Jazz for aficionados

pjw, at a time when I am being literally showered with medical bills, 80 bucks is a fortune and I'm still debating it, that's how good I think Kawaguchi is.

You like Grant Green "almost" as much as I do.

Sonny Criss, another under appreciated artist;

   


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crhYor3nbvo

Current Jazz that has been rated over 4 out opf 5; how do you rate it?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Fl6P5T74E

Acman, understood; I listened again and changed my mind; flute music is on it's way home to me.

Fortunately for me, there is more good jazz from the past than I have money to buy, consequently; it's impossible for me to run out of "new" music, even if it's old.

nsp, Sonny Criss is absolutely fantastic and his music ranks with the very best, I will have to get more of it.

On this thread, we are all benefiting from one another, I am overjoyed that you are benefiting from my posts.

Today is the 4 of July, and they just "let" me out of the hospital; (all's fair in love and war Frogman, I ask for no sympathy) Let me explain how this game goes, I went to the hospital in an ambulance on an emergency basis, but I couldn't leave the hospital until they "let" me out; kind of like being in prison; you can not get out until they "let" you out.

At least I can listen to some fireworks and post on this thread by myself. I wouldn't be posting if I was well; I would be off on a picnic with friends and Bar-B-Q, but I have to play the hand I was dealt, not the hand I want to have; I think I'll play the lonely DJ.


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZQpxZ9cG-Y


When this was on the juke box, I was swinging high wide and handsome, sitting on a barstool nodding my head to the sounds while gazing into "Pretty Eyes", that's what I called her; we were both under 21, and full of the fire of youth; I can still hear her fingers popping, they were just like everything else about her, they had a special "snap".



         

Frogman is gone, and I do not miss him; I am tired of responding to his needless, un-necessary controversy. Time, time and time again, he has twisted my posts into something I didn't say; is the man jealous of me specifically?

Even with all his knowledge, that he flaunts like a threat (I'm going to leave this thread); "Please Mr. Frogman, don't leave us, we need your knowledge". For all of you who feel that way, make your personal plea to the Frogman. Mox Nix to me, because I don't understand technical jargon; it's like people who speak French to indicate they are highly educated.

So much of my opinion of the Frogman.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py7URoogRj0


Git Down Charley Brown; Mox Nix; It don't make no difference.

Don't worry, the Frog will have it removed.

Pryso, don't feel sorry, just do as they did in the wild west, clear the dust and stay out of the way; dis is between me and the Frog.

This song goes out to my good friend Rok; it's "Cold Duck Time"; that's what we said when we brought "Cold Duck" wine to the lawn party; "Cold Duck Wine" is our thang and partying is our game.



                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ago8dP4fFA&index=2&list=PL4ypuAMic-GhjZyNQTNOVZfgv9fP_Cq4A

Sorry guys I'm not ready for any "mythical" patriotic 4th of July stories;

 

                https://nypost.com/2016/01/17/occupy-obama-he-orchestrated-a-massive-transfer-of-wealth-to-the-1-per...



            THE REPUBLICRAT.

Notice that article tries to keep the "Liberul Consertive" dichotomy for the "Hunter Fishers".

Obama was neither, he was a thief; but since he was a liberal thief, that meant he was a "bad" thief, and if he was a conservative thief, that would have meant he was a good thief.

If you are a citizen of this country, take your brain out of "phaze lock loop"

Now back to your regular scheduled program

Music soothes the savage beast


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD8-A_bgsg8


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

nsp, I was late to the Sonny Criss show, but better late than never. I really enjoyed them all and will add to my collection as the budget allows.

We stood before it and began to freeze inside from the exertion. We questioned the painting, berated it, made love to it, prayed to it: We called it mother, called it whore and slut, called it our beloved, called it Abraxas...."


The album cover features the 1961 painting Annunciation by German-French painter Mati Klarwein. According to the artist, it was one of the first paintings he did after relocating to New York City. Carlos Santana reportedly noticed it in a magazine and asked that it be on the cover of the band’s upcoming album. The cover is now considered a classic of rock album covers.


If you ever stare at that white dove that’s situated at the apex part of the shapely black woman’s anatomy, you will be drawn into "Abraxas"; I have the album before me, and I can tell you this album cover is a revelation; I’m not quite sure of what, it’s different every time I stare at the album cover. If you have the LP, pull it out, stare at the white dove and let your eyes wander from there.

Now on to the music; since this album has consistently appeared in catalogs since it came out in 1970, that’s a testament to it’s staying power and popularity. From beginning to end, this is music that does not fit in anyone’s pigeon hole; "rock" they say, but I don’t like rock. Since it’s got to go somewhere, just leave it at rock.

We begin with "Singing winds, Crying Beasts"; from the opening notes, you know this album is going to be something spectacular.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn50ipwWarg

nsp, I liked "Harvey's Tune" but it was way too short, just as I was getting into it, it was over.

