Rod Levitt:

‘Ah! Spain’

(Levitt, trombone, composer; John Beal, bass)

from ‘Dynamic Sound Patterns’ Riverside

There was a nice idea, but they didn’t do nothing with it. The bass player was a ____________ , though. It doesn’t have the Spanish feeling - doesn’t move. They move up in triads, but there’s all those chords missing - and I never heard any Spanish thing where they had a figure that went

- ( in the original article a 2 bar a musical phrase starting on beat 3 of bar 1 and continuing for 1/2 beat followed by 3, 1 and 1/2 beat notes was illustrated)

That’s some old ____, man. Sounds like Steve Allen’s TV band. Give it some stars just for the bass player.

Editor’s note : John Beal where are you now?