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Marlow
Sport climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 4, 2011 - 04:37pm PT
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Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra - Shades Of Jade
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Velvet moods with a dash of soul - like an aural fireside with a touch of silk...
The personnel for this February 26, 1940 session are:
Hamp - vibes
Ziggy Elman - trumpet
Toots Mondello, Buff Estes - alto saxes
Budd Johnson, Jerry Jerome - tenor saxes
Ernest Ashley - guitar
Spencer Odun - piano
Artie Bernstein - bass
Nick Fatool - drums
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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i hate jazz
i smoke weed
foolish sucker
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Marlow, Chill and beautiful. The young ones develope their own technique.
Bodine, love the beat music, very cool they develope the music and rythym well.
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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pretty sure that is not jazz
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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cosmic, i saw jon luc ,
berkeley, in or outdoors, maybe both,
freaked me out, better than jeff beck,
bass player was cool, chicks had real tits back then,
zappa had a prostate back then,
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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i think the odds are 50/50
i just might have something to say,
well my breath is chartreuse,
and my dandruff is loose,
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Still peeing sprock..?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I saw Wynton Marsalis when he was 18 and playing with Art Blakey in a
tiny club in Seattle! MegaRad!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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I saw Wynton Marsalis when he was 18 and playing with Art Blakey
That would have forced some discipline on him. Blakey, more than any musician I've heard, had the ability to make anyone who played with him better.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I think he already had the discipline from his family milieu and his classical
training. He played within himself and it was really hard to believe he was
only 18 - musically he was more like 25. There was no doubt in my mind where
he was headed. Of course, there was no doubt in Art Blakey's mind either.
I don't think he took on charity cases. :-)
As a patzer trumpeter I've had the great pleasure of seeing almost all the
greats in person starting with Satchmo and IMHO Wynton ranks right up there.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and declare Maynard Ferguson as having the
greatest chops. OK, maybe just 'cause I like a big sound. :-)
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wayne w
Trad climber
the nw
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True that about Art Blakey Ghost. I saw Wynton on two tours with Art and the Jazz Messengers. On the second his brother Branford was in the band as well.
Backstage, at Keystone Korner in S.F., during a break on the second tour, Art was in Wynton's face. His exact words, "you are here to learn boy. If you don't want to listen to me I'll get someone in here tomorrow to replace you!"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Rad! Birth of the cool?
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
OR
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Miles wrote he liked horses and swimming, but cats are spose'd to climb.
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
OR
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Nov 11, 2011 - 05:47am PT
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nice find, Marlow!
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Nov 14, 2011 - 02:24pm PT
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Lester Bowie once said of Wynton
"With his chops and my brains we would have made a great trumpet player"
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mike bodine
climber
bishop, ca
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Nov 17, 2011 - 12:20pm PT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QViAZa41bk
Voice of chunk - The Lounge Lizards ( no Tex-ass affiliation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGxQ5XcyuNM
Steve Colemen and the Law of Balance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qjiQwD7VCI
by Space is the place by Sun RA -
seeing this old crazy black guy jumping up and down, destroy a grand piano wearing nothing more than a shower cap, a shower curtain cape and a loin cloth, complete with bone through the nose and voodoo headress made quit the impression on me at 10 years old. Bar set pretty high, very high
Such a great art form - just a couple years old -
This is the only stuff I can listen to anymore - and Zappa
Im an addict with a high tolerance - sue me
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 24, 2011 - 04:33pm PT
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I never did figure out why so many Norwegians are fascinated by jazz.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 24, 2011 - 04:36pm PT
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Hehe... neither do I. This thread is inspired by a Swede and his program Swing & Sweet. His name was Leif Smokerings Andersson.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Dec 28, 2011 - 05:17pm PT
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Louis Jordan always bring a smile to my face.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 29, 2011 - 04:57am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Thanks for the idea Frumy. These guys love what they're doing and it's swinging...
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Dec 29, 2011 - 11:51am PT
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Thank you Marlow.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2012 - 04:51am PT
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Excellent jazz Hooblie. Keep'em coming.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 10, 2012 - 03:47am PT
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Zawinul. You do the math.
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1 Rusty Piton
Trad climber
Jamestown, Rhode Island
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Jazz .. thats a broad subject .. in my little corner of the universe it means fusion ..Mahavishnu, Zappa, Weather Report .. of course Miles ..stuff like that. I liked Brand X and Jean Luc Ponty a lot. More recently Bill Bruford's Earthworks had some fresh and exciting stuff going on for a while. Jazz should make you a little nervous.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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^^^^^ IT'S ALL GOOD ^^^^^
TFPU
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bit'er ol' guy
climber
the past
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Lame.
Gee, lets try to "out jazz" each other.
"I saw him before you did"
"I have more jazz CDs than you"
"check out this youtube vid,
yeah,
thats how hip I am"
Of course the more obscure the reference
the more superior you feel
RIGHT?
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Borut
climber
french, spider
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Nov 17, 2012 - 10:56am PT
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OK Marlow.
But do you have some Rhythm in your bag?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 17, 2012 - 11:00am PT
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A different beat.
Edit: Examples?
Edit 2: aha... that's flat out impressing...
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Borut
climber
french, spider
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Nov 17, 2012 - 11:08am PT
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I meant Rhythm Changes
Edit: AABA, most often in B flat
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 18, 2012 - 05:25am PT
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This set brought to you by Whole Tone Press. http://www.joefitschen.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cathcart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Hackett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Miller_(jazz_saxophonist);
http://ask.com/wiki/Zutty_Singleton
http://www.traditional-jazz.com/mainpages/zutty.htm
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You might think that my interest in jazz would have served as a bridge into black culture. When I was interested in Dixieland, I heard Kid Ory play at the Dixieland Jubilee at L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium (and, if memory serves, Sidney Bechet)...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
[See, OldBiterofTongue? "Los Everyjuan" does the "I saw so-and-so" so Fk U.]
...but by then Dixieland was mostly white people's music played by white musicians like Bob Crosby, Bobby Hackett, Jack Teagarden, Eddie Miller, and Zutty Singleton. One of my favorite radio shows was "Pete Kelly's Blues," which starred Jack Webb. It featured Dick Cathcart on cornet, but was only broadcast for a few months in 1951 (though in 1955 it was made into a movie).
[Click to View YouTube Video]See the clarinetist: Lee Marvin, M Squad
From Dixieland I glided into swing, but, again, I was exposed mostly to the white bands. My favorites were Woody Herman's Herd and Stan Kenton, and only later did I discover kBasie, Ellington, and Lionel Hampton. As my interests shifted from swing into bebo, however, I began to see a lot of black faces on record jackets. Because I was a trumpet player, I was especially impressed with Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown and Fats Navarro.
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When I started going to clubs to hear live jazz, however, the players were white--Gerry Mulligan, Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, and all the ex-Kentonites who played down at the Lighthouse. Later, I learned that Bird and Clifford had played down on Central Avenue, and I had missed them.
--Joe Fitschen, Going Up [again, edited by Mouse for paragraphing]
Another climber from Joe's era, Rick Sylvester, has an ear for jazz to the point that he has been atending the MJF for, oh, about the last forty years straight. He can bend our ears, let me tell you, and I wish he shwould. Matter of fact, I asked him about skiing a bit ago and just got a reply on his adventures this week in Tahoe. Recompense for all that pine needle bagging this fall.
Anyone ever read James Ellroy's LA Quartet, which includes White Jazz?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Jazz
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Borut
climber
french, spider
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Nov 18, 2012 - 06:41am PT
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Hi Mouse.
Thanks for your posts!
I'm a classical musician (bass) and I dig jazz. Even tried adventuring into some of the grooves... in the past.
Let me pick up a line though. Here's a pic of Zutty's:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 23, 2012 - 11:04pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video][Click to View YouTube Video]It's not mysterious. Just takes talent and practice and exposure.
[Click to View YouTube Video]I used to own this LP and practically wore it out. I liked Larry's work on his composition Lines, but can't locate the track...
And for Bit'r, I saw and heard and applauded for the Quartet at 1970's Free Monterey Jazz Festival for Dirtbags Who Can Climb Fences.
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Borut
climber
french, spider, cheater
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Nov 25, 2012 - 06:30am PT
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Thanks mouse for all these goodies! Wow the 67 Berlin concert!
a while ago I ran into the Rhythm Changes again, this time by Don Byas and Slam Stewart! a grand classic
Cheers!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 12, 2013 - 07:04pm PT
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MOUSE!
That clip of Ella and Mel Torme might be the finest scat singing I have ever heard! Absolutely brilliant!!
Obviously, Mel and Ella both have perfect pitch. Notice how she just whips off the opening riff in the correct key.
Oh. I stand corrected. Just listened again, they're in the same key as the original intro. So even I could could have got the opening note. However the licks they are singing are so complex, and so pitch perfect, it takes real musicians to pull off something like that.
Dang. Excellent.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
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Billie Holiday - "One for my Baby (and one more for the road)"
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2013 - 05:02pm PT
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SCseagoat
TFPU! Great great history writing by Ferretlegger:
"My observation was that the Jazz musicians who my father worked with (hundreds) seemed to fall into several categories. Some were superior musicians, and also good, grounded businessmen and people. They dealt with the world in an upfront and forthright manner. Another category, quite large, were like little children. Music was their lives, their passion, their sole interest, and their language. When playing a gig, practicing, or in session, they communicated through music with each other in an almost paranormal way. The sensitivity and artistry and way they seemed to read each others minds was thrilling to behold. But when the music stopped, they seemed barely able to cope with the real world. It was something that just didn't really make sense for them. Drug and alcohol abuse was very common, perhaps to dull the pain of the outside world, perhaps as a retreat from an existence totally barren and meaningless compared to their music. I have always had very mixed feelings about these musical geniuses (and some of the greatest jazz musicians in history were in this group). One the one hand, I have felt pity that their lives outside of music were so screwed up and tragic. On the other hand, I have seen closeup what a great gift taken to the limit is capable of. The soaring heights of an intense session with world class players transcends normal life."
and:
"Finally, the bad blood chemistry got the better of him (Ferretlegger's father) and he slipped into a coma. The doctors were sure that this was it. As you would expect, the entire family had gathered and we were pretty glum. Then Ken Peplowski, the great clarinetist showed up at the ICU where we had gathered. With tears streaming down his face he assembled his clarinet and began to play. He had hardly finished the first bar when my father popped right out of his "death coma", sat bolt upright in bed and hollered "KEN!!!" Ken kept playing and soon the entire ICU was filled with doctors, nurses, relatives, and even a few terminal patients were wheeled in. Ken played for a long time, and the effect on all was magical. My father had several more days of great contentment, as Ken continued to visit. Finally, though, even music was not enough and he passed along to whatever waits."
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Mar 22, 2013 - 08:46pm PT
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You're welcome Marlow, Michael lurks on ST, doesn't post that much, but his writings when he does (they are usually l-o-n-g) are very interesting..he great writer...and his professional background is laser physics!
He has some wonderful stories about some of his trips to Japan and helping with the artists!
Susan
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Mar 23, 2013 - 07:03am PT
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you can watch Jazz by Ken Burns on Netflix for free, pretty dang good,
charlie parker walkin into a harlem grocery store with no clothes on,
wtf, over?
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Mar 23, 2013 - 09:24am PT
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I played trombone and mostly piano at the jazz club in Toronto on Thursday night for damn near four hours. Favourites we did were There Will Never Be Another You, Just Friends, and Sway. Great night!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 24, 2013 - 12:24pm PT
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Pass the Pitons Pete - Do you have a video where your band is playing?
A good old tune - Glenn Miller:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Magic Ed
Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Mar 24, 2013 - 01:20pm PT
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When I was 17 I went to see the Modern Jazz Quartet at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City (Bellas Artes). I couldn't afford a good seat but during the intermission I bribed an usher into letting us into an empty box that was literally directly above the stage. It was a sublime evening that will stay with me forever.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 24, 2013 - 02:12pm PT
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Where angels dare not... Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson - Stones That Only Have
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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Mar 24, 2013 - 02:16pm PT
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If you guys are in the Santa Monica area, check out GO Jazz at Typhoon tomorrow night. I play second tenor.
http://www.typhoon.biz/?page_id=3958
Jeff
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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You are right, Largo. Clifford Brown would have made a huge contribution.
Such an irony that he was one of the straight musicians of his era, in good health, and he dies in a car crash.
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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My favorite Jazz...
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Clifford Brown's Joy Spring is one of my all time faves. I can do a pretty good job on the slide trombone, but of course it was written as a tune for a valved instrument.
I really wanted to play it last night at my gig, but the temperature wasn't quite warm enough. Man, we need spring here...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 7, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
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Pocoloco and Hooblie.
Thanks for the jazz history. I'm listening to the 1959 story right now.
Garcia and Grisman repeated - jazz or not jazz doesn't matter - this is beyond categories.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Apr 19, 2013 - 08:51am PT
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I was working on Jazz Express magazine in London, which was started by Peter Boizot, who had started the Pizza Express chain of restaurants.
The Jazz Basement in the Dean Street (Soho) Pizza Express was great (I was also a member of Ronnie Scott's club and visited the 100 club on Oxford Street). But the Jazz Basement was my favorite, mainly because I got in for free and had free food, had to pay for the booze though.
Some great acts there but my most fondest memory is Benny Carter when he performed on his 83rd birthday. After the last set, after the customers left, we (staff and I) stayed up into the wee hours and he was regaling us with his stories of being a jazz man travelling around the States, especially as an African-American in segregated America, his gigs... it was great.
http://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/jazzList.aspx
EDIT
Peter Boizot also had Pizza On The Park (next to Hyde Park) restaurant/jazz club, some good acts. I also got in there for free and free food, beer/wine I had to pay for.
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2010/03/do-we-really-have-to-lose-pizza-on-park.html
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Apr 19, 2013 - 10:25am PT
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TAKE THE "A" TRAIN
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Apr 20, 2013 - 12:56am PT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-5kVfGeuqw
Next time you have time to enjoy a concert, this is a pretty decent one.
Enjoy.
Note: That's Jaco Pastorius' kid, Felix, on base, and with Will Kenndey on drums, they are questionably the suavest rhythm section working in contemporary jazz. Great thing about this group is that they rarely overplay or ramble.
JL
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Srbphoto
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Kennewick wa
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Apr 24, 2013 - 09:29am PT
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Great thing about this group is that they rarely overplay or ramble.
So you're saying they aren't jazz musicians?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 28, 2013 - 10:19am PT
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Lars Danielsson, Leszek Mozdzer and Zohar Fresco - Suffering (Danielsson)
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Posted by Hooblie on another thread. Brilliant music...
If you want more - The Time Live (Full concert)
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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May 23, 2013 - 05:35am PT
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'Concierto de Aranjuez' from Jim Hall's album 'Concierto' (1975), featuring Jim Hall (guitar), Ron Carter (bass), Steve Gadd (drums), Roland Hanna (piano), Paul Desmond (alto sax) and Chet Baker (trumpet). Arranged by Don Sebesky and produced by Creed Taylor.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2013 - 04:35pm PT
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Music after midnight introduced by the forum's feinschmecker Hooblie - Steen Rasmussen Quarteto Em São Paulo
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 8, 2013 - 12:59pm PT
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Dhafer Youssef & Hüsnü Şenlendirici - Odd Poetry
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Hooblie
I know that feeling. The music is full of wonder. When I listen deeply nothing else matters and afterwards silence is golden... for a while... TFPU!
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Who or whom could this be at a early age?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 8, 2013 - 04:10pm PT
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I don't know. Who is it?
My first guess would be BB King though this is the war-room... eh ... the Jazz thread..
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Try, Very famous and still playing?
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Nice job
It all started with two guys fighting over a woman and a fire:
This poster is when Gibson was Gibson [Norlin] 1981, BB contract with Gibson started in '82.
The rest is History
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Tonite at The Bar in Palm Springs.....jazz Sax man (and climber) Kelly Corbin......I wish to go....hope I can.....
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Aug 12, 2013 - 03:18pm PT
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Very sad to hear of the passing of GEORGE DUKE.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2013 - 03:27pm PT
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The music lives on...
Bill Cobham / George Duke Band - Red Baron
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Aug 12, 2013 - 05:27pm PT
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Now that was a band.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 23, 2013 - 01:24pm PT
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Hooblie.
You posted Joshua Redman & The Bad Plus on the SONG thread
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I join one of the commenters: "Oh yea, YES. I love the build up. And the discordant piano. The saxophone pulling the melody along. And the bass building lines of passion and fervor. The few moments where all the instruments meet and synchronize, and for that brief moment you see the clarity of the movement and the direction it's going. It rises and swells, and build. Tempo and volume congruous until the end, where it explodes with it's original intent."
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2013 - 05:39pm PT
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Tindersticks Running Wild (First half of extended instrumental version)
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I'll let this count as jazz to get another chance to post it...
Let it go...
Let it flow...
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
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Oct 29, 2013 - 05:27pm PT
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Who remembers Pat Metheny?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 27, 2013 - 11:36am PT
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Chico Hamilton dies at 92; drummer forged California cool jazz sound
He went to high school with Buddy Collette, Dexter Gordon and Charles Mingus!
Damn! That's what I call gettin' an edification!
Chico Hamilton Obit
Man, that dude just exuded cool.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2013 - 02:18pm PT
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Martial Solal Trio - The Last Time I Saw Paris / Body & Soul / Begin the Beguine
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Dec 12, 2013 - 11:40am PT
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I was very sad to hear of the passing of Jim Hall a few days ago.
He really was one of the great guitarist.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2013 - 04:05pm PT
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Jim Hall for you, Frumy.
Tobia posted Jim Hall on the WHAT SONG thread some days ago. More from the man:
Pat Metheny & Jim Hall
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Posted earlier by Hooblie on the mentioned thread:
Thomas Enhco Trio "You're Just a Ghost"
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Desafinado, Misty, Girl from Ipanema, goodbye Pork Pie Hat, 'round midnight...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2014 - 02:41pm PT
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Giovanni Mirabassi - El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido
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Walking in the footprints left by Hooblie...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 16, 2014 - 05:07am PT
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Posting is enjoyable. It's work that I love to do.
It makes me feel my worth.
Thanks for taking time to visit the Flames, everyone of you who just lurks and does not post here, and the regulars, especially.