We both share a love for "Soulful Strut"; I have so many memories of good times in "Bistros" with that song in the background.

On "Alberts Shuffle", I thought that was "Albert King"; my favorite blues man.

I remember when I thought the South Side of Chicago was heaven on earth.

It was in the Winter of 59; although the temperature was around 0, I had a hot date by my side to keep me warm.

We went to a small intimate club where they had a jazzy jukebox; "Speak Low" and "Sonny's Crib" were our favorite jams, and we punched them repeatedly.

At that time I only knew the titles of the records and that the music was fantastic; fast forward to today; Sonny's Crib is one of the best albums in my collection, but there is a very good reason for that; this album was recorded in 1957 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio on the Blue Note Label, and the most fantastic aspect of this recording is the cast of players; this may have been the only time they were ever even in the same room together; Donald Byrd, on trumpet; Curtis Fuller, trombone; John Coltrane, tenor; Sonny Clark, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Art Taylor, drums; with that lineup the music had to be stellar.


  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDd_0FuenDc


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciRcd-CRa8

pjw81563, thanks for that Coltrane link; "My Favorite Things" will always remind me of when I saw him live, only a few feet from the bandstand in the Winter of 63 when it was new and fresh.

I have several very diverse albums by John Handy;


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q-vKschzos


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IZb8AJQ7ac


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXms7Our1mI

When you saw "Trane" you saw two shows, the first was for the casual fans, it displayed what was on his most current album, while the second was for the Trane devotees; they came to hear "Trane jazz", that's when he blew what was on his inner mind; it seemed the devotees were mostly musicians who came to hear where he was going next.

Even in the beginning Trane was "way out", he just displayed it at live shows.

Thank you Alex for that very informative link; "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is also my favorite on that LP.

Chelsea Bridge reminds me of one of my favorite artists as well as favorite CD's; Lew Tabackin, "Desert Lady" with Lew on tenor and flute.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3YR5oKwSZs


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTp9mjI04kM


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tDAVZXFMo



I don't have nearly enough of Lew Tabackin; (a self reminder)

Out of all the "Trane's", this is "The" Trane for me.


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

We can not have world music without Japanese input;


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eys1vNuY8-Y

nsp, I am fortunate to own that LP, and the tune you posted is my favorite on that album.

Celebrating Dave Brubeck by posting his greatest hits; NO, "Take Five" was not the only one, Dave had a very long and illustrious career.

Near the end of his career, I was fortunate enough to see Dave at a free outdoor concert; it was blessed by a most beautiful, golden Fall day at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows outside of Belleville, IL. I recall seeing a limousine driving up the winding road to the amphitheater where Dave would perform. His long hair was completely white, and he looked far too dignified for a jazz musician.

I followed his entourage to the top of the hill where there was a lone piano in the center of a stage. Many of my old friends that I hadn't seen for 20 years or longer were in the crowd to welcome Dave on what was to be his last performance. Although we saw and recognized one another, this was Dave's day, not an old friends day, and we wanted to spend it with him, alone in a crowd; we politely failed to acknowledge one another.

The awe and admiration this crowd felt for Dave was palpable; we found it was hard to believe we were seeing someone who had long outlived his peers; we were teenagers when we first saw him, and now we had our own teenagers alongside us to witness this event.

There was no fanfare; Dave went directly to the piano and began playing music suitable for the modern dancers in gauzy pastel dresses who would perform. Everyone was spellbound from the first notes, it was more about who was playing than it was for the music, which was for the choreography of the dancers.

While Dave Brubeck was a giant among giants when compared to his peers, the thing that sat him apart was his long and exemplary life as a person; when comparing great jazz musicians, that's about as rare as "chicken lips".

That was my most unforgettable day that I spent with Dave Brubeck; now to his music;


  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncL4sOPgv_o


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdEzRfbeH4


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eimKbIdHU


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_lOqfke3yc


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHdU5sHigYQ



         

Pryso, this is from Carnegie Hall, and it does seem to offer more energy than his greatest hits;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFLILnhsW64


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LBZJk5Kfgw


         


     

Acman, Dave's hair was snow white and long when I saw him, but as we saw in that link, he still had a lot of glide in his stride, nor had he lost a step when I saw him.

I must admit, that Billy Taylor link definitely raised me one; I liked it.

Pryso, I lost more Dave Brubeck albums than I now presently own, going all the way back to "Jazz Goes To College" so I'm well aware of his career before "Take Five".

I saw his last performance, and the man had not lost a step; that was a big mistake, but you still have his records.

Rok, while I understand your side of this story, the fact that he lived more like a school teacher than a jazz musician, and lived so much longer than most other jazz musicians speaks volumes in regard to why so many admired him; not to mention the fact that he made decades of top flight jazz.

