Anyone like Jazz Music?

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    G-Man23 wrote:
    Many roads begin with "Bird". He seems to get lumped in with the old school,but we know he and Sonny Rollins are huge to the new school of saxaphone players. Because Bird died in 1954,he gets overlooked by some.

    Coltrane took Parker's torch and ran with it.

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  • who's_pearljam?
    who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    catefrances wrote:
    doesn't anyone like charlie parker? his playing frequently sneaks into my headspace.


    :D

    I was just putting a list together of some great who many don’t know,,, and Charlie was number one!

    Charlie Parker- Sax! YES!!!

    Sonny Rollins - Bring tears to your eyes with his sax playing

    Clifford Brown - One of the great trumpet players, from right here in Wilmington Delaware, and there’s a great jazz festival named after him here.


    On guitar! (Over there on the right, :D )

    Joe Pass - One of the greats ever, in the world when he was alive..

    Herb Ellis - Get Joe Pass/ Herb Ellis - “Joe’s Blues” These two guys are amazing and you can hear friendly competition between them and is a great jazz guitar starter kit! :cool:



    Wes Montgomery - You’ll hear him playing guitar octaves,,,, and you’ll know who Jimi Hendrix was listening to!

    Django Reinhart may be one of the greatest whoever lived!


    Pat Martino - from Philly, one of the world’s greats. He had a stroke and forgot how to play guitar and had to relearn it. He’s a great person, too. He teaches and gives back by helping teachers to teach music therapy.


    Jimmy Bruno - Also from Philly. Both of these two are still living and tops and every once in a while you’ll see Pat and Jimmy playing together somewhere and it makes me realize how much I suck on guitar!
    Jimmy with just a guitar, no band. Check this one out!!:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=iQChYrqUQzE

    I just today got accepted into a Jazz Guitar at the U of Arts courses with either of them,, but I can't make the one with Pat Martino, but I CAN in February with Jimmy. Haha,,, I've been playing for years, but these guys make me realize how badly I suck! :D
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    And you know, Art Tatum was the very best of all. He was doing things in the thirties, that people are still trying to figure out today, and he did it all within the sphere of stride. Look what he does with Dvořák!:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNp-ldlnf5s
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    someone might have posted this already but if not watch it. this is stunning.

    So what - Miles davis 1959
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEFPGjgavn8

    Coltrane is superb in this.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    And you know, Art Tatum was the very best of all. He was doing things in the thirties, that people are still trying to figure out today, and he did it all within the sphere of stride. Look what he does with Dvořák!:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNp-ldlnf5s
    That's incredible. How the hell can anyone be that comfortable with an instrument? I feel like I'm fighting my guitar half the time I'm playing it but he looks like the piano is a part of him.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    He was blind in one eye, and had limited sight in the other. To be so visually impaired, but also be one of the very greatest virtuosos on any instrument, of any genre, is an incomprehensibly huge human achievement.
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    wow that was an impressive display on the piano.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    He was blind in one eye, and had limited sight in the other. To be so visually impaired, but also be one of the very greatest virtuosos on any instrument, of any genre, is an incomprehensibly huge human achievement.
    I don't know if you've seen this. It's a ludicrous display of talent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzj6Q61h3oA
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    i go to the jazz hole every time i get the chance.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    brain of c wrote:
    i go to the jazz hole every time i get the chance.

    Interesting explanation on your jazz tendencies.......haha!
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    I don't know if you've seen this. It's a ludicrous display of talent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzj6Q61h3oA

    I recommend this album, to anyone who loves music of any kind:

    http://www.analogueproductions.com/reissues/details.cfm?title_id=16900
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Big jazz fan here.
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Correct me if I'm wrong,but doesn't this genre of music ask much more of the listener? I mean jazz music is for the "active" listener rather than the "passive" listener.

    Also, I love how everybody in Jazz is interlinked. Many players have played in each others groups. And every record is pretty much a live final take. So much improvisation that it no other genre can closely come to it!
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Depends. I had a girlfriend who insisted on doing it, to the album Kulu Se Mama, by John Coltrane. The problem was, I had it on vinyl, and after side one ended, I was made to er, interrupt my stride, get up across to the other side of the room and flip the vinyl over, and get back on the job right away, as if nothing had happened. Thank God for the invention of the CD! :D
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Depends. I had a girlfriend who insisted on doing it, to the album Kulu Se Mama, by John Coltrane. The problem was, I had it on vinyl, and after side one ended, I was made to er, interrupt my stride, get up across to the other side of the room and flip the vinyl over, and get back on the job right away, as if nothing had happened. Thank God for the invention of the CD! :D

    Ha ha! That's some funny shit! Reel to reel would have been easier to deal with than an lp player!
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    G-Man23 wrote:
    Correct me if I'm wrong,but doesn't this genre of music ask much more of the listener? I mean jazz music is for the "active" listener rather than the "passive" listener.