Carlow, this is an excellent thread, que no?
[Click to View YouTube Video]For Martha STewart, wherever you are.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 11, 2014 - 09:53pm PT
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You may criticize this melange, my choicest Gotcha Music, as "not jazz." Your opinion counts for squat.
This film made a strong impression on me. I went out in the lobby and hurled.
Warning! Clip contains sex and violence.
And all that jazz.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Straw Doggy Fieldings Forever.
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MikeL
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SANTA CLARA, CA
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Mar 23, 2014 - 12:24pm PT
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"As you play, there must be no intellectual interference. Intellect is good for picking out an instrument, teaching or getting to the gig on time. It's good for academia, it's good for practicing scales, reading books, and studying. But it is not good for creating. Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it's time to play."
(Kenny Werner, "Effortless Mastery: Liberating the master musician within")
"It is impossible to be self-conscious and totally involved in the music at the same time. Consciousness of the self is a barrier between the player and the instrument. As I forget my own presence, I attain a state of oneness with the activity and become absorbed in a way that defies the passage of time."
(Mildred Chase, "Just Being at the Piano")
"Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god."
(Stephane Grapelli)
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2014 - 04:03pm PT
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Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko (1999) - Récital duo de kora
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speelyei
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Mohave County Arizona
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Apr 10, 2014 - 02:01pm PT
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Take Five, just never gets old.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Apr 10, 2014 - 06:31pm PT
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Anyone ever hear of the jazz singer Cyrille Aimée?
I met her a few weeks ago on an airliner in Guiyaquil, Ecuador, and SHE IS SMOKING HOT!
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 17, 2014 - 03:02pm PT
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Alvin Batiste : Late
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Earlier posted by Tobia on the "What Song" thread...
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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May 29, 2014 - 08:54am PT
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lester bowie ~ solitude:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFbGpoLk-SE
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From http://garbocathedral.blogspot.com/20...
Thinking about Richard Cook, and by extension about Lester Bowie doing "Thriller" as opposed to Jacko -- assuming that there even needs to be an "opposition" -- reminds me that this Bowie did understand the mechanics and emotions of pop to a sublime degree. Indeed, through his involvement as arranger and lead trumpeter on Fontella Bass' "Rescue Me," one could argue that he helped lay the ground on which the werewolf Jackson could prowl. "The Great Pretender," though, is his key to the pop kingdom. Recorded in June 1981 as the title track of an album he made for ECM -- it was released in May 1982, at the height of New Pop, received rave reviews and incredibly (especially from this distance) very nearly charted -- Bowie is perceptible on the front cover only as a white-suited wraith, intangible at the far end of a murkily blue pond in the "Atmosphere" dead of night; it is no accident that the album's final track is entitled "Oh, How The Ghost Sings."
On the nearly seventeen-minute title track he is accompanied by a group of mainly non-stars; only long-time collaborators Phillip Wilson (drums) and Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax) would have been well known at the time (as well as the occasional backing vocals of David Peaston and the aforementioned Fontella), and pianist Donald Smith and bassist Fred Williams never seem to have become "big," which in Smith's case at least seems an injustice. The Platters original would have been familiar to the teenage Bowie's turntable -- as perhaps was Stan Freberg's brilliant parody with the recalcitrant jazz session pianist itching to play anything other than "cling-cling-cling" -- but Bowie uses the song as a basis for exploring everything he feels about music and his chosen instrument, rather than just pop alone. Certainly the track gives rein to his full range of techniques; opening with Smith's grave, rumbling piano, Bowie's trumpet kisses with tremulous intimacy, a tender tribute to Miles, perhaps even an unspecified requiem, leaning close to the listener's ear, so close you can hear him breathing. Then abruptly he jumps back, increases his volume -- and the band evolve, or groan, into being behind him -- and interspersing darting, Mongezi Feza-style runs with raspberries, slurs and half-valve burps. This in turn leads to Bowie's hilarious Freddy Kruger-style slurring/cackling recitation of "Yes, I'm the great pre-TEN-DER!" before he swings the tune into familiar action, complete with authentic 1956 doo-wop piano and sax honks. Even then he refuses to play it straight, with acute octave leaps as though having just sat on a pin cushion, howls, entreaties, slowing the "oh-ah-oh-ah" backing vocal bridge to a funereal crawl before "YEAH!"ing the tune back into focus.
Then he gives way to Bluiett's solo, as the rhythm section swings into a Brubeckian 3/4 tempo, but even this doesn't remain stable for too long since Bluiett soon slides into his habitual "tonight Matthew I'm going to be John Surman" upper register squeaks and incontinent freakouts. Smith initially comps deadpan but soon moves into Keith Tippett abstraction, followed by both sax and piano winding in and out of freedom and tune. Bowie re-enters to calm things down, authoritatively authorising Smith's still rampant piano antics, before taking the temperature yet further down to engage in pointillistic free group interplay; Bluiett briefly roars back into focus for a tumultuous free-for-all but Smith's piano insistently polices the proceedings, allowing Bowie's valve manipulation slowly to gather the pieces of the song back together. Bowie teases, hints, doesn't quite reveal, but finally -- and absolutely on cue with a triumphant "YAYYYYY!!!!" goes right back into the tune, on beat and on key. He comes down one final time -- Bluiett's baritone now taking the deadpan comping role -- with some sensual trumpet talk, including a brief agitated moment where he seems to be disentangling a pair of underpants from the bell of his horn, before coming back for the final chorus, played with Satchmo pride, and then brings the performance to its natural end, returning gradually to his opening, muted tenderness of remembrance -- before signing off with "I'm here, baby! I'm HEEEERRRRE! I've arrIIIIIIved!" and ghostly chuckles which exactly parallel those of Vincent Price on the original "Thriller." He knew how to prowl around pop, all right.
waterfall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfp4U33FKVo
one love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUVQIKju_ME
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - May 29, 2014 - 02:33pm PT
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Hooblie.
Thanks for keeping the Jazz thread alive... here's Barbara Dennerlein with Big Band 1984 - The Lady Is A Tramp
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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May 29, 2014 - 03:18pm PT
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Definitely know her music! Great pipes. Love this recording from Smalls in NY circa 2010. Frahm lays down a killer solo~
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 10, 2014 - 05:00pm PT
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brew_Moore
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It was just a usual Saturday night goodtime, nothing else; the bebop winos were wailing away, the workingman tenors, the cats who worked and got their horns out of hock and blew and had their women troubles, and came on in their horns with a will, saying things, a lot to say, talkative horns, you could almost hear the words and better than that the harmony, made you hear the way to fill up blank spaces of time with the tune and very consequence of your hands and breath and dead soul; summer, August 1949, and Frisco blowing mad, the dew on the muscat in the interior fields of Joaquin and down in Watsonville the lettuce blowing, the money flowing for Frisco so seasonal and mad, the railroads rolling, extraboards roaring, crates of melons on sidewalks, bananas coming off elevators, tarantulas suffocating in the new crazy air, chipped ice and the cool interior smells of grape tanks, cool hop hepcats standing slumped with horn and no lapels and blowing like Wardell, like Brew Moore softly...all of it insane, sad, sweeter than the love of mothers yet harsher than the murder of fathers.
Jean-Louis, Jazz of the Beat Generation, 1955
And who is Jean-Louis?Just some cat that got around a lot.
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 16, 2014 - 11:31am PT
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Hooblie
Excellent playing by Dino Saluzzi. Following up the bandoneon - here's Per Arne Glorvigen playing La Rayuela (Julio De Caro)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
"It's the difference between a lemon and an orange. The bandoneon is an orange, the accordion is a lemon. The accordion has an acid sound, a sharp sound. It's a very happy instrument. The bandoneon has a velvet sound, a religious sound. It was made to play sad music."
Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992) world famous Argentinean bandoneonist and composer.
And this is a web-site dedicated to the bandoneon: http://www.bergenmuseum.uib.no/nettutstillinger/bandoneon/lenker.html
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 16, 2014 - 11:39am PT
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And then to a warmer part of the world.
Gossaye and Mahmoud New Song Adera - New Ethiopian Amharic Music 2013
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 17, 2014 - 08:07am PT
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Jazz Police, I'm not...
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Ghost
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A long way from where I started
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Jul 18, 2014 - 06:37am PT
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Thanks for the Dino Saluzzi link. I thought my wife and I were the only people in the world who had even heard of him. Amazing musician.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 24, 2014 - 01:41pm PT
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Put me in the chain gang, Officer Marlow.
I've been over at the What Is the Blues thread.
I have been a baaaad music-listener...[Click to View YouTube Video]I make aments.
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2014 - 11:31am PT
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Sidney Bechet - Cake Walking Babies (From Home)
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Estella Jones: "Cakewalkin' was a lot of fun durin' slavery time. Dey swep yards real clean and set benches for de party. Banjos wuz used for music makin'. De women's wor long, ruffled dresses wid hoops in 'em and de mens had on high hats, long split-tailed coats, and some of em used walkin' sticks. De couple dat danced best got a prize. Sometimes de slave owners come to dese parties 'cause dey enjoyed watchin' de dance, and dey 'cided who danced de best. Most parties durin' slavery time, wuz give on Saturday night durin' work sessions, but durin' winter dey wuz give on most any night.
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2014 - 12:29pm PT
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Chick Corea & Gary Burton - Senor Mouse
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Thank God for blessing some of us with the talent and perserverance to create something like this.
Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara - Spain
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2014 - 01:52am PT
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Hooblie.
Thanks for keeping the jazz thread alive...
Richard Galliano & Tangaria Quartet - Guarda Che Luna
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yanqui
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Balcarce, Argentina
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Sep 14, 2014 - 07:57am PT
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Following through with the South American contributions and moving on from bossa nova to tango
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rottingjohnny
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mammoth lakes ca
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Sep 24, 2014 - 05:58am PT
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Joe Sample , former mammoth resident passes on...Jazz and Classic pianist...crap
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 24, 2014 - 08:18am PT
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Joe was Da Man! Didn't know he lived at Mammoth. Did you two shred together?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Sep 26, 2014 - 06:29pm PT
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Les Mc chan and Eddie HARRIS ',',..-.
Live from Montreux Switzerland
Trying
To Make It Real COMPARED to What
Cold Duck Time
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Sep 28, 2014 - 08:22am PT
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Joe did live in mammoth for quite some time but had lung problems and eventually had to move because the altitude didn't agree with him..He performed here often , usually outdoors at chair 7+8 on chilly summer nights with dust blowing across the stage and propane heaters set up next to the musicians..I remember one cold night when his drummer tried to leave the stage before the encore and Joe telling her to sit her ass back down...
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Sep 28, 2014 - 08:56am PT
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gnome..Merry B. loaned me that Live at Montreux cassette a long time ago..Miss it..
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Anyone who has ever tried to learn how to jam on the acoustic guitar, or anyone who loves the kind of jazz that's all about the jamming should take to time to watch this one. This guy has taken what Django did and made it his own (albiet with more fingers).
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2014 - 12:43pm PT
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Dickey Betts & Chuck Leavell- Jessica @ The Capitol Theatre in Passaic,New Jersey (11-3-84)
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Nov 11, 2014 - 08:33pm PT
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glidin into my 18th hour in the chair today,
smoooth. MARIE LAVEAU
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yanqui
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Balcarce, Argentina
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Nov 12, 2014 - 03:14am PT
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Some great music in this thread!
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Dec 27, 2014 - 09:37am PT
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Buddy DeFranco Quartet ≈ A Foggy Day
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Buddy left the stage, at age 91 Christmas Eve at his home in Panama City, FL. He played his clarinet amongst giants of both the swing and bebop eras of jazz.
My dad had several of his lp's, all of which were jazz records.
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2014 - 09:51am PT
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... sweet sweet sound... TFPU!
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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I'm not sure if this jazz, or even how you could classify it; in your face pop? acid classical? Anyways, there are some key elements of jazz here. However you classify it, it's amazingly cool and original.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Jan 12, 2015 - 08:53am PT
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yanqui & bro hooblie, i would venture to guess that we all agree this is jazz:
Charles Mingus ≈ E's Flat Ah's Flat Too
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Feb 12, 2015 - 01:03am PT
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this day breaks mournfully for my brother tobia.
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sharing sorrow with him, perhaps a little peace in time ...
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Tobia
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Denial
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Feb 16, 2015 - 06:09am PT
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appreciate the heartfelt notion bro hooblie, here's a creole dish to feed up your good soul.
Eartha Kitt ≈ Chantez Les Bas
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2015 - 10:39am PT
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Once upon a time in the west...
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Nils Petter Molvaer - Little Indian
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Feb 23, 2015 - 03:54pm PT
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evening bro hooblie! winding down w more from Mr. Hubbard's Red Clay lp, one of my favorite jazz records of all time. the boys in the back have something to do w that.
Freddie Hubbard ≈ Red Clay
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Tobia
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Denial
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Mar 21, 2015 - 06:21am PT
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Miles Davis ≈ Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
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The song features the mixed and dubbed recordings of these players:
Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
Bennie Maupin – bass clarinet
Joe Zawinul – electric piano – Left
Chick Corea – electric piano – Right
John McLaughlin – electric guitar
Dave Holland – electric bass
Harvey Brooks – electric bass
Don Alias – drum set – Left
Jack DeJohnette – drum set – Right
Juma Santos – congas
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2015 - 01:16pm PT
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Miles Davis - So What - The Robert Herridge Theatre, New York - April 2, 1959
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Miles Davis - trumpet
John Coltrane - tenor sax
Wynton Kelly - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Jimmy Cobb - drums
Gil Evans - conductor - Gil Evans Orchestra
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2015 - 01:26pm PT
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1959 The Year that Changed Jazz
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1959 was the seismic year jazz broke away from complex bebop music to new forms, allowing soloists unprecedented freedom to explore and express. It was also a pivotal year for America: the nation was finding its groove, enjoying undreamt-of freedom and wealth social, racial and upheavals were just around the corner and jazz was ahead of the curve.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Mar 22, 2015 - 01:46pm PT
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The best jazz is produced by Concord Music Group. This was a recording company started in the 70s by my partner's Dad when he couldn't find the type of jazz recordings he loved. So he started his own label. They have won many Grammys over the years including the most recent awards. They have an phenomenal catalog and wide range of artists. His company literally kept quality jazz recording alive.
http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/genres/pop-rock/4280/concord-music-group-scores-5-wins-at-57th-annual-grammy-awards/
He was instrumental in the Concord Pavilion home to the Concord Jazz Festival. The stylized sax logo is also his initials: Carl Jefferson
Susan
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Mar 23, 2015 - 05:32am PT
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Susan, i just read the wiki article on the Concord label. One man's dream evolved into an amazing corporate stronghold on some major record labels and in doing so, became warden over a wide range of music and recording history.
Chick Corea ≈ 500 Miles HIgh
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 3, 2015 - 12:14pm PT
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John Zorn - Jazz in Marciac - Live 2010
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John Zorn - direction, saxophone
Marc Ribot - guitar
Jamie Saft - piano, orgue
Trevor Dunn - bass
Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone
Joey Baron - drums
Cyro Baptista - percussion
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2015 - 11:04am PT
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Georg Riedel
Det där med jazz är en tillfällig fluga som snart försvinner (It could happen to you)
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2015 - 12:06pm PT
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Oscar Pettiford - Why Not? That's What!
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Oscar Pettiford's 1960 answer tune to Miles Davis's "So What", which had borrowed liberally—at least in the bass introduction—from Pettiford's "Bohemia in the Dark"
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Tobia
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Denial
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Apr 23, 2015 - 06:28pm PT
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↑ don't mention that the voice belongs to one of the hottest ladies around.
Stanley Turrentine ≈ The Return Of The Prodigal Son (full album)
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≈ The Return Of The Prodigal Son
≈ Pres Delight (Flying Jumbo)
≈ Bonita
≈ New Time Shuffle
≈ Better Luck Next Time
≈ Ain't No Moutain High Enough
≈ Dr. Feelgood
≈ The Look of Love
≈ You Want Me To Stop Loving You
≈ Dr. Feelgood (alt. take)
ever caught a bonita?
we used them for shark bait when passing time offshore on seismic vessels. my favorite boat to navigate, under the flag of the Great State of Texas MV China Seal (230ft).
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Jun 11, 2015 - 03:09pm PT
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^^^^^^^^
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Jun 14, 2015 - 06:54pm PT
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Billy Cobham & George Duke Band ≈ Red Baron
w/ John Schofield & Alphonso Johnson
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Jun 15, 2015 - 05:09am PT
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missed the passing of Mr. Coleman, the giants are all falling. Hopefully they are rising after the fall.
Ornette Coleman Quartet ≈ Turnaround
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 25, 2015 - 02:03pm PT
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Favorite Jazz Albums
Chick Corea
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968)
Miles Davis
Kind of Blue (1959)
Miles Davis
Cookin' (1956)
Miles Davis
Birth of the Cool (1957)
Sonny Rollins
A Night at the Village Vanguard (1957)
John Coltrane
Live! At the Village Vanguard (1962)
John Coltrane
Coltrane Plays Blues (1962)
John Coltrane
Blue Train (1957)
Thelonious Monk
Mnk's Music (1957)
Thelonious Monk
Monk's Dream (1963)
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Thelonious Monk Orchestra
At Town Hall (1959)
Larry Young
Unity (1966)
Freddie Hubbard
Ready for Freddie (1961)
Wynton Marsalis
Black Codes From the Underground (1985)
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
Thad Jones Legacy (1999)
Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins
Brilliant Corners (1957)
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yanqui
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Balcarce, Argentina
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Jun 27, 2015 - 06:35am PT
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Ok, I'll play along hooblie. Sade is pure, unadulterated sex-appeal. But it's the live stuff, when she takes off her shoes, let's down her hair and floats around the stage that makes me wanna get all jiggy with it.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Edit because The Man took the previous post away. A little part of the same exquisite performance on a different channel
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2015 - 01:06pm PT
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Adnan Joubran - La Danse de la Veuve [Live]
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Posted by Hooblie on the "What Song" thread. Fantastic!
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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glad that resonated in oslo. no purists we ... from that set i thought this one was a stunner: douja: http://youtu.be/3lhWLX8lRi8
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Sep 16, 2015 - 07:11am PT
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Here a thing, full of swing , I'll be turning my kids onto the real thing,
The Dave Brubeck Sound, live outdoors it should be quite a shin dig!
