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The Jazz Thread.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 9:16 am
Posted on 12/15/13 at 9:16 am
What are the different kinds of Jazz?
What's your favorite kind?
What's your favorite kind?
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Posted on 12/15/13 at 11:10 am to Champagne
Since there are a million variations, I'll go with my favorites:
Big Band
Dixieland
Smooth (so sue me
)
Brazilian (Jobim, etc.)
Great American Songbook (Sinatra, Krall, Cole Porter, Nat King Cole)
Ragtime
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And while, as a former musician, I understand the technical ability and massive talent required for Fusion, bebop, etc., the more freestyle forms of jazz are not pleasing to my ear.
Big Band
Dixieland
Smooth (so sue me
) Brazilian (Jobim, etc.)
Great American Songbook (Sinatra, Krall, Cole Porter, Nat King Cole)
Ragtime
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And while, as a former musician, I understand the technical ability and massive talent required for Fusion, bebop, etc., the more freestyle forms of jazz are not pleasing to my ear.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 11:37 am to Champagne
I don't really know much about jazz. Maybe I'll learn something from this thread.
However I will, if I may, repost something that I recently wrote on the OT:
Bill Evans, famous jazz pianist, graduated from Southeastern Louisiana.
Can you imagine a cool NYC jazz hepcat spending 4 years at SLU? In the late '40s yet?
Ironically enough, Evans credited several music professors there as being major influences on his work, and later said his years in Hammond were the happiest of his life.
If you want to pay homage, he's buried at Roselawn in Baton Rouge:
He got a nice spot, right under the tree.
Full length film of Bill Evans in concert
However I will, if I may, repost something that I recently wrote on the OT:
Bill Evans, famous jazz pianist, graduated from Southeastern Louisiana.
Can you imagine a cool NYC jazz hepcat spending 4 years at SLU? In the late '40s yet?
Ironically enough, Evans credited several music professors there as being major influences on his work, and later said his years in Hammond were the happiest of his life.
If you want to pay homage, he's buried at Roselawn in Baton Rouge:
He got a nice spot, right under the tree.
Full length film of Bill Evans in concert
This post was edited on 12/15/13 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 12/15/13 at 12:39 pm to Champagne
I like pretty much all jazz, but since many people will post their appreciation for popular American-known forms of music, I'm going to mention a different kind.
Gypsy jazz!
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli brought Romani music to pop culture. There have since been many incredible guitar players to take it to new heights such as Bireli Lagrene, Stochelo Rosenberg, and my personal favorite, Joscho Stephan. Then there are guys who have been heavily influenced by "Manouche" but don't play exclusively gypsy such as Frank Vignola and Tommy Emmanuel.
Gypsy jazz!
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli brought Romani music to pop culture. There have since been many incredible guitar players to take it to new heights such as Bireli Lagrene, Stochelo Rosenberg, and my personal favorite, Joscho Stephan. Then there are guys who have been heavily influenced by "Manouche" but don't play exclusively gypsy such as Frank Vignola and Tommy Emmanuel.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 1:17 pm to StringedInstruments
I like all of the artist and jazz styles mentioned, every one.
Cuban Jazz, Jazz/Rock fusion, Dixieland, etc.
My favorite is West Coast or "Cool" Jazz, not to be confused with "Smooth Jazz", which is probably more popular then Cool Jazz right now.
Anybody know of any internet radio streams for Cool Jazz/West Coast Jazz?
Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grapelli are both awesome. I heard a nice Grapelli piece yesterday.
Within the last week or so, I've been revisiting some Chet Baker jazz tunes. He's a favorite of mine.
Also, Bill Evans's work on Kind of Blue is exactly the kind of jazz that suits me best.
Cuban Jazz, Jazz/Rock fusion, Dixieland, etc.
My favorite is West Coast or "Cool" Jazz, not to be confused with "Smooth Jazz", which is probably more popular then Cool Jazz right now.
Anybody know of any internet radio streams for Cool Jazz/West Coast Jazz?
Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grapelli are both awesome. I heard a nice Grapelli piece yesterday.
Within the last week or so, I've been revisiting some Chet Baker jazz tunes. He's a favorite of mine.
Also, Bill Evans's work on Kind of Blue is exactly the kind of jazz that suits me best.
This post was edited on 12/15/13 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 12/15/13 at 1:28 pm to Champagne
Posted on 12/15/13 at 1:46 pm to Champagne
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Insane playing by an insane lineup (Davis,McLaughin,Hanock,etc). My favorite jazz album.
Insane playing by an insane lineup (Davis,McLaughin,Hanock,etc). My favorite jazz album.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 3:08 pm to Champagne
This post was edited on 12/15/13 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 12/15/13 at 3:13 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:u in da wrong thread bro
Posted on 12/15/13 at 5:26 pm to Champagne
I'm really into avant garde, experimental, free jazz.
Coltrane
Sun Ra
Henry Threadgill
Pharaoh Sanders
More contemporary:
John Zorn
Masada
Matana Roberts
Wadada Leo Smith
I also like a genre called Dark Jazz, more of a cross between ambient electronica and jazz. Bands like Dale Cooper Quintet and the Dictaphones, Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble and Borhen and der House of Gore
Coltrane
Sun Ra
Henry Threadgill
Pharaoh Sanders
More contemporary:
John Zorn
Masada
Matana Roberts
Wadada Leo Smith
I also like a genre called Dark Jazz, more of a cross between ambient electronica and jazz. Bands like Dale Cooper Quintet and the Dictaphones, Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble and Borhen and der House of Gore
Posted on 12/15/13 at 5:58 pm to Champagne
Favorite kind is free, favorite musician is Coltrane. Listen to Giant Steps and Central Park West on a regular basis.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 6:06 pm to Kafka
That picture of Chet Baker looks like it was taken during the '80s. How cool must he have looked in the '50s?
Posted on 12/15/13 at 6:18 pm to shutterspeed
quote:There was actually interest in him as an actor -- I believe he plays a small role as a soldier in a war film -- but he found making movies very boring and didn't work at it.
That picture of Chet Baker looks like it was taken during the '80s. How cool must he have looked in the '50s?
Posted on 12/15/13 at 7:07 pm to Kafka
Fusion or acid jazz - Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Project Z, Jimmy Herring Band & of course Miles Davis's Bitches Brew.
This post was edited on 12/15/13 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 12/15/13 at 8:47 pm to Fishwater
I like Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Those photos of Chet must be from the 1950s, because, by 1980, he looked like a much older man with many wrinkles.
If Drug Rehab for Heroin were any good back in Chet's day, he would have had a longer life.
The experimental and avant garde jazz mentioned sounds interesting to me, also.
Those photos of Chet must be from the 1950s, because, by 1980, he looked like a much older man with many wrinkles.
If Drug Rehab for Heroin were any good back in Chet's day, he would have had a longer life.
The experimental and avant garde jazz mentioned sounds interesting to me, also.
This post was edited on 12/15/13 at 8:50 pm
Posted on 12/15/13 at 8:52 pm to Kafka
Pretty interesting.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 8:54 pm to shutterspeed
Did somebody say that they like "Avant Garde"?
Take a listen to this maniac Morton Subotnik. He's totally avant garde.
LINK
This post was edited on 12/15/13 at 8:56 pm
Posted on 12/15/13 at 9:46 pm to Champagne
Bitches Brew
Posted on 12/15/13 at 9:57 pm to Snatchy
I have Bitches Brew and Kind of Blue on my iPod.
Bitches Brew, if I recall correctly, is considered to be early Jazz/Rock Fusion rather than Avant Garde, although, when it was released it was considered quite avant garde.
Bitches Brew, if I recall correctly, is considered to be early Jazz/Rock Fusion rather than Avant Garde, although, when it was released it was considered quite avant garde.
Posted on 12/16/13 at 6:31 am to Champagne
Bebop and hard bop from the mid '40s to the early '60s. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Clifford Brown...the list goes on and on.
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