Author Topic: Jazz.. (Read 32153 times)

Mal · « **Reply #80 on:** July 8, 2010, 12:08:36 am »

Ok, it might be an obvious choice but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZHUVjQydI

has the finest opening bars on Blue Note.

Monumental.

Pheeny · « **Reply #81 on:** July 8, 2010, 10:41:57 pm »

this is just class...

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DJBrenton · « **Reply #82 on:** July 8, 2010, 10:44:46 pm »

I hadn't heard of Treme so I've downloaded and watched the first series over the past 2 days. It's an extraordinary series and I've discovered a number of artists previously unknown to me. It's also got me interested in visiting New Orleans for Mardi Gras.

KERRYKOP · « **Reply #83 on:** July 24, 2010, 02:41:48 am »

Just on the Treme vibe..... Here's a Great Allen Toussaint album. The track "Basic lady" is worth it alone

Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1969)

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Red_Isle_Chap · « **Reply #84 on:** July 24, 2010, 05:40:30 am »

I'm not a jazz fan, not by any stretch. But my missus loves this bloke:

She plays it loud when she's baking, which she does a lot and i've got to say I've grown to utterly love it.

Mouth · « **Reply #85 on:** July 24, 2010, 05:57:13 am »

Unfortunately cant embed this 2 parter of Wynton Marsalis at the 2002 proms, performing Dreaming on a washboard, its worth watching though, talk about cool drum solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFvgCtomkqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPAu93nXu0

dannymc · « **Reply #86 on:** November 21, 2010, 02:30:16 am »

met a local jazz guitarist on the train the other night, proper old school scouser from huyton - sound as.

name was Gary Potter, smashin fella and after youtube and goog'ling him, seems to be fairly popular in the uk swing jazz scene, anyone heard his stuff or heard of him?

first time ive listened to this sort of music and i like it!

RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #87 on:** January 28, 2011, 10:45:28 am »

Marcus Miller: 'Power' (from "M2")

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RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #88 on:** January 28, 2011, 10:51:20 am »

Duke Ellington: "Blues in Orbit"

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eAyeAddio · « **Reply #89 on:** February 3, 2011, 03:09:41 pm »

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RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #90 on:** February 4, 2011, 04:35:10 pm »

Loud, is even better

The Drift: 'Uncanny Valley'

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RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #91 on:** February 4, 2011, 04:50:25 pm »

Dave Brubeck: 'Take Five'

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KERRYKOP · « **Reply #92 on:** February 4, 2011, 06:41:25 pm »

Quote from: RedmeisterOZ on February 4, 2011, 04:50:25 pm

Dave Brubeck: 'Take Five'

The moment when Jazz went from 4/4 to 9/8. I don't normally like to bring race into it but this was the crowning glory for white musicians in a black art.

RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #93 on:** February 4, 2011, 07:02:08 pm »

Miles Davis: Spanish Key

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Filler. · « **Reply #94 on:** February 4, 2011, 09:44:45 pm »

culled from another thread, but it's a must hear for anyone who likes Jazz. To quote Wiki: Allmusic reviewer Brian Olewnick calls the album "one of the landmark records of the burgeoning avant-garde of the time and, simply put, one of the greatest jazz albums ever".

... one of THE great jazz songs from 1970. The Art Ensemble of Chicago, with the sublime voice of Fontella Bass on vocals.

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The lyrics to the opening track (the one above) deserves some examination. Fontella Bass had scored a big hit with the classic 'Rescue Me' in 1965 for Chess Records. They screwed her over, and she then scored a couple of minor hit singles. She left the mainstream and hooked up and married Lester Bowie, and delivered this classic album.

Your head is like a yoyo,
your neck is like the string,
Your body's like a camembert
oozing from its skin.

Your fanny's like two sperm whales
floating down the Seine
Your voice is like a long fuck
that's music to your brain.

Your eyes are two blind eagles
that kill what they can't see
Your hands are like two shovels
digging in me.

And your love is like an oil-well
Dig, dig, dig, dig it,
On the Champs-Elysees.
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Ginamos · « **Reply #95 on:** February 4, 2011, 10:26:29 pm »

Nice shout for The Art Ensemble of Chicago, they've made a load of great albums. I'd also recommend "Bap-Tizum" and "Urban Bushmen", the Lester Bowie solo "The Great Pretender" is also worth a listen.

Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender

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shelovesyou · « **Reply #96 on:** February 5, 2011, 12:36:22 am »

Quote from: Filler. on February 4, 2011, 09:44:45 pm

culled from another thread, but it's a must hear for anyone who likes Jazz. To quote Wiki: Allmusic reviewer Brian Olewnick calls the album "one of the landmark records of the burgeoning avant-garde of the time and, simply put, one of the greatest jazz albums ever".

... one of THE great jazz songs from 1970. The Art Ensemble of Chicago, with the sublime voice of Fontella Bass on vocals.

The lyrics to the opening track (the one above) deserves some examination. Fontella Bass had scored a big hit with the classic 'Rescue Me' in 1965 for Chess Records. They screwed her over, and she then scored a couple of minor hit singles. She left the mainstream and hooked up and married Lester Bowie, and delivered this classic album.

Your head is like a yoyo,
your neck is like the string,
Your body's like a camembert
oozing from its skin.

Your fanny's like two sperm whales
floating down the Seine
Your voice is like a long fuck
that's music to your brain.

Your eyes are two blind eagles
that kill what they can't see
Your hands are like two shovels
digging in me.

And your love is like an oil-well
Dig, dig, dig, dig it,
On the Champs-Elysees.

Back on the 1st page of this thread you handed me my arse for comments I made regarding Jazz and rightly so. Id like to apologise for my ignorance as since then Ive made a real effort to understand and appreciate it more.
Having been pushed towards a few of the greats such as Mingus, Brubeck and Coleman, Ive learnt to appreciate not only the sounds but the cultures that influenced them .
So again , apologies.

Filler. · « **Reply #97 on:** February 5, 2011, 10:18:53 pm »

Quote from: shelovesyou on February 5, 2011, 12:36:22 am

Back on the 1st page of this thread you handed me my arse for comments I made regarding Jazz and rightly so. Id like to apologise for my ignorance as since then Ive made a real effort to understand and appreciate it more.
Having been pushed towards a few of the greats such as Mingus, Brubeck and Coleman, Ive learnt to appreciate not only the sounds but the cultures that influenced them .
So again , apologies.

You're just getting old

It was the fact you said you were a musician that annoyed me I think. In your defense tho, Jazz doesn't get the exposure it deserves in the mainstream - JazzFM for instance is cheesy beyond belief. Our casual aural universe hears jazz on a very particular level - one that's chilled, cozy, inoffensive and friendly. It gets used to advertise Levi jeans etc. More often than not it's dull. At the other end, It's surrounded by a sometimes impenetrably stuffy intellectualism that naturally puts people off. Another reason that jazz is sometimes difficult to get a hold off is that musicians move all over the place and don't set themselves up as a 'band' or unit that is the main currency in pop and rock. Not so much anyway.

I used to really hate big band jazz - I've always had a hard time getting on with a band that smile so often, and connected big band jazz with nights in watching Des O'Conner as a kid thoroughly depressed, but I'm all over it at the mo. So much to dig up it's head spinning.

The best friend of Jazz - good jazz - is not the blues tho... it's punk. My opinion only that one. But Jazz is far too big a pigeon hole to denounce in a sentence or two. It's far too wide, and far too varied for that, and we haven't even started on African music yet... it's gargantuan.

Sun Ra is a fun name to look into... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEUxtJbLLJM

RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #98 on:** February 5, 2011, 10:42:28 pm »

Quote from: Filler. on February 5, 2011, 10:18:53 pm

The best friend of Jazz - good jazz - is not the blues tho... it's punk. My opinion only that one. But Jazz is far too big a pigeon hole to denounce in a sentence or two. It's far too wide, and far too varied for that, and we haven't even started on African music yet... it's gargantuan.

Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta (1974)

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Elysian Fields · « **Reply #99 on:** February 5, 2011, 11:23:17 pm »

I'm not an expert on jazz, but its covers a very wide range.

If you like female vocals, then you could try Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. Of the more modern vocalist, I like Melody Gardot, though I'm not sure if you quite classify her as a pure jazz singer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcebJ37cZKQ

Filler. · « **Reply #100 on:** February 7, 2011, 10:20:52 pm »

Quote from: RedmeisterOZ on February 5, 2011, 10:42:28 pm

Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta (1974)

Ohh that's quite nice isn't it?

Quote from: Elysian Fields on February 5, 2011, 11:23:17 pm

If you like female vocals, then you could try Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.

