Jazz for aficionados
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBK0FqT3jds&index=2&list=OLAK5uy_kLyBru7sUK-Y8za5Yl-NhML0HhZ... A new release , "Montreal Memories " , caught my eye as I’ve been madly in love with Montreal since I was ten .Your jazz cred card will be revoked if you don’t get it ! |
A real duo as well.No, I did not know he was from the Mini-Apple . I lived in Berlin a long time and save for Opera there is more music here than Berlin . The reason is Minneapolis was founded by Nordic Lutherans that believed that Luther meant it when he said "a prayer sung is a prayer said twice", he himself was a talented composer .I am fairly sure there are more chorals here than any city in the world and they are the base . Only place I ever saw that to make the high-school or college choir is as respected as much as making the football team . |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHsjiZCVSUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfwoFZerKU Jazz is American but there are other lands that love it just as much if not more ! One is Japan which plays jazz with a bit of" lilt" because the Japanese language has a bit of lilt . These guys love jazz it not a show . In first clip check the petite young percussionist in the foreground .A badass little sailor had me swinging . Second one is the most played piece in swing ," Sing, sing , sing" If this is not the most alive, explosive and incredible rendition of this great standard I'll eat my computer ! |
Well, I always thought "September" was well within the hazy line of what is jazz and what isn’t . In any event I was trying to show a bit of Japan more than the music itself . I spent 3 years there in my teens and have a deep love for Japan and the Japanese .All those smiles on the Navy Band are for real . There are a few boys in the band on brass but it is a all-girls High School with high academic standards . There are a top of clips even better than mine of the girls marching in the 2018 Rose Bowl Parade .. |
acman, I lie . I was thinking of Tachibama Womens University , a premier women’s private university in Japan . The feeder HS is about 1200 , 60/40 women to men .In Japan the winds are favored by women as more like the female voice and more "lady like " . If you watch the Rose Bowl marching clips you will see a few guys but only on brass . |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLC-TQIqyUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OPMS2h57QY The best examples I could find that show tonal differences due to differences in native languages even on one of the greatest American standards . It’s there whether it’s straight ahead or burning up the charts ! I think Strayhorn would give them a B+ anyway . |
My first year in Japan was very stressful , the last two the most peaceful.Japanese are the living example of still waters runing deep . Not one American in a thousand knows the back story of Pearl Harbor which is shameful. The Navy Band I showed is out of Youkuska which is the last city on Tokyo bay and the base of both the US 7th Fleet and the potent warships of the Japanese Navy ,the most beautiful ships in the world . Much as I hate war it is something to see miles of the tremendous power of these two allied navies moored close together . Great guys to have on your side, not known to quit . For just a plain simple listener like myself if a artist has no time neither do I . |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB07yoJVyUc The musicians of one Island Nation playing homage to the music of another. |
Ms. Bassey was one of a kind . The Pride of Wales ! Love this one , in her prime ! https://youtu.be/jmOCDc3xLCs?t=3 Another Welshman who could also sing this . Few years ago I heard him sing , voice was still there. https://youtu.be/wcPTdpDZFks?t=2 A true force of Nature ! |
In Memory of Little Richard, just found out he passed . R.I. P. Two forces of Nature . I never liked rock but stuff like Little Richard , MO-Town and much of R&B to me is Folk Music . https://youtu.be/hiw9g3mG040?t=4 |
Oh, Sir Tom Jones was 80 3 days ago , still sings and has a You Tube channel ! He loved the Blues and could sing it as this clip with "Wicked "Wilson Picket signifies .IMO , he was a Blues singerthat would./could sing anything . https://youtu.be/KcksrDIxizI?t=3 https://youtu.be/ShurRcCf4-0?t=2 150K on Tube at 80 . I’m Jealous ! |
Hate to be a PITA, well, really I do , but straight up gang if you miss the boat on the Morgan/ Cables " Montreal Memories " I mentioned you’re missing out on a world cruise ! I listened to it a dozen times today just trying to get the nuance’s from two very nuanced masters feeding off one another and one of the worlds most sophisticated jazz audiences . Jazz is about 25% of my listening and I never did that before . P.S. sound is excellent . |
