jazz

90s sax production sux

yes that means u, branford

which doesn't mean "Some Cow Fonque" isn't 80x classic, but still

does anyone know of a good blog or site where they might discuss certain bits of jazz music in depth, but maybe in not too academic a way? I'd love to read a breakdown of Lonely Woman or Pharoah's Dance or something, but not assuming I know a great deal about technique and theory?

hey can someone help me find the following jazz album: cover is a picture of the artist reading an economics textbook (Samuelson Economics) as the album art? called 'college cool' or something to that effect

I don't know what it is, but I'm lolling

hey flopson i realize this post is from four years ago but i think this might be the album you meant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rah_(Mark_Murphy_album)

Love that album. Hadn’t looked closely at the cover, and never understood the meaning of the title until now, d’oh!

great genre

love jazz cats

🤗

https://www.tonemadison.com/articles/claws-come-out-over-jazz-at-five-marketing-campaign

count me in as a 'jazz nut'

Money isn't the only issue musicians have with Jazz At Five: Moran says that event organizers chastised pianist Ben Sidran for criticizing Scott Walker during a performance at the series a few years ago.

I was very confused by this sentence until I realized which Scott Walker they presumably meant.

The original version of "My Favourite Things" on the session featured hip lyrics, including lines like "Ol' Ernie Wilkins he sure gives you wings", but these new lyrics were deemed inappropriate by composer Richard Rodgers and as a result Riverside Records/Mark Murphy were asked to substitute a 'straight' shorter version of it, but with the same arrangement. Another track left off the original album is "I'll Be Seeing You" for much the same reason.

really want to hear these alt takes

The original version of "My Favourite Things" on the session featured hip lyrics, including lines like "Ol' Ernie Wilkins he sure gives you wings", but these new lyrics were deemed inappropriate by composer Richard Rodgers and as a result Riverside Records/Mark Murphy were asked to substitute a 'straight' shorter version of it, but with the same arrangement. Another track left off the original album is "I'll Be Seeing You" for much the same reason.

really want to hear these alt takes

love that jazz

great stuff! its like dark jazz but jazzier and not as dark

mile's davis

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2018/09/08/11/09/jazz-3662296_960_720.png

sorry but I prefer jass

when it comes to jass, I love all 5 hots

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A lot of people say they like jazz, but I appreciate jazz on a much deeper level than most. For example, when listening to jazz I also pay attention to the notes that are NOT being played.

one thing I like about this thread is the presence of so many jazzbos

pfft I pay attention to the notes not being played even when I'm NOT listening to jazz

When I'm teaching writing I show a picture of hot Miles and tell them to use the words that aren't there,

Jazz, bah! They're all just making it up as they go along!

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This thread and those linked within lead me to believe that jazz is perhaps the genre that ILM knows the least about.

Your post has certainly compelled me to study jazz... if only I knew where to start!

You can't learn the jazz from schoolbooks, I've heard.

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuKhccJi_GI

jazz cruises c/d

When someone is first setting out to study jazz I usually recommend they start with the classic miles davies album ‘Kind & Blue’

so wut?

Kinda bae

milquetoast numpts that keep putting it on stupid fucking lists or designer clothes chain stores using it as instore music in the 90's aside. kinda blue is still great music, nothing can make me diss it.

Kind of what now?

milquetoast numpts that keep putting it on stupid fucking lists or designer clothes chain stores using it as instore music in the 90's aside. kinda blue is still great music, nothing can make me diss it.

*horse clops*

Sing on, brother

Ah, but does ILM know where Miles learned music? There is only one correct answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZyu8jYw90

Sunday forecast says it will be jazzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0COws8SyQus

The sound that jazz instruments make when being manipulated by jazz players, for the delight of jazz respondents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB6Ix1sw0iI

If I had to pick my favorite jazz instrument, it would probably be a tie between the tubs and the licorice stick

instruments are ok but gimme some good scatting any day, just some shoobedy boopedy bop, you know, real jazzy jazz

why do i all of the sudden have the urge to listen to jazz all the time

it's good. i think the "looseness" of jazz music, the fact that it can accommodate stray notes et cetera and get back on track, makes it a psychologically/emotionally palliative genre

I think he's brilliant, yeah not of the greats maybe but that alb really clicks with me and he's someone I can enjoy as much as other ledges of jazz piano like Red Garland or Hampton Hawes.

i am pleased to announce that my jazz brain has evolved and i now enjoy the 12-minute modal workouts

but i will probably always like wynton kelly more than anybody. Kelly Blue is so ridiculously good

I love Wynton, especially on the Blackhawk shows with Miles Davis. (I have the four CD set of both the Friday and Saturday shows.)

Kelly's my favorite of the pianists Miles had at that time. I don't mind Bill Evans (though I would dispute that "everybody" digs him), but Red Garland was always way too tinkly for me.

