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07-17-2015, 10:22 PM
The thing about jazz is that you can have an intellectual discussion while listening to jazz. It's actually conducive to serious thought.
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07-17-2015, 10:24 PM
Argh- Wanna throw a few more out there that I've been listening to on repeat recently:
John Scofield's mid 80s material- Still Warm and Blue Matter in particular
Pat Martino- Consciousness
Antonio Carlos Jobim- Passarim
Elias Regina- Elis '80
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07-18-2015, 04:05 PM
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07-19-2015, 08:22 AM
"As wolves among sheep we have wandered"
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07-19-2015, 10:03 AM
Ah glad someone started this thread, I mentioned something like this in everything else lounge thread, but never got round to it.
I'm starting a jazz band today. They will be round in an hour or so. I'm excited becauss this is the first band I've ever led myself (I play drums and fill in for a lot of bands). It gets frustrating playing music with people who don't want to improve or listen to new ideas. It also gets frustrating being in bands, when no one can agree on anything. I think bands need leadership, so I'm going to take that role, hopefully shit gets done. Maybe you guys would be able to offer advice.
As for the jazz to listen to, what are your favourite jazz albums? and what jazz don't you like?? I love that Many Mansions track by Sonny Sharrock that was posted.
I was a big metalhead as a kid but first got interested in jazz when I heard Django Reinhardt.. really loved his stuff got most of it, and then I started checking out other famous jazz artists, Gene Krupa, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker but it wasn't until I heard ' A Love Supreme' by John Coltrane that I really started to love jazz. I still remember hearing that for the first time.
I think because, I discovered those jazz artists in a chronological order, I had never really heard jazz that wasn't 30s or 40s swing or bebop. This was the first modern jazz I ever heard and it blew me away, cos I only had heard old stuff. I had no idea the playing could be so intense and powerful. The drums were far more interesting and still intense and powerful as any metal I had heard. I had never heard anyone play such dark sounding chords McCoy Tyner was playing before, and of course so much passion and beauty in Coltrane's sax playing.
I became obsessed with coltrane's music for a year or two, and started listening to Pharoah Sanders and some of the more experimental stuff, but I'm not interested in noisy boring free jazz.
I've listened to a lot of jazz since then and was gonna list some favourite albums but this is taking me too long, so maybe another time.
Most overrated album though: Kind of Blue.
Boooring. Blue in Green is beautiful, but man... theres barely anything to listen to on the other tracks on most of the time. It sounds like blasphemy because every player on it is a legend but.. yeah it just sends me to sleep.
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08-27-2015, 05:31 PM
Has anyone seen the Ken Burns documentary series on jazz? I loved it, curious what others thought.
I'm a country music fan, probably about as passionate as that genre of music as you can find. I was really surprised watching that documentary how much influence early jazz had on the progression of country music. Burns didn't cover this directly it was just something I noticed because country music is what I know.
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09-27-2015, 07:43 PM
I have been an intense Jazz lover since my teen years. I was exposed to it since early childhood as my late mother and aunt were aficionados of the genre and they played it early and often in our home. In my lifetime I have gone to jazz clubs with friends and family, but other than my previously mentioned mother and aunt, I've only known two people that were into the music like I am. An old girlfriend, who happened to be a musician, and my deceased brother. Two. I have quite the collection, old vinyl, cds, dvds, books and lots of songs and memories in my brain. Jazz like baseball and the American Constitution is very dear to me. This is not the Golden Age of anything and it certainly is not the Golden Age of jazz. The art form is still alive, and may it live forever. Lots more I can say so I will just list of few of my favorites. Thelonious Monk and Django Reinhardt leave me speechless in awe. The word genius certainly applies here. Gene Ammons is my favorite tenor sax man. Not as powerful or creative as Coltrane, but I love that straight ahead Chicago style of playing. Love organ jazz and saw Jack McDuff twice, two decades apart. He was a very accommodating gentleman between sets and after hours. I enjoy forgotten artists like tenor man Wardell Gray and baritone sax man Leo Parker, both of whom died young. I could go on and on. Ken Burns ain't got nothin' on me. Like the late Dizzy Gillespie used to sing "Oop Bop Sha Bam."
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10-05-2015, 12:35 PM
Really really nice thread guys I didn't realize how much I dig this fusion style jazz, I want to contribute a little MMW this little improv is what some people call experimental or "acid-jazz"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cocf-ov9Vic
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10-13-2015, 11:44 AM
How does the jazz scene look like in other countries? Sadly, it seems jazz is dead as a cultural force in the United States, but I hear it's still fairly popular in Asia and Europe.