I would say Gaby Moreno can sing as well. I knew Hugh Laurie was a player . IMO he is just another pot-head who thinks he’’s 10 times as good as he really is . If that. He did know how good Tom Jones is though. Anyone who likes music likes Nat Cole .Never heard that song but he says what I think .You are making some good posts alex ! I don’t like rock because it replaced a form of jazz with junk. It also gave the human race a bad blow in that when boy meets girl,it replaced music that made romance first with music that makes lust first . BIG difference when a man looking for a wife dances cheek to cheek and when the two dance all night never touching and are not thinking of the other but how their display looks . A sweet dance night at college vs an orgy at Woodstock . |
Thanks a lot frogman , that’s exactly how I saw it minus the grandparent,nice to know I’m not totally crazy . All I could think of was given the fact Morgan was just out of the joint ,Cables was doing his best to lead Morgan, which gave me a lot of respect for him as a person . I seldom mention the fact I was a case worker in a Federal prison for a year right out of college . When you have access to records and talk to guys all day you realize that for most guys, given their life as a child , it would be a wonder if they were if they were not in prison ! Not to mention at least 1/3 should have been in a mental facility .I hate dope myself , but to put anyone in jail for use is a far bigger crime than anything they did , not to mention just plain stupid . |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsun3GSfYYg I’ll go out on a very long limb. I consider her performance of this masterpiece to be in the same class as Bill Evan’s rendition . To be honest , better . |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GB3jsD7Hy4 If I wanted to go that way It would be with Shirley . Evans just seems a little off on this in MY hears. |
Of course I know that comparisons at that level are silly . But I like to hear what my betters in Jazz, which is almost every regular on here, have to say and I can learn from . Evans just seemed a little lost to me, no doubt he knew exactly what he was doing . Elias plays with the heart and fingers of the music she was trained on and excellent at , J.S. Bach . Even in her group efforts it’s there and that can’t be bad for serious music and is in my soul as well . Shirley Horn is an icon to me ,period , she can do no wrong . I’ve watched a few interviews of Miles , he seemed evil itself . Of course I'm influenced by time , my heart has been giving me a class on it for over 8 decades . And watching a conga master do the beat with one hand and melody with the other . |
frogman , The greatest Christian theologians all agree we are all one in the eyes of God .The general view is that true humility is knowing both you virtues and your faults . I have ZERO doubt that your know MUCH more about jazz and classical music than I do and I know a bit about the latter.And you, and others, ARE my better in this context . And I am glad of it just as I would if I was in Hospital and learned my surgeon was a Harvard medical grad . I also have no doubt that I know more about history and infantry tactics than you . Takes all kinds . |
frogman , you make my "betters" point for me . I made the long branch jump because there is so much variance in this piece. All I knew was what I liked but but not exactly why, which bothered me as Evans is so iconic. Without your "Rhythm takes the back seat to harmonic explanation " It would not have dawned on where to look for some woodshed with my theory books You make it easy because I know that you know . ! Even a small bit of gained knowledge makes an old-man happy With my beloved Brahms I can buy a dozen scores tomorrow , bit harder with jazz charts .. . acman2, that Kenny Werner rendition was fun to listen to . As they say he does "have something to say"A point, within 15 seconds I thought this guy is a well trained musician, don't ask me how , I don't know why myself . Never heard him or even heard of him .Googled him up , both Berklee(?) and Manhattan School . |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SKCIbOKLIs OH Happy day ! My vinyl hunting ground is Goodwill but today I drove by the mega - big record store in St . Paul and in about 2 minutes of browsing I found a brand new copy of this fantastic Pablo 1980 recording of Sarah Vaughn: Duke Ellington Song Book One, for the outrageous price of 7 bucks. . God is in his heaven and all is right with the world . Frogman , did Brahms know a bit about that harmonic rhythm ? |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs-2vt-gu04 There is a guy who did "Misty" as well as anyone . Julie London was a very honest singer and did a beautiful "Misty" which some clown in Hollywood ruined with a flute band in the back. She sang what they gave her , but I heard her sing some up-beat jazz standards and she was very good ! |