Out of doors in a national park
Wire farm
Maybe there will be a hundred people!
If there are more it will be fun but crowded.
I can hardly wait
Live music played by greats I hope that they are on fire. . .
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Dan Brubeck Honors His Parents
May 2, 2015 by Doug Ramsey
Medium But Well Done, Part 2
Dave Brubeck: One Year
Fatha Hines! Fatha Hines! (Danko Very Much)
Dan Brubeck, Live From The Cellar: Celebrating The Music And Lyrics Of Dave & Iola Brubeck (Blue Forest Records)
Dan Brubeck CD coverOn the eve of his 60th birthday, Dave and Iola Brubeck’s drummer son releases his first album as a leader. A tribute to his parents, it is also a revelation of the quality of musicians in his adopted hometown, Vancouver, British Columbia.
With his work in his father’s quartet, Two Generations of Brubecks, the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, Larry Coryell and the Dolphins, Dan Brubeck established decades ago that he was an extraordinary drummer. Barely into his twenties, he substituted for Joe Morello when Morello’s worsening eyesight forced him to leave the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s 25th anniversary reunion tour. Young Brubeck’s firm time and light touch made him a favorite of DBQ saxophonist Paul Desmond, who was exacting in the qualities he expected in drummers.
In Vancouver, Brubeck recorded with his quartet at The Cellar four months before the club closed in late 2013. All of the 14 pieces they performed were by Dave Brubeck, many of the songs with words by Iola. Dan BrubeckDan Brubeck at the drums writes in his liner notes that bassist Adam Thomas sings, “…completely in tune, phrasing beautifully, with a soulful sweetness, all while swinging his ass off on bass.” That’s an accurate evaluation of Thomas’s bass work. In an instance or two, demanding melodic intervals put a bit of strain on his voice, but he sings “Summer Song” “Ode to a Cowboy,” “Strange Meadowlark,” even the metric challenges in “It’s A Raggy Waltz,” with élan and a subtle jazz-wise edge. He conveys the implications of tragedy and hope in the lyric Dave wrote to “Weep No More” following his World War Two Army service in Europe.
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pocoloco1
Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
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Sep 27, 2015 - 10:55am PT
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^^^^^^
Excellent
Thanks Marlow
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Sep 29, 2015 - 05:30pm PT
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I had a strange musical trip today. My son introduced me to this Japanese Math Rock band tricot a couple days ago. These three women make up the group with the percussionist apparently being switched out ... Who knows; I don't speak Japanese. But, they arrange and play (pop?) music with certain dissonance to it. They apparently use clusters of notes in a particular key, relying on the tri-tone to keep the actual key vauge. (and if you understood that come and explain it to me ). Anyway, it seemed to have a Jazz overtone which reminded me somehow of Charles Mingus! So I have been enjoying Mingus most of the day as I work, as well as a little smattering of Mr. Taylor. Some examples of each follows...
Tell me if you can't here some jazz influence in this stuff...
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Mingus
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Uhhhh, you may NOT want to listen to Cecil Taylor if you are on some bad acid...but otherwise close your eyes and enjoy
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 5, 2015 - 11:21am PT
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Another Hooblie ST contribution: Tingvall Trio - Den gamla eken
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skcreidc
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SD, CA
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I'm still stuck in the past I guess. I get a lot more emotion out of stuff like this...
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Just to clarify, I enjoyed being exposed to the Tingvall Trio. Quality stuff! My personal preferences are not in the more modern style jazz though.
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Saugy
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BC
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[youtube=xdd5pn1xs7M&list=PLqQX1g603-YgjaM94yoyDYlV-xe-NNxYs&index=33]
I thought it would be a great addition to this thread, but I cant seem to get it to work..
Any tips?
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2015 - 12:08pm PT
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Is this it? Oscar Peterson - Boogie Blues Etude
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You just need xdd5pn1xs7M
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Saugy
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BC
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That's the one..Love the sweat that goes into this performance.. Thanks!
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Saugy
Mountain climber
BC
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And thanks for posting up great Jazz from your part of the world, Marlow (and others). I've witnessed some great performances over the years of attending the Vancouver Jazz Fest.. many of them have been by Scandinavians :)
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2015 - 12:40pm PT
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To follow up on Peterson & ...
Oscar Peterson & Count Basie & Joe Pass 1980
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2015 - 12:18pm PT
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Isabelle Eberhardt
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I long to sleep in the cool, deep silence, beneath the dizzying valley of stars, with nothing but the sky's infinite expanse for a roof and the warm earth for a bed... to be free and without ties, a nomad camped in life's great desert.
Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin - Help Them Through This World (from the album Nomadic)
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skcreidc
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Nov 10, 2015 - 10:47am PT
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Done with the Tull. On with the Jazz
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edit;
01 Autumn Leaves - 0:00
02 Love For Sale - 10:57
03 Somethin' Else - 18:02
04 One For Daddy-O - 26:16
05 Dancing In The Dark - 34:42
06 Bangoon (Allison's Uncle) - 38:49
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FRUMY
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Nov 10, 2015 - 12:59pm PT
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2015 - 02:48am PT
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Jammin' the Blues
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A midnight symphony...
Lester Young - Tenor saxophone
Red Callender - Bass
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Marlowe Morris - Piano
"Big" Sid Catlett - Drums (First two songs, and intro of third)
Jo Jones - Drums (for final song)
Barney Kessel - Guitar
John Simmons - Double bass
Illinois Jacquet - Tenor saxophone
Marie Bryant - Vocals & Female Dancer
Archie Savage - Male Dancer
and Count Basie and his Orchestra...
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yanqui
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Balcarce, Argentina
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Dec 25, 2015 - 10:14am PT
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Great video, Marlow ... Feliz Navidad a todos!
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anita514
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Great White North
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Jan 31, 2016 - 04:38pm PT
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[this is PtPP]
Anita and I just watched the movie Whiplash last night, and really enjoyed it!
I played trombone in a college big band for four years at McMaster University [where I was the only non-music student in the band] and it was always a ton of fun. The movie brought back lots of great memories, but thankfully my band director was never as abusive as JK Simmons' character. Although, you have to imagine, that with the likes of me in his band, I would have been the butt of more than a few of his jokes....
We would definitely recommend this movie as a "must watch" if you are a jazz fan. Simmons' winning of an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor is well deserved.
Four thumbs up in Montreal.
Cheers, eh?
Pete [and Anita]
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Is anyone else eagerly / nervously anticipating the new Miles Davis movie?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nice!
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Sparky
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vagabond movin on
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Jaybro, if you haven't seen "The Wrecking Crew", check it out on Netflix. Not jazz, but a doc on real musicians that you'd enjoy 100%.
http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com
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d-know
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electric lady land
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Mar 21, 2016 - 08:15am PT
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Mingus.
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Tarbuster
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Apr 13, 2016 - 05:22pm PT
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Like all good things, jazz is inherently at odds with what is around it. Like philosophy, it contends for ears and hearts and minds. It will never rule, for its nature is to subvert.
 Bobby Scott, "The House in the Heart", talking about Lester Young (The Prez), from Reading Jazz, edited by Robert Gottlieb.
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ms55401
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Apr 16, 2016 - 07:13pm PT
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anyone seen the Miles Davis movie?
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2016 - 12:16pm PT
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It's a pleasure to follow the jazz-steps of Hooblie...
Supersilent 6.2
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Tarbuster
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Apr 19, 2016 - 06:27am PT
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His day-to-day existence was like a pendulum. Besides, he was a night person. The day for him was a many-houred awakening of a long-toothed spirit. He *entered* the evening. Even the quantity of his words increased as the light of day waned. It was as if he'd climbed a ridge of small hillocks, then settled into a golden period, a span of bewitched time. In a very real sense, his day was ushered in by the pushing of air columns through instruments, the heartbeat of a walking bass, the glistening punctuations of a ride cymbal. His stick like body, so worn by his utter disregard for its health, straightened to its limit only during those hours of music. And the music turned on his capacity for camaraderie and humor.
Bobby Scott, "The House in the Heart", talking about Lester Young (The Prez), from Reading Jazz, edited by Robert
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crankster
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No. Tahoe
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Apr 19, 2016 - 06:34am PT
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Headed down to Sacramento to see it this weekend. Opens Friday. Getting decent, not great, reviews.
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 24, 2016 - 01:13am PT
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Marcus Miller, who is a great story-teller, talks about Miles Davis and "Kind of Blue"
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Tarbuster
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Apr 24, 2016 - 12:46pm PT
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SHELLY'S MANNE-HOLE
Exactly one year after the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue was released, I was born in Sierra Madre California, within spit-shot of the rugged San Gabriel Mountains, August 17, 1960. Kind of Blue is noted as the best-selling jazz record of all time.
My father had been into jazz since the end of the Korean War. The first music I remember hearing, was jazz. My mother worked a few stretches of swing shift at her job with the Pasadena Light and Park Department, so Rodger had me to himself on those evenings. I feel fortunate to have retained some these very early childhood memories.
Between the ages of two and four years old, I would sit in a big black naugahyde easy chair, listening to jazz on the radio. As Rodger prepared dinner, he kept me satiated and entertained by feeding me olives and radishes while I listened to the music.
In those days, the early 60s, I recall much more vibraphone, or vibes, being played on the jazz stations. The playlist also seemed more trumpet-centric, whereas in later years, and even now I see the emphasis on saxophone. We lived in Southern California, so naturally, the smoother, more introspective West Coast jazz ruled the local airwaves at the time.
One radio commercial which got a lot of air time, was one which entreated the listener to come out to Shelly Manne's jazz club, which was cleverly named: Shelly's Mann-Hole. Shelley Manne was said to of been one of the most musical drummers around and he was big into the West Coast cool jazz scene.
"What's a manhole, daddy?"
"It's a round metal cover which blocks a big hole in the street. It lets men get down beneath the street in case they need to work on the storm drains and sewers."
"So they play jazz music down there? And there's a guy on a microphone down there? And they make radio from under the street?"
In the 70s my dad liked Quincy Jones, Chuck Mangione, and the compositions and arrangements of Michelle Legrand. He enjoyed playing Mangione's The Land of Make-Believe for my little sister. Sometimes in my early teens, I would thumb through his record collection. Visually, the album that sticks in my mind most is the cover of Milestones. Miles Davis sits on a stool against a burnt orange background. He looks thicker in the face and of better physical constitution than he did in many other photographs. On that album cover, Miles is the solid, serious artist. He holds out his trumpet firmly as if to say: THIS.
I was an inquisitive child. I asked a lot of questions. My father sent me to private schools until third grade. To answer my incessant questioning, to which he already knew most of the answers, he bought me a set of Colliers Encyclopedia. I mostly just looked at a section which featured a colorful array of world flags and another which highlighted the varied insignias of U.S. Army uniforms. Rodger eventually read all of those encyclopedias cover to cover. He was a voracious reader and when in his 30s and 40s, many said he could have challenged a graduate degree in history. He had a mathematical appreciation of music.
Rodger had a smooth face with just a wrinkle between his eyebrows. He was of average height, at 5'9". His thin dark brown hair receded, but I never saw much of any gray. For my entire life, he had burly forearms and a beer belly. When he worked on cars, he immediately began sweating like the prolific tennis champion Rafael Nadal, bearing down on the final set of a match.
"Rodge" considered himself a sociopath, which is doubtful on many fronts, but he didn't mince words, that's for sure. In the 1970s and 1980s I became a rock climber. We climbers spent many nights out in the cold and ravaged our bodies on the stone and lived hard at times. Most of us were inculcated with 70s drug culture. During that period in my life, some climbing buddies visited my family home. One of them was a bit war worn, but had earned his wizened visage, indulging many antics and bold adventures.
"Hey dad, this is my friend Mike."
"Hey there, Mike. Want a beer? I see you could use one, you look like 40 miles of bad road. Whatever you've been doing, it's aging you!"
When I was in my 50s and he was in his late 70s, I asked Rodger what he liked to listen to most. He said, "East Coast jazz. Hard bop."
"What about all those Stan Kenton records you have?"
"That's before I knew what I was doing."
Rodger had a good life for a war orphan from Nazi Germany. John Wayne movies convinced him at 16 years old that the adventure of war was where it was at. He lied about his age to the recruiters, and he got himself into the Army a year early. He survived the Korean War and got interested in sports car racing at the invite of my grandfather. For 35 years he had just one job, working as an equipment installer for Ma Bell's Western Electric. He wrenched on cars with his pals and worked as a corner flagman at Riverside International Raceway for almost 30 years. He drank mountains of beer and wine, smoked 2 to 3 packs of menthols a day, and lived happily into his early 80s.
He was hard to kill. He'd been in the hospital for a short stay, with cardiac and other issues and defied all of the doctors. Some of his numbers were extremely good for his age and others indicated he shouldn't have lived another minute. The end was imminent, yet he still continued on for a number of months and in a fairly robust state. We said our goodbyes.
"Roy, I've got one foot on a roller skate and the other on a banana peel."
I couldn't complain when he died. I just saw too many positives to his life and he had been a good father. Physically solid, but heart failing, while loading a case of bottled water into the back of his truck, he went out like a light. That was the expression he would use when my little sister and I were tired kids and fell asleep quickly. I like to say he shopped till he dropped.
I recently acquired 30 vinyl record albums from his collection. (I have yet to get the old 78 rpm records). Given that he said he liked hard bop, I have found it interesting that most of what he bought, purchased in the mid-to-late 50s, is predominantly West Coast cool jazz. Shorty Rogers, Stan Getz, The Lighthouse All-Stars. There's some good stuff bridging away from swing, but not yet bop. The 3 Herds: Woody Herman and his Orchestra. Adventures in Rhythm: Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra. Elliot Lawrence Plays Jerry Mulligan Arrangements.
I'm schooling myself on the history of jazz and the more I read, the more I put it together. With where we grew up, I see why his collection has so much West Coast cool jazz. His modus operandi was to listen and to read. In those days, that process took time. By the time he knew enough to understand his own particular taste, he was raising a family and could no longer justify extras like hi-fi records to indulge his musical interests.
He did have Kind of Blue and Milestones in his collection. Both records ventured into modal jazz, but in Milestones hard bop comes through. I've had those vinyl records of his in my possession for years, because I knew what they were and he let me have them long ago.
I can see why my dad eventually settled in with hard bop. It's how I remember him. Bouncy, upbeat, and can-do. To get a feel for those rhythms and textures and colors that were Rodger, listen to Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus. Throughout my youth he was a compulsive whistler. Now that I have worked through more of his music and read about different styles, I see that he was whistling hard bop!
In my late teens I was into rock and roll and jazz fusion, and that wasn't Rodger's deal. Fathers and sons grow apart. But, when I was 19 years old, I took a young woman named Jeanette down to Hermosa Beach, to see some jazz at Shelly's Manne-Hole! The club felt tiny, and crammed inside next to the tables was a small ensemble doing improvisational jazz. That's bebop in a nutshell isn't it? Of course it has to swing! I really didn't know what I was hearing at the time, but I wanted to like it.
We stayed for a while. Then Jeanette got bored with it so we left. We were just a few steps down the sidewalk and we briefly looked in to another club as we passed by. A self-conscious rock 'n roller stood shod in red tights and knee-high lace up leather boots, making tonal wreckage with his guitar. Jeanette swung her dark brown shoulder length hair around and pointed her perfect nose up in the air toward me, then peaked her eyebrows.
"Maybe that's what we need to check out!"
As she held my arm, I wheeled her around, we picked up our pace on the sidewalk and just kept on moving. I couldn't do it!
Just yesterday I was hiking into the verdant Gregory Canyon, to the right of Chautauqua Park in Boulder Colorado. The red powdery trail beneath my feet was rimmed with rivulets of melted spring runoff and the green scrub along the trail was dotted with aromatic spring blooms. White snows still coated the pointed summits of the surrounding peaks. The Flatirons lay above the steep green lawn at the edge of the manicured path, their slender rectangular faces organized like keys on a vibraphone.
I thought about Milestones, the namesake tune of the album, and how evocative it is of the feeling of spring. I drank in nature's fecundity and felt the rhythms of jazz driving all of it. There is such lively, productive, and hopeful movement in Milestones. It is much like water burbling, green grass swaying in active breezes, flowers rhythmically popping open, little creatures busily scurrying about in the verge.
My old man liked driving. Before I was a teenager, I went lots of places with him in his car, just the two of us. We would race along the edges of the guard rail of the Pasadena Freeway in his Porsche speedster. It felt risky but controlled and I liked the sense of speed. It was here that I learned about confidence under duress.
He would take me to Will Rogers State Beach and the sand always stuck between my toes on the ride home. We did lots of errands together. Rodger would bring me along to his favorite Caldwell Tires in Pasadena. Steeped in the pungent smell of fresh rubber and clanking airguns, he talked shop with his racing buddies.
Rodger liked to drive us up to Altadena to get haircuts in his favorite barbershop. While waiting my turn, I could look at superhero comic strips and unwrap the tiny comics wound around pink squares of Bazooka bubblegum. At the end of the cut, there was always the slightly irritating feeling of stiff bristles against my neck as the barber cleaned up. Sitting in that barber chair, with mirrors in front and behind, I marveled at the reflections repeating into infinity.
These drives usually made me sleepy. My father would back the car into the garage and had a habit of un-clicking his seatbelt just as he shut the engine off, letting the car coast the remaining 10 or 20 feet into the garage. Then, without fail, the un-snapping of his seatbelt would wake me up as the car came to a halt. Just to be sure I was awake and ready to move on, and in a fatherly sing-song, he would whisper aloud: "End of the line."
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Reading:
Kind of Blue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue
Shelly's Manne-Hole:
http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2008/08/manne-hole-part-1.html
East/West:
http://hubpages.com/entertainment/East_Coast_West_Coast_Jazz_in_the_50s
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 24, 2016 - 01:01pm PT
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Tarbuster
That's an all jazz story about your father. Thanks for sharing!
Eli Degibri - Cliff Hangin'
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guido
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Apr 24, 2016 - 06:54pm PT
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Tarbuster, that was a wonderful and heartfelt tale from you.