I'm a big Simone Fan, tho Ella is of course great too, but I have a peach of a live LP (plus a few films on vhs) of Simone... Live at Town Hall (1959). It's peerless - makes me weep nearly every time. Bessie Smith is another great female voice but from a little further back.

Mentioned above about big band jazz, or Woody Allen music as I tend to call it, and here's a classic... Benny Goodman's 'Sing, Sing, Sing' from the late 30's. Lovely.

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RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #101 on:** February 7, 2011, 11:32:27 pm »

Quote from: Filler. on February 7, 2011, 10:20:52 pm

Ohh that's quite nice isn't it?

That was from 1974, so sound quality not great. Mulatu Astatke still playing. Saw him last year, was a great night.
This is Mulatu Astatke with the Heliocentrics: "Addis Black Widow" (2009)

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Album: Inspiration Information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJtmjk2eJPc

eAyeAddio · « **Reply #102 on:** February 8, 2011, 03:30:31 pm »

Quote from: Komic on July 7, 2010, 11:57:04 am

Can someone point me in the direction of some bands that have trombone players.......

Gladly.
Check this one out...

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Henry Chinaski · « **Reply #103 on:** February 8, 2011, 04:09:27 pm »

Bill Evans Trio - 'Sunday at the Village Vanguard'

Incredible classic that hasn't gotten a shout yet. Check out 'My Man's Gone Now' first. Original by Gershwin, but boy, does the man do a fine job on it.

Nice Guy Davey · « **Reply #104 on:** February 8, 2011, 11:51:18 pm »

Would recommend Midnight Blue by Kenny Burrell and Blue Hour by Stanley Turrentine. Two great albums for a spot of late night listening

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #105 on:** February 8, 2011, 11:54:51 pm »

Kashinoda · « **Reply #106 on:** February 9, 2011, 02:03:51 am »

Quote from: Andy@Allerton on February 8, 2011, 11:54:51 pm

Nice

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Filler. · « **Reply #107 on:** February 9, 2011, 10:36:54 am »

Benny Goodman & the Pied Pipers - All the Cats Join In, 1946.

Impossible not to want to get off your chair and have a little bop...

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sparkiemark73 · « **Reply #108 on:** February 9, 2011, 12:01:37 pm »

Not a massive fan of Jazz but can anyone point me in the right direction of artists who do this kind of Piano Jazz?. I'd best describe it as 'plinky plonky' (not insulting the genre, it's fans or anything... I just don't know how to describe it!)

I've posted Skating by Vince Guraldi below as an example. Specificaly the feeling /style at 1'03" to 1'50" in.

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Much appreciated.

Ginamos · « **Reply #109 on:** February 9, 2011, 12:36:30 pm »

The Bill Evans album posted above by Henry Chinaski might be the sort of thing you're looking for.

Also, Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" album.

Espresso Bar · « **Reply #110 on:** February 13, 2011, 09:39:56 pm »

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RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #113 on:** February 14, 2011, 10:25:34 am »

Jazz fusion.
Billy Cobham: 'Stratus'

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And, before anyone says, isn't that the same beat and groove of Massive Attack's 'Safe from Harm'.
Yes, it is and acknowledged on 'Blue LInes'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aw2rM0w-pc

Espresso Bar · « **Reply #114 on:** February 15, 2011, 08:37:50 pm »

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RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #117 on:** March 9, 2011, 11:59:22 am »

The original '1968' on 'Unspeakable' is a cool number on it's own, but this live version is pretty good too.
Bill Frisell: '1968' (Live)

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eAyeAddio · « **Reply #118 on:** March 10, 2011, 01:48:21 pm »

If I ever need reminding of what it feels like to be in New York City on a hot, sultry July afternoon, sipping a Coors while sitting on the porch of a brownstone in the upper west side, I just play this...................

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Butcher Knife Roberto · « **Reply #119 on:** March 10, 2011, 08:26:34 pm »

Absolutely love 'Headhunters' and 'Secrets' by Herbie Hancock, true 1970's, funky jazz. Purists would say it isn't really 'true' jazz, but well worth a listen.

For guitar jazz you've got your early Django Reinhardt as well as greats such as John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell, but for me the master is Allan Holdsworth. Completely unlistenable to some, an enlightened but troubled genius to others. I would recommend 'Fred' as a starter fro ten, the solo on it is a technical tour-de-force and unlike anything I've ever heard being played on a guitar before.

Author Topic: Jazz.. (Read 32153 times)

Pheeny