"but man, Bix Biederbecke is revered on Iowa Public Television"
as well he should be! bix is from davenport. they got good ice cream there.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HxEuUZJ1PGo/TI0UKiDW0VI/AAAAAAAAAFE/bsfcdtpGjuY/s1600/Iowa+Game+Whitey%27s+Ice+Cream+with+Grace.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
y'know I should ask my uncle about Stan Kenton, that's never come up... he teaches the Jazz Ensemble at Miami University, dunno how white that is
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
whitey 's yogurten
― bronytheus (some dude), Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
man they loved poppa john in philly. that's an organ-y kinda town. john and joey and shirley scott all making a racket.
― scott seward, Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I vaguely remember leaving a bar I was playing a show at (maybe Tritone?) to go to a bar down the street where some old-as-moses dudes were playing organ trio jazz. They had some old-guy stiffness to their playing but were pretty greasy and groovy anyway.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
And I seem to remember people telling me that it was some kind of known local spot for organ jazz, although possibly past its prime.
bob & barbara's. owned by the guy who started tritone. and before that he had jj's grotto. good jazz at jj's when i lived there. jimmy bruno played there a lot. good pizza. i think he died though? jack. the owner.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
nate wiley died too. he was the draw at B&B. its where college kids go to drink pabst.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sFSdppO6Ec&feature=related
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's the place, in fact I think it was almost definitely nate wiley that I saw. RIP.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
God, why are the people in that video so white! I hate them!
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
that's not nate in the video. he took over for nate after nate died. i can't remember his name. fun group of old-timers! hard to hear them in there though.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
its a fun place for kids to drink. the music is just kinda olde tyme ambience.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
my dad played this one cd of jimmy bruno all the time when i was a kid
― they loooovin the crut (The Reverend), Friday, 15 June 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
it was good iirc!
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/68761170/The+Jimmy+Bruno+Trio+50614273.jpg
― they loooovin the crut (The Reverend), Friday, 15 June 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
that's the kind of white ppl i can support
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 June 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― they loooovin the crut (The Reverend), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
i took my dad to see jimmy once. he liked him. my dad was nuts for jazz guitar. jazz anything, but he loved guitar players. i didn't always appreciate it as much when i was a kid. he would drag me along to a tal farlow or barney kessel gig and i didn't always get it. the finesse. the style. horns and drums i got. in a way, horn players and drummers were more like rockers to me than the guitarists. and i was a rockhead.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
ha, I bought that Jimmy Bruno CD when I was first trying to learn jazz, and I can still remember the first tune. Weirdly, it took me years of practicing and studying jazz guitar formally to realize that I just don't like jazz guitar that much. It was like there was this sound I heard in my head and that I wanted to play, but I couldn't play it, and then one day I realized that it was because that sound wasn't guitar.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah and it's on Concord. Concord is all about jazz guitar. I had the Concord Collection of Jazz Guitar on CD, but the only tunes I really liked were a funky Kenny Burrell tune called La Petit Mambo and a sick version of Seven Come Eleven by Joe Pass and Herb Ellis. Those were the weird days when a CD player was still kind of novel and I didn't have enough money to have a ton of CD's so I just had kind of a random handful of albums. I don't exactly miss it, but there was this weird thing where you'd learn an album backwards and forwards that you didn't even like that much, just because it was all you had to listen to.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
was just listening to the red norvo trio stuff with mingus and tal farlow the other day. holy shit that stuff is nuts. tal is amazing on those tracks. and was really young. i mean, not NUTS nuts. i mean what they did in three minutes was amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwIdBaUm4kA
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
I used to be really self-hating white about jazz actually. I think it was probably because the arts high school I went to was like 90% black. So I was really self-conscious about "not playing white" until one day I came up with a theory (that I still think might be true) that a lot of white jazz players who suck actually suck precisely because they try to play "black," i.e. a really reductionist and pretty racist idea of what jazz is, instead of doing what the best black AND white jazz musicians do, which is just hone the shit out of your musicianship, focus really hard on your accents and the nuances of your phrasing, etc.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, work your ass off. that's the best way to go about anything. keep your head down and do your thing.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
anyway, Jim Hall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mGuRM8tBw&feature=related
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
i really like jim hall. but sometimes all you really need is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOm17yw__6U
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
i like what tal and barney did in the 50's. with groups. i don't listen to solo jazz guitar much at all. if i listen to a guitar album it would be wes or kenny burrell or some funky 70's shit.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
I'm trying to find you a clip of this Kenny Burrell tune called Three Thousand Miles Back Home -- sample bait from the 70s that was also a random thing I had early on. Record is called Stormy Monday Blues iirc.
Meanwhile, I don't like solo jazz guitar either, buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHE6FSeWuLQ
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
Which led me to this, wowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZDSLQsOmNY&feature=related
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt61GcUl3J0
― onlydarkness.com, Friday, 15 June 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
nice recovery
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 June 2012 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
and my pal elliot levin.
There was a time when I used to see him playing at practically every gig I went to.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 6 December 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link