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Tarbuster
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Apr 27, 2016 - 07:59pm PT
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In '68 or '69 my parents got a new stereo. They purchased Wes Montgomery's Down Here on the Ground and A Day in the Life, which were among the more popularly oriented albums from his later career. I absolutely couldn't wait to get home from grade school and play that stuff. Mostly pop covers and not really straight ahead jazz, but smooth and listenable.
Progressive rock guitarist, Steve Howe, cites Wes Montgomery and Chet Atkins as prime influences.
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Tarbuster
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Apr 28, 2016 - 10:37am PT
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Jim Brennan, I like what you just said about Wes Montgomery.
Wes Montgomery's tone is round and full of color. It is a ringing bell, turned on its edge and neatly clipped at both ends.
He's a master storyteller and there is truth in what he plays.
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Tarbuster
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Apr 28, 2016 - 10:39am PT
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Most of what happened up until this time in small group playing had come down from Louis Armstrong through Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins to Dizzy and Bird, and bebop had basically come from that. What everybody was playing in 1958 had mostly come out of bebop. Birth of the Cool had gone somewhat in another direction, but it had mainly come out of what Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn had already done; it just made the music "whiter", so that white people could digest it better. And then the other records I made, like "Walkin'" and "Blue 'n' Boogie" – which the critics called hard bop – had only gone back to the blues and some of the things that Bird and Dizzy had done. It was great music, well played and everything, but the musical ideas and concepts had mostly been already done; it just had a little more space in it.
Of all the stuff I had done with a small group, what we did on Modern Jazz Giants came closest to what I wanted to do now, that kind of stretched-out sound we got there on "Bags' Groove," "The Man I Love," "Swing Spring". Now, in bebop, the music had a lot of notes in it. Diz and Bird played a lot of real fast notes and chords changes because that's the way they heard everything; that's the way their voices were: fast, up in the upper register. Their concept of music was more rather than less.
I personally wanted to cut the notes down, because I've always felt that most musicians play way too much for too long (although I put up with it with Trane because he played so good and I used to just love hearing him play). But I didn't hear music like that. I heard it in the middle and lower registers, and so did Coltrane. We had to do something suited for what we did best, for our own voices.
Miles Davis, excerpt from Miles: The Autobiography, presented in Reading Jazz, Robert Gottlieb. p. 243
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Tarbuster
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Apr 28, 2016 - 10:46am PT
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When you're a kid and your first millennium falls on you – when you get in a groove that you know is right for you, find a way of expressing something deep down and know it's your way – it makes you bubble up inside. But it's hard to tell others about it. It's all locked up inside you, in a kind of mental prison. Then, once in a million years, somebody like Bix comes along and you know the same millennium is upon him to, it's the same with him as it is with you. That gives you the courage of your convictions – all of a sudden you know you aren't plodding around in circles in a wilderness. No wonder jazz musicians have off-center perspective on the world. You can't blame them for walking around with a superior air, partly because they're plain lonely and partly because they know they've got hold of something good, a straight slant on things, and yet nobody understands it. A Bix Beiderbecke will.
Mezz Mezzrow, talking about Bix in an autobiographical excerpt from Reading Jazz, Robert Gottlieb. p. 153
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Tarbuster
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Apr 28, 2016 - 10:50am PT
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The essence of jazz is not in the blue notes – not in fact in anything that can be written down and played by rote. When one says that it is in effect an improvised music, the conclusion might sensibly be that this refers to the melody alone, or the melodic line in relation to the cords on which it is based. However, in jazz, improvisation begins – for the blowing instruments – with the breath, the vibrato; and breath and blowing combined to manipulate – always sensitive to certain canons of unwritten tradition – the tone itself, the rhythm and the instrumental timbre.
Charles Edward Smith, known at one time as "dean of the jazz critics", on Jack Teagarden, from Reading Jazz, Robert Gottlieb. p. 364.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 30, 2016 - 02:56pm PT
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You should read--Plink.
A former teacher of mine at Monterey Peninsula College, Dan Haerle (her-lee) is just pure unadulterated cool and a VERY respected jazz pianist, as this video attests.
You should hear--[Click to View YouTube Video]Riff.
Roy, why am I ceaselessly amazed at you? That was partly why.
But you're not the most interesting man in the room. Just the coolest.
B-dink.
How about one for the road?[Click to View YouTube Video]Plunk.
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nature
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May 14, 2016 - 07:16pm PT
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Why do i knot find it odd that Roy is all over this thread?
SHELLY'S MANNE-HOLE ;-)
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Tarbuster
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May 31, 2016 - 05:08pm PT
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'Loving this thread!
Might just grab a book of matches, a bundle of sticks, gather a warm blanket around myself and spend some twilight years here, dwindling away a little quality time under the spell of jazz.
Until then, maybe snag a good bottle of oloroso sherry, pull together a stash of mild psychedelics, and sprawl out on the road with Hooblie for a stretch, searching the nooks and crannies for musical delicacies.
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yanqui
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There's something weird going down with the video on this one, but the sound is pretty good (for a youtube video). Plus: Lizz nails it again.
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hooblie
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Jun 26, 2016 - 11:49pm PT
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turtle island string quartet:
jaco: http://youtu.be/iL_0vk_Ha2I
thin ice: http://youtu.be/9oG2wzZlPuY
ruby my dear: http://youtu.be/SqJ_Y2UbbTY
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dromedary: http://youtu.be/fO8rXUBoTs8
hey joe: http://youtu.be/pA2mwcah888
skylife: http://youtu.be/zh7TGV8XBPs
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binge-impetus goes to mouse o' the flames for the turtle island string quartet initial kick-off here:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2607974&msg=2835331#msg2835331
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i'm a big fan of darol anger, was won over back in '72 when his band announced a chumming of bluegrass waters to the tune of free barn dance
style shindigs each alternate sunday for the whole of the second and third quarters at college five (now porter) on the uc santa cruz campus.
might have been the highlight of my academic career. we weren't properly schooled in danceform-appalachia nor aerobic orthodoxy
but we could shake it with exuberance and certainly sweaty up the place pretty good, at least until my comeuppance came due.
some girl, not my girl or anything, got her fill of our alliance during a cool down phase that came in the form of a two-step.
i had been doing my best, maybe overthinking it some, cuz it did call for some unaccustomed concentration ... but she
snapped in the middle of the song, shoved me away, and then barged into stiff finger to the sternum range hollering:
"can you count to ONE?" i nodded tentatively. "can you count to TWO?"
i'm thinkin' ya, but not that many times in a row ... apparently.
next came an emphatic poke per syllable:
"THEN YOU CAN DO THE TWO STEP!"
note that no frying pans were deployed,
nor was heard a discouraging word
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2016 - 11:04am PT
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Following "My Favorite Things": Lee Morgan - "The Sidewinder"
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Aug 10, 2016 - 12:53am PT
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friend, i thought of your family and us all this afternoon when this came upon my ear
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it takes a while. i sent my dad off with this one:
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not sure that he would have dug it, but ... ;)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 24, 2016 - 04:09pm PT
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Thankin' Sparky for the bump.
THE GREAT Maynard Ferguson - Birdland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idGvKFbYgI4
It's like having another slice of pie with different ice cream this time...
Happy Turkey Day!
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post 666, have no fear of numbers!
Victor Wooten Band ≈ Live 2014
(that's all the info i can provide, just listen and forget the facts)
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↓Nice sound, Sparky.
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For the saxophonists out there....
This is where it all began. Hawkins on Body and Soul. Revolutionary.
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One of the greatest cinema experiences I ever had was up north, in Fauske. I had been in Rago national park for a couple of days, fishing. Late in the evening, and just before the film started, I came back to Fauske on bicycle. Only trouble was, only three viewers had turned up and it was decided not to run the film. Then a fourth viewer appeared. They changed their mind, the film started and it was possible to sit back and disappear into this film, this cinema heaven...
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Round Midnight. Still have an original movie poster in French that I need to frame. It's falling apart.
How about this famous solo break over Tunisia? 4 furious bars before he settles in. Bird... another goat.
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Yes, the movie 'Round Midnight.
That is some sumptuous black-and-white imagery.
No mention of the director of photography on the Wikipedia page.
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*Way to go with the Nelson Ayres Trio, Hooblie. Wonderful!
His style on that live piece reminds me of Vince Guaraldi's popular Peanuts work.
Though, in comparison, Nelson's fingering is probably more fluid, silky even.
So I did a little digging and came up with this album, where Vince first recorded.
Love Cal Tjader on the vibes! Dig it man, dig it!
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aren't we mining an embarrassment of riches in our time mr. buster?
yes, a whiff of guaraldi wafting about, rest his soul.
he kept christmas on the calendar for me.
latin and whimsy, a curious twist
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A moment of sĕrˌən-dĭpˈĭ-tē on the taco. i had just jotted down a note to watch 'Round Midnight a few days ago, after being made aware of it & come to discover all i need to know about it is on this music topo. i'm not surprised in the least that Marlow is responsible.
Tarbuster, (i always see "Tarbaby" when i see your name, nothing intended by this notation, just the way my mind works) Bruno de Keyzer was responsible for the cinematography.
10 awards received by the film (Herbie Hancock won 4 awards for his contribution) speaks loudly.
'Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk ≈ 'Round Midnight
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Yes Tobia! I routinely answer to Tarbaby here on the forum.
And Victor Wooten, he's a thinker:
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Really like the Dexter Gordon Willow Weep for Me, Sparky.
His tone IS edgy, and his attack, like the bleating of a goat! Also, can't go wrong with Bud Powell and Kenny Clarke in that ensemble.
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i went searching on netflix for Round Midnight the other night and it wasn't available. A few alternatives suggested included Jaco, which i enjoyed, despite the sadness of it all.
i saw Jaco with Weather Report when living in New Orleans. He, Peter Erskine and Wayne Shorter were the main attractions for me.
Miles Davis & Marcus Miller w Kenny Garrett ≈ Mr. Pastorius (Marcus Miller)
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Round Midnight is available through Netflix if you go for the disk instead of streaming.
Watched it just last week after Marlow's nudge up thread!
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I think Round Midnight is one of the best songs ever written in any genre.
In Miles Davis' biography he talks about how happy he was when Monk said that Miles finally played Round Midnight correctly.
The highlight of any jazz concert is when the band plays a Monk tune.
What other musician showed things to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane?
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No doubt, Gary, my fingers are all tangled up just listening to it!
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Man oh man, such great stuff here, things I would never find save for you good folks posting up!
Like Hooblie's post of the Mingus Boogie Stop Shuffle by Cuber, Brecker, and Herwig.
At the start, 'thought they were almost going to bust into the title theme for Batman from the 60s TV series. So boss.
Or Yanqui's wealth of Latin jazz, like that post of Elis Regina & Toots Thielman's Together.
… Okay, maybe that one I might've found on my own. But not so for the rest!
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Man oh man, such great stuff here, things I would never find save for you good folks posting up!
For sure. Like the tasty Wayne Shorter above.
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Bachar used to play tapes of some of the crazy and whimsical free jazz of Roland Kirk.
We all listened to tons of this in Joshua Tree back in the day.
Kirk was known to play a plastic saxophone at times.
And well versed in circular breathing, could also play more than one instrument at once.
Kirk on flute:
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Kirk plays several different instruments here.
The saxophonist is Hamiet Bluiett:
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Here with McCoy Tyner.
Kirk's layering of twin saxophones is both dissonant and beautiful:
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i just finished watching Round Midnight on my little 7" tablet. i streamed it via the Kodi app, which will let you search & find just about any film, tv, show, music you want to.
i liked the line "listen to the the bass and not the drums".
Fantastic music & film. i will buy the DVD so i can hear it big.
In the meantime:
Wynton Marsalis Quintet ≈ Delfeayo's Dilemma
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Tarbuster, plastic saxophone? i repaired a small engine not long ago for a friend and found that the carburetor was made entirely plastic except for the brass choke plate and pivot pin. i have never seen that before, as most of my equipment is decades old.
i had to read a little on the use of synthetic materials in a sax and discovered that the first use of plastic was in the 1950's (Grafton) and more recently the use of polycarbonate materials by Vibrato.
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Jan 12, 2017 - 12:38pm PT
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All kinds of yes!
17/8 but to me felt like one bar of 4/4 followed by a bar of 9/8
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Currently on the front page of Pitchfork.com is a truly wonderful article on Alice Coltrane. It includes videos of her music, as well as some by her Husband John Coltrane, who she had a major influence on.
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Listening to this snappy little number on vinyl this morning.
Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight, Hotel Park Central, NYC, November 19, 1936.
At the beginning of the album, the live announcer, who sounds like he's speaking into a tin can from a submarine says: "featuring Chick [Webb] at the drums and the torrid songs of Ella Fitzgerald".
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Jan 21, 2017 - 10:03am PT
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Tarbuster-dig the Gil Evans..^^
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Les McCann smoked hash for the first time ever just before walking
on stage.
He had played with the band very few times.
Eddie Harris shines!!
This is the version on Swiss Movement.
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Jan 21, 2017 - 10:32am PT
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We may be smoking the same batch Tad..😉
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Yes
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Pannonica!
She's known as the Jazz Baroness. Charlie Parker died in her apartment. She lived with 306 cats. Twenty-four songs were written for her. She raced Miles Davis down Fifth Avenue. She went to prison so he [Monk] wouldn't have to… [Click to View YouTube Video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonica_de_Koenigswarter
She is sometimes referred to as the "bebop baroness" or "jazz baroness" because of her patronage of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker among others. She was introduced to Thelonious Monk by jazz pianist/composer Mary Lou Williams in Paris while attending the "Salon du Jazz 1954", and championed his work in the USA, writing the liner notes for his 1962 Columbia album Criss-Cross, and even took criminal responsibility when she and Monk were charged with marijuana possession by the police. After Monk ended his public performances in the mid-1970s he retired to de Koenigswarter's house in Weehawken, New Jersey, where he died in 1982.
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Jan 29, 2017 - 02:24am PT
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bill evans ~ blue in green: http://youtu.be/SDC-y_mXaYQ
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wikipedia:
The version on Evans' trio album Portrait in Jazz, recorded in 1959, credits the tune to "Davis-Evans". Earl Zindars, in an interview conducted by Win Hinkle, said that "Blue in Green" was 100-percent written by Bill Evans.[2] In a radio interview broadcast on May 27, 1979, Evans himself said that he had written the song. On being asked about the issue by interviewer Marian McPartland, he said: "The truth is I did [write the music]... I don't want to make a federal case out of it, the music exists, and Miles is getting the royalties..."[3] Evans recounted that when he suggested that he was entitled to share of the royalties, Davis wrote him a check for 25 dollars.
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Dark jazz is a form of modern jazz characterized by the fusion of downtempo, minimalist ambient music with jazz. The term is often used interchangeably with doom jazz, and is comparable in feel and mood to dark ambient music.
https://www.reddit.com/r/darkjazz/comments/3mo5ms/my_favorite_song_dark_state_of_mind_by_tuatara/
Tuatara is a collaborative project headed up by Peter Buck, the artist heavily associated with REM, who is reputed to have a massive vinyl record collection, and is clearly into more than just pop and rock. Their album Breaking the Ethers, is the only one so jazz inflected.
I've always liked jazz that shows a thematic structure. When I recently read up on Tuatara in preparation for this post, I saw that the group was originally conceived to produce soundtrack work. It's probably the drumming at times, or more specifically, the beat, that represents their biggest formulative departure from straightahead jazz?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara_(band);
Tuatara is a reptile endemic to New Zealand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara
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Ha! I've been searching for a thing that flew by and I liked when I listened to it. I've no idea where I was when it came up in the menu, there was an oriental looking man in a white Robe, the picture was looking down on his head he was facing left on the right side of the frame?
Over-laid was some oriental writing . . ?
Not this but I like the sound as well as the video
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Saxophonist Hailey Niswanger said:
To use music as a means for social change. To inspire people to be kind to one another, to smile together, cry together, express themselves, and perhaps pick up an instrument!
Would it be that music could change the world? How grand!
It does however, to quote Lou Reed, "help make life bearable".
Well, to make something bearable is to make it worthwhile. And if it's worthwhile, it's worth hanging onto, and nourishing.
You go Hailey! Go girl go!
http://www.theyoungry.com/hailey-niswanger/
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Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for composing that group's greatest hit, "Take Five". He was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the West Coast's cool jazz scene.
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If you liked those, here they are in the context of their original release, Paul Desmond Quintet,
which I have in hand on translucent green 10 inch vinyl, yielding about 14 minutes of music per side.
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Album cover for Fantasy catalog #3–21, likely a first pressing, completely void of anything printed on the face of the matter:
Very candid liner notes on the back.
Paul Desmond: artist, musicologist, humorist!
Note: in the above YouTube post, you only have one side, so the chorale singers he talks about appear on the other side, which we haven't heard here.
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Check out Desmond's impressive discography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Desmond
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Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is a popular item here on the forum.
Marlow posted some versions of it on this thread a few years back and Largo has started two independent threads about it.
Joni's Dry Cleaner from Des Moines really swings!
Jaco Pastorius did the horn arrangement on that one. Some of the usual suspects show up on her album, Mingus, where she has Jaco on bass, Wayne Shorter on soprano sax, Herbie Hancock on electric piano, Peter Erskine, Don Alias, Camille Richards, on drums, congas, and percussion, respectively.
The third version of Pork Pie Hat, just above the Jeff Beck interpretation, is accompanied by these notes from Pedro Mestre Jazz on YouTube:
This version is from the album Blues & Politics by the Mingus Big Band and it was recorded in 1999. 20 years after his death so it is one of a few ensembles put together to play Charlie Mingus music. This particular big band made 11 albums and in this record the saxophone player is Seamus Blake born in England moved to canada and went to Berklee School.
