Strung Beats, Jazz Battles & The Notes You Don't Play

<p>The Strong Songs mailbag has gotten pretty overstuffed lately, so Kirk decided to take another crack at it. That means it's time for more of your musical questions!</p> <p>On this episode, we bounce around between the best songs for performing CPR, country music multiphonics, Noname's strung beats, the slide saxophone, Stevie Nicks guitar tones, Roxanne syncopation, how to find a voice teacher, whether competition is good for music, and what it means when people say jazz is about "the notes you <em>don't</em> play."</p> <p><strong>REFERENCED ON THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <ul> <li>“Stayin Alive” by the Bee Gees from the <em>Saturday Night Fever</em> soundtrack, 1977</li> <li>“Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen from <em>The Game</em>, 1980</li> <li>“Freight Train” by Alan Jackson from <em>Freight Train</em>, 2010</li> <li>“Something” by Lalah Hathaway and Snarky Puppy from <em>Family Dinner</em>, 2013</li> <li>“Sunny Duet (feat. theMIND)” and “Yesterday” by Noname from <em>Telefone</em>, 2016</li> <li>“Waves” by J Dilla from <em>Donut</em>, 2006</li> <li>“Swamp Thing” by Hiatus Kayote from <em>Choose Your Weapon</em>, 2015</li> <li>Frédéric Couderc on the slide saxophone playing “Come Sunday” by Duke Ellington: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnrM3GZMS8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnrM3GZMS8</a></li> <li>“Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Knicks from <em>Bella Donna</em>, 1981</li> <li>“Bring on the Night” by The Police from <em>The Police</em>, 1979</li> <li>“Roxanne” by The Police from <em>Outlandos d’Amor</em>, 1978</li> <li>“The Eternal Triangle,” by Sonny Stitt from <em>Sonny Side Up</em>, 1957</li> <li>“You Don’t Know What Love Is” by Raye and DePaul, recorded by Sonny Rollins on <em>Saxophone Colossus</em>, 1956</li> <li>“So What” by Miles Davis from <em>Kind of Blue</em>, 1959</li> </ul> <p><strong>OUTRO SOLOIST: Erik Elligers</strong></p> <p>Erik is a Connecticut-based multi-instrumentalist and music educator. He plays saxophone with the New London Big Band and sings and plays guitar for t