Nice 'Fusion'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROAaB9JlZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxCBa_DnEpc
Cheers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROAaB9JlZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxCBa_DnEpc
Cheers
Here is an interesting artist that's new to me, and I wanted to share his music.
Jon Batiste is a musician Rok just introduced me to. From the first notes he played, I knew he was from Louisiana, with out knowing anything else about him.
Here's his bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Batiste
This is the tune Rok submitted;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCC1EEmJlo4
It was one I will eagerly add to my collection. I thought I would share this with other music lovers seeking new artists.
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One of my favorite singers. Very well crafted songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5NYlzCkNio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGNYSGghKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AEEqZ7Zt_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKTaW9sPXsk Cheers |
I think this guy has promise, if he picks the right material. I first saw him on the Playing for Change version of stand by me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcsqhnpIByU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ip6SE0mtik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Rubq7vQkI Cheers |
For those of you whose musical interest extend pass New Orleans and Jazz. VOICES OF MUSIC. I just found them on you-tube, maybe they are new to you also. Great music and the you-tube production is outstanding. Check out all their videos. There are many. Love it !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEFceMhcyns&list=PL764FC1C2B52AEC62&index=8 Cheers |
Today's Listen: Ray Charles & Milt Jackson -- SOUL BROTHERS / SOUL MEETING 2CD package. If you love the blues, this is for you. Ray on alto, Milt on piano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gRQaE6pZjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A28dBlEQWi4 Cheers |
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Give it a rest rok. It doesn't accomplish anything to say things like this.***** Your statement is truer than you might think. This situation is common in real life, not just here. My siblings and I have lost many, many 'friends', because we don't think like we are 'supposed to think'. So, as the great Nez Perce Chief, Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph, might have said, had he been into be-bop, "From where the sun now stands, I will comment no more forever". Cheers |
Today's Listen: Terence Blanchard -- A TALE OF GOD'S WILL (a requiem for katrina) Beautiful music. Typical left-wing liner notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyj79ZUaHmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr5guBDp51c I don't think he received proper credit for this effort. This is really good. Guess that's what happens when a natural disaster in politicized. Cheers |
Today's Listen: Sometimes things can be improved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiHS8Hf7Tb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp4YKvx37w8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3AGjw9yVOw And the winner is? Cheers |
My favorite blue player singing a classic song written by the greatest blues song writer. (Willie Dixon). Both from Mississippi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI also: should have went on to Mexico. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI Cheers |
B-3 and Hank Crawford: I always loved Hank Crawford. Sharp dresser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nbouwehaMY Cheers |
Today's Listen: Classic song. Two versions by two of Mississippi's greatest, one a legendary blues singer and one a current Jazz singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFvnT0X9eFQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY I could never listen to Son House, if I was at home alone at night. Cheers |
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Here in Baltimore, we lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs between 1950 and 1960, and you don't need 3 guesses to figure out which race got laid off first.***** Give it a rest. In Texas we say, 'that dog won't hunt'. There are folks in inner city America who have never known, or known of, a family member that has ever had a job. Generations. But your congressman went ballistic over the conditions at the southern border. I just assumed he had already solved all problems in Baltimore. So did the prez. Cheers |
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Where exactly was that new work?***** Well, a major source of the old work was Auto, Steel, Coal, Major home appliances and the industries that supported them. A lot of this work went to third world countries with slave labor wages, and some of it went down South. Corvettes in Kentucky, Ford Fusions in Mexico. And for some inexplicable reason, we gave a large slice of the auto industry to that parasite called Canada. We now have BMW plants in South Carolina, Mercedes in Alabama, Nissan in Mississippi, Toyota in Mississippi and Kentucky. GM in China. VW is also in this country. Not sure about Honda. The list goes on, but these are the major players. That's the old work. The new work? Whatever replaced those jobs. I am retired and no longer in the job market, if I were I could be more precise. So maybe the smart thing to do would have been to recognize that although great grand father worked at Ford, and grand dad worked at GM and father worked at Ford, all in Detroit and the Midwest just maybe, those jobs would not be there for you. Remember youth unemployment is the problem You do not have to be a weather man to know which way the wind is blowing. And to please the OP, there are white folks in KY and WV waiting on coal to come back. The prez said he would do it. Forget for a moment, that the entire world is going away from coal. Inertia is a bitch!!! Required reading : "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance Cheers |
Today's Listen: Lester Young, one of Mississippi's finest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHj9uNZOgk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxZ3r1LGA4Q Cheers |
Anyone remember the TV series 'The Prisoner". I think it was English made. He was always searching for #1, but never got closer than the 'New #2'. I present audiophile's new #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRMR9JZ1m0s Cheers btw, #1 turned out to be a room full of chimps. |
I thought I told you to lay off that Kool-aid. Thugs commit crime because it’s easier than working. Thugs are not trying to ’Earn a Living’. You think they rob people and businesses, and sell drugs because the baby needs milk? That’s almost laughable. Putting aside for a moment that they give less than a damn about all their illegitimate kids. Half of Central America in at our southern border trying to get into the USA. Those that make it in, are working within a couple of days. hmmmmmmmmmm. You do the math. When the southern economy changed with the advent of mechanical cotton pickers, people left and headed north to get work. When jobs were lost in the north, they didn’t follow the new work, they went on welfare. And there they sit to this day. Cheers |
