On 23 Jun 2005, at 2:28 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
I'd say Tuba, French Horn, Fender Rhodes,
GPO Jazz/Big Band already has Rhodes piano.
It does not say Rhodes piano, it says, according to the site,
http://garritan.com/jazz.html, Vintage Electric Piano. That could be
anything. Could be a Yamaha DX7 for all I know. Vintage Electric Piano
does not equal Fender Rhodes. It could be a RMI Electra-Piano, a
Wurlitzer, I could go on........
95% of the time, "Vintage Electric Piano" is code for Rhodes (which
they can't actually say, for trademark reasons). Sure, theoretically,
it _could_ be anything, but I'd be pretty surprised if it turned out to
be anything other than a Rhodes.
acoustic/electric guitar.
It already has 2 electric guitars (no acoustic).
Did you look at the website before posting this? The info is here:
http://www.garritan.com/jazz.html
Yeah, I did smart ass. It says TWO ELECTRIC Guitars. No acoustic.
Um, yeah -- isn't that *exactly what I said*, immediately above? (And
what's with the gratuitous insults? Chill out, already.)
There are *lots* of classic jazz recordings with B3 -- like
ferinstance, Larry Young's _Unity_, with Joe Henderson and Elvin
Jones. That said, I agree with you. You can get good B3 samples
elsewhere and I'm not exactly broken up about the lack of B3 organ.
I was just listing some instruments that would make more sense -- a
*lot* more sense -- than subcontrabass saxophone.
On this we agree. All those strange saxophones need to go.
Well, I don't know that they "need to go," now that they've been
sampled and programmed. It will actually be kind of fun to have them.
But recording them was a very strange use of limited resources, even if
their player already owned all these obscure saxes.
Jazz violin?
Uh, yes. More common than sopranino saxophone, right?
Again, it's like C-Melody. I know of no jazz saxophonist in the SF Bay
Area that plays/records on it.
Jazz violin is actually much more common than C-Melody sax. There are
lots of jazz violinists in NYC, so I'm sure there are at least a few in
the Bay Area.
(Again, I'm not saying "No basic jazz sample library would be complete
without jazz violin" -- just that it would be a more defensible choice
than some of the other instruments Gary decided to include.)
People are bound to say (as I did) -- "Why on earth did you include
C-melody saxophone but not [instrument X]?"
[...] A Marimba would be nice to have.......
See what I mean? [grin]
Marimba's cool but pretty rare in jazz contexts. [Although *I* use it
a fair bit.] However, I imagine anyone who really needed marimba --
like, say, me -- would want the Orchestral GPO as well as the Jazz
Edition.
- Darcy
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