Jazz for aficionados
The real deal for a listener like me is is Brecker brought the rest of the guys up with him . I’ll leave Calderazzo out for the simple reason I don’t really get him(my bad) , but Peterson was even better than usual ,which I could not believe , ditto for e dui . I think there are lessons to be learned from this .A Miles Davis could put the fear of God into them , but a Brecker brought God to the party .Music( or anything else) can’t be that transcendent if love is not in the room . |
Here is the great man himself , a composer mind you, playing one of his works with the other serious band, like the WDR , in Cologne . I would think any lover of serious music can hear serious genres can blend and blend well . https://youtu.be/VTPec8z5vdY Adios Nonino essentially means "Farewell ’ , he composed this very soon after his father, also a great bandoneon player, passed .I like to think that’s why some of the music is Angelic . You can see him go into pure grief for his father about 5:20 , teared me up .. |
To all those who read the recent discussions on Wynton Marsallis’s future effect on Jazz on here. I made my monthly pilgrimage today to Barnes and Noble to pick up "Gramophone" , established in 1923 and the Bible of Classical Music( I buy Jazz times too ) . On the cover it said "Nicola Benedetti records Wynton Marsalis’s music" ). Despite her name ,Benedetti was born and raised in Scotland and is Scottish to the core . So much so she took a year off as one of the most wanted jetset classical violinist in the world to master the fiddle rep. of Scottish folk music. . An heroic act because the fingering etc is far different . She is THE greatest exponent of genre blending in the Classical world and the most dedicated to educational outreach . She has recorded Wynston’s Violin Concerto ," Fiddle Dance Suite" with the great Philadelphia Orchestra / Cristian Macelaru Decca 485 0013DH The magazine devoted 4 pages of thought between her and Wynston . a lot along the lines discussed here at times (unusual) . Review is long and deep, ends with "Honestly , its hard to believe its written down at all ." And these reviews are the most respected in the world .Its the August edition as American edition is always a month late. Seems worth 12 bucks to anyone interested in Wynton to me . |
One of the great drummers we tend to forget . I was blessed in sitting for a hour while he practiced with a gifted young pianist who had just graduated from college and made a few small nervous mistakes . Joe was as sweet and helpful to her as if she was his child . https://youtu.be/EbR8G6YNuUM?t=5 |
Happy Independence Day ! I chose a Sailor to sing our National Anthem because she does just that, minus the drama. I also have always thought the Navy Band was the most musical of allour military bands . Not to mention the US Navies Nuclear Submarines insure that nobody wants to attack the USA. https://youtu.be/QmMCXrK-8OM?t=1 Check the band boys and girls ! https://youtu.be/hDg0kWTzCa0?t=6 Yes , the same Petty Officer 1st Class can swing . |
I love that kind of stuff frogman . I know personally that a lot of classical players love jazz and vice-versa . Like if both of you went to Indiana you both went to same classes etc. Even more so in Europe . Which is why I’ve made most of my posts from Germany where I still know a little about the scene . I read an interview of one the most up-coming younger classical violinists , a Chinese lady, recently . At 14 she turned down a full ride at both Julliard and Curtis for the German offer where everyone is trained as a chamber music artist and you are moved about from year to year to different schools . At 14 she said this,"The Americans want to make me a soloist but the Germans want to make me a musician " . |
Plenty of room for every thing( except rock) ,I listen to Folk Music on Saturday . That's where a lot music started and if you can get past the beat there is often centuries of nuance awaiting you . People like Bartok ,Kodaly and others taught me that . I'll wager August will show up if its Barnes and Noble .I've been told that Seattle and Twin Cities are where it sells best . Might not be so, whatever . |
Just so frogman ! For years my late wife and I "did" Christmas in Sweden for the simple reason they do it better than anyone and without this song from Sweden’s greatest singer ............with it my soul is close to her , the ultimate reason for music . https://youtu.be/ofKk_Etapq4?t=3 It will be here soon . |
acman3 , I don’t doubt your North Texas story . Seems to me they have one of best music schools in the country . As Jazz is more about the Player(s) and Classical more about the Composer, seems that is as it should be . Thanks for the Zoltan Kodaly frogman , a great who is grossly underplayed . . The lovely "Dances from Galanta" is all I all I ever heard live in USA .And Hungary the only place I’ve ever seen where young people are in a majority in the audience . Anybody looking for an interesting European vacation that is not too expensive , Budapest is it . |
For rok, O-10 or any other vets . This must be a one-off , can’t even imagine this !Got to me . https://youtu.be/54W22gT7-R8?t=2 |
Jazz is very popular in Finland and so is Brookmeyer. The leader is saying the modern path is here . https://youtu.be/hNJULVNolRM?t=4 |
Thad Jones, Mel Lewis Band . Drum class begins at 2: 27 https://youtu.be/U9_O9a1kGt4?t=3 https://youtu.be/-yDLVCrBRsU?t=6 When Bob Brookmeyer changed the sound of Thad Jones with his brilliant charts that moved away from swing without totally deserting it . |
