Hey Nick,
Sorry I missed the thread. Had a 4-day weekend in Savannah, GA for a
wedding and gig.
I think Dimitris has this one down for the scale.
Cool ideas though. May have to check out the Breakstone work!
Wilson
--- In jazz_guitar@..., "jim_9791" <dimitris@d...> wrote:
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Wilson,
Is it just me, or does the Byzantine scale you mentioned contain
all
the notes from the first few bars of Miserlou (just walking up
the
scale, using some serious tremelo)? I think I have a fake book
version of Miserlou somewhere that mentions it is based on a
Greek
folk
tune. Anyway, its sounds great. I guess my old surf roots are
surfacing. Speaking of which, there is a CD out by Joshua
Breakstone
(title: "Walk Don't Run") in which he covers mainly old surf-era
tunes
but in a jazz style. It works for me.
Nick
Misirlu, is a Greek-American I guess tune, since it was composed by
a
Greek bouzouki player who lived in NY during the 60s or maybe even
earlier. And I think its based on Mixo b13 (D melodic minor from
the
fifth), while it can have some outside notes, which are mainly
ornaments, passing tones and all that.
Dimitris
