Jeffrey L. Suits's Blog (2)

And have done so for, lo, these decades! I work out of my place in Kensington, low stress/overhead. Used to work out of Blue Note, Haight Ashbury, Bronstein Music over the past several years, but disability mandates part time, these days. Just thought I'd mention that... Continue

As a bassist, I hear this all the time: a nice, slow blues, and guitar players who use this as a platform to play as many notes, as fast as they possibly can. As a friend said, "Music is not the Olympics." I say, music is as much about the space, as the notes. I also don't get why a BLUES session necessitates lugging a pedal board; this leads to the kind of effects-laden sound, where I have no idea what a player really sounds like--maybe he/she doesn't either! If you can't get "your sound" with… Continue