In Honor of my friend , Dave Miller , who died last week at 92 . Dave served 35 years in the Armed Forces of the United States .In a way nobody I ever knew of . He served in the USMC , the USN and the USA in that sequence . A kinder man I never met . RIP . https://youtu.be/QyKfr8G04Qc?t=5 |
This great Scottish percussion artist and even greater musician is stone-cold deaf and hears better than 99% of the human race ! https://youtu.be/IU3V6zNER4g?t=24 You won't hear a better clip ! |
I’d like to know who made the chart for American Dream , as many say ,it should be our National Anthem . Every human sees life and truth though their own eyes and plays through the cards they were dealt . Never brag or whine , only God knows why one got a deuce and another a King . In the sweet bye and bye we will all hold four Aces .Mary Jo will hold God's hand . This lady sings our map , not where we park . https://youtu.be/E0bs9ZvM8gQ |
81563 , War does two things to people , it makes them worse or it makes them better . Kicker is the better often takes a long time . Usually in about a 50/50 ratio for combat troops who are a small fraction of our Armed Forces in any modern war. I read your clip about your dad and was moved . Nobody who was not there can say if your dad was or was not wrong in the path he took , self -medication is very common among soldiers who actually are in combat .I was aware the 25th had a hard time of it on Guadalcanal . I wanted to say at the time he must have been a good man as he loved his son enough to keep him out of wars that were not necessary and did not require you .The fact he beat his addictions for the love of his wife and family is heroic in and of itself . May he rest in peace . |
mary jo The USAF has very few people who ever see any combat . It is far more just a job than other branches and they make more money and are promoted more than other branches . Fact : The USAF is the greatest owner of Golf Courses in the world . When I was an infantryman(only real soldiers) near what we called the Air Farce base, we used to say to say if we had to do 20 years for a pension they should have to do 50 and it was not a joke . Of course , there are a few exceptions like 0-10 ! Try to get to a Navy Seal wedding asap . |
0-10 , I know what you mean about "conservatives " and well off blacks .A good black friend of mine who was is a dentist caught hell in a bottle in a Milwaukee suburb few years ago . Had done 10 years in Navy , 6 years on carriers ! But from what I have seen most neo-conservatives have two other things they hate much worse , reality and the truth .. |
0-10 most likely the guy had what is called the 1, 000 yard stare . Comes from seeing mucho death . If he was in the central highlands the drug available was hash which gives a horrible zombified look . These guys were far more dangerous to Platoon Leaders and Sgts . than the enemy and there were a lot of them .As usual , chain of command did nothing . |
My favorite by Don Byrd and company . Not that I know much about bop ballads, but best I’ve heard . https://youtu.be/e-JFIrsd1b4 |
In a way Hank Jones reminds me of Mozart . Perfect Balance in what ever he does . https://youtu.be/oUYQqQ7bFZ8?t=4 |
Speaking of music , IMO one of the most subtle of the great standards done about as well as it could be , https://youtu.be/ONpG6dtiqzE |
Speaking of French music , this is about as tight a piece as I've heard from a Gallic trio. https://youtu.be/YA9VO56mE2Q?list=RDYA9VO56mE2Q |
Won’t interest anyone else , but I wish the Japanese were not so dam good all the time , they make the rest of us look bad . https://youtu.be/04oeDHFQVPk?t=2 Adios para siempre ! |
Speaking of Polish jazz, it is superb ..That’s all the countries I know. https://youtu.be/JBZsVMXjBsc?t=3 |
For mary jo , the voices of beautiful Croatian women in their beautiful language need no more . https://youtu.be/IK42G5bEsbQ?t=2 |
No doubt this has been on here already . But to be this mellow and still maintain tension is worth hearing any day ! https://youtu.be/LBdpHfZmlMc?t=1 |
A very nice rendition of "Summertime" from a lovely lady who knows how to sing and a band that gets it . https://youtu.be/eaEPnqMCZu0?t=4 Same diva at Newport . https://youtu.be/0Yuf_HZgbE4?t=4 A great rendition of a great ballad more recently in Paris . https://youtu.be/5EMcG60myQw?t=2 Goes out with baddest jazz gospel I ever heard ! |
Thanks, Frogperson . I’m about 1/2 way through " Blue Rhythm Fantasy(old eyes cutting my speed) .Unreal research, figured out in first chapter was a worked over PhD dissertation (good thing) . Were I running a School of Music anywhere , I would see that all jazz students read this book . Much of what what went on then is still going on now, just in another suit . Wouldn’t hurt the Classical students either , there is a lot of gender blend like Debussy whole -tone scale etc . Re: Language and music , Just listed to one the most moving pieces ever written on FM, "Pavane pour une infante defunte" , can’t ever guess how many times I’ve heard it .Today it was played by French National , froze me in my tracks . Literally .Classical soul at its very best . |
God as my witness frogman . the French National rendition was SO moving that I really and truly could not believe any human could continue playing and not just float up to heaven . Afraid to go to "Classical Minnesota " playlist on that one . Chamayou is French , i think you would have to be to get done to the bones of the masterpiece like he does . Amazon here I come . You see a lot of "secrets of life" stuff from old folks on the internet . Mine is simple , "pay attention " . |