While there are those who will argue; "No soul, no jazz", but soul or not, it was called "Jazz" and reached multitudes for decades, which is so much longer than other giants of jazz lived.

Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I will acknowledge what your eyes behold.

Since we left Rok out of the last conversation, I'm going to try and include him along with the rest of us in this one. It's got Nawlins funk and jazz; "Dr. John, Duke Elegant";



      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oae5iJCOK60&list=RDoae5iJCOK60&start_radio=1


I sincerely believe this CD will have something for us all.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qav9FpmKg



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKq_1PVu9UA


         

When you are talking about "Jazz", you are also talking about "Super Creativity"; that's why they have so much respect for one another. Jazz musicians are born, not made; nothing I can think of would enable a musician to get on a bandstand in front of a crowd of people, without knowing what he's going to play, and blow them away.

That's what I've seen hardbop jazz musicians do; of course it took most of the waking moments of their lifetime to do that, but never the less, they finally arrived at that moment.

Mingus got soul;


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


Bobby Timmons got soul;


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjRQo-zpKA


Ray Charles got double soul;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BzkiZBzcu4


"Soul" is that imperceptible something in jazz that you know it when you hear it, and there is nothing else like it; Soul can not be duplicated or imitated, some got it, and some don't.

I don't seem to be pleasing anybody today; I think I'm going to do what the little fellow who wandered into a New Orleans house of ill repute did when asked who you gonna please?


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di7ko6eST40&list=PLvzXX1gpYCaqf4nfHi5OzY0UYAgysNAxx


I'm going native.

The phenomenology of guist is German Soul; it's a heavy philosophy about the inner spirit of human beings, so as you say "Soul" is universal, but when referring to soul as in jazz, it has a special and very specific meaning. It carries with it the suffering of African Americans throughout a history of suffering brought on by the discrimination of the American system.

These emotions are expressed in the music of an oppressed people and it's what's called "Soul".

Frogman, you have become a "Troll"; as in a blog Troll;

In Internet slang, a troll (/troʊl, trɒl/) is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses[2] and normalizing tangential discussion,[3] whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain.

Frogman, maybe you should go back to school; a word is defined by the way it is used in a sentence.

Milt Jackson; "Plenty Plenty Soul";


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rch0zXwBUPE

Very good links Acman, I will comment on them later.

If you really noticed "Bird", he always had a sly grin, as if he knew something he wasn't sharing with anyone; his music, it had something special and different, it was a secret that only he knew. Even today, his "Bird with Strings" sounds like it could have been made yesterday.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmRkZeGFONg&list=PLqzxGGRskMsArMdq06cOawHAbO2kBWfmD

Notice how he plays the melody so smooth and easy, but Bops and riffs all over and around the melody at the same time; a mixture of be bop and a smooth melody, nobody but Bird could ever do that.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbXauqq9ayY&index=4&list=PLqzxGGRskMsArMdq06cOawHAbO2kBWfmD


All through this album he does that, and makes all the riffs blend so easy with the melody; that's why his music was deified, "Bird lives on".

Although I only posted two, listen to your favorites on this album that sounds current, even today.

I suggest we go with new vocals for a change of pace. Of course we are all familiar with Ella, Sarah, Lady Day, and Dinah, but there are relatively new vocalists that we aren't familiar with, lets focus on them.

Cecille Salvant has a new album "Dreams and Daggers";


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Dr7sNqqUM


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0LzcYUHGh8


I'm looking forward to hearing from you and those new vocalists.

nsp, have you ever heard Dave Brubeck and the word "soul" used in the same sentence until Frogman decided to use the two over and over. I ask you why?

Dave Brubeck got "soul"; how does that sound? Dave Brubeck don't got no soul; who cares, Dave's music and soul are incongruous. Why does Frogman continue to connect the two?

Dianne Reeves does the best version of Afro Blue by any one ever; it paints a picture and you can see the young lovers flowing to the music, which is tops.

Dee Dee's Feathers;


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

Nobody can sing the blues better than Etta James.

I have no problem with the word "Soul" as pertaining to music. Just like any other word, the meaning depends on how it's used.

Sam and Dave "I'm a Soul Man";


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVx2i6jGzf8

That pertained to an altogether different genre of music other than jazz, it was quite specific, and it was called "Soul music".

"Soul" in jazz is in reference to deep emotion that is generated by the music;


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhgUUe5czxc

"Sandra's Blues"


Dave Brubeck's music falls into neither category; it has more of an intellectual appeal, but if you find it "soulful", you're one of a kind, and I will never dispute your perception.

Mary Jo your concern makes my load a little lighter. What will be will be. I've had tests galore but no discussion with the doctors as to what they mean.

Life is one day at a time; today is brightened by your presence.

Sarah K, "Play On Words"


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROssxp6cErY&list=RDROssxp6cErY&t=10