Flip Flop

Robin Tolleson, Modern Drummer
This fresh,smart,and soulful slice of Latin-jazz by player/producers Perez and Ramos is one of the year's best record-ings...

Product Description
1. "FLIP FLOP SON" is based on African, Caribbean and Northeastern rhythms of South America. It is about curved lines and curved angles with total equilibrium. We rooted the song with a favorable simple diatonic melody so as to be "cantabile" (able to sing along with.) For effective contrast, in the front section, using the principle of tension and release, we made the vertical distances between the melody, the harmony and the bass line very angular, while keeping the tune within consonance. The tune then goes into extensive reharmonization. In order to create rhythmic tension, a synth pattern was written underneath the trumpet that consists of 21 eighth notes arranged 2 1/2 + 3 1/2+ 4 1/2 equaling 21.

For the orchestration during the guitar improvisation, a compositional technique called "augmentation" was used on a motif that the guitar repeats near the end of the tune. We took the motif and assigned it to the synth strings under the entire solo, and held each note for as long as the harmonic rhythm permitted. So, the motif plays in slow motion throughout the whole guitar improvisation, preparing the ear for when it happens on the guitar.

The use of already existing elements in a composition provides unity to the music. As in other aspects of life, music is a balance between repetition and variation, unity and contrast, tension and resolution, etc.

Charles Moore on trumpet! He understands perfectly.

2. "DESDE" is the orchestration of a guitar solo. It is directly reflective of Minas Gerais, Brazil ... just about the only place where 6/8 is played in the same way as in the rest of Latin American music. Eduardo M. Del Signore on Fretless Bass.

3. "OLO" Middle Eastern, Arabian and other world rhythms and instruments are included, such as: Tambourine (Arab), Dumbek drum (Middle East), Oud (Egypt), Saz (Turkey) and Tablas (India). Steve Fowler on flute.

4. "EL TICHOLO" consists of a short cycle of three bars of 4/4 that is simultaneously traveled as four bars of 3/4. The middle part is a "Chaca-rera" (rhythm from the Pampas, South American grasslands) that goes through the keys of Eb, C, A and F# effortlessly. Steve Fowler on flute.

5. "CALLER'S SUITE" Candombe and Murga rhythms depict an act of Santeria with mostly electric instrumentation. Eduardo M. Del Signore on bass.

6. "MECHA" is a totally spontaneous improvisation without any preconcep-tions, recorded with no overdubbing. The instruments played are trap drums and tamboriles (Perez) and a G&L electric guitar (modified by John Carruthers per my specifications, and very lightly processed into two Match-less 30 Watt Combo Amps) with a Roland GR 50 module capable of trigger-ing several sounds via midi (Ramos). We spent five hours getting all the gadgets to work, and ONE TAKE to record it.

7. "LUISITO" is Candombe music as played by traditional Uruguayan urban ensembles. Charles Moore again on trumpet. Ralph Jones on tenor saxophone.

8. "THE CARPENTER" The making of this tune is peculiar. We (Perez and Ramos) first recorded a basic track of assorted hand drums together, live. Then we came up with a bass line that doubled the low drums which sug-gested replacing the original drums with new patterns, heavily overdubbed. However, the new drums didn't really work with the old bass line, so we wrote an altogether new tune, recording it over the old one.

The only chord is G 13#1 1 (G thirteen with a raised I 1), which is basically prone to all kinds of scale possibilities. Moving the bass line through different chord notes creates a sense of chord progression. It is a big psycho-acoustic illusion.

9. "MOVING'S DAY" is Candombe back to its roots (Western Africa). The vocals of Nigerian singers, Alfred Martins and Gbeke Ephriam, as well as the trombone lines of George McMullen were edited through the help of the hard disc recording program, Pro-Tools, giving it the final form that services the music.

