jazz

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.

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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.

There’s a younger guy I saw once who was totally channeling Paul Chambers more than most others. He’s not famous or anything although he has or had a regular gig with someone who is well-known.

Guy named Aaron James, plays with Gregory Porter.

The we three album with chambers, Roy haynes, and phineas newborn is a great trio record

yeah I actually keep forgetting how many great albums he's on.

Is that the one with "ROY!.... HAYNES!"

yeah I actually keep forgetting how many great albums he's on.

Is that the one with "ROY!.... HAYNES!"

What a line-up, will have to check that album.
RH awes on Getz's Focus, arr. by Eddie Sauter:
The theme of the opening track, "I'm Late, I'm Late", is nearly identical to the opening minutes of the second movement of Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Bartók had been an early supporter of Sauter, who intended the track as an homage. "I'm Late, I'm Late" also features drummer Roy Haynes, the album's only soloist beside Getz.

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

definitely did not know about the sauter / bartók connection, how strange !

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/17/be/fa/17befaebb271126ec08abe666b036bcb.jpg

https://londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/kenny-clarke-bohemia-after-dark-names-ages-ljc_jr-is-ozzie-c.jpg?w=640

another sick album with a 20 year old Chambers amongst a bunch of other bigtime stars!

I think this album cover obv came later to cash in on Cannonball Adderlley's fame, the original as was the want of the music industry at the time had a pic of a pretty white woman on it!

wow never seen that, what a lineup!

Yeah, this is the front cover on Spotify, Amazon, etc.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zYKTXo4SL.jpg

Also, the Savoy version is credited to Kenny Clarke, but the one I just posted is credited to Cannonball Adderley.

yeah you get a lot of that when certain band members' fame eclipses the band leader and they probably signed a terrible deal with the record company etc

I may be making this up but I think there are Coltrane records that were originally billed under someone else.

Yeah, several albums from the 50s with Coltrane as a sideman were later reissued under his name.

Miles was reportedly unhappy about the album's original cover, which featured a photograph of a young white woman and child aboard a sailboat. He made his displeasure known to Columbia executive George Avakian, asking, "Why'd you put that white bitch on there?" Avakian later stated that the question was made in jest. For later releases of the record, however, the original cover-photo has been replaced by a photograph of Miles Davis.

I may be making this up but I think there are Coltrane records that were originally billed under someone else.

Taylor hated that session because he thought Dorham was too conservative, apparently.

weird album, interesting but not great, coltrane kind of awkward between two players stubbornly sticking to basically different genres

original cover belongs in the yawnsomely literal thread

they did this with several other 50s coltrane sideman recordings, not fair towards the original leader and often disappointing as coltrane albums

Taylor hated that session because he thought Dorham was too conservative, apparently.

I can't remember where I got the anecdote, but my recollection was that Cecil was not allowed to pick the band and felt Dorham wasn't right for the music, and didn't get what he wanted out of it ultimately.

it's since been reissued in piecemeal, but for a time, the paul chambers mosaic select box was one of the most prized things in my collection. still is, i suppose, but the material is much more available these days. at the time it was first available, it had previously unissued coltrane performances on it; which of course was the big draw - and wild to think that that stuff sat mostly unheard for fourty years! but the rest of it is also predictably excellent.

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after reading some serious stanning on Jeanne Lee from Katz I thought I'd check this out, it's amazing.

that album rules I need to hear more from her

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/invitation-jazz-singer-jeanne-lee/

lol i mean Shatz not Katz, but it is a jazz thread!