Re: Joshua Redman and the Repeater

["Jesse Ray Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net>]

I noticed some background sax overdubs on the Elastic album when I got it
and didn't think anything of it.  Then I saw everyone talking in here about
them having Repeaters, and wondered if Josh was pulling those off live.  
But
it sounds like the answer is currently "no."

I wonder if Sam Yahel is trapped in the same place about looping bass lines
as I am about having no lines on my fingerboard.  Some silly macho jazz
aesthetic about if it ain't played live it ain't real, or if it's got lines
you're cheating.

-J


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Wagner" <jondrums@hotmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Joshua Redman and the Repeater


> > also, I was just thinking, I caught the end of Joshua
> > Redman's set at Bonnaroo this month. Both he and his
> > keyboardist (Sam Yahel) had Repeaters i believe, Joshua's
>
> I had heard the same thing and was excited to see Joshua and Sam using
> repeaters in a jazz context.  So I hit up their show in SF a couple of
> months ago.  Its true both of these guys have repeaters in their racks.
> However, I was disappointed to see that it was very much separated out,
like
> here's my jazz stuff, ok stop, now here's my weird ass looping and highly
> reverbed noise art, ok stop, and we're back to jazz.  My take is that the
> elastic band has not really figured out how to integrate looping into 
>what
> they do and are still experimenting heavily to figure out how it fits 
>into
> the puzzle.  Personally I'm excited to see what they come up with, and 
>I'm
> glad to see that they're experimenting!
>
> I would have loved to see Sam Yahel especially, use his repeater to lay
down
> some basslines - there's no bass player in that band and he was playing
> basslines all night.  Unfortunately, both his basslines and his
> comping/soloing suffered - its hard to play interesting basslines while
also
> playing something else, and its hard to play an interesting solo while
> playing a bassline.  It just seems so obvious that at least for one solo,
he
> might loop a really cool bassline and solo over it!    Even cooler would
be
> if he looped a bassline in C and then pitch shifted it with his midi
> footpedals to follow the chord progression of the song -  I was just
wishing
> I could spend an hour with those guys and show them some of this stuff...
>
> Jon
>