*****Rok, I noticed you didn't comment on the tour of St. Louis; did you miss it?***** No I didn't. I remember driving thru St Louis back in 1975. I-70 I believe. I drove from Ft Carson, Colorado to Ft Lee Virginia. In my 1972 Datsun 240z. Those were the days. St Louis has suffered the fate of all large cities. Too many people that don't have the education or skills to succeed in big cities. Too many boys without fathers. Too much dependence on welfare. I visited Independence, Mo during college. It seemed to be a nice place. I am sure St Louis was a nicer place when you lived there. They, cities, epitomize the break down of the Black family. I put St Louis in the same class as New Orleans and Memphis. Once great cities on the Mississippi river, but now pass their prime. Greenville, Ms also. Cheers Everyone should drive I-70 across Kansas. |
Jelly Roll Morton, I'm sure you have heard of him, said, Jazz is 'a way of playing music'. i.e. The following were NOT Jazz tunes when written, but they are in these examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsz6TE6t7-A You will know Jazz when you hear it. Cheers |
More outdated Jazz. I know it’s awful, but please try to listen to it anyway. These poor folks thought they were playing timeless music, little did they know it would be ’dated’ so soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Kft3w-7DI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQBjD06a6l8 Cheers not dated here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nym81fzg-To |
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There never has, and there never will be a strict definition of "jazz". Wynton has attempted to say, this is jazz, but that is not jazz; it won't work.***** Wynton speaks truth. Don't like it, too bad. ***** While what was presented is a good example of "New Orleans Jazz", it does not stand up for repeated listens in my opinion; it was dated when I was born, and that was a long time ago.***** Other 'dated' music / musicians: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Ellington, Mingus, Bolden, Armstrong, Miles, Elvis, Trane, Morgan, Sinatra, Adderley, Motown, etc......... you get the drift. You seem to like 'improvised music', if it can be called music, but not Jazz. Jazz is not a throw-a-way music. It never gets old or dated. And music played by a guy in clown clothing, playing tunes with third world names, does not make it good music, in fact, most often the opposite is true. Music is music and noise is noise. As the good book says: No Blues, No Jazz. Know Blues, Know Jazz. Cheers |
Today’s Listen: Wynton Marsalis Septet -- THE NEW ORLEANS FUNCTION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKHM53iv2VI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nayYQXtddXE Cheers |
Today's Listen: Gene Harris -- INSTANT PARTY A compilation of some of his party music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0RCdSKogeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOFncukRGUQ Cheers |
For those of you like the OP, that are too lazy to go to Church. Mr Smith will bring Church to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3X5J_wGHrw Amen |
He has a good voice, but you are correct, that hat has to go. My favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBt9DQJOO-4 Cheers btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnshBIuu97Q |
AAUGH !!!!!!!!!!! Not THE FROGMAN ! Just when we thought it was safe to talk about jazz. AAUGH !!!! As usual you people are not thinking about it the right way. The question was the most important instrument in Jazz. Not in it's development or it's history. I took that to mean most important TODAY. If I were to say, we can have Jazz, but you can only have one instrument to play it on. Human voice not counted. Which instrument would that be? Listening to Trane, Bird, or Miles, playing solo would be cruel and unusual. After a while. :) The most important does not mean the most popular. Cheers |
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You must be hung up on European heritage.***** I make be hung up on many things, European heritage ain't one of them. The correct answer is the piano. It is more expressive than trumpet or sax. I have never seen anyone, save classical players, play trumpet or sax on stage by themselves. Those instruments are not expressive enough by themselves. They need support. Remember, we are speaking of Jazz. Cheers |
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I'll never understand the Wynton critics. Why is creativity the measure?***** His critics are mostly adherents of what is called 'modern' or 'contemporary' Jazz. In this sort of 'Jazz', the music is whatever the player says it is. If you don't get it, then something is wrong with you. Sort of like the Emperor's clothes. That means sounds, I won't call it music, devoid of blues, and emotional feeling of any kind. The complete antithesis of the music that started in New Orleans. Juilliard and Berklee are their holy sites. The students from these places couldn't find New Orleans or Mississippi with an Atlas. Wynton is on the other side of this cultural war. The fate of Jazz as we know it is at stake. Cheers |
Cuba Disco: Nice tunes and a pretty good singer. I think the guys around her were the pros, the ’Orchestra’ seemed to be for show. They didn’t contribute too much. Seemed awful young. A group that large should have had more presence and volume. Cuba does seem to spend a lot of effort on their young people. Gotta get them beholding to the regime early and often. Nice clip. Cheers |
For the OP: Not so sure about the player personnel, but you can always stare at her picture on the cover. http://www.classical-music.com/monthly-choice/glorious-tribute-jazz-life-well-lived Cheers |
I wonder if "the street" ever voted this guy best trumpet player. I think not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAfhPrrKHA Cheers |
I wonder what the critics at the barber shop would say about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKqjPeKAh2Y Love it!!! Cheers |
Wynton is more than a trumpet player. His trumpet playing is about as important to Jazz, as Ellington's piano playing, or Mingus' bass playing. If that's how you see him, you have missed it. He is the face of Jazz in the world. He knows it's history, he speaks with authority, and he even looks and dresses the part. He is keeping the flame alive. What he does at Lincoln Center and with the Jazz orchestra cannot be over stated. As far as the guys on the street or in the barber shop, their opinions do not enter into it. Lee, Brown etc.... were great players, period. Great players are relatively common. Leaders are not so common. Some had Leadership potential, but declined. Miles, Bird and Trane come to mind Wynton is The LEADER in the world of Jazz. He still sets the standard, in spite of being under almost constant attack by noise-makers and their shills. He can only be critiqued in relation to the Giants of the art form. Not just mere players. Hell, even the incomparable Rok2id could play trumpet. :) Cheers |