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Posted: 10 Jan 2021 10:40 am
by Andy Volk
Thanks for the insight into your playing, Mike. I like your revised approach to this jazz material.
It helps carve your niche a little deeper as opposed to the hundreds of keys, bass, drums, with solo instrument versions out there. It also makes a statement about the steel being an instrument and not a "genre instrument."
Posted: 11 Jan 2021 9:52 am
by Daniel Baston
This is fantastic Mike! Very inspiring. I love this tune. Sol would be proud. I think Wes might dig it too.
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Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:45 pm
by Raymond Craig
very nice Mike
Posted: 16 Jan 2021 2:59 pm
by Nelson Checkoway
Very nice, Mike. You know I’m a big fan of your bebop-post-bop steel playing which sounds great here. But I don’t want to let your rhythm playing go unmentioned. Your uke and bass parts drive the song—great choices on your bass lines and the song really opens up in the B section. Sounds like a classic quartet arrangement and I don’t miss the drums one bit! Very cool.
Posted: 16 Jan 2021 4:49 pm
by Daryl Brooke
Really nice!!
Posted: 17 Jan 2021 2:23 pm
by Jesse Pearson
That's impressive, great tone and very in-tune playing. I think that's the best jazz tune I've heard on non peddle steel for being in-tune and sounding like a typical straight ahead jazz performance piece. I personally can't play in-tune close enough on steel to satisfy my own jazz style that I can do easily on other instruments. But your proving it can be done. Good for you Mike...Wow, how'd you come across one of Sol's steels...Trip!