The Official Jazz Music thread

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The Official Jazz Music thread

 

A Québec classic

 

 

...A Frenchy one, and an american classic.

 

 

Happy Jazzy Friday!

 

 

 

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Oh yeah baby!

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Karol

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I've been trying to break into jazz for awhile. Been doing it slowly but surely. I'm sort of in the same boat that I am with classical music in that I have no knowledge about any of it and am very picky with what I like.

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What have you found that you like so far?

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John Barry did a swinging jazz album in the 70's, devoted to the USA:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NEd3zUzEyU

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Alex

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Buy this one at the time it went out, never listen to it twice... 

Beautiful and rare interpretation of "Make Me Rainbows" by Nancy Wilson.  Restored from the original LP.

 

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I've been trying to break into jazz for awhile. Been doing it slowly but surely. I'm sort of in the same boat that I am with classical music in that I have no knowledge about any of it and am very picky with what I like.

Whatever you do, don't start with "Bitch's Brew"; it's the "Tales From Topographic Oceans" of Miles Davis!

"The Birth Of The CooL", "In A Silent Way", and "Kind Of Blue" are all good places to start.

If you prefer piano, then some early 70s Herbie Hancock, is good.

If you like vocal, then you can do no better than the great Sarah Vaughan.

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Alex

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Infidel!

Good album!

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I've been trying to break into jazz for awhile. Been doing it slowly but surely. I'm sort of in the same boat that I am with classical music in that I have no knowledge about any of it and am very picky with what I like.

Whatever you do, don't start with "Bitch's Brew"; it's the "Tales From Topographic Oceans" of Miles Davis!

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I've been trying to break into jazz for awhile. Been doing it slowly but surely. I'm sort of in the same boat that I am with classical music in that I have no knowledge about any of it and am very picky with what I like.

Whatever you do, don't start with "Bitch's Brew"; it's the "Tales From Topographic Oceans" of Miles Davis!

I have and like Kind Of Blue. I have a couple Coltrane albums and one by Hancock. There are the usual suspects of jazz that I really dig, stuff from Ellington and the likes. Music featured in Woody Allen's film I really like.

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Woody's stuff is more what you'd call swing or big band, I guess. Try Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller for that. And Thad Jones/Mel Lewis are great fun. And obviously Gershwin. How about Thelonious Monk? And Bill Evans' solo/trio stuff if you liked Kind of Blue. What Herbie album do you have? Graduate to Head Hunters as soon as you can.

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Woody's stuff is more what you'd call swing or big band, I guess. Try Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller for that. And Thad Jones/Mel Lewis are great fun. And obviously Gershwin. How about Thelonious Monk? And Bill Evans' solo/trio stuff if you liked Kind of Blue. What Herbie album do you have? Graduate to Head Hunters as soon as you can.

Oooh! "Head Hunters".Well said.

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Woody's stuff is more what you'd call swing or big band, I guess.

I think of it more as New Orleans jazz.

Another recommendation: Jon Batiste and Stay Human

http://www.npr.org/event/music/208283360/jon-batiste-and-stay-human-live-in-concert-newport-jazz-2013

http://www.npr.org/2013/12/01/247553368/bringing-jazz-on-walkabout-jon-batiste-and-stay-human

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Woody's stuff is more what you'd call swing or big band, I guess. Try Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller for that. And Thad Jones/Mel Lewis are great fun. And obviously Gershwin. How about Thelonious Monk? And Bill Evans' solo/trio stuff if you liked Kind of Blue. What Herbie album do you have? Graduate to Head Hunters as soon as you can.

Oooh! "Head Hunters".Well said.

Yeah that's the album I have. I listened to it once, it's alright.

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Love that Nina Simone one. Her piano chops were formidable.

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if you like that sort of stuff, you may like Nicky Holland, Diana Krall, and especially Patricia Barber.

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The Radiohead of Modern Jazz? Anyway, I like it!

Alex

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Courtesy of NPR, a full-length preview of The Bad Plus' take on Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps: http://www.npr.org/2014/03/16/286816490/first-listen-the-bad-plus-the-rite-of-spring

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Listened to that earlier. It's a neat idea, but I don't think I'd ever reach for it over the original....

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Tonight.. is Fusion night..

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LOL. I remember back in the day when YouTube imposed a 10 min. video limit in an effort to head off unauthorized uploads. How things have changed.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4LCX34P3BM

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Shiiiiiit this one brings back some fine memories

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Happy birthday to this cat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk0L3RXYxS0

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http://new.livestream.com/jazz/gala-concert-hostedy-by-billy-crystal

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http://new.livestream.com/jazz/gala-concert-hostedy-by-billy-crystal

Nice, I forgot about this.

I think this fits in this thread nicely. John's best work, by the way.

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Aznavour will turn 90 on May 22, Happy Anniversary!

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I can't believe Gardot wrote this herself. This is a classic! One for the Great American Songbook!

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Eh, it's a nice enough tune, but not at all what I look for in jazz. More "easy listening".

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Not at all. it has very little to do with Tom Jones or Bing Crosby. It's very much what I said it is.

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What did you say it is?

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I said "Classic song, one for the Great American Songbook".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Songbook

You write music, right? Well, give it a go. Try to write a song like that ... Good luck!

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And all I said was that it isn't what I look for in jazz, and fits into a different category in my mind.

Why get so pissy about it?

If you'd like to hear the three vocal jazz tunes I've written, I'll talk to the vocalist and clear distributing the recordings with her.

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Alex, no one who posts here can really be a serious composer! I'm sure he just doodles around on a MIDI keyboard.

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Alex, no one who posts here can really be a serious composer! I'm sure he just doodles around on a MIDI keyboard.

In these cases you're actually somewhat right. Most of the jazz writing I've done has involved capturing improvisations in MIDI form and then refining them into more fully formed, composed pieces.