Flip Flop

Flip Flop,Perez & Ramos

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Flip, Flop, & Fly John Cephas , and Phil Wiggins Manufacturer: Flying Fish Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Delta Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music East Coast Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000000MS7 Release Date: 1992-09-29

Tracks:

1. Flip, Flop, And Fly
2. No Lovin' Baby Now
3. One Kind Favor
4. Evil Twin Blues
5. Today I Started Loving You Again
6. Too Old To Dream
7. Darkness On The Delta
8. Blue Day Blues
9. Standing At Judgement
10. The Backbiter
11. Devil Got My Woman
12. Banks Of The River

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Flip, Flop and Fly: 1951-1955 Big Joe Turner Manufacturer: Rev-Ola ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Jump Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music Blues | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000EQIO44 Release Date: 2006-06-12

Tracks:

1. Shake, Rattle and Roll
2. T V Mama
3. Hide and Seek
4. Morning, Noon and Night
5. Ti-Ri-Lee
6. Flip, Flop and Fly
7. Chicken and the Hawk
8. Boogie Woogie Country Girl
9. Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop [Chicago Version]
10. You Know I Love You So
11. Chill Is On
12. After My Laughter Came Tears
13. Bump Miss Susie
14. Chains of Love
15. Married Woman
16. Midnight Cannonball
17. I'll Never Stop Loving You
18. Sweet Sixteen
19. Don't You Cry
20. Poor Lover's Blues
21. Still in Love
22. Baby I Still Want You
23. Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop [New Orleans Version]
24. Honey Hush
25. Crawdad Hole
26. Well, All Right
27. In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)

Album Description

A delicious and comprehensive compilation of the renaissance of Big Joe Turner, rescued from jazz obscurity by Atlantic Records in 1951 and restored to his hit making potential, as proven here, 27 fabulous tracks, with 12 Top Ten Billboard R&B chart hits, including the 2 chart toppers 'Honey Hush' and 'Shake Rattle And Roll'. Rev-Ola.

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In Stereo Flip Flop Manufacturer: Robbins Ent. Llc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008J7OC Release Date: 2002-12-10

Tracks:

1. In Stereo [Superchumbo Radio Edit]
2. In Stereo [Superchumbo High Octane Vocal]
3. In Stereo [DJ Pierre Stereo Pitch Mix]
4. In Stereo [Superchumbo Leadhead Dub]
5. In Stereo [DJ Pierre Stereo Pitch Dub]

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Flip Flop Perez , and Ramos Manufacturer: World Alchemy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003723 Release Date: 1995-06-06

Tracks:

1. Flip Flop Son
2. Desde
3. Olo
4. El Ticholo
5. Caller's Suite
6. Mecha
7. Luisito
8. The Carpenter
9. Moving's Day

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Flip, Flop & Fly Doug Kershaw Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Cajun & Creole | Cajun & Zydeco | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0007QJ1WA Release Date: 2005-04-12

Tracks:

1. Rag Mama Rag
2. Louisiana Blues
3. Flip, Flop & Fly
4. Twenty-Three
5. You Wont Let Me
6. Im Walkin
7. Bad News
8. Black Rose
9. Im A Loser
10. Kershaws Two Step
11. Roly poly

Average customer rating: Flip, Flop & Fly... all you jitterbugs... Essential jump blues session for anyone with good taste! For Archivists Only

Flip, Flop & Fly Big Joe Turner , and Count Basie Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Jump Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004Z3ZM Release Date: 2000-10-24

Tracks:

1. Hide And Seek
2. T.V. Mama
3. Corrine, Corrina
4. Cherry Red
5. Shake, Rattle And Roll
6. Since I Fell For You
7. Flip, Flop & Fly
8. Everyday I Have The Blues
9. Good Morning Blues

Customer Reviews:

Flip, Flop & Fly... all you jitterbugs..........2003-11-19

What a cd, this might very well be the best swing recording to come from the 1970's era. This is a 10 star disc, which features the great blues shouter Big Joe Turner singing with the swinging and swaggering Count Basie & Orchestra!!! The classic title song(a remake of the original) is the version that inspired so many neo-swing bands to do it(Peggy Cone & Her Central Park Stompers and Indigo swing, to name several). This cd is not only great for listening pleasure, but is a jitterbug dancers delight. Every track has an infectious swing beat, that will keep you dancing weather it be lindy, jitterbug, east coast or west coast swing. This is Turner's best "later" period recordings, and it finds Basie's band in great and energetic form, of course Turner as always is in fine blues shoutin' form. An exellent aquisition for any serios blues or swing fan. A must have essential release. Don't pass this gem of a cd up.

Essential jump blues session for anyone with good taste!.......2003-11-19

This is one of the CLASSIC jump blues sets of all time. Big Joe Turner is in prime form for this exciting and hard driving swing/jump blues set. Not only is this one of the high points of Turner's great career, it also has the Count Basie Orchestra! Both Turner & the Basie congregation are in exellent form. This session has all of Turner's big hits, and they are better than the originals obviously because of Basie jump arrangements. Turner is outstanding throughout. This allstar session is one of the most jumping swing sessions of all time and is essential for swing dancers(lindy hoppers) as well as jazz, swing and blues/jump blues fans. This is a desert island recording, which finds both Basie's band and Turner in particularly excitable and energetic moods.

