Jazz: America's Music
Today I purchased Blue Train by John Coltrane (on the blue note label) -Excellent and beautiful flowing Jazz work. Complimentary and solo work by an ensemble of trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, and of course percussion, with the ethereal tones of John Coltrane’s tenor sax. Listening to this album rekindle my interest in Jazz – American’s Music. It reminded me of the Ken Burns documentary on Jazz that premiered on PBS in 2001 (which also inspired a CD set and a single CD, The Best of Ken Burns Jazz, that I have). But I digress. My collection of Jazz music is small but I would like to enhance it so best recommendations on that would be welcome and helpful to everybody else as well.
Additionally this post is for just a general discussion of Jazz. Below is a list of the Jazz artists that are mentioned in the context of The Best of Ken Burns Jazz CD set. It is not intended as an inclusive list by any means and is made in alphabetical order, although the first person should be place number one on the list anyway. This jazz list does not include newer artists, Diana Krall just for an example. So it needs brought up to date, which I hope others will do.
Louis Armstrong
Count Basie
Sidney Bechet
Art Blakey
Dave Brubeck
Omette Coleman
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Dizzy Gillesepe
Benny Goodman
Herbie Hannock
Coleman Hawkins
Fletcher Henderson
Billie Holiday
Charles Mingus
Theionious Monk
Charlie Parker
Sonny Rollins
Sarah Vaughn
Lester Young
Jazz deserves some fun and worthwhile discussion on these forums. So, Take it Away…………….
-Zeno
I know many of you seem to disdain jazz/popular singers, but In The Wee Small Hours is such a heartbreaking and masterful recording. I mean it's Sinatra and Nelson Riddle.
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and next the alog offers up Rahsaan
such a unique human worthy of celbration
Don Cherry Ed Blackwell
just two dudes playing not much more than trumpet and drum
sometimes substituting keyboard or other instrument of percussion
from the album El Corazón
Mutron / Bemsha Swing / Solidarity / Arabian Nightingale
'82 Feb West Germany
please listen from the beginning
but things that start happening around the seven minute mark are worthy of extra attention
Circle In The Round is a puzzling four-sided Miles compilation album comprised of outtakes spanning from '55 to '70
but the namesake track, recorded december '67, lasts an audicious 33 minutes
put on tape a bit more than thirty days before the Miles in the Sky sessions started
later in '68 the second great quintet would be split apart with the force of jazz fusion
participating in no particular order
Davis, Shorter, Hancock, Carter, Williams
strongly suggest multiple full listens if only to focus upon each individual instrument.
Circle In The Round is a puzzling four-sided Miles compilation album comprised of outtakes spanning from '55 to '70
but the namesake track, recorded december '67, lasts an audicious 33 minutes
put on tape a bit more than thirty days before the Miles in the Sky sessions started
later in '68 the second great quintet would be split apart with the force of jazz fusion
participating in no particular order
Davis, Shorter, Hancock, Carter, Williams
strongly suggest multiple full listens if only to focus upon
I had this on double CD back in the late 80s/early 90s when up until then I’d only heard Miles Smiles and all that great 1960s quintet stuff (as well as In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew). At first, I didn’t really get it, but then found myself listening to the 2nd CD a bunch. Was a little jarring at first, jumping from mid 50s Miles to late 60s Miles, but I loved it in the end.
circle in the round must have been the second half of the first cd? it was side two of the double album. side three was also tracks from the second great quintet recorded just months before he went publically electric with Miles in the Sky.
another bit of trivia i should have mentioned
"The title track, "Circle in the Round," is the first studio recording in which he departed from the acoustic quintet, marking the inception of his "electric" period. Recorded in 1967, it was the earliest released recording of Miles that featured the sound of the electric guitar (played by Joe Beck), something that would become prominent in his music over the years." Joe was Miles' first electric guitar player. Miles' hesitation about how it would be received delayed its release.
and of course an ode to David Crosby to close things out
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circle in the round must have been the second half of the first cd? it was side two of the double album. side three was also tracks from the second great quintet recorded just months before he went publically electric with Miles in the Sky.
another bit of trivia i should have mentioned
Yes, second half of the first CD. Guitar is interesting — playing the role of the piano. There are vibes too (could be a Rhodes). It sounds like the 60s quintet plus rhythm guitar, with vibes instead of piano.
^ It’s actually a Celeste (played by Herbie Hancock) not vibes.
Listening to St. John is how I reboot my operating system.
Broken YouTube LinkYes, second half of the first CD. Guitar is interesting — playing the role of the piano. There are vibes too (could be a Rhodes). It sounds like the 60s quintet plus rhythm guitar, with vibes instead of piano.
guitar
piano
both example of
string struck
with hammer or hamate
more a question of how quickly do you expect to receive feedback from the notes you play
ride the symbolism of this Tony Williams sentence as fast as you can multiple times in succession
and next twice faster with friviolous trills and fills 'cause we just getting warmed up
the sound of a mellow toned Dexter Gordon tenor saxophone originates from places of large humans vibrating reeds by passing air between their teeth and lips
curious which era of your life this genre of japanese jazz was introduced
guessing is it was film first, soundtrack second
Yeah, it's like 1964 and 1976. I used to call the Japanese gangster movies from the 50s and 60s "Saxophone Noir" because of their distinctive jazzy soundtracks. The second film has an amazingly large group of influences, but isn't as distinctly japanese to me.
But now soundtracks are growing in importance to me, and I am more willing to listen to the older music, as it has really grown on me.
please keep sharing the highlights of your research
they're really fun
∆∆∆ I'll write some more about this one later