    Also, I love how everybody in Jazz is interlinked. Many players have played in each others groups. And every record is pretty much a live final take. So much improvisation that it no other genre can closely come to it!

    I think to truely enjoy jazz it does demand a little more from the listener, but Jazz is great background music for a lot of things (not just sex but it can be damn good for that too) I love to put kind of blue on during a rainy day and just use it as background music
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Depends. I had a girlfriend who insisted on doing it, to the album Kulu Se Mama, by John Coltrane. The problem was, I had it on vinyl, and after side one ended, I was made to er, interrupt my stride, get up across to the other side of the room and flip the vinyl over, and get back on the job right away, as if nothing had happened. Thank God for the invention of the CD! :D
    I laughed so hard when I read this that I spat out my drink :D

    At least she had good taste. Kulu Se Mama is brilliant. I really love the spiritual side of Coltrane's music. That reminds me, have you ever heard Karma by Pharaoh Sanders? The Creator has a masterplan is unbelievable.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • sweet adeline
    sweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    Wow. One thing I hear a lot is, people say, "Bruce, what's this with you and Jazz? What's the beef with you and Jazz music?"

    I say, "Well, I really hate Jazz."

    They say, "What do you hate about poor old Jazz?"

    I say, "The sound. The sound that Jazz instruments make when they're being manipulated by Jazz players to the delight of Jazz respondents. I think of it as musical barf."

    They say, "I don't think you've given Jazz a chance."

    Well, I maintain, I haven't given suicide a chance, but. . .Well, I did give suicide a chance, but that was only because I was threatened with Jazz. You know. Jazz music.

    One thing I hate--One thing I hate is being woken up in the middle of the night, when I'm dreaming about, say, promiscuity with dignity by a rap-tap-tappin' on my window by those guys with goatee things on their faces, saying, "Hey. Can we come in? Beano's clarinet's gettin' wet." And then they go into this sorta Gene Krupa trance. Jazz schmazz. I'm sorry; I've got to go that far. Jazz schmazz.

    You know what? I'd like to declare this a Jazz-free zone, about forty miles as far as the Jazz-hatin' crow flies in any direction. Just paradise. Those guys would go to work, and it wouldn't be there.

    I'm gonna ask a question. What sort of music do you think there is in hell? You know, H-E-double hockey sticks? Well, I think it's probably hateful, free-form Jazz. And in heaven? Country and Western music. The choice is pretty obvious. It's not Jazz. It's not bop-a-dop bop-be-bop-bo Jazz. What's that? A recorder or something? I'm not into it. Fuzz pedal, that's what I'm into. You know?
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    sweet adeline wrote:
    Wow. One thing I hear a lot is, people say, "Bruce, what's this with you and Jazz? What's the beef with you and Jazz music?"

    I say, "Well, I really hate Jazz."

    They say, "What do you hate about poor old Jazz?"

    I say, "The sound. The sound that Jazz instruments make when they're being manipulated by Jazz players to the delight of Jazz respondents. I think of it as musical barf."

    They say, "I don't think you've given Jazz a chance."

    Well, I maintain, I haven't given suicide a chance, but. . .Well, I did give suicide a chance, but that was only because I was threatened with Jazz. You know. Jazz music.

    One thing I hate--One thing I hate is being woken up in the middle of the night, when I'm dreaming about, say, promiscuity with dignity by a rap-tap-tappin' on my window by those guys with goatee things on their faces, saying, "Hey. Can we come in? Beano's clarinet's gettin' wet." And then they go into this sorta Gene Krupa trance. Jazz schmazz. I'm sorry; I've got to go that far. Jazz schmazz.

    You know what? I'd like to declare this a Jazz-free zone, about forty miles as far as the Jazz-hatin' crow flies in any direction. Just paradise. Those guys would go to work, and it wouldn't be there.

    I'm gonna ask a question. What sort of music do you think there is in hell? You know, H-E-double hockey sticks? Well, I think it's probably hateful, free-form Jazz. And in heaven? Country and Western music. The choice is pretty obvious. It's not Jazz. It's not bop-a-dop bop-be-bop-bo Jazz. What's that? A recorder or something? I'm not into it. Fuzz pedal, that's what I'm into. You know?
    no one is making you listen to it. perhaps coming into a jazz thread is gonna have people talking about jazz. deal with it.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    no one is making you listen to it. perhaps coming into a jazz thread is gonna have people talking about jazz. deal with it.


    I could be wrong but i don't think he made that up i think that was from a movie or something.
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