Post #126852 by Urban Tiki on Mon, Nov 22, 2004 11:37 AM

Thanks for the response.
Satan's Sin, Caravan is one of my favorite songs and I plan to do several versions. I can see why the heavy Tom-Tom drumming may not appeal to everyone- I was trying to conjure up the feel of jungle drums but keeping something of a jazz/swing feel. I already have a version playing in my head with kind of a middle east hand drum rhythm, so hang in there. There's a surf guitar band in Brooklyn that does a surf guitar version. I may give this a try, but only if I can make it unique and not sound like theirs. They used to have an mp3 of it on their website. I can't remember the name of the band so I'll have to search for it and post a link.

Dinsdale, I wish I had the ear to do these without them, but I used a jazz cheat book and sheet music for these.

Fink Daddy, many thanks- I love this stuff and it's fun to create.

In the pipeline is a exotica version of Dizzy Gillespie's tune, "A Night in Tunisia". Its a bebop tune he did with Charlie Parker and is pretty uptempo and challenging- very complex melodic structure. Now that I'm getting the jazz stuff out of my system, I'm going to focus on mellower relaxing stuff- more in the Quiet Village vein.
Thanks all.

[ Edited by: Urban Tiki on 2004-11-22 11:39 ]