From Wikipedia:
"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a jazz standard[1] composed by Charles Mingus originally recorded by his sextet in 1959 as listed below, and released on his album Mingus Ah Um. Mingus wrote it as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months prior to the recording session, and was known to wear a broad-brimmed pork pie hat.[2] It is one of Mingus's best-known compositions and has been recorded by many jazz and jazz fusion artists.[3] Joni Mitchell added lyrics to the song for her album Mingus, recorded in collaboration with Mingus during the months before his death.[4] Rahsaan Roland Kirk also composed lyrics to the song, included on his album The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Pork_Pie_Hat
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... Benny Goodman stands in front, quiet or smiling into the spotlight or tilting his instrument to the rafters as they rise to the takeoff. Sooner or later they will lead into one of those Fletcher Henderson arrangements of an old favorite, and the whole riding motion of the orchestra will be felt even through the thick carpets and the babble of the crowd, and those with two feet under them will move out onto the floor, because the music can be heard best when it is fulfilling its original simple purpose, coming through the ears and the good living wood underneath. As they get along into the later choruses, the boys will let out a little of that flash and rhythmic power which make these separate defined instruments into something indefinable, a thumping big-band with the whole room under its thumb ... Otis Ferguson, December 1936, excerpt from The New Republic, Reading Jazz, Robert Gottlieb p. 479
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... Known to the audience as the finest all-girl jazz band in the country, the Sweethearts had in seven years attained a reputation equal to that of the great male bands of the period, those led by Jimmy Lunceford, Count Basie, and Fletcher Henderson. The year was 1945; the place, the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
A hot attraction, the Sweethearts were then at the height of their fame, although to some they were merely a novelty – sixteen pretty girl musicians led by an extravagantly beautiful young woman, Anna Mae Winburn. They played with assurance, discipline, and excitement, reflecting the expert teaching of their director, Maurice King. There were some fine soloists, including Violet (Vi) Burnside, a driving, gutty tenor sax player with more than a suggestion of Coleman Hawkins in her style. The star soloist of the trumpet section was Ray Carter, whose muted sound was colorful and technically brilliant ... Marian McPartland, excerpt from her book All in Good Time, Reading Jazz, Robert Gottlieb, p. 638.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2017 - 09:51am PT
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James Hill - brilliant....
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Mar 18, 2017 - 06:33am PT
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I've been listening to Buddy Rich recently. The character in the movie 'Whiplash' was loosely based on Buddy Rich...
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Western Swing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_swing
The movement was an outgrowth of jazz,[6][7][8] and similarities with gypsy jazz are often noted.[citation needed] The music is an amalgamation of rural, cowboy, polka, folk, Dixieland jazz and blues blended with swing;[9] and played by a hot string band often augmented with drums, saxophones, pianos and, notably, the steel guitar.[10] The electrically amplified stringed instruments, especially the steel guitar, give the music a distinctive sound.[11] Later incarnations have also included overtones of bebop.
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She's cool as a breeze, busier than a hive of bees, impossible to please and doubly hard to hold and squeeze. She's everybody's number one, a dream come true when your day is done, the gal who shines like the summer sun, she's neat, petite ... and totally complete!
That just busts me up every time I listen to it!
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Mar 18, 2017 - 06:46am PT
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Thanks for the Royal Gardens Blues retrospective, Tarbuster. Loved them all.
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Mar 18, 2017 - 07:09am PT
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Ditto!
... And I really dig Branford's bop take on Royal Garden Blues.
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There's a line from Rock n Roll Music; "I dig that modern Jazz, unless they play it to dern fast, an' screw up the melody". . . , Chuck's Jazz.
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A Life Well lived
just past! Worked the gig til 90.! That is a rock n roll legend !
Wow Dham
Rock the Cosmos Chuck!
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i'm gonna bust out a christmas carol here cuz you all need some tenderizin'
herbie hancock ~ river: http://youtu.be/fhwuQbdfHIM vocals ~ corinne bailey rae
and because it may be the greatest act of embellished covertude and restraint i know of.
so evenly fractured in twinkling detail, it adorns a coursing bass of pause, gather and surge.
vocals swoop and reel atop textures woven of thrust, tentative recurve and honest exposition.
this is a showcase of an arranger's refinement, strewn with shards of deflection made complete
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Chuck Berry's Woodpecker was way more bluesy/jazzy than I expected. Really fun!
Pekka Pohjola's Ouroboros shows elements of the modal jazz brought out in Kind of Blue.
Same with the title track Bullhorn, but with a worldbeat underpinning, similar to the works of Tuatara which I posted up thread.
He really knows what he's doing!
Vapor Trails! Yes that was fairly cooking! Right in there with the jazz fusion of Spyro Gyra.
Always liked that word, ouroboros, and its place in the history of symbolism and etc.
... often taken to symbolize introspection, the eternal return or cyclicality,[4]especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself. It also represents the infinite cycle of nature's endless creation and destruction, life and death and despair.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
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That was the first cut, for more, here's the full record:
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Liner notes from the original release on 10" LP:
The 10" lacks interjections from the announcer which are heard on the full album re-issue, on YouTube.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2017 - 10:46am PT
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Arve Henriksen & Bill Frisell - Both Sides Now
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And thanks to Hooblie for pointing this way earlier...
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Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements influenced by classical music techniques such as polyphony, and marked a major development in post-bebop jazz. As the title suggests, these recordings are considered seminal in the history of cool jazz. Most of them were originally released in the 10-inch 78-rpm format and are all approximately three minutes long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool
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I can't rescue myself in the past, which is gone.
But I can relive the future, and that is jazz.
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^^^ both sides now, wow! that's some wonderfully articulate horn playing, i can imagine joni brimming with a complex swirl of approval. such thoughtful accompaniment, saturated with frisell-ness yet so complimentary. definitely share on survival's awesome covers thread, if you please
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Following the cool Phil Upchurch post from Yanqui, (including that wonderful Jive Samba), here's another rendition of Love and Peace:
Eric Gale on guitar.
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Some jazz guitar lineage:
Charlie Christian > Barney Kessel > John Abercrombie.
Highlights from this set, circa '93:
Second tune into it, (10 min) John Abercrombie plays a number he wrote for John Scofield called Scomotion.
At the end of the set, (43 min) they do a jazz standard, Lullaby of the Leaves.
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John Laird Abercrombie (born December 16, 1944) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and bandleader.[1][2] His work explores jazz fusion, post bop, free jazz, and avant-garde jazz ... He began by playing along to Chuck Berry, but discovered jazz by listening to Barney Kessel.[4] ... He quickly became one of the "most in-demand session players,"[4] recording with Gil Evans in 1974, Gato Barbieri in 1971, and Barry Miles in 1972 among others ... His playing style is "spare" and "understated," and he has continued to experiment and push the boundaries of jazz while retaining a firm grounding in jazz tradition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abercrombie_(guitarist);
Barney Kessel in '62, and some fun historical commentary referencing Charlie Christian as the progenitor of jazz guitar:
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He quickly established himself as a key post-Charlie Christian jazz guitarist ... Kessel was known for his innovative work in the guitar trio setting ... Kessel was also a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio with Ray Brown for a year, leaving in 1953. The guitar chair was called the hardest gig in show business since Peterson often liked to play at breakneck tempos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Kessel
Charlie Christian, here live in '41, was, along with Monk (piano), Dizzy (trumpet), Kenny Clarke (drums), and Bird (sax), credited as one of the main shapers, if not the originator, of bebop:
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Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra from August 1939 to June 1941.
Christian's solos are frequently described as "horn-like", and in that sense he was more influenced by horn players such as Lester Young and Herschel Evans[11]
The influence he had on "Dizzy" Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Don Byas can be heard on their early bop recordings "Blue 'N' Boogie" and "Salt Peanuts". Other musicians, such as the trumpeter Miles Davis, cited Christian as an early influence.
Christian was an important contributor to the music that became known as bop, or bebop. Some of the participants in those early after-hours affairs at Minton's Playhouse, where bebop was born, credit Christian with the name bebop, citing his humming of phrases as the onomatopoetic origin of the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Christian
The two attributions which I've come across for the terms bop and bebop, are the one noted in that last Wikipedia paragraph for Charlie, and one for Fats Waller.
All below comes from my notes taken during a read of Robert Gottlieb's Reading Jazz.
Lips Page referenced bop, later known as bebop, as a term originating from Fats Waller, because Fats lauded the emergent style for its "boppin' and stoppin'".
According to Miles, speaking extemporaneously, the lineage of bebop goes: Louis Armstrong > Lester Young & Coleman Hawkins > Dizzy & Bird.
Also from Miles, Birth of the Cool was derived from what Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were doing, and the ready uptake of cool jazz had much to do with it being more white.
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Vibes and jazz guitar, the ultimate in 60s cocktail music.
Kenny Burrell on guitar.
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He [Kenny] has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt as influences
From 1957 to 1959, Burrell occupied the former chair of Charlie Christian in Benny Goodman's band. Since his New York debut Burrell has had a prolific recording career, and critics have cited The Cats with John Coltrane in 1957, Midnight Blue with Stanley Turrentine in 1963, and Guitar Forms with arranger Gil Evans in 1965 as particular highlights.[1][2][3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Burrell
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Thanks, Tarbuster. Barney Kessel blows my mind.
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yanqui
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This is a repost (of sorts), but Tarbuster's Dave Pike post put me in the mood. Bola Sete literally got his break playing cocktail lounges in the Sheraton Hotel where he was discovered by Dizzy Gillespie. Bola's collaborations with Vince Guaraldi created one of my favorite manifestations of jazz. There's something about Vince Guaraldi's restrained, elegant precision that fits sublimely with the Brazillian sound. Their full live set is now up on youtube
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It's not just that they play excellent music.
Bola and Vince coax happiness with that stuff!
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2017 - 10:39am PT
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Bud Powell - Paris 1959 (with Kenny Clarke, Clark Terry, etc)
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Apr 15, 2017 - 07:48am PT
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Gerry Mulligan, Young Blood:
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His compositions "Walking Shoes" and "Young Blood" stand out as embodiments of the contrapuntal style that became Mulligan's signature.
Dragonfly, Mulligan's last composition:
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Mulligan's mother hired an African-American nanny named Lily Rose, who became especially fond of the youngest Mulligan. As he became older, Mulligan began spending time at Rose's house and was especially amused by Rose's player piano, which Mulligan later recalled as having rolls by numerous players, including Fats Waller. Black musicians sometimes came through town, and because many motels would not take them, they often had to stay at homes within the black community. The young Mulligan occasionally met such musicians staying at Rose's home. Birth of the Cool
In September 1948, Miles Davis formed a nine-piece band that featured arrangements by Mulligan, Evans and John Lewis. The band initially consisted of Davis on trumpet, Mulligan on baritone saxophone, trombonist Mike Zwerin, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, Junior Collins on French horn, tubist Bill Barber, pianist John Lewis, bassist Al McKibbon and drummer Max Roach.
He was also (with Davis, Konitz and Barber) one of only four musicians who played on all the recordings. Despite the chilly reception by audiences of 1949, the Davis nonet has been judged by history as one of the most influential groups in jazz history, creating a sound that, despite its East Coast origins, became known as West Coast Jazz. The pianoless quartet with Chet Baker
Baker's melodic style fit well with Mulligan's, leading them to create improvised contrapuntal textures free from the rigid confines of a piano-enforced chordal structure. While novel at the time in sound and style, this ethos of contrapuntal group improvisation hearkened back to the formative days of jazz. Despite their very different backgrounds – Mulligan, a classically trained New Yorker, and Baker, from Oklahoma and a much more instinctive player – they had an almost psychic rapport and Mulligan later remarked that, "I had never experienced anything like that before and not really since." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Mulligan
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Apr 22, 2017 - 06:11pm PT
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Marlow,
That Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke, Paris 1959 segment goes right to the heart of bop.
A very exciting historical find!
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Apr 22, 2017 - 06:12pm PT
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Clifford Brown
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He [Clifford Brown] was also a composer of note: two of his compositions, "Joy Spring"[2] and "Daahoud",[3] have become jazz standards.[4]
Back of the 10 inch LP, containing the two cuts above, issued 1955:
Brown was influenced and encouraged by Fats Navarro,[7] sharing Navarro's virtuosic technique and brilliance of invention. His sound was warm and round, and notably consistent across the full range of the instrument. He could articulate every note, even at very fast tempos which seemed to present no difficulty to him; this served to enhance the impression of his speed of execution. His sense of harmony was highly developed, enabling him to deliver bold statements through complex harmonic progressions (chord changes), and embodying the linear, "algebraic" terms of bebop harmony. In addition to his up-tempo prowess, he could express himself deeply in a ballad performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Brown
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The poster known as Hooblie, from out where the anecdotes roam ... and dead center on his tripod over an endless wellspring: an oracle of hip, modern, swinging jazz.
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Tarbuster
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May 27, 2017 - 06:11am PT
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Ornette Coleman playing his tune, Tears Inside:
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Coleman lived to be 85.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette_Coleman
Tears Inside, Pat Metheny's rendition:
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Back in the 80s during my guiding days in Idyllwild, I had been teaching knots and fundamentals throughout the week, and on Friday night, while all the other climbers were heading into town for their weekend of climbing, Terry Martin and I hopped into my Lancia for a spirited drive down into Los Angeles to see Ornette Coleman.
What a blast! Ornette had two bass players and two drummers. They proceeded to cook up a free jazz wall of sound. It was like the aural version of a Jackson Pollock painting.
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The cover of Metheny's album, Rejoicing, looks like the abstract Expressionism of CY Twombly. Credit for the cover design goes to Barbara Wojirsch.
Think of Your Eyes as Ears, an interesting read on ECM cover art and Barbara Wojirsch:
http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/think-of-your-ears-as-eyes
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 20, 2017 - 12:28pm PT
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Following in the footprints of Hooblie: Arild Andersen - Hyperborean (live, Til Radka, 2009)
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Composed by Arild Andersen. From the concert "Til Radka" (tribute concert to Radka Toneff), August 10, 2009, at the Opera House during Oslo Jazz Festival, Norway. Arild Andersen, double bass, with Elin Rosseland, vocal, Arve Henriksen, trumpet and vocal, Steve Dobrogosz, piano, Jon Eberson, guitar, Jon Christensen, drums, and Alex Riel, drums.
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2017 - 09:21am PT
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Solveig Slettahjell - Take It With Me (Tom Waits cover, live, Til Radka, 2009)
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yanqui
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So WHY does so much of Jazz suck so much?
An intolerance or unreceptiveness on your part due to stimulus-response programming in your adolescent years? I'm willing to consider other possible explanations, if you have them.
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hooblie
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adversity is it's own reward
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2017 - 12:37pm PT
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Terje Rypdal Odyssey, Live at Molde Jazz Festival, Norway, 29 July 1975
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Rypdal is 70 this year...
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Thanks everyone for your continuing participation and for keeping this thread swingin' along!
So much musical enjoyment to be had here.
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hooblie
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roy, check out this cover of caravan ... was going to post it on survival's awesome cover thread with the quip " too jazzy for the jazz thread" but you have a way ...
exceeded recommended dosage on the road home by a fair margin and blew out the AC. go figure. worth it though, still twitch and wiggle just fine so i'll be OK
wynton marsalis ~ caravan: http://youtu.be/l_7uaWJAiOA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2017 - 12:53pm PT
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Jimmy Smith Quartet [ZDF Jazz Club - Leonberg, Germany - 1988]
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2017 - 01:17pm PT
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Newen Afrobeat feat. Seun Kuti & Cheick Tidiane Seck - Opposite People (Fela Kuti)
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Oct 10, 2017 - 08:06pm PT
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Happy 100th birthday, Thelonious Monk.
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Oct 11, 2017 - 11:32am PT
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Good call on Thelonious Monk's birthday!
(October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982)
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More from Geoff Gallante ...
(that rendition of Dancing Cheek to Cheek in particular, at 11 years old, was very nice)
At five years old:
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At 13 years old:
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And more recently, presumably at 16 or 17 (earlier this year), with another child prodigy, Joey Alexander:
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Oct 28, 2017 - 06:53am PT
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Norah Jones, what a gift to the world!
I hope she gets half the joy from life that she gives to the rest of us; if so, she's living richly indeed!
Side note: Nora and my wife, Lisa, share the same alma mater, University of North Texas.
We get their newsletter, and a while back one of them featured Norah.
In some ways Norah Jones' success is due to the 1971 Cadillac she drove at UNT.
"That car was really awesome," she says. "It was just perfect — beautiful and huge."
Because she drove a big car, Jones got the assignment to pick up jazz bassist Marc Johnson and his band from Denton's Radisson Hotel and bring them to campus for the clinic they were teaching.
Johnson's band included Jesse Harris, Tony Scherr and Kenny Wollesen, who all had a hand in the creation of Jones' much lauded debut album, Come Away With Me.
"That short ride from across the highway is, I guess, what started all of this," she says, "all of this" being a rather casual allusion to her exploding fame http://northtexan.unt.edu/archives/s03/norah.htm
And a more recent installment:
When UNT alumna and Grammy Award-winning musician Norah Jones visited campus Sept. 21, she received one of UNT's most prestigious awards and gave jazz students an education on the music industry.
President Neal Smatresk presented Jones with the Presidential Medal of Honor -- the highest medal given by the university. She was in Denton to perform as part of the Oaktopia music festival, of which UNT was the premier sponsor.
"What's up, y'all?" Jones greeted the students packed into the Music Building's Recital Hall. "It (the building) looks the same."
https://northtexan.unt.edu/content/welcome-home
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phylp
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Oct 30, 2017 - 02:59pm PT
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Marlow, last night we watched a Netflix documentary "I called him Morgan". Excellent!
One of the scenes shows him staying for a month near Hermosa Beach, CA, to play at a jazz club called the Lighthouse Cafe. It's still there. We're planning to check it out sometime.
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hooblie
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brazen regurgitation ... me reposting a dylan cover, but sofa king* good[Click to View YouTube Video]
*plage'd w/impunity
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2017 - 08:48am PT
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Lester Young & Coleman Hawkins 1958 - Jumpin' with the Symphony Sid
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Charlie Shavers, trumpet; J C Higginbotham, trombone; Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, tenor sax; Pee Wee Russell, clarinet; Harry Sheppard, vibraphone; Willie "The Lion" Smith, piano; Dickie Thompson, guitar; Vinnie Burke, acoustic double bass; Sonny Greer, drums
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Marlow, man that ensemble is an embarrassment of riches! Thanks for listing the names of the players.
Also, I'm always thirsty for vibes and clarinet in jazz.
Hooblie! Okay, Joshua Breakstone sure has a lot of great material.
I listened to one of his performances on YouTube the other day and just let it run from one to the next: it was like Breakstone radio for about two hours straight.
Una Mae Carlisle: Yes Yanqui, here's to sassy, intelligent, and self-possessed women. No shortage of them where jazz singers reign!
