#BB Seaton

[mixamorphosis]

Blog post and linked up tracklist [HERE]

Tracklist

01. Ron Rinaldi - Mexican Summer (Spacetalk) 02. Jam Band '80 - Jammin' (With The Jam Band) (Rush Hour Music) 03. Sunset Gun - Be Thankful For What You Got (Thanks But No Thanks Edit) (Balearic Blah Blah) 04. Carrie Cleveland - Love Will Set You Free (Kalita) 05. Nana Love - Love Feeling (Dance Mix) (BBE) 06. Rob - Make It Fast, Make It Slow (Soundway) 07. Baby Huey - California Dreamin' (Curtom) 08. Experience Unlimited - Functus (Black Fire) 09. Marvin Gaye - Right On (Tamla) 10. Jeff Floyd - Don't Leave Me (City Of Dreams) 11. Jaye P. Morgan - Let's Get Together (How Do You Are?) 12. Reuben Wilson & The Cost Of Living - Together (Cadet) 13. Frederic Castel - Open Up (Leng) 14. Billy Paul - It's Critical (12" Version) (Philadelphia International Records) 15. Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life (Soundway Records) 16. John Ozila - Funky Boogie (Spaziale) 17. Bokoor Band - Onukpa Shawarpo (Strut) 18. Roy Ayers - Africa, Centre Of The World (pitched up) (Polydor) 19. BB Seaton - Dancing In The Moonlight (Studio One)

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[peninsularian]

A Federal 45 from 1974 featuring BB Seaton, Ken Boothe, Lloyd Chalmers and Busty Brown licking down The Temptations Smiling Faces. Happily out on the streets again on a Rockashaka 12.

[daibhidjames]

RIP to BB Seaton, singer with 60's Ska band the Gaylads. I swear classic Ska bands could cover literally anything and make it work

[plus-low-overthrow]

VIDEO: B B Seaton - Nobody Knows You When Your Down and Out (Afro Jam)

arr. B B Seaton, 1974.

[am-reggae]

The Uniques - Absolutely Rocksteady // Pressure Sounds - PSLP 69 ============ Bobby Aitken + The Carib Beats - Derrick Morgan - Franklyn White - Harris "BB" Seaton - Jimmy Riley - Keith "Slim" Smith - Ken Boothe - Lloyd "Charmers" Tyrell - Lynn Taitt + The Jets - Roy Shirley /// ========= Producer Bunny "Striker" Lee ====== LP Vinilo Nuevo - Precintado =============== 19€ ===============

[culturedub]

Conquering Sound - Africa We Want Riddim - 2x12" Conquering Records CRV003Basé sur un sample du titre 'Africa' des Gaydals sorti en 1967 chez Studio One, Conquering Sound nous délivre le terrible 'Africa We Want Riddim' sous forme de deux vinyles avec Anthony B, Skarra Mucci, Natty Jean, Sir Jean, Solo Banton & BB Seaton, General Levy et Queen Omega où comment remettre au goût du jour un ska en mode Digitally énergisant, listen it !https://tinyurl.com/ul3tx2p

[musicwritings]

Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) is one of the most important figures in the Middle Ages. She has more extant chants than any other composer of this time and interestingly was rediscovered in the late twentieth century. Not only a composer, Hildegard was also an herbalist (another name for a doctor), mystic, theologian, and administrator. She wrote extensively in all of these fields with scientific and medical treatises, letters, prophecies, and even developing her own language with literature in the dialect. She could be a part of this intellectual life because of the support the convent provided. Instruction included learning Latin, composition, all of which was a rarity for women of the time. The name “von Bingen” means “from [the town] Bingen” which is a German town along the Rhine River Valley. Throughout her life, Hildegard did not travel beyond twenty miles outside of Bingen. There is a collection of her writings and music which is called the Riesenkodex. In this there are two collections of musical works including 43 antiphons, 18 responsories, 7 sequences, 4 hymns, 5 other chants and the major work Ordo virtutum. Written around 1152, Ordo is the earliest surviving music-drama to which we know the composer as well as a large work not connected with the liturgy. There are eighty-two songs which can be read and transcribed to modern notation. This is a morality drama with allegorical characters including Virtues, Prophets, and (the only spoken part) the Devil. The music is monophonic with responses; that is, solo and then chorus. A problem that arises with this work is that it is unknown if the performance had instruments involved, though it is likely there were portative organs creating a drone during the chants. One interesting feature to point out is that these songs are sung like Gregorian chant with a close relation to the fixed paraphrase psalms of the church. The songs contrast the regular Gregorian modes, as they are written for women’s voices. Her songs are not typical of plainchant, but rather unique in the way of melodic patterns in various modal positions, allowing for internal variation. Regularly her music would be labeled as heresy, though her music was derived by “visions” and therefore deemed as Divine. There are many theories as to how Hildegard gained these visions; these range from migraines to eating moldy rye. She wrote three literary works involving her visions, one even describing Heaven. Ordo virtutum as well as her other works were widely dispersed, even reaching to the city of Rome. An important form of this time that Hildegard succeeded well at was the Sequence. This form of music is an large development in the history of the musical form (rhymed pairs of lines that shared music in the pattern A BB CC DD and so on). In her life, she founded two monasteries and was the abbess (head nun). She was very involved in politics and diplomacy, dealing with popes, emperors, kings, and archbishops.