For Archivists Only.......2000-12-23

Everything about this looks good--especially the band. How can it be that a live set with Count Basie's band, including Freddie Green (guitar) and Lockjaw Davis (Tenor), could be disappointing?

First of all, the band sounds tired. Recorded in Europe in the early 70's, it just wasn't a good night. Second, the sound quality is terrible. The horns sound like they are on another planet. The first tune sounds like they improvised it on the spot and, perhaps I misheard it (I listened and re-listened), but Joe Turner says over the microphone that they need to get a new drummer! Later, he tells the audience that Basie's finger is broken. If true, it didn't affect his playing, which is as sparse and tasteful as ever. The lack of significant liner notes does not lend a clue as to what was really going on that night. As a curiosity, this recording serves to amuse.

For listening purposes, however, check out "Boss of the Blues" which takes the lp Joe Turner Sings Kansas City Jazz, adds a few selections, and, subsequently, will not leave your listening rotation EVER. Similar band, different result. Maybe it was the seventies.

Average customer rating:

Flip Flop Perez & Ramos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004SZZM Release Date: 1994-02-15

Tracks:

1. Flip Flop Son
2. Desde
3. Olo
4. El Ticholo
5. Caller's Suite
6. Mecha
7. Luisito
8. The Carpenter
9. Moving's Day

Album Description

1. "FLIP FLOP SON" is based on African, Caribbean and Northeastern rhythms of South America. It is about curved lines and curved angles with total equilibrium. We rooted the song with a favorable simple diatonic melody so as to be "cantabile" (able to sing along with.) For effective contrast, in the front section, using the principle of tension and release, we made the vertical distances between the melody, the harmony and the bass line very angular, while keeping the tune within consonance. The tune then goes into extensive reharmonization. In order to create rhythmic tension, a synth pattern was written underneath the trumpet that consists of 21 eighth notes arranged 2 1/2 + 3 1/2+ 4 1/2 equaling 21.

For the orchestration during the guitar improvisation, a compositional technique called "augmentation" was used on a motif that the guitar repeats near the end of the tune. We took the motif and assigned it to the synth strings under the entire solo, and held each note for as long as the harmonic rhythm permitted. So, the motif plays in slow motion throughout the whole guitar improvisation, preparing the ear for when it happens on the guitar.

The use of already existing elements in a composition provides unity to the music. As in other aspects of life, music is a balance between repetition and variation, unity and contrast, tension and resolution, etc.

Charles Moore on trumpet! He understands perfectly.

2. "DESDE" is the orchestration of a guitar solo. It is directly reflective of Minas Gerais, Brazil ... just about the only place where 6/8 is played in the same way as in the rest of Latin American music. Eduardo M. Del Signore on Fretless Bass.

3. "OLO" Middle Eastern, Arabian and other world rhythms and instruments are included, such as: Tambourine (Arab), Dumbek drum (Middle East), Oud (Egypt), Saz (Turkey) and Tablas (India). Steve Fowler on flute.

4. "EL TICHOLO" consists of a short cycle of three bars of 4/4 that is simultaneously traveled as four bars of 3/4. The middle part is a "Chaca-rera" (rhythm from the Pampas, South American grasslands) that goes through the keys of Eb, C, A and F# effortlessly. Steve Fowler on flute.

5. "CALLER'S SUITE" Candombe and Murga rhythms depict an act of Santeria with mostly electric instrumentation. Eduardo M. Del Signore on bass.

6. "MECHA" is a totally spontaneous improvisation without any preconcep-tions, recorded with no overdubbing. The instruments played are trap drums and tamboriles (Perez) and a G&L electric guitar (modified by John Carruthers per my specifications, and very lightly processed into two Match-less 30 Watt Combo Amps) with a Roland GR 50 module capable of trigger-ing several sounds via midi (Ramos). We spent five hours getting all the gadgets to work, and ONE TAKE to record it.

7. "LUISITO" is Candombe music as played by traditional Uruguayan urban ensembles. Charles Moore again on trumpet. Ralph Jones on tenor saxophone.