In a perfect world, the four of us would have a night out at a jazz club, if just once!
Would make a good TR. Or just a good trip.
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Classic Ella.[Click to View YouTube Video]
This is played as background to a drunken tantrum by Princess Margaret in Episode4 of Season 2 of The Crown (Netflix).
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Dec 20, 2017 - 10:16am PT
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Marc Ribot: I like this guy's genre and his playing.
That CD can be had new for $39 via Amazon, or one could just rip it straight from YouTube.
Almost any jazz album I can think of sits on YouTube for the taking. Cool, but a little strange.
Store-bought CDs are machine made and quite a bit more durable.
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2017 - 12:45am PT
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Almost any jazz album I can think of sits on YouTube for the taking. Cool, but a little strange.
I agree. The Marc Ribot album deleted... I'll stick to single songs...
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Tobia
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Denial
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Dec 22, 2017 - 07:51am PT
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Howdy Mr. Tarbuster and Marlow. A lot of good music you guys have been putting up, most new to me.
Count Basie ≈ Blues For Alfy
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Tobia
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Denial
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Dec 22, 2017 - 04:57pm PT
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Tarbuster, I still buy CD's, most are used and I buy from Amazon, the same way I buy paperbacks and hardcover books. I have far too many of both, but I like to re-read books in whole or part. I get some grief about the CD's, but I don't pay it any mind.
Marlow... I met Alphonze while he was hanging outside of Rosie's (Jazz Club) in New Orleans. He was playing with Larry Coryell & Miroslav Vitouš that night. I was a big fan of the Eleventh House.
Alphonse Mouzon ≈ The Essence of Mystery
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Dec 24, 2017 - 07:25am PT
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Tobia said:
Howdy Mr. Tarbuster and Marlow. A lot of good music you guys have been putting up, most new to me. Welcome aboard, Tobia!
There's hardly more than three to six of us here trading tunes at any one stretch.
I'm picking up all kinds of things here I have never heard before, and usually listen to each offering two or three times. This whole thread is like a playlist from heaven!
I collect used vinyl at a snail's pace, and land the occasional new CD, listening on an old school, low-end audiophile 2 channel stereo rig.
(Fair disclosure to Marlow: a good friend occasionally sends me progressive rock albums which he has burned to CD straight from YouTube)
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Jan 14, 2018 - 11:02am PT
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Went Danilo Lozano’s Cuba LA show at Whittier College last night. OMG!. Unbelievable!
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2018 - 12:33pm PT
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And then, poetically, Omara Portuondo and Emilio Morales - "Dos Gardenias" y " Besame mucho" en Montreal, Canada
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Feb 24, 2018 - 01:12pm PT
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excellent pick brother. strand me on an island with only this ^^^ excellent
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yanqui
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Mar 10, 2018 - 11:37am PT
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I'm enjoying your March 8th (IWD) post, Tarbuster. Nice listening on a rainy Saturday while I'm working on some notes, for a graduate student to present in class, that classify the fixed-point-free discrete groups of isometries acting on a 3-sphere.
Cheers!
Edit to add: Now I'm playing your post hooblie, and my wife who's in the kitchen cooking veggies (before they go bad) to freeze up a bunch of food, just starting singing along, the same way I might know a Beatles' song from my youth. A blast from her past!
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Mar 10, 2018 - 03:38pm PT
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what a nice moment shared yanqui ... i've taken to searching more broadly for alternate versions of a tune that strikes my fancy before posting. i scrolled down through the pagefull of search results and dropped in on a couple of versions of "historia de un amor" so while wondering if the tune was remotely familiar to my ear, so many artists weighing in with versions
clued me in that really, i was the latest one in on the pleasure. not where i want to be regarding the all the beauty that is latin. http://youtu.be/0NCCCblLZQc
tobia's top of page gift is coming up blocked for me. here it is by other means:
manu katche ~ swing piece: http://youtu.be/kb29KFU_MHE
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Mar 17, 2018 - 11:08am PT
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^^^
That was nice.
Clean, spare, intellectual, but with warmth. Like a fresh breeze cleaning out the damp, drab colors in my head. 'Makes me feel good about life!
There is a lovely, very human moment in the video involving a brief exchange of eye contact and recognition between Rosinha, the guitarist, and Rubens Bassini, working that hand-held percussive thingy.
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Mar 18, 2018 - 05:56pm PT
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From, Reading Jazz, Robert Gottlieb, p. 87:
The unique pianist/composer/arranger Mary Lou Williams – by far the most important and influential woman in jazz history – published an extensive autobiographical account (almost complete here) in the British magazine Melody Maker in 1954. She had been everywhere, known everyone,
and seen everything, and was still looking forward expectantly as well as back nostalgically. Apparently I never flagged anything in that 30 page article/chapter for transcription and presentation here. Likely because the whole thing was poignant!
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Compilation of Mary Lou Williams arrangements:
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Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions).[1] Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams
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Mar 24, 2018 - 07:17am PT
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From Reading Jazz, Robert Gottlieb, p. 487:
Still, he knew the Palomar was a more imposing room, and, chastened by the experience in Denver, Goodman decided to open with stock arrangements and sugary ballads. He continued in that vein for an hour with no response, but by the second set he had made up his mind that if he was doomed to failure he would go down honorably. He called for the Henderson charts and counted off "Sugar Foot Stomp." The crowd roared with approval. He couldn't believe it. This was what they had come to hear, the good stuff. The young audience stopped dancing and pressed against the bandstand. On that night, August 21, 1935, the Swing Era was born, because on that night middle-class white kids said yes in thunder and hard currency.
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Mar 25, 2018 - 07:44am PT
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Much thanks, Hooblie!
I'd never be listening to these terrific artists if you weren't slinging them out here for us!
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Mar 25, 2018 - 07:45am PT
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Now for something way retro with big-band accompaniment.
'Just love Virginia O'Brien's deadpan comic delivery here, riffing on Salomé. What a class act!
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 8, 2018 - 07:35am PT
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Jazz at the Philharmonic 1967 BBC
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Clark Terry
James Moody
Zoot Sims
Dizzy Gillespie
Coleman Hawkins
Benny Carter
Teddy Wilson
Bob Cranshaw
Louie Bellson
T-bone Walker
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Apr 21, 2018 - 08:53pm PT
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Yeah, I've got Swiss Movement right here on vinyl. Probably said that about 300 posts back ...
Love the Ray Charles version!
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Apr 28, 2018 - 08:11am PT
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Buddy, Brass, and Bass!
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.............................
WHEN YOU'RE A JET
1961 FILM LYRICS
RIFF
When you're a Jet,
You're a Jet all the way
From your first cigarette
To your last dyin' day.
When you're a Jet,
Let them do what they can,
You got brothers around,
You're a family man.
You're never alone,
You're never disconnected.
You're home with your own—
When company's expected,
You're well protected!
Then you are set
With a capital J,
Which you'll never forget
Till they cart you away.
When you're a Jet,
You stay
A Jet!
SNOWBOY
When you're a Jet,
You're the top cat in town,
You're the gold-medal kid
With the heavyweight crown!
ICE
When you're a Jet,
You're the swingin'est thing.
Little boy, you're a man;
Little man, you're a king!
ALL
The Jets are in gear,
Our cylinders are clickin'!
The Sharks'll steer clear,
'Cause ev'ry Puerto Rican
'S a lousy chicken!
Here come the Jets
Like a bat out of hell—
Someone gets in our way
Someone don't feel so well!
Here come the Jets!
Little world, step aside,
Better go underground,
Better run, better hide!
We're drawin' the line,
So keep your noses hidden!
We're hangin' a sign
Says "Visitors forbidden,"
And we ain't kiddin!
Here come the Jets—
Yeah! And we're gonna beat
Every last buggin' gang
On the whole buggin' street!
One the whole—!
Buggin'—!
Ever—!
Lovin'—!
Street!
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2018 - 09:43am PT
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The Magical Forest
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Sinikka Langeland: kantele, vocals
Arve Henriksen: trumpet
Trygve Seim: soprano and tenor saxophones
Anders Jormin: double bass
Markku Ounaskari: drums
Trio Mediaeval: vocals
Sinikka Langeland (born 13 January 1961 in Grue, Norway) is a Norwegian traditional folk singer and musician (kantele), known for combining traditional music with elements of jazz.
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May 12, 2018 - 06:20am PT
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Yes: good morning!
And as Jackie Gleason used to say, how sweet it is!
From glacier point WebCam, 14+ min. ago:
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May 19, 2018 - 06:15am PT
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Guitarist - John Scofield
Drummer- Dennis Chambers
Bass - Gary Grainger
Key- Jim Beard
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2018 - 12:09pm PT
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Sade - Smooth Operator (Live 2011): Not exactly jazz, but cool as f*#k...
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May 21, 2018 - 03:40pm PT
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I'll do some Sade.
Though restrained in vocal range, with her sultry, diamond dust voice and a few other qualities, she melts guys, and a few women I'd imagine, like the heat of the sun.
Your Love Is King, 2011
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Montreux Jazz Festival, 1984
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The New Yorker described Sade's voice as a "grainy contralto full of air that betrays a slight ache but no agony, and values even imperfect dignity over a show of pain", a "deeply English" quality that makes categorizing the artist's voice difficult.[62] Her voice was described by the BBC as "husky and restrained" and compared to singer Billie Holiday. BBC called her songwriting "sufficiently soulful and jazzy yet poppy, funky yet easy listening, to appeal to fans of all those genres."Sade has been called a "pop star".[62] With the musicians in her band, Sade, The New Yorker wrote, "created one of the most profitable catalogues in pop"; the band's "easy" sound backing songs "exploring the heavier lifting inside love: commitment, consistency, friendship."[62] Her success has been attributed to a combination of her unique beauty, seemingly indefinable origins, and mysterious persona.[62][63] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_(singer);
More important than range in voice classification is tessitura, or where the voice is most comfortable singing, and vocal timbre, or the characteristic sound of the singing voice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_range
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May 26, 2018 - 07:53am PT
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Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet
Sonny Stitt – alto saxophone
Kai Winding – trombone
Thelonious Monk – piano
Al McKibbon – bass
Art Blakey – drums
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Topic Author's Reply - May 26, 2018 - 12:29pm PT
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Cantaloupe Island featuring Herbie Hancock / Blue Note Concert Live
Featuring Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams.
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May 26, 2018 - 01:49pm PT
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nice being tuned into your sweet saturday evening string of pearls with you marlow, making my day here in mountain standard time
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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May 26, 2018 - 03:19pm PT
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Ditto.
4:19pm Mountain Standard Time:
Tony's Neo Funk is pepping us right up!
Hiromi's cooking those jazz fusion musings with one hand on the bones and the other buried in a keyboard: bass player thunders underneath, drummer is on it and she's incorrigible Fun!
Freddie and Joe on horns, Herbie rolling those fingers side to side, along with their superb rhythm section they all remind us why we love jazz!
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sween345
climber
back east
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May 26, 2018 - 07:06pm PT
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The Jam Sessions here makes for some good listenin.
https://www.wnyc.org/shows/jazz-loft
The ten radio episodes with it give some history about the loft.
There's also a documentary out called The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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May 27, 2018 - 07:12am PT
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♪
Riding the Freddie wave. I've posted this multiple times on the What Song thread, but never here.
Freddie Hubbard ≈ First Light
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I’ve seen Ruben. He’s El Vato.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Saw Chano Dominguez at the newly refurbished Ford Amphitheatre Friday night. He did a
flamenco interpretation of Miles Davis’ ‘Sketches Of Spain’. It was, in a word, unbelievable.
The dancer, Daniel Navarro, was like three woodpeckers on meth, but artistically so.
Henry Cole might be the best drummer I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen some of the greats.
The cantaor, Blas Cordoba, is justly esteemed. And the bassist, Alexis Cuadrado, was also
from another planet.
Here’s a minute and a half of their encore...(a pity you don’t get the cantaor and dancer)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2018 - 10:29am PT
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Sounds great...
Published by Reilly Moss. Is it the first one you have published on YouTube, Reilly?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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First jazz vid. A few others of varying genres.
I would never photograph or video a live performance like this but I figured a minute of the encore wasn’t too egregious.
BTW, ‘Sketches Of Spain’ was recorded the year Chano was born in Cadiz, España.
He mentioned what a huge influence it was on him at an early age. So cool.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2018 - 01:25pm PT
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More Mess Around
Ray Charles - Mess Around
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Very cool Miraphone video...
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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when it's time to shed tears for fallen comrades, i turn to coltrane.
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sweet gone beyonds to jason and tim who blasted free of this earthly treasure
from beside the captain on saturday into the pure memories of the left behind
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Suicide is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)
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SUICIDE IS PAINLESS
Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say
Suicide is painless (suicide)
It brings on many changes (changes)
And I can take or leave it if I please
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger
Watch it grin
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
Is it to be or not to be
And I replied oh why ask me?
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
And you can do the same thing if you please
Songwriters: Johnny Mandel / Michael B Altman
Suicide Is Painless lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
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A rather sentimental tune; I've always enjoyed its emotive lilt and the lyrics are inward reaching.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Haunting artwork from hooblie's post of Henri Texier Azur Quartet is sometimes reminiscent of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss and other works.
Syrian artist Suhair Sibai:
https://www.saatchiart.com/SuhairSibai
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Detail from Gustav Klimt's The Kiss:
Suhair Sibai artwork from Henri Texier Azur Quartet YouTube:
Love, love her stunning work:
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Christ, where to start …
Top of this group of 20 should do.
I listen to all of these offerings three times each, minimum. It's often been said that climbing can be as complicated and intriguing as a game of chess. I'll have to stick a dart on the bull's-eye of the jazz-board of analogies as well.
It's clear I'm not the only one on this message board who no longer climbs, nor am I the only one who finds in jazz a suitable respite for the adventurous heart.
Let's see: Reilly's Chano snippet along with Yanqui’s encore was much appreciated. Eddie Harris and Ray Charles would approve!
Two or three notes into Laura Ochikubo's soprano saxophone, and we know it's The Trane!
And yes, it does tugg at the heartstrings of our feelings for the fallen.
The Miraphone assemblage fairly blew my mind wide open. In the opening moves of the fabrication process I was thinking to myself: so crude … this can't be the beginning of something eventuating in some artifact expressing exactitude and revelations of the expression of fine tolerances … Joyously: WRONG!
A devout Robert Altman fan, I recently watched the original M*A*S*H.
(The DVD box set of his full oeuvre is hard to come by)
Is suicide painless? Little did I know that Anthony Bourdain & Kate Spade, two admirable brand builders, would concurrently slip out the door.
DAMN! Nature and I thought we might be able to reel him in for a sushi fest! You gotta know that guy was going to be completely personable and all about the subculture. DAMN! He will be missed.
Speaking to Largo's offering: I think it was you, way up thread a bit, hooblie, who reminded us that Snarky Puppy were also North Texas University alumni along with Norah Jones and Pat Matheny?
At some point, we'll have to revive Largo's jazz fusion thread. Now that's a genre that lights my fire!
But then, THEN, you had to go and revive Michel Petrucciani.
Had to do it. It was on that sort of basis: understood.
Did that guy have chops & heart or what?
And out of THAT thread I was reminded of Joe Sample.
Vignette ALERT!
BITD, Joe Sample used to do summer festivals in Mammoth Lakes.
1980, summer, my memory might be fairly blended, daiquiri style, but I think Merle Haggard actually showed up at one of those Joe Sample headliner affairs. Bruce Brossman, Yosemite Mountaineering School director, was all about the Western rig, as was I, and we were pigs in slop, sitting in the hay in our pointy-toed sh#t kickers, Merle starting out with his chin sunk into his chest country-blues resignation style, then slinging that honky-tonk …
[Mattson & Texier +3]
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Urmas
Social climber
Sierra Eastside
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Joe Sample picked me up hitch hiking in Mammoth, in 1984 - the year I moved there. I told him I was a big fan of his and we were acquainted after that. His musical appearances there were always wonderful experiences! They were some of the best musical events that I remember before Bluesapalooza.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Jun 10, 2018 - 10:33am PT
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Damn, Hoob, that's a transcendental piece right there. I really needed that one.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2018 - 11:14am PT
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Hooblie's version didn't work on this side of the pond, so here's another:
Solitude: Allen Toussaint & Marc Ribot
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 16, 2018 - 07:36am PT
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Wow Roy, thanks! Just preordered, Both sides. The world needs more Coltrane!
Even if I Am going climbing today.....
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2018 - 12:45pm PT
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Four Women: Lisa Simone, Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright, Angélique Kidjo
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jun 30, 2018 - 05:07pm PT
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^^^ if he'd rent me the upstairs apartment i'd roll up the carpet and sleep on the floor
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 30, 2018 - 06:28pm PT
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https://g.co/kgs/5R1iBF
New Coltrane release Both Directions at once ; The Lost Album
From the Link;
John Coltrane
Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
BY: BEN RATLIFF JUN 30 2018
JAZZ
The newly discovered, unreleased album from 1963 featuring the “classic quartet” finds the jazz giant thrillingly caught between shoring up and surging forth.
From April 1962 to September 1965, while under contract to the record label Impulse!, John Coltrane led a more or less consistent working group with the same four musicians. After his death in 1967, this group—Coltrane on tenor and soprano saxophone, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, Elvin Jones on drums—became known as Coltrane’s “classic quartet.” The group was powerful, elegant, and scarily deep. It was also a well-proportioned framing device. It made an artist with great ambitions easier to understand.
It is possible to hear conviction and morality in some of the classic quartet’s best-known music—like the devotional A Love Supreme, recorded in late 1964—as clearly as you can hear melody or rhythm. As a consequence, all of it can appear set on one venerable plane. As it moves inexorably from ballads, blues, and folk songs into abstraction, the classic-quartet corpus can seem an index not only for the range of acoustic jazz but for possibly how to live, gathered and contained, as if it were always there. But the corpus is only what we have been given to hear. And then one day a closet door flies open, a stack of tapes fall out, and a dilemma begins.
A fair amount of Coltrane’s music has been released after the fact, but nothing that would seem, from a distance, quite so canonical as Both Directions At Once, which is 90 minutes worth of (mostly) previously unheard recordings made at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on March 6, 1963—the middle of the classic-quartet period. The Van Gelder studio, in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, can be considered part of the framing device. It was where the group did nearly all its studio work. For reasons of acoustics, it had a 39-foot-high, cathedral-like, vaulted wooden ceiling, fabricated by the same Oregon lumber company that made blimp hangars during World War II. Coltrane’s music during that period, possibly encouraged by the cathedral-like room, became blimpier and churchier.
