Yogi Berra Explains Jazz:
Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?
Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.
Interviewer: I don't understand.
Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
Interviewer: Do you understand it?
Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.
Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today?
Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead. Some would kill for it.
Interviewer: What is syncopation?
Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.
Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.
Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well.
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What do you al think of Fantastic Frank Strozier?
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It’s probably been a year since I’ve seen him on any Agon threads.
Hope all is well.
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The Claes Corona Trio, American Standards.
Another album I can tap my toe to.
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I’m listening to Kinda Blue for the umteenth time and it still puts a smile on my face.
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@rok2id
How did you Kind Of Blue? I have it on LP and CD and as I said before, listening to it makes me 😊.
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@pjw81563
Another great Paul Chambers album is “Whims Of Chambers”
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Listening to Jeremy Pelt, Identity
Only listened to a couple of his albums so far, but I’m thinking that tonight is going to be a Jeremy Pelt night.
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@alexatpos
If you like old school jazz, It’s really hard to go wrong listening to Jeremy Pelt. It’s funny, when I looked him up, I expected to read about some dead or very old guy and boy was I surprised to see he’s about twenty years younger than I am.😁
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@frogman
Lol, listening to Poppin’ right now😁
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@pjw81563
Didn’t get that one. I’ll put it on my list for next time.
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Art Farmer this morning, but I’ll be listening to Paul Chambers, Bass on top, by days end. Thanks for the suggestion @alexatpos .
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@pjw81563
I looked for Red,Philly & Ron album, Crossings on Amazon and Qobuz and couldn’t find it.
I’m bummed.
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Any O-10 news? Out of curiosity, how old is he?
Thanks.
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Thanks guys.
Here’s wishing him all the best!
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Today I’m starting with Oscar Peterson, Volare.
Everything I want in an album.
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I took an abrupt change and went to the Stanley Clarke Trio, Jazz In The.
with Hiromi Urhara & Lenny White.
Excelent!
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@frogman
I have now😁
Thanks for the tip.
Who has heard of Gil Melle?
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@stuartk
I have heard the first one and will be able to say the same about the second one by the days end.
Thanks.
Speaking of A. Farmer, are you familiar with this?
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Thanks @rok2id
On lazy Saturday mornings, I usually pick an artist and play album after album until either I can get my butt in gear or my wife gets on me to play someone else.
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Having a Horace Silver morning. Listened to Song for My Father and Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers playing now.
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The Don Friedman Trio, Circle Waltz came up as a suggestion on Amazon Music and it is playing now.
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@mahgister
You mentioned Jan Johansson. I agree he is under rated. My favorite album of his might be his Folkvisor, Jazz Pa Svenska album. It is just a piano and an upright bass. It is very well recorded and it is on my “test track” list. Really great decays and presence.
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Ella And Louis, still one of my favorites!
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Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series
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@acman3
This is what I really like about this thread, finding new to me music! Thanks and I’ll have Charles Lloyd on my playlist today.
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Dave Brubeck, Time Further out
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Haven’t listened to Kind Of Blue in a while, so I found a 24/192 version of the Legacy Edition and all it does is bring out the faults in the original recordings. I wonder if Peter Jackson would like to have a wack at it?
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Snarky Puppy-Empire Central
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Oscar Peterson Trio, On A Clear Day - Live in Zurich, 1971.
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Just listened to Judy Arafat, Con Alma
A Tribute To Dizzy Gillespie.
I really enjoyed it.
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Just saw an ad for Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers, Hard Drive. I’ve never heard it before, so I’m happily streaming it now. If you like A.B. & The Jazz Messengers, you’ll like this!
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Joe Henderson, Page One. Remastered in HR.
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Just stumbled upon a Christian McBride album I’ve never heard before.
The Q Sessions. Really enjoying it so far.
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Ron Carter, Finding The Right Notes. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
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The Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Last Concert. In HR.
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Jazz At The Pawnshop 3, Good Vibes.
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Horace Silver, Six Pieces Of Silver
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Today is Oscar Peterson day, starting with Night Train (Expanded Edition) HR
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Keith Jarrett, Last Dance. HR
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@pjw81563 ,
Bill Evans is definitely in my top five piano players. I really like the way he tickles the ivory’s. I’ll try to watch the documentary.
Thanks.
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Grant Green, Idle Moments
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Claude Bolling Jean-Pierre Rampal, Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano Trio.
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@alexatpos
I just started streaming right at two years ago. After I realizes that I have a wall of CD’s and vinyl I’m barely touching anymore and the price of a month on any of the streaming services is less than purchasing an album, I turned to the dark side.😁
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So I’m trying to listen to Walter Davis Jr. Trio, Scorpio album and it is so hard for me to get past Walter’s noises that are as loud as everything else on the album. Even my wife came out of the back room to ask what that horrible noise was.
I don’t understand why they would leave that in the recording.
Getting off my soapbox now.
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Sonny Rollins, Way Out West (The Deluxe Edition)
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