{"id":18460,"date":"2010-04-06T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=18460"},"modified":"2010-04-06T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:35:02","slug":"a-long-weekend-jam-with-ray-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2010\/a-long-weekend-jam-with-ray-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Weekend Jam With Ray Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I got together with a couple of my closest musical friends: Ray Myers<\/a> and Art Panchishin<\/a>. Ray, Art, and I decided that it would be fun to get together and jam over the\u00a0Easter long weekend.<\/p>\n

We’d never done this before. Usually it’s Ray and I getting together. Ray\u00a0also decided to phone his drummer Dave, and next thing you know, we’ve got a 4 piece band.<\/p>\n

We’ve got Ray on his Selmer Mark VII, with his Dukoff mouthpiece and Rico Plasticover reed.<\/p>\n

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I’m on Ray’s Mad Meg Cannonball, with my Dukoff and Fibracell reed.<\/p>\n

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Between the 2 of us, we were laying down some wicked horn lines and solos. Ray’s style just kills me every time. I’m doing my best to keep up, but he’s always just ahead of me. He is constantly inspiring me with what he pulls out of seemingly thin air.<\/p>\n

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Art was playing with\u00a0his usual inspiring\u00a0style. For him, this was the first time that he had been in Ray’s studio, and had heard and played with Ray’s tracks. He did a great job stretching is musical muscles.\u00a0Art is truly a blues player, and the R&B tunes really stretched him musically.\u00a0He really enjoyed himself.<\/p>\n

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Holding us all together was Ray’s regular drummer Dave. He did a fabulous job keeping us locked in.<\/p>\n

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Without a doubt, Ray and Art are the 2 musicians I have greatest amount of musical chemistry with.\u00a0It was\u00a0amazing to be able to play with both of these 2 great\u00a0players together.<\/p>\n

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When we wrapped up around 5:30, it had been\u00a0a great 4 hours of jamming to blues and R&B tunes. It had been a fun time for all of us. What a great way to wrap up a long weekend!<\/p>\n

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