----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas A. Sheehan <tsheehan@nyc.rr.com> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 1:40 PM Subject: Re: Ahmad Jamal > As the tuner who tuned and voiced this year's Grammy award-winning Best > Contemporary Jazz Album by a Group - Pat Metheny Group's "Thinking of > Now," - it makes the work go more efficiently when the pianist, in this case > Lyle Mays, is trusting enough to ask me to just get the piano "right" for > him. I think that it's a matter of rapport: with and confidence in the > technician. Did you tune for the recording that won the Grammy? This is great. I always lamented that the tuner was/is not mentioned on albums. So when we hear "Thinking of Now" we know who did the tuning. When was the out of tune Medowlark recorded? Hope it wasn't me ----rm > I am continually appalled by the lack of good, > solid tuning in jazz piano recordings from the 50s and 60s. E.g., "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet swings like crazy, but there's one ballad - "Strange Meadowlark" - that's so clearly out of tune that it's enough to almost make your toes curl. > Tom Sheehan, RPT > NYC Chapter .org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech
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