Jazz: America's Music

Seasonally inappropriate Sunday Morning Jazz.

Name the artists without cheating.

This album has been stuck on my playlist recently. Worth a listen.

Imma guess herbie Hancock howm I doing so far.

It's Joni on vocals. Prolly Wayne Shorter. And Toots Thielmans or whatever. The guy who wrote bluesette.

Pretty good. Little Stevie Wonder on harmonica.

I'm still feeling Jack DeJohnette's passing. Fortunately I'm still discovering things he played on such as Jackie Mclean's Demon's Dance:
https://youtu.be/EIAqPcAcUvY

The Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis connections are the signposts of his career, particularly the former, dating back to when they played together in the Charles Lloyd Quartet. It's not easy to define what constitutes a drummer's voice but we know it when we hear it (i.e. the difference between Art Blakey and Elvin Jones, for instance): Jack has some of Elvin and earthiness all his own, a lot of which comes from the way he shouldered his cymbals and toms, a kind of messy-hitting that wasn't messy at all but fully intended (as notably heard on Bitches Brew). I also spent a lot of time with his book The Art of Jazz Drumming which explained, to an extent, his distinctive ride patterns, particularly how he was able to freely cross bar-lines while retaining the thread.

I also have to post this because it doesn't get much better (a CD I bought when, first released from a stuffy classical music store in Melbourne in 1990, forking out $20 as a poor student, purely on spec, because Jack was on his drums and he was the guy who played on Bitches Brew, me knowing little about Keith Jarrett then aside from the Koln Concert):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP_Sr30Q...

RIP Jack --- thank you for being an eternal source of wonder.

ultimate beauty of jazz for me is the degree and willingness for collaboration between seemingly complete opposite strangers

university of oregon early 90s and one semester my only thursday class was history of jazz
seeing bix posted reminded me of how stoned I would get before attending that class.

oh and by the way watch this

Music composed by Charlie Chaplin.

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The early Rudy Van Gelder stuff was recorded in his parents living room

difficult to imagine jazz without RVG, might just be as important as RBG

This Thanksgiving, I have too many things to be thankful for to name. Among them are Eric Dolphy and his Bass Clarinet.

a bass so resultely

happy holiday to you and yours

brilliant movie
not sure i ever focused only on the music

I don't really have a favorite movie -- I don't see the point -- but whenever I watch Hard Boiled, it's my favorite movie.

I get the same thing whenever I watch 300.

most of us have heard it before, but always worth a semi-annual reminder

recorded columbia studios may '70
wonderful result from blending alternate time signatures and genre tone

Electric Guitar: John McLaughlin
Associated Performer, Trumpet: Miles Davis
Bass Guitar: Michael Henderson
Percussion: Airto Moreira
Drums: Billy Cobham
Keyboards: Herbie Hancock
Keyboards: Keith Jarrett
Soprano Saxophone: Steve Grossman
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
Recording Engineer: Stan Tonkel
Mixing Engineer: Stan Weiss
Mixing Engineer: John Guerriere

Sunday morning jazz. Via Hakodate

yes, so good

Samurai Bongo

as for the inclination to rudely devalue gelding horse recording studios or others who care about such esoteric things
alls yall realy need to know is the following captured scene was 1965 and included this particular lineup of jazz giants

Herbie Hancock - p
Freddie Hubbard - t
George Colman - ts
Ron Carter - b
Tony Williams - d