Why have we not heard these tapes before? It’s hard to imagine that they could have been blithely ignored or forgotten. The 2018 answer is that mono audition reels of the session were only recently found in the possession of the family of Coltrane’s first wife, Juanita Naima Coltrane. (Impulse! didn’t have the music; the label’s master tapes may have been lost in a company move from New York to Los Angeles.) The 1963 answer is unknown, and probably more complicated.
Coltrane’s contract with Impulse! called for two records a year. Whether that day’s work in March was to be conceived at the time as a whole album, or most of one, is uncertain. The extent to which you believe the record’s subtitle—The Lost Album—might be the extent to which you are excited by the news of Both Directions. I can’t quite do it, but there are other reasons to be excited.
It may be hard to hear as a coherent album for back then, though it is easy to hear it as one for now, in our current, expanded notion of what an album is. The music does not seem, in its context, to be a full step forward. It’s a little caught between shoring up and surging forth. (The after-the-fact title—alluding to a conversation Coltrane had with Wayne Shorter about the possibility of improvising as if starting a sentence in the middle, moving backward and forward simultaneously—helps turn a possible liability into a strength.) It can give you new respect for the rigor, compression, and balance of some of his other albums from the period. It is at times, as Coltrane’s son Ravi pointed out, surprisingly like a live session in a studio; parts of the music sound geared toward a captive audience. That may be the best thing about it.
Included on the album—which comes either as a single-disc version or a double-disc with alternate takes, both including extensive liner notes by historian Ashley Kahn—is a sunny, bright-tempo melody (the theme from “Vilia,” written by the Hungarian composer Franz Lehár for the operetta The Merry Widow); a downtempo, minor-key, semi-standard (“Nature Boy,” from the book of eden ahbez, the California proto-hippie songwriter); one of Coltrane’s best original lines, in four different takes (“Impressions,” which he’d been working out in concert for several years); a couple of pieces for soprano saxophone which are representative but not stunning (“Untitled Original 11383,” minor-key and modal, and “Untitled Original 11386,” with a pentatonic melody); “One Up, One Down,” a short, wily theme as a pretext for eight minutes of hard-and-fast jamming; and “Slow Blues,” about which more in a minute.
Coltrane was already building albums from disparate sessions, a practice that would soon yield 1963’s Impressions and Live at Birdland, two records that set live and studio tracks side by side. He may have been stockpiling without a clear purpose; he also had to consider what would sell. Since his recording of “My Favorite Things” in 1961—a hit by jazz terms—Coltrane had become recognizable. His subsequent working relationship with Bob Thiele, the head of Impulse!, was based on the notion that he could expand that audience, not shrink it. Six months before the Both Directions session, he’d made a record with Duke Ellington; the day after it, he’d make another with the singer Johnny Hartman. He was entering the popular artist’s paradox of striving to repeat a past success and trying not to run aground on retreads.
The sense of strength and inevitability we associate with Coltrane’s music didn’t just tumble out. It was likely a byproduct of diligence, restlessness, exhausted possibilities, obsession and counter-obsession. He thought about progress. He passed through serial phases of exploring harmonic sequences, modes, and multiple rhythms; when he acknowledged one phase in an interview, he was generally looking for the next. At the height of the classic quartet, he often didn’t have the time or psychic space for study and practice. “I’m always walking around trying to keep my ear open for another ‘Favorite Things’ or something,” he told the writer Ralph Gleason in May, 1961. “I can’t get in the woodshed like I used to. I’m commercial, man.” More: “I didn’t have to worry about it, you know, making a good record, because that wasn’t important. Maybe I should just go back in the woodshed and just forget it.” At the time, a record like Both Directions might have seemed an open admission that he could have used less worry and more woodshed.
What he meant by “another ‘Favorite Things’” might have been a similar act of counterintuition: a sweet, sentimental tune made paranormal, a curiosity that could break out beyond the normal jazz audience and anchor a hit record. If “Vilia” was intended for that role, it isn’t strong enough. “Impressions,” on Both Directions, in its first known studio recording—especially take 3—sounds sublimely focused. But I’m not sure Coltrane plays it here any better than he did sixteen months earlier at the Village Vanguard, the live version he’d choose later in 1963 when finally issuing the tune, on the record of that name. (It’s complicated, I know.)
“Slow Blues” is the one. There is no narrative here, as there sometimes was with Coltrane’s originals; it is not expressly about love or hardship or religious joy. But Coltrane turns himself inside-out. First, he phrases in bare, hesitant strokes, using negative space; then he begins to whip phrases around, repeating them up and down the horn in rapid, shinnying patterns, reaching for inexpressible sounds, getting ugly. (McCoy Tyner’s solo, directly following Coltrane’s, is tidy and elegant, thorough in its own radically contrasting way.) There is the idea of the “new,” and then there is something like this track, which transcends the burden of newness........
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jul 11, 2018 - 11:22am PT
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From Joe Fitschen's Going Up, Tales Told along the Road to El Capitan.
Page 282, Joe speaks to the parallels between jazz and climbing:
Before concluding this short tour of fifties aesthetics, I should mention that among my climbing friends I was alone in my love of jazz, even though in my mind the two forms of expression have a lot in common. Both test the ability and imagination of the individual within the context of a supportive group. Ad-libbing a solo is like going out on the sharp end of a rope. Although the soloist usually works within the context of a set of familiar chords (keeping in mind the great number of variations on, for example, the standard blues changes), and the climber can see that he is confronted with a crack or a dihedral or series of small holds on the face, neither really knows what he has to deal with until he gets there. The details of each line, whether melodic or granitic, are unique and often require unique solutions found in the moment under pressure. The personnel of both jazz groups and climbing teams is often in flux. Sometimes a group is fronted by a strong and well-known leader, but often (and to my mind, ideally), the group or team is a congruence of equals, each able to take the lead but also willing to provide supporting roles when necessary. And in both climbing and jazz, the membership of groups and teams shifts depending on the job at hand, largely because both are ultimately games that individuals play. Duke Ellington knew this, and even in the context of his juggernaut of a big band, he wrote parts not for trumpet or tenor sax but for Cootie Williams or Paul Gonsalves (and especially Harry Carney). I think that is why jazz groups are almost universally identified by some player's name in contrast to the names of most rock groups. The best climbing and the best jazz also both have a very deep relation to dance. There are other parallels, but ultimately our brains organize sounds in a place different from the sites that deal with the pleasure of physical movement, and so there seems to be no direct connection from one to the other.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jul 11, 2018 - 01:33pm PT
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How about a little more Tal Wilkenfeld?
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"I was actually walking around to like several clubs every night till the sun came up, sitting in at jazz clubs just learning. I was really the only one that would go into these clubs with an electric bass, because these were like, you know, places that played exclusively bebop. So I got some funny looks for quite some time. But it was a priceless education."[5] At the start of 2009, Wilkenfeld toured Australia and Japan with Beck, who commented in an interview; "It's interesting to have some amazing players in my band like Tal, who is about, you know half, a quarter of the age of either Vinnie or me. She's a genius. She will pick up mistakes that we, even Vinnie and I, miss. So she's a great anchor as well."[8] In Sting's 2017 interview with Bass Player he recalled: "With Tal it was very funny; we were doing an event in Las Vegas, and we were playing an Aerosmith song—I forget the song—and it was kind of a complicated bass line. And Tal came over and said, 'Sting, it’s not quite the way you’re playing it' [laughs]. I really respected her courage to come up to me and teach me the right way to play the part, and I was very grateful. She’s an amazing bassist with great ears." [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Wilkenfeld
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jul 11, 2018 - 08:35pm PT
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Tal appears with Jeff Beck and Lizzie Ball on Clapton's Crossroads 2013. She doesn't solo but the band is great.
I remember when some Aussies came to the US and kicked ass on rock. Tal has done the same with the bass.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jul 11, 2018 - 10:19pm PT
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Check her out with Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scott's.
Yes, Tony Allen throwing down the Afrobeat twist on Moanin' is feeling pretty good!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 6, 2018 - 10:08am PT
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To follow up the beautiful blue tunes....
Paolo Fresu - Daniele di Bonaventura - "non ti scordar di me"
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2018 - 10:46am PT
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Paolo Fresu, Dhafer Youssef & Eivind Aarset - Medley / La Sivigliana / Concierto de Aranjuez
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 10, 2018 - 11:07am PT
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Lundgren, Galliano, Fresu: "Mare Nostrum" - Grenoble Jazz festival 2009
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Parts of this has been posted before by Hooblie, but here's the whole concert.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Aug 11, 2018 - 07:31am PT
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What's New?
Helen Merrill w/ Quincy Jones Sextet, 1954
Clifford Brown (trumpet), Jimmy Jones (piano), Barry Galbraith (guitar), Oscar Pettiford (bass), Bobby Donaldson (drums), Quincy Jones (arrange, conduct)
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Dex in '63
George Gruntz (piano), Guy Pedersen (bass) and Daniël Humair (drums)
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Woody Shaw 8.21.1985
Stanley Cowell-piano
Terri-Lyne Carrington-drums
David Williams-bass
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2018 - 11:08am PT
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Cool old jazz... TFPU!
Soon Joni Mitchell is 75...
Joni Mitchell with Brian Blade Fez Club NYC 1995 (part .1)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2018 - 11:42am PT
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Jivan Gasparyan - They Took My Love Away (Live in Concert from 65 Years on Stage - 2011)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 7, 2018 - 12:11pm PT
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Great... and here's the tune that follows...
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan - Goldfinger - 8/16/2017 - Paste Studios, New York, NY
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2018 - 06:56am PT
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Yanqui.
The voice, the stage presence, the theatrical playfulness and self confidence is hard to beat for any artist...
The fourth video above, doesn't work, at least not on this side of the dam.
Here's a version that works on "the other side"...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 23, 2018 - 02:26am PT
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David Gilmour / Richard Wright / Guy Pratt / Steve DiStanislao - The Barn Jams
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Sep 24, 2018 - 12:40am PT
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Pheobe Snow
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Sep 24, 2018 - 08:20am PT
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Esther Satterfield
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Sep 24, 2018 - 05:01pm PT
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Bessie Smith
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sween345
climber
back east
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Sep 25, 2018 - 04:01pm PT
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When you need to get your late night live on you can head on over to Smalls website.
https://www.smallslive.com/
It's free and will also give you access to Mezzrow, another supplier of subterranean sweet notes in the Village.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Sep 25, 2018 - 05:14pm PT
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^^^^ Thanks
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2018 - 11:48am PT
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Tord Gustavsen - The Other Side (Medley Live Molde Jazz Festival)
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Camille Bertault.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Oct 13, 2018 - 09:47am PT
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Tiny Grims!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 14, 2018 - 10:14am PT
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Coleman Hawkins - Soul blues
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I'm not sure this is really Coleman Hawkins, but any way it sounds good...
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Oct 14, 2018 - 10:53am PT
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Coleman Hawkins & Lester Young.
Looks like Hawkins to me.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Oct 14, 2018 - 10:57am PT
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Jelly Roll Morton
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 20, 2018 - 02:42am PT
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Good morning, Hooblie, and thanks for the grandmothers... and every other tune you post...
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Oct 21, 2018 - 09:39pm PT
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Eric Dolphy!
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Oct 23, 2018 - 11:31am PT
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Maybe a little too hyped up for the mood that's been set recently, but as they say: variety is the spice of life! This band is well known for their pop hits, but they are a pretty tight fusion group that puts on some kick-ass live performances.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Oct 23, 2018 - 02:18pm PT
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Thank you
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 24, 2018 - 11:02am PT
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i can be captured by some of the simplest figures,
especially when well packed with expression.
it was a pleasant surprise to see jon batiste in there.
i'll explore more roy, what joy he takes in making music
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2018 - 12:48pm PT
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Jan Johansson - Visa från Utanmyra
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Brings my mind to a place where I like to be...
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Oct 26, 2018 - 08:55am PT
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♪
Hope all is well with my fellow audiophiles, Marlow and my brother Hooblie.
I found this little gem this morning & have been looping it for the last ½ hour.
Ron Spielman ≈ Tattoos and Rings
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 26, 2018 - 09:07am PT
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that's got a slinky,
smokey west coast groove,
maybe a road trip is in order?
but hey you can step it up just a bit with a continental flare right here bro: ;)
[Click to View YouTube Video]good to see you this am!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 27, 2018 - 11:50am PT
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For sure no need to blame Thelonious Monk...
... don't blame me...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 29, 2018 - 12:17pm PT
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Bill Evans, Kenny Burrell, Ray Brown, Harold Land, Phily Joe Jones - A Child Is Born
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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JIM HALL yep yep yep.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 4, 2018 - 10:35am PT
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Jim Hall? And where's that?
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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No sorry, that's Billy Cobham's band.
Billy on drums
Paul Hanson Bassoon, Sax
Fareed Hague Guitar
Tim Landers Bass
Scott Tibbs Keys
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Sadly Jim left us a few years ago.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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That's great!
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Somehow I missed that one, Tarbuster! Must've been out climbing.
Cheers
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2018 - 11:30am PT
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Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
[Click to View YouTube Video]
How could anybody NOT like Charles Mingus? We cavemen dance to this! Especially when you live in the city and are trying to cross the street or avoid heavy traffic. This is BEAUTIFUL! Like a breath of fresh forest air filling the city. Charlie understands.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2018 - 01:09pm PT
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Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves) - Richard Galliano Tangaria Quartet
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Cannonball Adderley
I knew a guy that was analyzing Cannonball's recordings, hundreds of them. Although Cannonball played each of them hundreds of times he never played the same note in the same place ever.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2018 - 12:02pm PT
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Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Grant Green - guitar
Herbie Hancock - piano
Billy Higgins - drums
Lee Morgan - trumpet
Wayne Shorter - tenor sax
Reggie Workman - bass
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jim Brennan!
That expository piece on the structure of Giant Steps (The most feared song in jazz, explained) ... thank you!
I don't know jack about the construction of music, but that kind of stuff really helps with appreciation.
For us neophytes (as perhaps for the musicians here), this is also a good read in that regard, and just plain fun:
This Is Your Brain on Music
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Nancy Wilson
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dec 10, 2018 - 07:59pm PT
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Thread drift alert
Duck, cover, run … skip to the next post or whatever you gotta do.
But I think you guys might like this stuff:
Sophie Véronique improvising on a submitted theme: Prelude I Symphony de Vierne
[Click to View YouTube Video]
As a follow-up, this sub-one-hour feature, in German, about Olivier Latry and the organ of Notre Dame.
I don't understand German (or French), but I found this fascinating and very well constructed:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Dec 11, 2018 - 09:50am PT
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Well if you are on organs
Jimmy Smith
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Dec 11, 2018 - 09:51am PT
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Now back to vocals.
Billy Eckstine
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Dec 11, 2018 - 12:35pm PT
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Thank you, one of my favorites.
Louis Jordan does one of the best versions of this tune.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Dec 11, 2018 - 12:47pm PT
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You are a mind reader.
Dinah Washington also did a great version of this tune.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Dec 15, 2018 - 04:59am PT
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♪
I see Tarbuster posted a Nancy Wilson tune on Dec 8, kind of uncanny due to fact that she passed away that day. What a voice!
Nancy Wilson (w Hank Jones Quartet) ≈ Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dec 21, 2018 - 10:14pm PT
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I had no idea Nancy Wilson died on December 8.
Damn. None of us were made to last, but some of us were definitely made to swing!
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Ramsey Lewis & Nancy Wilson – Slippin' Away
(disregard the image of the artist)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
This would be the correct image for the album, I know because I have it right here on vinyl:
Nancy Wilson – lead vocals
Ramsey Lewis – Steinway concert grand
John Robinson – drums
Freddie Washington – bass
Don Freeman – Keyboards
Paul Jackson – guitar
Lynn Davis & Josie James – background vocals
Jazz Scene USA 1962 - Complete Show
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I Was Telling Him About You - 8/15/1987 - Newport Jazz Festival
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Someone to Watch over Me
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Nancy Wilson Interview by Monk Rowe - 11/16/1995 - NYC
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dec 22, 2018 - 08:54am PT
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I am trying to find Joe Zawinul accompanying Dinah Washington.
Meanwhile, perk up, Frumy!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Dec 22, 2018 - 09:11am PT
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Thank you I need that.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dec 25, 2018 - 08:45am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
I like what the YouTube contributor said about this tune:
Every Sunday morning my dad would put Vince Guaraldi music on and make pancakes for the family. These videos are my tribute to the great tradition he started and my way to keep the 'pancake music' alive.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dec 29, 2018 - 08:53am PT
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That Alex Skolnick trio is a kick! I enjoyed their cover of Dream On, among other things.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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This is one of those I know a guy who knew a guy stories.
At our neighborhood New Year's Eve party this year, Jimbo pulled out this saxophone he's cloistered and cherished for the last 25 years,
having not played it since he was in the lineup in support of Buddy Rich:
I asked him to blow a few notes and he said, no way. It had been too, too long.
The things we can learn about our neighbors when libation flows and conversation drifts!
Sorry, no Jimbo here:
Buddy Rich – Love for Sale
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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I don't know much, but I can Google like a mofo!
em·bou·chure:
/ˌämbo͞oˈSHo͝or/
noun
1.
MUSIC
the way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
2.
ARCHAIC
the mouth of a river or valley.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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my ex and i eloped without leaving town. we each invited one witness. i brought a cowboy coffee pot with a bouquet in it and a string of cans to tie behind the bicycles ... many degrees below zero, decent traction. afterwards, the four of us rallied at her tiny cabin and unbeknownst to me, there was a sax under the bed, which after a quarter jug of bubbly, she blew darn well ... the only time i ever heard her play in thirteen years.
as to musical taste, she could hang with some pretty challenging jazz ... respect
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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"That Alex Skolnick trio is a kick! I enjoyed their cover of Dream On, among other things."
ha yeah, I Know right!
I don't know Miles Davis well enough to add any,
he and Ornette Coleman can be atonal; too atonal.
but I thought rang in New Years 1979-80 at a Carnegie Hall Miles Davis show?