8. "THE CARPENTER" The making of this tune is peculiar. We (Perez and Ramos) first recorded a basic track of assorted hand drums together, live. Then we came up with a bass line that doubled the low drums which sug-gested replacing the original drums with new patterns, heavily overdubbed. However, the new drums didn't really work with the old bass line, so we wrote an altogether new tune, recording it over the old one.

The only chord is G 13#1 1 (G thirteen with a raised I 1), which is basically prone to all kinds of scale possibilities. Moving the bass line through different chord notes creates a sense of chord progression. It is a big psycho-acoustic illusion.

9. "MOVING'S DAY" is Candombe back to its roots (Western Africa). The vocals of Nigerian singers, Alfred Martins and Gbeke Ephriam, as well as the trombone lines of George McMullen were edited through the help of the hard disc recording program, Pro-Tools, giving it the final form that services the music.

Average customer rating:

Flip-Flop Guadalcanal Diary Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Jangle Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man/Jamboree 2X4 2X4 Cypress/Afoot Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man ASIN: B000008G99 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Look-Up!
2. Always Saturday
3. Likes of You
4. Barometer
5. Happy Home
6. Whiskey Talk
7. Pretty Is as Pretty Does
8. Everything But Good Luck
9. Ten Laws
10. Fade Out
11. Vista

Average customer rating: Flip, Flop & Fly... all you jitterbugs... Essential jump blues session for anyone with good taste! For Archivists Only

Flip, Flop & Fly Big Joe Turner , and Count Basie Manufacturer: Pablo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Jump Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000XKQ Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. Hide 'N' Seed
2. TV Mama
3. Corrine, Corrina
4. Cherry Red
5. Shake, Rattle & Roll
6. Since I Fell for You
7. Flip Flop and Fly
8. Every Day I Have the Blues
9. Good Morning Blues

Customer Reviews:

Flip, Flop & Fly... all you jitterbugs..........2003-11-19

What a cd, this might very well be the best swing recording to come from the 1970's era. This is a 10 star disc, which features the great blues shouter Big Joe Turner singing with the swinging and swaggering Count Basie & Orchestra!!! The classic title song(a remake of the original) is the version that inspired so many neo-swing bands to do it(Peggy Cone & Her Central Park Stompers and Indigo swing, to name several). This cd is not only great for listening pleasure, but is a jitterbug dancers delight. Every track has an infectious swing beat, that will keep you dancing weather it be lindy, jitterbug, east coast or west coast swing. This is Turner's best "later" period recordings, and it finds Basie's band in great and energetic form, of course Turner as always is in fine blues shoutin' form. An exellent aquisition for any serios blues or swing fan. A must have essential release. Don't pass this gem of a cd up.

Essential jump blues session for anyone with good taste!.......2003-11-19

This is one of the CLASSIC jump blues sets of all time. Big Joe Turner is in prime form for this exciting and hard driving swing/jump blues set. Not only is this one of the high points of Turner's great career, it also has the Count Basie Orchestra! Both Turner & the Basie congregation are in exellent form. This session has all of Turner's big hits, and they are better than the originals obviously because of Basie jump arrangements. Turner is outstanding throughout. This allstar session is one of the most jumping swing sessions of all time and is essential for swing dancers(lindy hoppers) as well as jazz, swing and blues/jump blues fans. This is a desert island recording, which finds both Basie's band and Turner in particularly excitable and energetic moods.

For Archivists Only.......2000-12-23

Everything about this looks good--especially the band. How can it be that a live set with Count Basie's band, including Freddie Green (guitar) and Lockjaw Davis (Tenor), could be disappointing?

First of all, the band sounds tired. Recorded in Europe in the early 70's, it just wasn't a good night. Second, the sound quality is terrible. The horns sound like they are on another planet. The first tune sounds like they improvised it on the spot and, perhaps I misheard it (I listened and re-listened), but Joe Turner says over the microphone that they need to get a new drummer! Later, he tells the audience that Basie's finger is broken. If true, it didn't affect his playing, which is as sparse and tasteful as ever. The lack of significant liner notes does not lend a clue as to what was really going on that night. As a curiosity, this recording serves to amuse.

For listening purposes, however, check out "Boss of the Blues" which takes the lp Joe Turner Sings Kansas City Jazz, adds a few selections, and, subsequently, will not leave your listening rotation EVER. Similar band, different result. Maybe it was the seventies.

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