I LOVE Bill Evans, and he was crucial to Kind of Blue (though yes, Wynton was the right pianist for "All Blues" too) but he was with Miles for a very short time. What little they did in the studio was incredible - less than two LP's worth of music - but I don't think he was ever given a chance to settle in on the road thanks to the audience's indifferent (even hostile) reaction towards him. He's still one of my two or three favorite jazz pianists. The Village Vanguard recordings with LaFaro and Motian are favorites. (I prefer the box set over the two expanded albums - nearly the same amount of music, but I prefer the box's presentation.) Their two studio LP's are nearly as great. Undercurrent, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, and the two volumes of the Solo Sessions he did for Riverside are all great. Plenty of later stuff that's excellent, including Tony Bennett's best album, and he's played on other great albums by other artists besides Miles, but in terms of the sessions he led, those Riverside albums I mentioned are the ones I return to most.

no need for tinkle-shaming Red Garland, he did some fine work!

Love Red Garland, like Wynton Kelly, do not dig Bill Evans.

Love Bill Evans and Red Garland and Wynton Kelly, tho Evans will always be my favorite.

Evans is among my top jazz pianists. Him, Herbie, Bobby Timmons, Erroll Garner, Art Tatum, Mehldau, probably leaving someone out. I always enjoy Wynton Kelly and Red Garland but they both feel less consequential to me.

Oh McCoy Tyner of course

The thing is, you don't listen to Evans for the same thing you listen to Wynton Kelly for. That's why Miles put Wynton Kelly on some tracks and Bill Evans on others, they do very different things. If you're just listening to Everybody Digs and saying "this doesn't swing as hard as Bud Powell" then you're missing the point. I don't really get how anyone could not enjoy the Village Vanguard sessions, but w/e.

The thing is, you don't listen to Evans for the same thing you listen to Wynton Kelly for.

Absolutely. I would never say "Bill Evans can't play"; I just say "I don't like Bill Evans' whole thing", just like I don't like Brad Mehldau's whole thing, just like I don't like 90% of Keith Jarrett's output. It's neither good nor bad — it's Not For Me. But by the same token, I can't really understand how you rank Bobby Timmons and Erroll Garner (both of whom are great, in context) over Wynton Kelly and Red Garland.

I was excited to seek out some Red Garland recordings by the appearance of "Billy Boy" on the Columbia 2LP Jazz Piano Anthology, where it was credited to him rather than Miles. A few years later I finally heard Milestones and said "wait a minute...."

Wondering about this---have you heard it, unperson?

RESONANCE RECORDS TO ISSUE IN HARMONY IN JULY 2021 FEATURING TRUMPETER ROY HARGROVE AND PIANIST MULGREW MILLER IN A CAPTIVATING DUO
Previously unreleased live recordings from 2006 and 2007, available July 17th as a limited-edition 180-gram 2-LP Record Store Day exclusive and July 23rd as a deluxe 2-CD and digital edition issued in coordination with the Hargrove and Miller Estates
Elaborate booklet with rare photos, informative essay by Ted Panken, interviews and statements from Sonny Rollins, Christian McBride, Common, Ron Carter, Jon Batiste, Karriem Riggins, Keyon Harrold, Ambrose Akinmusire, Chris Botti, Robert Glasper and others
More info (and check roster of artists on this label):
https://resonancerecords.org/product/roy-hargrove-and-mulgrew-miller-in-harmony/

Haven't heard that yet but I get lots of promos from Resonance. Their releases are usually excellent; that Rollins in Holland set is fantastic.

https://www.musicaloffering.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/iisolfizrbcgrpeqccqn.jpg

this is the biz!

“have horn, will blow”

:o

eddie "ouch! lockjaw" davis

jazz is pretty good

FWIW, Lockjaw's Very Saxy is great. Four tenor sax players including Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb and Lockjaw himself.

I love that pre-Jimmy Smith churchy style of jazz organ and Scott/Lockjaw collabs are great. You’d probably also like Wild Bill Davis.

:O

via JCLC

"Man you need the Niven Jazz Collection in your LIFE. Dude made tape recordings of his extensive jazz collection WITH GOOD HISTORICAL INFORMATION RECORDED ONTO THE TAPES BY HIMSELF for years in case his kids were interested in knowing what the music their dad had been into was all about. In the process he did an ~incredible~ service to history. Throw a dart, every last one of these is gold. I'm listening to the King Oliver one now, the music is of course tremendous but the jazz history he fills in? Utterly priceless"

https://archive.org/details/davidwnivenjazz

an excellent jazz night in america on piano genius ELMO HOPE. don't miss this.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1193962841/an-elmo-hope-centennial-celebration-giving-a-jazz-piano-pioneer-his-due

Love Elmo Hope, checking this out.

If he had lived longer, he could have made an album called Tickle-Key Elmo. Missed opportunity. Gone too soon.