...I was sure of it - but then couldn't find it...
I did find this New Year's show 12/31/81 at the Beacon?(seems wrong I'd have been out of high school by then?)
https://youtu.be/NDXUs33DXXI
&
There is a Pat Metheny thing I'm looking for from somewhere around 80-84
(so maybe off Ramp? I thought I saw him at Carnegie Hall too? I'll have to check the beacon)
I have a short snippet of it on a cassette,
maybe more blues/rock?[Click to View YouTube Video]
my idea of jazz can be kinda far 'stretched' [Click to View YouTube Video]
it might help if you close your eyes[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Tin Hat Trio!
You have my attention – I am avid in my awake-ness for your syncopated charms!
Going forward, if I could live in Lullaby of Bird Land, I would freely relinquish the terrestrial plane. And given that it will take me in its own course, I can only hope.
I'm also blown that Jeff Goldblum can pluck the bones as he does. He ain't misbehavin'!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 19, 2019 - 09:26pm PT
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European Jazz Trio - Clair de Lune
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Clair de Lune
Your soul is a well-chosen landscape
Where roam charming masks and bergamasques
Playing the lute and dancing and seeming almost
Sad under their whimsical disguises.
While singing in a minor key
Of victorious love and good life
They don't seem to believe in their own happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight,
With the sad and beautiful moonlight,
That makes the birds in the trees dream
And sob with ecstasy the water streams,
The tall slim water streams among the marbles.
Paul Verlaine, 1869
...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-velvet-revolution-of-claude-debussy
Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. Bound only lightly to the past, it floats in time. As it coalesces, bar by bar, it appears to be improvising itself into being—which is the effect Debussy wanted. After a rehearsal of his orchestral suite “Images,” he said, with satisfaction, “This has the air of not having been written down.” In a conversation with one of his former teachers, he declared, “There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.”
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Debussy engineered a velvet revolution, overturning the extant order without upheaval. His influence proved to be vast, not only for successive waves of twentieth-century modernists but also in jazz, in popular song, and in Hollywood. When both the severe Boulez and the suave Duke Ellington cite you as a precursor, you have done something singular.
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At the conservatory, Debussy was a restless student, exasperating his teachers and fascinating his schoolmates. When confronted with the fundamentals of harmony and form, he asked why any systems were needed. He had little trouble mastering academic exercises, and, after two attempts, he won the Prix de Rome, a traditional stepping stone to a successful compositional career. But in his early vocal pieces, and in his legendarily mesmerizing improvisations at the piano, he jettisoned rules that had been in place for hundreds of years. Familiar chords appeared in unfamiliar sequences. Melodies followed the contours of ancient or exotic scales. Forms dissolved into textures and moods. An academic evaluation accused him of indulging in Impressionism—a label that stuck.
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Debussy favored a mode that has become known as the acoustic scale, which mimics the overtone series by raising the fourth degree (F-sharp) and lowering the seventh (B-flat). That those notes correspond to blue notes helps to explain Debussy’s appeal to jazz musicians.
Alex Ross
Sometimes I doubt whether growing old is any way to conclude a life of activity, exploration, and adventure. But when I listen to Roxane Elfasci's rendition of Clair de Lune, I feel otherwise.
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2019 - 12:39pm PT
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Tarbuster.
A great post. I'll follow up with a non jazz video resonating well with the poem and for sure a pleasure to the ears: Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes (with Sandy Denny)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Marlow. Sandy Denny: there is a talent!
Wikipedia says about this piece:
Late November, from Sandy Denny's The North Star Grassman and the Ravens is distinguished by its elusive lyrics and unexpected harmonies.
Sandy Denny – Late November
[Click to View YouTube Video]
It's not jazz, but it's those elusive lyrics, unexpected harmonies, chord changes or what have you, whether found in jazz or any other musical category, that speak to me.
The pairing of Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson is a potent fit and I like his accompaniment in her work. Here's a compilation from her four solo albums featuring Thompson on accordion, electric and acoustic guitars, plus mandolin.
Listen Listen: an introduction to Sandy Denny
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Hey Jim Brennan, back atcha!
Oblivion, an Astor Piazzola composition, performed by Nadja Kossinskaja
[Click to View YouTube Video]
My next-door neighbor's roommate plays violin and recently turned me on to Astor Piazzola.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2019 - 12:04pm PT
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Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra - Snowfall (Columbia Records 1941)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
One of the largest stated influences on the sound of The Birth of the Cool was band leader Claude Thornhill and his orchestra. Out of Thornhill's band came Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, and Gil Evans, Miles Davis calling the Konitz-Mulligan-Evans incarnation "the greatest band" only after "the Billy Eckstine band with Bird." The Thornhill band was known for its impressionistic style, innovative use of instrumentation, such as the use of tuba and French horn, and a non-vibrato playing style, hallmarks that the Miles Davis Nonet adopted for The Birth of the Cool. According to Evans:
Miles had liked some of what Gerry and I had written for Claude. The instrumentation for the Miles session was caused by the fact that this was the smallest number of instruments that could get the sound and still express all the harmonies the Thornhill band used. Miles wanted to play his idiom with that kind of sound.
Davis saw the full 18-piece Thornhill orchestra as cumbersome and thus decided to split the group in half for his desired sound. As arrangers, both Evans and Mulligan gave Thornhill credit for crafting their sound. Thornhill's band gave Evans the opportunity to try his hand at arranging small-group bebop tunes for big band, a practice few others were participating in. Mulligan recalls Thornhill teaching him "the greatest lesson in dynamics, the art of underblowing." Thornhill has also been credited with launching the move away from call and response between sections and the move towards unison harmonies.
Birth of the Cool - Miles David [Full Album 1957]
[Click to View YouTube Video]
The notes of the revolutionary but short-lived Birth of the Cool project 1948-1950 were recovered in a cardboard box in Miles Davis' garage. The jazz-historical Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan arrangements have been released, but they do not play by themselves. The voices are as intricate and secretive as they sound, just over 60 years later.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 23, 2019 - 10:28pm PT
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Shorty Rogers and his Giants
Morpho
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Diablo's Dance
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Joe Mondragon Bass. Shelley Manne Drums, Hampton Hawes Piano, Art "Salt" Alto, Gene England Tuba, Milt Bernhardt Trombone, Johnny Graas French Horn and Jimmy Giuffre Tenor.
From 10 inch 33 1/3 record:
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Tuba Skinny – Deep Henderson + Shake It and Break It
[Click to View YouTube Video]
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Tuba Skinny, excerpt from:
The Joy of Collective Improvisation – How Tuba Skinny's New Orleans Street Jazz Found Fans Worldwide, by Pops Coffee – The Syncopated Times, Volume 3, #10, Utica, New York, October 2018:
How did the band get its name? There was a magnificent, bulky tuba player, Anthony Lacen, known as Tuba Fats, who used to perform in New Orleans. He died in 2004 at the age of 53. So when Todd Burdick from Chicago – a tall, slender gentleman – appeared in 2008 playing a tuba in the French Quarter, he inevitably became Tuba Skinny.
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Wherever possible, they play seated in an arc formation. Sitting makes for relaxation. The arc enables the audience to see all members of the band. And the musicians can see each other, which is good for communication. The unofficial music director, Shaye, gives discrete signals with hand, foot or a mere glance.
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They work hard researching archaic material and devising ways of playing it with fresh vigor. And they are perfectionists. Look, for example at their performances of "Deep Henderson," a tricky multi-part rhythmic piece. While showing respect for the 1926 recording by King Oliver's Band, Tuba Skinny do not slavishly imitate. They have arranged the piece meticulously. They know exactly who will do what, and when.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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For The Love Of Dykes,
there are only a few who can do this
(And a command performance that 'blineEckty` can try to deny, as she does Kottke)
"Command" is what it is
when one musician steps up and holds sway
as if backed by an ensemble
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Twangy Jazz,**\**/**,Jazzy Twang
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Apr 12, 2019 - 03:26am PT
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I am watching Ken Burns Jazz the last week or so.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 27, 2019 - 10:10am PT
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yanqui!
I am CLEANSED. Thank you.
Mohini Dey Bass Guitar Solo - Lugano jazz Festival - Ekalavya Live In Concert
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Apr 27, 2019 - 10:13am PT
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Cheers Tarbuster!!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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From Maceo Parker's Soul of a Black Man:
"It's so hard, when you got three meals a day: oatmeal, no meal, and missed meal."
Regarding Horace Silver's Song for My Father, live in Copenhagen:
Billy Cobham on drums! Check him out, smiling like a Cheshire cat. Almost like he was ON something. Such as, love of music, at the least.
On the way to the crags in the late 70s, we listened to Billy Cobham's Spectrum so many times we wore out the cassette tape. Tommy Bolin on that album as well.
And we were definitely ON something, ha ha.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2019 - 08:22am PT
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Tarbuster
Regarding Horace Silver's Song for My Father, live in Copenhagen:
Billy Cobham on drums! Check him out, smiling like a Cheshire cat. Almost like he was ON something. Such as, love of music, at the least.
Looking at the 10:15 to 10:50 one see three musicians deeply concentrated and absorbed into their music. If there is a difference between playing music and being the music you play it can be seen here. Something deep inside themselves being the music they play...
I have observed this often lately, different musicians have different ways of connecting... and I think I can see the difference between reality and image-building:
Seeing Bryan Ferry in this video: [Click to View YouTube Video]
Aldous Harding from 5:10 in this video: [Click to View YouTube Video]
Or Lisa Rydberg from 1:35 in this video: [Click to View YouTube Video]. Her eyes looking at/for something inside or outside not observable by following the direction her eyes are pointed, and known only by herself, if known by herself. What is seeing in this instance? The same applies to Ferry and Harding. Total focus, no leakage of focus because of self consciousness or fear...
Miles Davis playing with his back to the audience comes to mind.
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Tarbuster
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Yeah, 10:15 during the Copenhagen session, that's exactly where I picked up on it.
Those other cuts you selected for me: thanks!
All strong examples of the inward gaze.
The Roxy experience shows mesmerizing unity. The whole ensemble, including the dancers, is so in the groove, it's as though they are all linked telepathically.
Aldous Harding is a powerful writer!
She ain't messing around.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Why not? I'll follow up: it's a bit jazzy and I heard it was a tribute to Gershwin.
Tommy Bolin playing for Deep Purple: live studio version of Owed to G.
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Tarbuster
climber
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May 10, 2019 - 06:13pm PT
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Sometimes, with some people, more is better!
Caterina Valente & Chet Baker - I'll Remember April
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Ella Fitzgerald, Caterina Valente, Perry Como
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Caterina Valente - Les enfants qui pleurent (Martina)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931 in Paris, France) is an Italian multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Valente
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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May 11, 2019 - 08:27am PT
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Eric Dolphy
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Tarbuster
climber
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May 17, 2019 - 08:33pm PT
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Say, fellow jazz hounds.
This is probably the one thread on Supertopo I simply cannot do without.
Do you think we could do something really stodgy and old-school, like a Yahoo group or something, or even just an e-mail chain, and keep this thing going?
Wouldn't that be the ticket?
All we really have to do is share our e-mails, each of us put a list together, and any time someone wants to make a "post", it's just an e-mail to everyone in the group with a YouTube link in it.
You could all just send your e-mails to me, in order to keep them off of the web here.
I would compile the list of e-mails, start the first one, and away we go, no?
Occasional jazz in your inbox. What say you?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - May 18, 2019 - 03:37am PT
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Nils Wülker — „Conquering the Useless“
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I wonder if Wülker knows anything about Terray's "Les Conquérants de l'inutile".
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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May 18, 2019 - 05:56am PT
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Hi Jazz thread, I just dropped by to say farewell to Marlow. I’ll miss you. If you do ever come to the states to visit, let’s climb together. Roy, Anders, lot’s of folks here have my contact info.
Roy, I’m out in Red Rocks climbing for a few days. I know you don’t really use Facebook. I’ll call you to talk live sometime next week.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - May 18, 2019 - 09:38am PT
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Thanks Phylp. It's not unfair to say that Marlow is reclusive, but I'll keep your invitation to climb in mind...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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May 18, 2019 - 09:50am PT
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10 four, hooblie + phylp!
Ah, Marlow: reclusive like a fine wine gaining character in the cellar, by the hour, the day, and the year – Conquering the Useless in fine style!
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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May 18, 2019 - 03:19pm PT
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Yes! Marlow, Hooblie, Tarbuster and everyone who has posted in this thread has helped to expand my mind. Cheers!
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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May 19, 2019 - 06:16am PT
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♪
Marlow, thanks for this thread and all our past exchanges on the other music threads.
I have posted this song many, many times but I just can't help myself to do so again. I was about to post an Eric Dolphy tune, but for obvious reasons changed my mind.
Freddie Hubbard ≈ First Light
https://youtu.be/7zh0-T0efTY
Pharoah Sanders ≈ Harvest Time
https://youtu.be/ii63fKLTSuU
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 19, 2019 - 07:00am PT
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CALL ME, MAYBE?
https://youtu.be/5meWI3iX1sE
Roy, please be inclusive
others too
?
be to your own-selves, true
At Gee mail
I am gnomeofthediabase
I really am, mostly, by definition
if a bit sawed off, liable to go off
into the sunset
suss it:Lafter iz gud fer da sole
Can't say
A face
WHAT'S A Name
A book?
Errors in whats what
A fork in That road of Life
Came along an age a go
I Took it
Married me A wife
And She and I
We Rolled The Dice
Delbert McClinton
Givin It Up For Your Love
https://youtu.be/PxNnEEK6uG0
I am who I amAt Gee Mail
A Cat that was born hep
gnomeofthediabase
what?
NOW YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING
me to whine and beg in
humility is not feline
NOW, No one expects the Inquisition
/
iGROVEL-NOT
As a climber
Arrogance
effufzery
Superiority
even when humility was the
cool way the Sax player rolled
tHANX AND HAVE A BLAST
ONCE AROUND THE BEND there is no goin' bax
YOU'VE ALL LED 'round that bend one or another
Me? I would like to feel wellcommon
It has been fun
Jazz is Life
My Jazz Is Life I like what has become Welcome or no
HAVE FUN, KEEP SMILING, Laughter is good for the soul
(LAFTER iz gud fer da sole!)
Sant Andreu Jazz Band
"SHINY STOCKINGS"
https://youtu.be/VlVwowQdUzQ
Always if you can stand it
Sit for A double dose
https://youtu.be/ltCULQ-e6tc
W/ Joan Chamorro
Alba Armengou
Scott Hamilton
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Tarbuster
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May 25, 2019 - 06:29am PT
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Hard Work – John Handy
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Again, much thanks to all who've contributed to this thread, and thanks so much Marlow for kicking it off and hosting it! Marlow, all your historical contributions to this site have been invaluable and I've saved quite a lot of them to my archive.
And again, if I get something put together, (probably not in any big hurry), I'd love to be able to let those of you who've contributed here in on it so we can reconvene and pick up the Jazz sharing down the line?
I've rethought my original idea. It would probably best be set up as a simple forum which we could all check from time to time just like we've been doing here on this thread.
Marlow, Tobia, Yanqui, Gary, Brennan, Frumy, Mouse, et al? If you send me your e-mails, I will keep them to myself and let you know individually about it if it comes to pass. (Hooblie & Gnome have both expressed interest and I have their contact info.)
My Gmail account is: rcmcclenahan
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May 25, 2019 - 05:33pm PT
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On the other hand, something just occurred to me:
Marlow, if you were to login on Happi Girl's Taco Salad and start a jazz thread there, I would for sure follow you.
Chicago – Saturday in the Park, recorded about 7 miles from where I am sitting presently in Nederland, Colorado, at Caribou Ranch:
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Tarbuster
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May 30, 2019 - 11:33am PT
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This might be an alternative venue for sharing jazz music:
https://forums.redpointuniversity.com/
Marlow: an anonymous archivist has asked me to offer you a significant trove of your work here.
Please contact me via the e-mail in the prior post if you are interested.
John Handy & Ali Akbar Khan - The soul and the Atma
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2019 - 12:04pm PT
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Tarbuster
Thank you for the offer.
Marlow: an anonymous archivist has asked me to offer you a significant trove of your work here.
I have already copied nearly everything :o)
Through the years I have participated and posted on ST, I think I have spent around 1200 hours collecting and posting my material. A gift to ST, climbing history and myself. Now I have spent some days copying it all. A gift to myself. At present I am in the thinking box concerning posting any stuff on a website in a country based on fear.
I found something interesting while copying my ST stuff. Two threads where I have contributed are gone without my knowledge, one Robert Caspersen thread (OP) and one Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (not OP). It's a puzzle why the suzerains didn't inform the one setting up the thread (OP) when it was deleted. The reason for deleting the threads was possibly controversy regarding climbing style - Kirkpatrick in one, Kaltenbrunner in the other.
In this case I will let Thåström count as Jazz
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Tarbuster
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May 30, 2019 - 12:29pm PT
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And if the archived material includes a significant amount of the work of others beyond your own?
(I too saw the Caspersen thread is missing)
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2019 - 12:40pm PT
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Their photos not often, only in the Grandes Jorasses, the Meije and the Fontainebleau threads. If one of the contributors inform me to delete, I will do - Jaaan, Degaine, Steve Shea, Pneame, Base 104, Andy Fielding...
The Grandes Jorasses thread had many cool photos and stories. It was a great thread. I didn't want to destroy it...
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May 30, 2019 - 12:52pm PT
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Apologies for not speaking plainly.
I'm saying I could send you a significantly larger archive than that of your own work, to include all of nah000's Super Topo Gold index and all of the threads therein.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2019 - 12:59pm PT
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That's a great offer, Roy. I will send you my e-mail...
The index had a heavy American bias, but is still interesting, and was to a certain degree balanced by the European index thread. ^^^^
If I am going to post a last Jazz video, I think it would be this warm up repetition: Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Warm-up Set (Live on KEXP): [Click to View YouTube Video]
It sounds goood....
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May 31, 2019 - 07:35am PT
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Yanqui!
We need you, going forward with this thing.
Not exactly sure where or how just yet, but we are going to reconvene.
Please e-mail me at Gmail: rcmcclenahan
This is an open invitation to anyone who wishes to stay in the loop: Frumy? Tobia?
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