jazz

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

Because sometimes it's really good.

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i recommend the album blume by nerija, a london group that i think is all women

ok a quick google search reveals that there are dudes in this group too. nevertheless it is a good album

I've been listening to a lot of jazz lately, the dynamic range and amount of actual human playing & variation in the music is soothing.

Sample & loop-based music can be soothing in its own way too, the hypnotic uniformity, but I've been going back and forth.

Really loving Blue Note lately, the playing of course but really the sound of the recordings. Reading articles about Rudy Van Gelder was a huge lights-on moment, that he was in no way trying to capture a naturalistic recording of the musicians, but to make it sound more exciting. Or to make up for the loss of excitement that comes from not seeing it live, and that it wasn't an accident. That's the problem I have with so many modern jazz records, that they try to treat it like classical music and any interesting tones are taboo.

OTM. Once I was talking to a friend of mine about this problem and complimenting him on the sound of one of his recordings and he told "I gave the engineer a Jeff 'Tain' Watts CD," *makes hand gesture to illustrate this transfer* "and told him, make it sound like THAT!"

there is this track on the new Anna Högberg Attack album that is pure golden era Blue Note without being a bad pastiche - it's so good.

Yeah, if it's the track I'm thinking of, in my review I compared it to Cecil Taylor's Conquistador!, one of the only two albums he made for Blue Note.

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

I'm doing this too, maybe it's quarantine related. The "cerebral-ness" gives my brain some pathways to wander while spending time mainly at home.

https://i.imgur.com/ze6NabA.jpg

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paul chambers pops up on so many great to absolute classic albums, it's amazing he managed to fit it in during 33 short years on this rock.

I've been listening to Bass on Top a lot recently. Dude can PLAY. And Blues and the Abstract Truth is all time. I can't think of another album that swings so hard.

https://img.discogs.com/T43vxufi1ONC2yMwzIVccHKAics=/fit-in/569x567/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3987263-1406229403-2181.jpeg.jpg

this is what some might call a super-group, love this album.

Loved Frank Wess.

paul chambers pops up on so many great to absolute classic albums, it's amazing he managed to fit it in during 33 short years on this rock.

I had no idea his life was so short. but have always been amazed at how many stunners Dolphy, who only lived 3 years longer, led or contributed to.

Great cover on that After Hours disc

Chambers is def a top 5 bassist for me. Spent so much of my formative listening years with the Miles Quintet records.

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.

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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.