Music from my Synth – Jazz/Rock
Page Contents
Songs – History – Influences – Equipment – Friends – Spot
Songs
Clicking on the titles listed below will play them for you.
“Revelation on the Road to Ely” - It happened on the road of discovery for the Bard of Ely. A revelation…..
“Bluer Than Blue” - You know what “blue” is? Well, this is bluer than that. Floydian.
“Ice and Fire” - Ice interacting with fire – as a fanjet turbine cutting through the stratosphere, or maybe as a Southern Comfort plus ice.
“Kingfisher” – Here’s our band “Totem3″ in all its glory. Steve Andrews (the mad greenbeard) sings his own composition while accompanied by Alan Mansfield’s harmonica and my “rhythm-and-blues band”.
“Imogen May” - Schmoozy fifties easy swing jazz, a slow foxtrot to celebrate my younger daughter’s marriage to Frank. Her name is Imogen May.
“Stadium Time” - You are walking into a stadium where the band “JazzRoc” is playing. You step through the backstage corridors until you arrive at the stage door. You enter…
“Another Day” – A plaintive reggae blues song co-composed and sung by Alan Mansfield. This theme is familiar to all, and perhaps reflective on the consequences of boredom and drink…
“Dancing As One” – Paul Jones plays his co-composition to my “small rock-and-roll dance band”. It’s a “Last Waltz”, and couples shuffle softly over the darkened floor, dancing so close that you can’t see any gaps…
“Hanging in the Air” – My “jazz quintet” (piano, sax, organ, bass, drums) gets down to play a natty twelve-time number which represents the freedom of hang-gliding, soaring like a bird, expanses of land laid out before one’s eyes, and solitude…
“My Mind’s Made Up” - Totem3 closes this performance with a wickedly onbeat song composed, sung, and accompanied on the harmonica by Alan (The Harp) Mansfield. He’s definitely leaving this town…
History
My Band History:
1959-’65 – Bass guitarist and pianist in a dozen rock bands in South England.
1989-95 – Studio technician, sampler and composer, London.
1996 to date – Composer, works: “Voyage” and “World-of-Wisdom” CDs. Technician for “Twelve” and “Out There” by Michael Cartwright. “Crazy Paving”, “Jazzroc” , “JazzRoc’s World”, “My Joanna”, co-composed with Paul Jones, and “Totemized” with the singing composers Alan (The Harp) Mansfield and Steve (Bard of Ely) Andrews.
Influences
Equipment
Friends
This is a difficult gap to fill from a remote island early on, so-to-speak, because of the relative rarity of recording equipment – especially in the sixties. The incredible change of the present day from the past is still difficult for me to comprehend.
Well. Here’s one: Pete Downes whom I’ve known and admired for about fifteen years now. He has a website at Petedowns.com. Here’s his “Street Scene”:
He’s quite an all-rounder, so ferret through…
Spot
Hiya, John, it is not “doctored” at all. It has had its contrast increased (and maybe its “sharpness”) to draw attention to both the granularity and spectrum in the aerodynamic contrail. It is a remarkably clear picture.
The underside of the plane is brilliantly backlit by the EARTH (or more accurately the sunlit cloud beneath). Pinpoints of light would be reflections of light from the camera plane. Only if the Earth were MATT BLACK would the underside of that plane be in silhouette. (A fine example of “blatant photoshopping” is a “chemtrailer’s” trail “gap” which you can find on this site. THAT is “photoshopping”!
It appears you are unable to understand or interpret physical realities.
In the stratosphere there is NO TURBULENCE. The stratosphere gets warmer within increasing altitude and has a serene stability. It’s the reason why passenger planes fly there…
The camera plane is also a jet. It is smooth – there is NO VIBRATION. The subject is BRIGHTLY LIT from both above and below, meaning that shutter speed would be fast, which also reduces any likelihood of camera shake.
“Light diffusion” – the atmosphere is clear…
“Statistical probability” – you’ve lost me there… probability of what? Taking the picture?
You should get out more often, perhaps buy a camera, go for a flight in the stratosphere (instead of through your fantasies), read a library book on the nature of the stratosphere…
And in the meanwhile, desist from ignoring physical realities and smearing and slandering others, thus forcing me to edit your comments.
John Aytche
January 24, 2009 at 9:43 am
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Hawaii Airport
August 3, 2012 at 8:04 pm
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JazzRoc
August 3, 2012 at 8:27 pm