which doesn't mean "Some Cow Fonque" isn't 80x classic, but still
― it ain't trickin if yo gotti (The Reverend), Saturday, 24 April 2010 11:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 20 October 2014 08:59 (nine years ago) link
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
― flopson, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link
I don't know what it is, but I'm lolling
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 03:14 (eight years ago) link
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)
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 7 November 2019 07:07 (four years ago) link
Love that album. Hadn’t looked closely at the cover, and never understood the meaning of the title until now, d’oh!
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 November 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
great genre
― ogmor, Thursday, 7 November 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
love jazz cats
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
🤗
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 November 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.tonemadison.com/articles/claws-come-out-over-jazz-at-five-marketing-campaign
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 7 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
count me in as a 'jazz nut'
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 7 November 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
love that jazz
― marcos, Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
great stuff! its like dark jazz but jazzier and not as dark
― chips moomin (unregistered), Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
mile's davis
― chips moomin (unregistered), Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2018/09/08/11/09/jazz-3662296_960_720.png
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
sorry but I prefer jass
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
when it comes to jass, I love all 5 hots
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 8 November 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
👐
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 November 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
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.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 8 November 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
one thing I like about this thread is the presence of so many jazzbos
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 8 November 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
pfft I pay attention to the notes not being played even when I'm NOT listening to jazz
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 8 November 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
When I'm teaching writing I show a picture of hot Miles and tell them to use the words that aren't there,
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 8 November 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
Jazz, bah! They're all just making it up as they go along!
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
👍👍👍👍
― calzino, Friday, 8 November 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
This thread and those linked within lead me to believe that jazz is perhaps the genre that ILM knows the least about.
― Slim is an Alien, Friday, 8 November 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
Your post has certainly compelled me to study jazz... if only I knew where to start!
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 8 November 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
You can't learn the jazz from schoolbooks, I've heard.
― fetter, Friday, 8 November 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
― Brad C., Friday, 8 November 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuKhccJi_GI
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 9 November 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
jazz cruises c/d
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 9 November 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
When someone is first setting out to study jazz I usually recommend they start with the classic miles davies album ‘Kind & Blue’
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Saturday, 9 November 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
so wut?
― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Saturday, 9 November 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
Kinda bae
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 9 November 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Saturday, 9 November 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Kind of what now?
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 9 November 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 November 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
*horse clops*
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 9 November 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
Sing on, brother
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 November 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
Ah, but does ILM know where Miles learned music? There is only one correct answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZyu8jYw90
― jmm, Saturday, 9 November 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
Sunday forecast says it will be jazzy
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 10 November 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0COws8SyQus
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
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
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 10 November 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
If I had to pick my favorite jazz instrument, it would probably be a tie between the tubs and the licorice stick
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
instruments are ok but gimme some good scatting any day, just some shoobedy boopedy bop, you know, real jazzy jazz
― j., Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
why do i all of the sudden have the urge to listen to jazz all the time
― treeship., Monday, 18 May 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
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
― treeship., Monday, 18 May 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
Because sometimes it's really good.
xp
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 May 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
i am pleased to announce that my jazz brain has evolved and i now enjoy the 12-minute modal workoutsbut i will probably always like wynton kelly more than anybody. Kelly Blue is so ridiculously good
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
I love Wynton, especially on the Blackhawk shows with Miles Davis. (I have the four CD set of both the Friday and Saturday shows.)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
no need for tinkle-shaming Red Garland, he did some fine work!
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
Love Red Garland, like Wynton Kelly, do not dig Bill Evans.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
Love Bill Evans and Red Garland and Wynton Kelly, tho Evans will always be my favorite.
― heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
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...."
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
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 DUOPreviously 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 EstatesElaborate 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 othersMore info (and check roster of artists on this label): https://resonancerecords.org/product/roy-hargrove-and-mulgrew-miller-in-harmony/
― dow, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
https://www.musicaloffering.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/iisolfizrbcgrpeqccqn.jpg
this is the biz!
― calzino, Friday, 17 March 2023 10:41 (one year ago) link
“have horn, will blow”:o
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 17 March 2023 11:00 (one year ago) link
eddie "ouch! lockjaw" davis
― calzino, Friday, 17 March 2023 13:52 (one year ago) link
jazz is pretty good
― budo jeru, Sunday, 19 March 2023 03:56 (one year ago) link
FWIW, Lockjaw's Very Saxy is great. Four tenor sax players including Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb and Lockjaw himself.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 19 March 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 19 March 2023 04:53 (one year ago) link
: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
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 01:28 (seven months ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 20:12 (seven months ago) link