Jazz for aficionados
Trent, The linear notes on Tina Brooks are quite complete; they tell of a sensitive individual who needed a big brother that he didn't have to protect and help guide him on his perilous journey as a jazz musician. Here are two cuts on this set that I like a lot, plus the work he did with Jimmy Smith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjO5NXuIQQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifPxhbrWTkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-HKq9eNLzE |
I've posted "Stanley" so many times that now I'll have to see if I can find something by him that I haven't posted; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9S-kMiNT5c |
Mary_jo, along with everyone else here, we are all so happy that you're OK "Life presently is in a state of "Sucks" all over. That's why I am thoroughly ensconced in the past; life was so much better then. I pray that everyone's good luck will continue, and none of us will get struck by any of these crazy calamities. |
Not everyone knows that "Nina Simone" is a pianist who accidentally became a vocalist. However, Aficionados who are also "epicureans" and carry this over into their love of music are aware of this fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDrCbfuu5Tk |
Nina Simone was earning money as a pianist in a cocktail lounge in order to pay for her continued education as a concert pianist when she was told to "sing for her supper", so to speak; the rest is history. Her education as a concert pianist enables her to incorporate classical music like no other pianist; you can't tell where the classical begins and the jazz ends, or vice versa, she does it so smoothly. Now you can begin to appreciate this unique aspect of her art, just as I have for many years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CZFZS1y2Wg |
Mary_jo, I don't live in the past, I just have memories of the past; Rok lives in the past. I think he knew something like this would raise me from the dead. That war was fought for a reason, the only reason for this perpetual war now is to enrich the war machine, and they keep going back to that time in order to justify it. While the "macaroni brains" dwell on the past, the Military industrial complex sucks up tax dollars like a vacuum cleaner, and if there is anything left it goes to the corporations, leaving nothing for the citizens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83pK5q53_Xc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sP8lx1M9Zo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIGNUQnfT0Q I worked with Larry Rice in St. Louis to help the homeless in the 80's, I know something about homelessness; what's happening today is totally absurd; this has never happened before in my life time. Macaroni brained people blame it on the homeless for being homeless. Let me tell you; if me, you or anybody else were made homeless, it wouldn't take long for us to have very serious mental problems and self medicate. So when you see a homeless person talking to himself; just think, that person could be you if the fickle finger of fate deemed it to happen. I can't rest because I know the reasons why so many people are homeless; the primary reasons go back about 20 years. |
Stereophile featured one of my favorite albums this month; as a matter of fact I had it in my collection ages ago. My favorite tune on the LP was "The Outlaw". That was made for the movie of the same name starring "Jane Russell" which was most "Risque" for it's time. Here it is; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST6PKMv5ONU |
Inna, do you remember when we used to find all of that Arabian Flamenco with the fantastic videos? Maybe you can find some of the music, but not the videos. I like the music you posted, but you knew I would. That's the same music Christ heard, only he heard it live, which is better than any audiophile rig. Most Christians don't seem to be aware of that fact. It's good hearing from you, find some more exotic music. |
This month's "Stereophile" featured as "Recording of the month", Ron Miles "Rainbow Sign", it also featured Horace Silver " Further Explorations". I am going to post music from those two albums and you be the judge; BTW, they were both given perfect scores for performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOncgZFkCdM I chose this because it has a title that Rok might like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNJYXbkrAss I think both these tunes have similar moods. I just want to get your opinion on what is currently considered the best in jazz as opposed to what we are used to. Feel free to pick other tunes from either album. |
As much as I like Santana, it seems that I'm not into "hard rock" these days, but I have loads of a different Santana in my collection; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_t7Hh3kxIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bJouVEzr0k Are you having any luck finding that music we listened to before, along with the videos? |