Sources:

- 8th Edition of Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians edited by Nicolas Slonimsky

- 9th edition of A History of Western Music edited by J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca

- Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition by Douglass Seaton

[thewoodwindmethod]

Getting into the holiday spirit and want to work on your different options for Bb/A# saxophone fingerings? Use this excerpt from Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride to get a chance to run through most of them!

Exercise courtesy of John Seaton, Conn-Selmer Artist, D'Addario Clinician, & Associate Director of Bands at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts

[thetonyracanelli-blog]

The Thrill of victory is just that, a THRILL BUT!!!! One must maintain perspective. The kid, @gainzachiever, was an accomplished D1 sprinter that represented Seaton Hall in the Olympic trials. He's not actually a kid but in the sport of BB he's a kid. In what was his 2nd show, he won his second overall. That's great you say!!! I say yes but the kid has talent. He should win. He's that good. The measure of this trainer and his talent will be to get him a first callout at the nationals. That's the best of the best. We are applying the 48hr rule. He gets to celebrate 48hrs and back to work Monday for 12 hard days. @rosela_joseph_ifbb_pro_ @artortiz3 @theebostonmass @therealtechnician @krismurrell @todd320howe @busybodyfitnesscenters @iron_sharpens_iron_productions @muscleinsider (at Busy Body Fitness Centers)

[saxophone-headquarters-blog]

Adjusting Intonation

Everybody knows one of the most important aspects of playing music is making sure you’re playing your instrument in tune. Some horns do this very easily with minimal adjustment, while other horns, especially older ones, can play in tune but it is EXTREMELY difficult to do so. In a classical setting the saxophone is generally a color or texture instrument. Therefore our job is to make other sections sound better, be it the french horns or trombones or whatever we just so happen to get paired with. Because of this our intonation has to be spot on at all times, even though it should be as good as it can be all the time. The solution given by most band directors is “just lip it up/down” which in some cases works but really isn’t practical when the lines get faster and you have less time to fix the intonation.

John Seaton, one of my old teachers, wrote an article about this back in 2015 for a magazine called The Instrumentalist and this information should be standard in every band room and saxophone studio. The article appropriately titled “Saxophone Fingerings” talks about adjusting the standard fingerings on saxophone to correct or assist in correcting intonation. His reasons for this were as follows:

1. It is a more exact science. While lipping up or down does work, adding or taking away a key or two is much more consistent and will be adjust the pitch the same each time.

2. It preserves tone better. In certain registers you need a certain amount of pressure in your embouchure to keep the notes sounding tonally solid, and lipping up or down adds or subtracts pressure from that and will more often than not changes the pitch. You can compare this to using mallets of differents hardnesses and marimba, softer mallets will sound less harsh compared to harder mallets. Keep in mind is that not every note will have an alternate fingering that will get it in tune, but there may be a fingering that gets the note closer to in tune but you’d have to still lip up or down to get it to be in tune.

3. As stated before it just fits better in band pedagogy. In the article, you would never ask a tuba player to adjust a note using the first and third valves if the instrument has a fourth valve. With this reasoning asking a saxophonist to lip a note up or down while a better fingering is available is just bad practice.

The biggest part of John’s article was the alternate fingering chart he included with it. On the chart he took the basic saxophone fingerings and color coded the alternate fingerings based on whether it raises or lowers the pitch of the note, and I’m going to provide a link to that at the end of this post. I’m also going to include a chart of shorthand names for saxophone keys to use to write the fingerings in your part without writing “add side Bb” or “octave key plus the G key plus side C”.

For example you could instead write “C2” to say you’re going to use the palm Eb key to play the 4th line D in tune and in tone at a quieter dynamic

For example you could instead write “C2” to say you’re going to use the palm Eb key to play the 4th line D in tune and in tone at a quieter dynamic

Some more things to make shorthanding your intonation fixes easier:

Aside from the standard open C# the most widely used alternate fingering for open C# is the octave key plus the 3rd finger on your left hand. If you’re going to use this fingering and you don’t use it standard you can just write “alt.” in your part.

