting their whistle. Pottering.
Matt Weiner and Del Rey have been spending a lot of their free time in the Ukeshack. It started out when Mike Bristow, known by his super-hero name of Pop Icon Boy or Mr. P.I.B., came by the Ukeshack looking for bass and uke back-up for recording his Sunshine Pop inspired arrangements of songs like Petsounds. Matt''s band The Blue Four Trio had been recording at a cool studio, Jack Straw, which has programs supporting original music projects. Matt wrote a proposal to the excellent people at Jack Straw, suggesting an album of original uke and bass duets, which he proceeded to sit down and write when they said "yes".
Matt has been coming up with interesting ideas since he and Del worked in a four piece jazz band called The Yes Yes Boys. Ideas like playing all Kid Ory''s trombone lines on bowed bass. Arranging Ellington bass sax parts for bowed bass. Here are four old tunes plus eight new Matt Weiner originals.
The arrangements were generated like this: Matt wrote the tunes, then gave Del lead sheets and MIDI files. Definately NOT her normal way to learn a song-she has always worked from old arrangements that already had a spirit and character, which then gets translated to a different instrument. This was more like building a house from scratch-harder! Once she figured a musical way to play the song on uke, she and Matt worked out an arrangement together.
Del uses a few different ukuleles here: a Ron Phillips resonator concert on Gus The Dog, Mildred Shuffle, Clockin'' The Vic and Pixie Trance and a Ron Phillips tenor on Genuine Besmo. Ron''s wonderful instruments are at https://www.tradebit.com. A Todaro 6-string charango uke is on Brazilian Tune. The rest of the songs are played on a mid-70s Kamaka 8-string Taro Patch.
On Cousin Willy, the other ukes are David Keenan on banjo uke, Michael Bristow plays a concert and Casey MacGill his well-worn Kamaka liliu.
Recorded and mixed by Doug Haire at Jackstraw Productions, Seattle, on various Mondays in 2006
Mastered by Barry Corliss, Masterworks, Seattle
Made possible by the Jackstraw Artist Support Program, https://www.tradebit.com
All songs by Matt Weiner, Sylvia Rose Music, BMI, except where noted. Arrangements Matt Weiner and Del Rey.
Mildred Shuffle
(Matt Weiner, Sylvia Rose Music, BMI)
Mildred is Matt''s dog. When Matt comes home, she does a shuffle which is more commonly known to dog-o-philes as the "butt-waggle dance." Matt and Del can''t play at the speed at which Mildred''s butt waggles, so Matt imagined it in slow motion.
Doin'' The Frog
(Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, Dan Healy, EMI April Music Inc OBO Cotton Blub Publishing, Copyright Control, Aldi Music Company) This is from a Duke Ellington arrangement that Matt started playing on the bass. It''s been driving us crazy for years.
Brazilian Tune
(Kenny Hall) This is a tune Del heard many times when she was a young folkie hanging around the San Diego Follk scene in the late ''70s. Having not heard Kenny play it for many years, it may have divulgated from the source...
Brown''s Blues (For Steve Brown)
(Matt Weiner, Sylvia Rose Music, BMI)
Steve Brown was the greatest bass player of all time. He is not Ray Brown, who is also great. Read about Steve at https://www.tradebit.com Slap, bow, pluck, thump, buzz. Why don''t they teach kids about him at jazz school? Del and Matt will never forget you, Steve Brown.
Clockin'' The Vic
(Matt Weiner, Sylvia Rose Music, BMI)
A disarrangement of a ditty Matt wrote for a short film called Boutique, written and directed by Stephen Schardt. Matt couldn''t stop disarranging, and thus a reprise.
Orange Blossom Honey From Sorrento
(Matt Weiner, Sylvia Rose Music, BMI)
Alec Wilder exclaimed these words in his memoirs, and it suggested a melody. This tune has lyrics, and is about a guy whose girl leaves him on a trip to Italy.
Gus The Dog
(Matt Weiner, Sylvia Rose Music, BMI)
Gus is Matt''s girlfriend''s parents'' dog.
Dallas Rag
(Dallas String Band)
Del pickin'' and Matt sawin''. Not for delicate ears.
Genuine Besmo
(Matt Weiner, Sylvia Rose Music, BMI)
Matt wrote a tune on a piano. He then picked up the vase on the piano and read the sticker on the bottom.
Hollywood''s Emerald City Bull Fiddle (Ory''s Creole Trombone)
(Edward ''Kid'' Ory, Bug Music OBO Slick Tongue Ory Music)
Matt and Del worked out this arrangement back in the Yes Yes Boys, but weren''t able to record it until now. Its based on a couple of old recordings. Matt plays the role of Kid Ory, and Del plays the roles of everybody else.
Pixie Trance
(Matt Weiner, Sylvia Rose Music, BMI)
Creepy. An ogre flirts with a tiny sprite, perhaps.
Cousin Willy
(Matt Weiner, Sylvia Rose Music, BMI)
Inside, no matter how much we deny it, we all want to be rock stars. Even rock stars who hate rock stardom want to be rock stars. Even people who hate rock stars and rock stardom want to be rock stars. Del and Matt happily admit that they would like to be rock stars.
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