I don't know what they mean when they say 'swing hard' anyway. Rolling Jazz Dflat 2014 Thread

huh the Kind of Blue reconstruction is pretty interesting, although i can't see listening to it more than once. this is a good interview about it: http://www.popmatters.com/feature/185662-kind-of-kind-of-blue-a-conversation-with-mostly-other-people-do-the-/

atlantic piece isn't bad either
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/when-is-a-miles-davis-record-not-jazz/381983/2

this "spirit of malombo" compilation of south african jazz by the julian bahula / philip tabane brain trust is really killer

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id908767773

really love the stripped-down sounds of the first disc

Miles Davis Albums From Worst To Best. I wrote this for Stereogum. Studio albums only. Skip to the end if you want to get really mad really fast.

I randomly wound up on the facebook thread started by Russell Malone about "favorite jazz drumming moments" and contributors wound up including Jason Moran, Jason Marsalis, Ralph Peterson, George Coleman. Started putting together a Spotify playlist of all the selections I could find -- it's a little unwieldy and I may cull it a little but I'll post it when ready.

George Coleman Père ou Fils?

Hmm, I have to go back and look at the profile pic, didn't occur to me

Miles Davis Albums From Worst To Best. I wrote this for Stereogum. Studio albums only. Skip to the end if you want to get really mad really fast.

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#1 most baffling thing to me about your list is Get Up With It at #7. Neat record but so not a top 10 imo.

#2 is On The Corner at #1.

(xp)Sure it is must be GCJr, whom you and your wife met once, if you recall. Seemed to recall she dropped her phone in some water on that occasion, iirc. In any case, he is usually my entree to such FB threads.

Skip to the end if you want to get really mad really fast

Looking for records that featured the unsung drummer Arthur Edgehill has been reminding me how much I love those old organ group records where they would use an organ AND a bass -- I feel like that kind of died out some time in the 60s, probably partly for financial reasons and partly because of the technical prowess of guys like Jimmy Smith, but I love the sound of an old churchy jazz organ over a bouncy upright bass line -- Shirley Scott, Wild Bill Davis, etc. Feel like it's sort of a forgotten corner of jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McXLl0mtTao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pLfOHzLM8

Spoke too soon. Can't find that drumming thread.

u mean this one
Drum geek sick chops youtube thread

No silly, on FB.

ohhhh, was confused, anyway it's on Russell Malone's page. He's a jazz guitarist I like btw, I was pretty into him in high school/college.

Are you an FB fan, friend or follower.
?

I think he's just friends with a couple musicians I am friends with so he came up in my feed when they commented on it.

The bassist I played with in high school tours the world with Roy Hargrove now and is becoming a bit of a heavy, so he's my fb connection to lots of big name dudes.

Okay, I found it. I see some familiar names,including Willard Dyson, who I just recently discovered. If I counted right,think the most posting on the thread is from you.

Have you ever met Russell IRL? He is really nice.

I haven't. Sometimes I think if I ever take lessons again (and am willing to drop $$$ on it) he's a guy I might holler at

Do you still have an electric guitar? Also I saw at least one other guitar player on that particular thread, Dan Adler. I believe he has a day job designing computer chips and/or algorithms. Israeli too, as far as I know. Maybe he will give you special rate.

I have a cheap electric guitar that I happen to like a lot (a Johnson). I don't have a hollow-body anymore.

I never liked my 90s Epiphone full-hollow anyway so I sold it a while back, figuring if I ever got back into jazz I'd just buy something nicer.

Does he even give lessons? I guess you could FB message him and find out. My understanding of the pricing is that generally guys who play lots of gigs usually charge $100 for an hour or so lesson- this is for any instrument- and they will schedule a lesson if and when they have time.

Of course at his level of fame,he may charge more, but maybe not

Yeah that's about the price I expected. Not in the market to spend that much right now, but maybe eventually.

You should try to go at least once when you are able.

Btw, I saw one of your old guitar teachers a few weeks ago at The Bar Next Door. He had a really good trio.

TD?

or VJ?

The former. Not sure I knew you studied with the latter.

TD was a temp sub while Ted was in and out of the hospital, VJ replaced Ted permanently, and it looks like he's the only remaining member of the jazz faculty from when I was there other than Ralph Bowen, who directs the program. VJ was a really nice dude btw, but I think I was just not in the emotional state to work with a different teacher after Ted passed.

Have you wished Russell a happy birthday yet?

Bottom five (#s 25-21) of the Burning Ambulance Best Jazz of 2014 list.

Burning Ambulance Best Jazz of 2014, Day 2.

thanks, as someone who hasn't been keeping up at all, this is great reading. it makes me happy that Criss Cross is still doing their same old thing.

(also, lol @ the dig on a certain jazz guitarist, i've never heard him play but have backed up his very talented wife on occasion).

backed up his wife you say

ON DRUMS, haha

i'll bet you did

*Ahem* I'll bet you guys would like this guy: http://www.willbernard.com/press/guitarplayer1007.htm

i do. i haven't heard those T.J. Kirk albums in forever but i have fond memories of them.

In other news, I heard a while back that the young jazz guitar phenomenon with the same last name as that guy's first name has pretty serious tendonitis.

But looks like he is out playing so either he has dealt with it or is dealing with it.

i don't know who that is, but that's rough. the best jazz guitarist i know had the same thing happen...he took a year off from playing guitar and started doing yoga and writing songs, now is a singer/songwriter.

still plays jazz, but uses more space, and does it on his high school Ibanez shredder guitar rather than the hollow-body.

fwiw I think I had Medicine Hat on CD. Don't love the guy though tbh, a little too cliche bluesy/funky for me.

The complete Burning Ambulance Best Jazz Albums Of 2014:

25. Vinnie Sperrazza, Apocryphal
24. Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans, The Freedom Principle and Live In Lisbon
23. Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues
22. Eric Revis, In Memory Of Things Yet Seen
21. Matthew Shipp Trio, Root Of Things
20. Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill and The Great Lakes Suites
19. The Cookers, Time And Time Again
18. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom
17. Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin, Nomadic
16. Matt Brewer, Mythology
15. Rudy Royston, 303
14. Eric Hofbauer Quintet, Prehistoric Jazz Vol. 1 & 2
13. Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit, Erta Ale
12. William Hooker & Liudas Mockunas, Live At The Vilnius Jazz Festival
11. Johnathan Blake, Gone But Not Forgotten
10. Donald Edwards, Evolution Of An Influenced Mind
9. Eric Wyatt, Borough Of Kings
8. Tom Tallitsch, Ride
7. Mark Lomax Trio, Isis & Osiris
6. Sarah Manning, Harmonious Creature
5. Mike DiRubbo, Threshold
4. Brian Charette, The Question That Drives Us
3. Steve Lehman Octet, Mise en Abîme
2. Jerome Sabbagh, The Turn
1. Jemeel Moondoc, The Zookeeper's House

Cool, thx

Yeah, I'm liking the Sperazza a lot so far. Didn't even know about the new Lehman.

Good work with that list. That Jerome Sabbagh album is stunning, need to listen to more of these.