Roy speaking with Jay-Zs official blog Life + Times, on the creative process working with the Soulquarians: They pretty much wanted me to do horn section kind of things where I would stack maybe two or three of my voices together in a manner that would complement the music they had put down. It was like this, I would [put] one track down, a kind of linear line – I just filled in the spaces. Then I’d come back and harmonize that two or three times. And it was a lot of fun to be able to put down orchestrations. That’s what they wanted. I believe, especially when you’re playing the funk, you can’t really do too much soloing or put in too many notes. So what they would call “jazzy” wouldn’t [work], you have to lend to more of an ensemble approach. That means playing sparse, you know. Whatever the music might need at that moment as opposed to doing too much. Less is more. I found it very challenging to be able to put together just the right kind of orchestrations for that, that realm of music. But like I said, you learn harmony, theory and rhythm, the basic tools for improvisation, then you can basically do whatever you want to. I always tell cats play the piano, get the harmony down, know what you’re doing harmonically. Read the rest of the interview here: goo.gl/6ZHgOg Playa Playa composed by Michael Archer (DAngelo), Ahmir Thompson (Questlove) & Angie Stone. DAngelo - Vocals Roy Hargrove - Trumpet Mike Campbell - Guitar Pino Palladino - Bass Questlove - Drums From DAngelos 2000 recording on Virgin Records, Voodoo. Amazon: goo.gl/qabKwH iTunes: goo.gl/q4hjcC youtube/watch?v=COix3dndSfk
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:41:53 +0000
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