If you’re going to use the long fingering for C# which is low C# plus the octave key just write “long C#” (I thought this would be a given, but I included it here for general purposes)

If you’re going to add another key or not use a certain key instead of writing “add” or “don’t use” or various other pronouns just use the symbols for add (+) or subtract (-)

*on a 4th line D* + B

*on a palm E* - C1

If you’re going to use a side or palm key for a fingering just write the shorthand for that key

These fingerings are going to be different on every horn and every brand. Some fingerings may work well on one horn but won’t work at all on another, this is where you’d take time to experiment and find fingerings that work.

Example: *on a fourth space E* C3+C4

This fingering works very well on my baritone but doesn’t work very well on my tenor, I haven’t yet needed to test it on my alto or soprano.

This is by no means a “how to” guide on playing in tune, it’s just another method of doing so. There are many players who don’t even consider using alternate fingerings and rely on adjusting their voicings for intonation. I’ve seen this mostly in jazz players and given the style of music you can get away with spotty intonation every now and then. There are times and places to use alternate fingerings, and that’s for you to decide. Happy practicing!

John Seaton article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BygPwG54Df2xakJQNU40RGFObW8/view?usp=sharing

Shorthand saxophone fingerings: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BygPwG54Df2xYmxtR2RDT0FTZ3M/view?usp=sharing

[maturegems]

TODAY from our "Birthday Vault" from the world of music; entertainment; and sports we say a very Happy Birthday to some of our favourite legendary icons: Award winning actress Pauline Collins OBE; sporting stars footballers Paul Mason and Gareth Southgate; also athlete Derek Redmond. Music legendary singers: Gary Walker of the Walker Brothers; and reggae vetrans Cocoa Tea and 'BB' Seaton We remember also birthday memories for blues master guitarist Freddie King who would have celebrated his birthday today. Wishing you all a very pleasant birthday. #paulinecollins #garethsouthgate #derekredmond #paulmason #garywalker #cocoatea #bbseaton #freddieking #actress #sports #football #athlete #singer #musician #music #entertainer #icons #legends Celebrating birthdays of legendary icons...

[bamboomusiclist]

2/21 Linda Lewis / Not A Little Girl Anymore など更新しました。

おはようございます。更新完了しました。http://bamboo-music.net

Paul Quinichette / on the Sunny Sides prlp7103

Grant Green / Idle Moments Bst84154

Hank Mobley / Roll Call Bst84058

Tadd Dameron / Mating Call pr7745

Donald Byrd / Fuego 84026

Miles Davis / Milestones Cl1193

Moody Blues / to Our Childrens Childrens Children ths1

Moody Blues / on the Threshold of a Dream sml1035

Chris Linn / Quiver Of Live

War / Deliver the Word

Reuben Wilson / Set Us Free

Linda Lewis / Not A Little Girl Anymore

Monk Higgins / Little Mama

Curley Moore / Shelly's Rubber Band - Funky Yeah

Bb Seaton / Lean On Me - version

[rastavibes-reggae-shop]

CDs Room in The Sky Uk - Various Artists - Room in The Sky Masters Of Reggae 2020

reggae shop NEWS CDs Room in The Sky Uk - Various Artists - Room in The Sky Masters Of Reggae 2020 http://www.rastavibes.net/reggae-shop/?lang=en&p=catalogue&format=cd&item=00241 1. Winston Reedy - Here I Come (medley) 2. Donovan Kingjay & Frederica Tibbs - Our Day Will Come 3. Vin Gordon & Salute - Liberty Horn 4. Gregory Isaacs - Mi Name Gregory 5. Salute' Ft Alex White - Plastic Rice Riddim 6. Kingsley Wray - Heavy Load 7. Vin Gordon & Salute - Warrior Charge 8. Earl 16 - Everybody Loves Reggae 9. Thorpido - Unto Jah 10. Little Roy - Catch The Ball 11. Ric Carbi & Dohlance - Smoking The Highest 12. Derrick Morgan - Everybody Ska 13. Uk Principle - Endless Memories 14. Aj Franklin - Ten To One 15. Pat Kelly - I Wish It Would Rain 16. Juliaiasiah & Winston Reedy - In Paradise 17. Christopher Ellis - Big Bad Boy 18. Frankie Paul - Good Thing 19. Winston Reedy - Throw Me Corn 20. Winston Reedy - Perhaps 21. Bb Seaton - Lovely Lady 22. Mike Brooks - Get Ready 23. Count Prince Miller - Mule Train 24. Sol Raye - Latin Lover http://dlvr.it/RLlD8J