My Funny Valentine *Featuring SlapJohnson* - PedroCasillas

19th Sep 2008 11:01 - 18 years ago
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Description : jazz standard My Funny Valentine

...Piano - PedroCasillas...

...Sax - Slap Johnson...

this should blast your socks off

Comments (12)

If you have time take a listen and give PedroCasillas some feedback.

kingmt77
kingmt77 8th Dec 2022 20:48 - 3 years ago
This made my day! Beautiful composition though and through. Wonderful job.

Mark
Mykael
Mykael 3rd Feb 2013 15:29 - 13 years ago
Perdro! Absolutely GORGEOUS!!! Well done to the both of you. This has actually become one of my encore tunes when I perform live. I actually resisted singing it for the longest time because it is probably one of the most over-performed jazz standards there is. Anyways, out of the hundreds of My Funny Valentine recordings I have heard, yours definitely rank in my top five!

Love & Light,

Mykael
Effluence
Effluence 15th Dec 2010 21:08 - 15 years ago
loveee jazz, I love your jazz stuff
FarishaMusic
FarishaMusic 10th Aug 2010 03:23 - 16 years ago
Scriptique
Scriptique 8th Oct 2008 06:53 - 17 years ago
Wow... amazing work from two virtuosos! It didn't just blast my socks off mate... it ripped a hole through my beloved stripy stockings and wrenched my heart straight out of my ribs.

You guys rule!
PedroCasillas
PedroCasillas replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
haha thanks alot, very colourful review there haha :)
alividlife
alividlife 22nd Sep 2008 03:40 - 18 years ago
this really hits home... and i am familiar with the original...

this is great
I come back to your stuff...

you rock.
(gotta ask.. can't help myself... what's with the tremelo-ed piano?)
PedroCasillas
PedroCasillas replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
cheers dude, aye ermm the tremolo piano sound, is merely down to teething problems with software used by me and Slap disagreeing with each other, its not meant to be like that, maybe we can try recreating it perhaps, who knows

but we shall try over come it with future tracks
SLAPJOHNSON
SLAPJOHNSON 21st Sep 2008 08:50 - 18 years ago
Hey pedro, It's great to play on standards, but to have a standard played with such skill as you have shown on this is a dream! I play standards all the time, and they give the humble jazz musician the material to work,develop,create and put food on the table..

A lecturer I know told me this story. At the graduation of his year, he pulled his class of musicians into an empty classroom to wish them good luck now they had finished their studies with him. He asked them to raise their hands if they would session for Sting, all hands went up. He then asked who would work on a cruise liner in a band, all hands went up. He then asked who would play the northeast club circuit, only a few put their hands up. He then asked who would play at the local Italian pasta/pizza place, one hand was raised. He trned to that one person and said "You will be a professional musician and will always work". He turned to the rest and said " I feel you should all find other work outside of music"..

I think a bright future is just around the corner for you my friend..

Cheers Slap...
PedroCasillas
PedroCasillas replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
wow thanks alot mate :) - i hope to do something with my 'BMus(hons) Jazz' which will enable me to put food on the table. when I get back from my lengthy hiatus i'm gonna hunt you down and force you to mentor me haha ;)

but its such a privilege to play with such an accomplished musician, who'd have thought this virtual musical connection could have came from me merely trying to find some loops haha, we are the north east virtual jazz scene haha.

btw who's this lecturer? I had a lecturer who liked to bang on about sting a bit haha

thanks alot Slap
Dennel
Dennel 20th Sep 2008 15:38 - 18 years ago
You're right, it blew me away. Very, very nice, love your piano work. And wow, what can you say about Mr. Slap Johnson that hasn't already been said?! I was recently working on a "Smooth Jazz" track in which I used a few of Slap Johnsons sax loops. And let me tell you, it made my song a thousand times better. But I guess he's good at doing that, right? Keep up the great work and I'll be checking out more of your music.
Peace
PedroCasillas
PedroCasillas replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
cheers dude, yeh slap sure has a way of making tracks realllllly come to life, the phrasing and dynamics and emotion in his playing is simply sublime!
KDLproject
KDLproject 20th Sep 2008 12:35 - 18 years ago
@Blair - that sounds like the coolest restaurant ever and if they were playing there live I'd easily pay for a $100 steak dinner. lol. this track is amazing - two very talented ppl. two thumbs up Pedro!
PedroCasillas
PedroCasillas replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
haha, cheers dude, its one extremely talented sax player, and one lad who can take 2000000 takes and eventually get one to sound alright haha
blairrock957
blairrock957 20th Sep 2008 03:44 - 18 years ago
We have a place cald "Dante's Down the Hatch" Here in Atlanta, Ga. Very expensive resturant. In the center there's a Pirate ship surounded with water and Crocadiles. On the deck of the ship is some more tables and at one end a jazz band. I can imagine sitting there listening to this. Beautiful song.
PedroCasillas
PedroCasillas replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
yaaaaarrghhhhhhh pirate jazz, fantastic! im gonna make some pirate jazz, dunno how it will work, but it just will haha! sounds like a coool place :)

thanks alot
TheseMetalDays
TheseMetalDays 20th Sep 2008 02:41 - 18 years ago
Too much redverb for my taste but overall great playing.
PedroCasillas
PedroCasillas replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
yeh dude, the sound could do with alot of work, but its the raw music that counts and thats some saxa-mo-phone
Planetjazzbass
Planetjazzbass 19th Sep 2008 14:59 - 18 years ago
Slowmotion rolling thunder....exceptional!..the music says it all...cheers planet
PedroCasillas
PedroCasillas replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
thanks dude :) means alot!

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