Such a lovely post frogman , I believe I heard him only once and that was in a festival type thing in the open . A true son of Montreal ! There is a statue of him in Ottawa , likely the most lovely capital in the world . When I saw the statue it was in May in an area with thousands of tulips around it .May he rest in peace for all eternity . It takes about 2 seconds to hear that sharp clarity and know its a Bosendorfer . |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGfFGw1tIFY I don’t know anything about this guy other than he’s one of the most elegant piano players I’ve heard and I love class ! |
Can't argue with you chazro, no doubt they are high-level artists and I will look into them as time allows . But, if there is as many that have as much to say as Gonzalo it will be the biggest miracle since the birth of Jesus . Genius is a silly term really , it's a relevant term and just an easy way to express something . In essence , two of the greatest , Mozart and Bach , both said they were not geniuses but did the absolute best they could because they were overcome with , love, love , love . |
Well thanks for saving me time acman, as always you’re on the ball ! All these guys are excellent players no doubt about that . But IMO Gonzalo is at a higher level than any one of them .I have no way of knowing, at least till the 14 of his CD’s I ordered yesterday get here , but I would would be surprised if he has any chart other than his heart and head . . This is a very deep man ! |
10 seconds into his "Caravan " I knew I was in the presence of a very high level of spirituality , in much the same way I feel when I listen to my morning Bach Cantata . To be honest the term I would use is God . To be there you must have true humility. Rubalcaba has it and expresses it in almost exactly the same manner as Bach did . His take on how music is related to those around you could have come out of the mouth of Schubert . The lists I’ve seen rating university based Music Schools always have Indiana as tops, as you would expect . I was taken aback a bit to see how high the Frost school at Miami was , with that caliber of faculty I see the light . The standard I are praying will be on one of the CD’s I ordered is " Indiana " , thought I heard a few bars of it toward the end of his playing . |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KylY3vQv8Y4 The greatest American songwriters stuff reminds me of Bach .No matter how , with what or where you play it just comes out beautiful . Hope Toots was listening ! |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1LzU7-qc6A&list=RDk1LzU7-qc6A&start_radio=1&t=160 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHYDafTrpMU IMO Hamilton doesn't get enough love , this was a Tokyo outing .Don't know how John Bunch got that Steinway into the venue , Yamaha Hall ! |
I don’t listen to my favorite rendition of "Stardust", by Clifford Brown, unless I am alone because it makes me cry .No joke . King Cole , Sassy and Mathis , love them all .With Hoagy you just go from masterpiece to masterpiece to masterpiece .He did write lyrics for a few songs , lost my list though. Of course Frank Loesser etc had a LOT to do with it . My absolute Favorite is "Skylark" when Hoagy had the Great Johnny Mercer on the job ! But " Stardust" is a bit prettier . Thanks all ! |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGLJ3AnwQ7wGLJ3AnwQ7w This lovely , elegant little lady seems all but forgotten and that should not be !Pitch baby , pitch ! |
newbee, its worth a LOT ! To all, I know I repeat a lot .I learned a lesson from a guy named Bach. They is no reason to invent something new until you get to the very bottom of whats already before you .If I did what I feel I’d have 50 renditions of "Skylark"on here for compare and contrast .I’ll try to be better in future for your sake . |
This lady had never heard a note of this guy in recent post .The power of music ! https://youtu.be/WsaV5F_Cdng?t=5 In last part he was 80 ! That post was last month !! Forces of Nature have no genre and he sure is one . |
