"If That Arm Heals, It Ought To Be Broken Again" 2008 Jazz D Minor Bags Thread

i don't think you can be wrong about your own name?

^^^

I'm trying to remember what I heard Maxine Gordon call him the last time I saw him, but I think she just referred to him as "my, my, ..." and made some kind of give-me-a-hug gesture with her arms.

Actually it might have been that other people pronounce it Mo-tee-un but it's actually "motion", it was a while ago that I read whatever it was. Plenty of people get their names wrong, Ralph Macchio from Karate Kid for instance pronounces his surname incorrectly if some interview I saw with him on television is anything to go by.

What am I saying? Her name is Lorraine.

this sounds interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/arts/music/22berger.html?ref=arts

Does anyone have anything to say about Fred Hersch? I've had a few of his trio albums in heavy rotation lately. I really know nothing about the guy, but he's totally great. Is he sort of slept on?

Fred Hersch

GIVE US AN EXAMPLE OR TWO OF AN ESPECIALLY GOOD OR INTERESTING:

1. Movie score. "Prizzi’s Honor" (Alex North); "Altered States" (John Corigliano); "City Lights" (Charles Chaplin)
2. TV theme. "The Wild Wild West"
3. Melody. Aria from Cantata “Wachet Auf” (Bach), "Miyako" (Wayne Shorter), "Tomorrow Is The Question" (Ornette Coleman)
4. Harmonic language. 4-part writing (string quartets, choral music)
5. Rhythmic feel. “Serpentine Fire” (Earth, Wind & Fire); “Big Stuff” (Peter Gabriel); “Aqui Oh!” (Toninho Horta)
6. Hip-hop track. (no answer)
7. Classical piece. Brahms Piano Trio #1 in B major; Stravinsky “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto; Brandenberg Concerti
8. Smash hit. (no answer)
9. Jazz album. Sonny Rollins “Live at the Village Vanguard”; “Mingus,Mingus, Mingus, Mingus”; Thelonious Monk “Alone in San Francisco”
10. Non-American folkloric group. Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
11. Book on music. “Glenn Gould: Music and Mind” (Geoffrey Paysant); Stravinsky “Poetics of Music”

BONUS QUESTIONS:

A) Name an surprising album (or albums) you loved when you were developing as a musician: something that really informs your sound but that we would never guess in a million years: Joni Mitchell “Blue”; Stevie Wonder “Talking Book”;

B) Name a practitioner (or a few) who play your instrument that you think is underrated: Art Lande, John Taylor, Frederic Rzewski

C) Name a rock or pop album that you wish had been a smash commercial hit (but wasn’t, not really): (no answer)

D) Name a favorite drummer, and an album to hear why you love that drummer: Elvin Jones “A Love Supreme”

RIP Tony Reedus.

What a way to go.

Has anybody heard the new Spring Heel Jack album? I like the sound of it, based on brief clips.

yusef lateef is playing in mpls tomorrow nite, might go but it's really spendy...but anyway the city pages did an article on him and this quote made me LOL:

"Jazz is defined as doggerel, skullduggery, poppycock, coquetry, sexual intercourse," he said recently from his home in Massachusetts. "It has nothing to do with what I do."

^^^that has everything to do with what i do

Freddie Hubbard is in critical condition.

Although some seem to say he is improving.

just picked up Song X by Ornette/Methany. WOW.

Denardo & DeJohnette make a hell of a team.

where's the news about freddie hubbard? can't find anything.

http://www.jazz.com/
http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasy/showthread.php?s=d0f4ca254e9cc507c94fd495371712c2&p=791839#post791839

ah, yeah, thanks. found this too: "Freddie has been in ICU since the night before Thanksgiving due to a heart attack. since that time, he has made remarkable progress but still has a long way to go. he is now awake and alert, according to the reports i've received from a friend who has visited him almost daily."
guess he's not even that old ... well, best wishes, freddie. definitely an amazing musician who has played with the cream of the crop ...

http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2008/12/steve-lacy-on-monk.html

Awesome.

is this he thread where we ask what makes miguel zenon a Latin jazz guy?

No, that's this thread Latin Jazz: Generic Thread Forever

but, while i would like to better understand the latin roots in his music, i don't think its description should be so limited or defined

I thought that there was a long running jazz thread smehwhere but I can't seem to find it. Anyway I've been listening to jazz now for several years after ignoring it my entire life. I bought Wes Montgomery's Smokin' at the Half Note which is really fantastic and I can't say enough good things about it. The band he plays with, the Wyton Kelly Trio, is also (equally) great but Wynton Kelly only seems to have one album and from the cuts I've heard it's worth getting as well. Maybe some recommendations on some things Wynton has been involved with? Also any jazz stuff you might like post about.

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ok, I found this thread

wynton is great on the Miles Davis stuff, obviously, but also on a bunch of Hank Mobley Blue Note dates ...

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If you lose it again, just search for "jazz d"

yeah, Jordan gave me the Hank Mobley tip. Never heard him. Man, there's a lot of stuff out there.

I also picked up the Charlie Rouse Bossanova Bacchanal which is also good but the last song that was tacked on (a straight jazz tune not from the Bossanova sessions apparently) is a real stunner. I'm gathering he never did anything else as a bank leader besides that song which is a real shame.

band leader

just bought some records from a friend:

Mal Waldron (feat steve lacy) - Hard Talk --- fucking WOW

Lee Morgan - The Cooker

Art Pepper - Smack Up

Dexter Gordon - Dexter Calling

all really great stuff

The new Joshua Redman album, Compass is pretty damn good. Between this and 2007's Back East, he's on a sort of mini-roll. The new one features him as the sole horn, fronting bassists Larry Grenadier and Reuben Rogers and drummers Brian Blade and Gregory Hutchinson. A few tracks feature a straight saxophone trio (Grenadier/Blade or Rogers/Hutchinson), others feature both bass players and one of the drummers, and a couple feature all five musicians at once. Coming out on Nonesuch next month; at 13 tracks in 72 minutes, it's about five tracks and 25 minutes too long, but I can't honestly say which ones I'd cut, so: recommended.

that sounds good, i was wondering where gregory hutchinson's been at. i love him on christian mcbride's "a family affair" (awesome record).

Maybe somebody should start a new thread. I tried to find a title here but couldn't pick one: http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2008/12/steve-lacy-on-monk.html

"if you don't want to play, tell a joke or dance" or "let's lift the bandstand!!"

You've got it!

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