Clifford Brown, or Lee Morgan; I'll take Lee Morgan by a horses hair. I;'m glad you're branching out Rok, "Hampton Hawes is one of the forces in "West Coast Jazz". (I always use "is" as opposed to "was") All of "Hamp's" music had that hip cool West coast feel about it. It's so very unfortunate that the West Coast I remember along with so many other places that I remember no longer exist; it was such a cool place to be; quite different from the Midwest or east. One of the things I remember that I'm sure hasn't changed is that "Golden Sunset"; it takes forever for the sun to set in LA, and everything turns a brilliant gold, and it stays that way for awhile. LA is not a city like Chicago or any other city, but a bunch of small towns. And there's nothing like riding across these small towns in a convertible at sunset on a clear day with the ocean breeze in the air seeing the sights. (pretty girls everywhere). Just like the music, LA was cool. |
Schubert, I know where you're coming from, but I'm going to be nice and keep this trolley on it's musical tracks; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Trb5OnXqw |
Inna, this is the real deal from that time period; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIhRAUcdZrw&list=PLqnnuEVGcRQy6dzmNbXJpU5mfGXVoaCqT |
Inna, here we have it all; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvyMAYyZO9Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlZ6SAeTxb8 |
Inna, I'm tuning into my inner self and going in a lot of different directions called "World Music" for a lack of a better name. I'm also trying to find music that "Christ" would have listened to when he was just "Chillin". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inYXvzwtlmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUS0-0Fv7c8 |
While I was on my "Walk About" (Australian phrase), you guys were posting some of the best jazz I've ever heard. I think I commented on some of it. The latest was "Erroll Garner"; I once had a dream where his "Misty" was playing all the way through the dream. Needles to say, it was a beautiful dream; I even hated when I woke up, I tried to go back to sleep and pick up where it left off, but that didn't work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erroll_Garner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxVGzuopnow&list=PLd06FP4HjGQWM3aMic-OdKsMQ5Je5YDYW |
I fall in love too easy; now I'm in love with Marie Bryant, and this is the first time I ever heard of her. I fell in love after seeing Keegiam's post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohCOIPjyXZM |
Rok, I meant to comment on "The Sermon"; that's one of my all time favorite albums. Here are a few tunes to complement that; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O82y59h7MI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZnseqMDF20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsAf0ra6Vd4 |
Mary_jo, you sound a little bit like one of my "ex-wives", but nobody could be that bad; she was bad to the bone, and her name was not Christine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAb81olgCNs I love that car. True story; my uncle bought one fresh off the line that same color, and he decided on a road trip a little over a hundred miles south of St. Louis, with my cousin driving. On the way back, my cousin said he had to drive fast to stay woke. I went to sleep in the back seat, and the wind whistling woke me up, but the car was moving along as steady as a rock; I looked at the speedometer and it read 120. Those fins functioned as stabilizers at high speeds, the same as an airplane. I went back to sleep with the thought, "If anything goes wrong, I'll never know it". |
It is absolutely unbelievable how many people think this is the coolest song they ever heard in their life. Amazingly it conjures up similar visions to a lot of different people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfWbRWTfKFg |
Some of Jackie McLean's solos stand out among others; it seems to me that these are among his best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0H2G_W-O0I Can you find as good or better? |
Nothing like a little "jazz oriental" and this is some of the best I've ever heard, and it's performed by someone who served as a Tunnel Rat in the Nam, which is the worst possible job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZ9kGwqkTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jke3UaOP8Rw |
Two more I like by "Billy Bang"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nGbpSPtaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVJMOpIHBgc |
Keegiam, I didn't know this guy, but my friends knew him. He got back from Nam in one piece, and everybody was so glad to see him that they wanted to take him out and celebrate. Since I was always up for a party; I said ,"Let the good times begin". We partied all over the city all night long, and since nobody wanted to go home, we wound up at a deserted filling station on a bright Sunday morning drinking out of brown paper bags. I thought the guy was a little quiet, and his friends said he wasn't quite himself. All night he hadn't talked too much, but now he started talking. "I think I'm going back" he said. "I miss the jungle, I miss the excitement; yall just don't know what it's like, it's like a permanent ride on a roller coaster, I'm going back" His friends looked at him in a state of shock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biGcO_QPjN0 |
Happy Birthday Alex! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gve_EOwoBcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQJybhk47xU |
