Stan Kenton - Malaguena

YouTube ^ | 26 May 2011

[RckyRaCoCo]

G Bugles/valve and rotor?

Future Corps have a great version of Malaguena on YouTube also.

Miss old school DCI.

[DoodleBob]

This is the version of choice in the DoodleBob household.I'm happy to report the little DoodleBobs saw a tribute band performance and we're hooked thereafter.

I launched a post on The Who's latest tour yesterday. What I forgot to mention was that Kenton is an equal favorite, and presents an equal molten blitzkrieg live act as the Ooo except with jazz and brass. As one poster on YouTube said, "The original heavy metal."

[sparklite2]

It sounds like a marching band at half time.
Malaguena was one of the first pieces I learned
on guitar. It is ill suited for jazz.

[rlmorel]

I was remarking to another poster how DCI has become so weird now. Not a fan anymore, but we all thought 1974-1979 (in particular 1975-76) were the peak of what drum corps was. I was in the USN at the time, and this is what I had stenciled on the back of all my flight deck jerseys:

I had hand drawn this (from a picture in DCI News which I subscribed to) on a stiff file folder, and then created a stencil I could use to spray paint it on my jerseys. This scan was from a piece of paper that I sprayed it on to test it, and somehow I managed to keep it squirreled away somewhere all these years...:)

I'll bet they don't let you do that anymore in the Navy...I am surprised they let us do it, but...go figure!

I was in a CYO band, and we styled ourselves and were taught and conducted ourselves much the same way as Drum Corps did...I was able to march with the 27th Lancers when they did that gigantic reunion corps at DCI nationals back in 1994 or 1995...played baritone even though I wasn't strictly an alumni. That was a lot of fun!

[rlmorel]

Heh, we would disagree on this...the raw, screaming trumpets from Malaguena are the epitome of jazz for me, but...I know I come at it from a different angle than you probably do.

[sparklite2]

Oh, I agree about trumpets in Jazz. Malaguena by brass bands for me is like listening to Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries as performed by a Hawaiian steel guitar quintet.

[rlmorel]

Hahahaha, now THAT is one analogy I didn’t see coming!

I went to a county fair some years ago, and there was a musician playing on his hammered dulcimer selling his tapes, and he was playing “Stairway to Heaven” (there was no “No Playing of Stairway to Heaven” sign!)

This guy was so good on a song you didn’t expect to hear on a hammered dulcimer, that there was a crowd standing agape, watching and listening...

[mad_as_he$$]

The local guitar store has a sign that says “No playing Smoke on the Water”. It is often ignored and the rule breakers are subjected to verbal chastising.

[rlmorel]

Hehehe...love it.