Comments on: Leonard Bernstein: Mambo (Venezuelan Youth Orch) http://rogerbourland.com/2007/10/25/leonard-bernstein-mambo-venezuelan-youth-orch/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:19:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Brad Wood http://rogerbourland.com/2007/10/25/leonard-bernstein-mambo-venezuelan-youth-orch/comment-page-1/#comment-49677 Brad Wood Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:34:50 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/10/25/leonard-bernstein-mambo-venezuelan-youth-orch/#comment-49677 * interspersed with the 2,4,6 afterbeats at that. * interspersed with the 2,4,6 afterbeats at that.

]]> By: Brad Wood http://rogerbourland.com/2007/10/25/leonard-bernstein-mambo-venezuelan-youth-orch/comment-page-1/#comment-49674 Brad Wood Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:33:09 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/10/25/leonard-bernstein-mambo-venezuelan-youth-orch/#comment-49674 That is terrific. As Thelonious is heard to say iirc at the end of Crepuscule with Nellie, on the Criss-Cross album: "That's wild, man". And that excerpt is, I think, also the most rhythmically challenging part of West Side Story. And this from someone who had to play the 6/8 signature 2,3 and 5,6 afterbeats in a junior high school arrangement of "America". I hope Chavez doesn't get away with taking undue credit for this ;) That is terrific. As Thelonious is heard to say iirc at the end of Crepuscule with Nellie, on the Criss-Cross album:

“That’s wild, man”.

And that excerpt is, I think, also the most rhythmically challenging part of West Side Story. And this from someone who had to play the 6/8 signature 2,3 and 5,6 afterbeats in a junior high school arrangement of “America”.

I hope Chavez doesn’t get away with taking undue credit for this ;)

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