Jazz for aficionados
Vietnam led me to distrust my own country. Later on I learned a lot more that made it worse. Please don't ask, at least not on this forum. My original anthem wasn't jazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7qkQewyubs |
It's Friday and that Snooky Young gave me goose bumps for the first time all week. Among other things, his gentle touch when he adds vibrato is lovely. Thanks frogman for the history on "Li'l Darlin'." I had no idea bands looked at it that way. Your clips show what a challenge it is, at that tempo, for the arrangers, leaders and players to keep it engaging and draw the audience deep into the mood. Great stuff. This is a very rewarding thread. I'll stay ready and eager to "bite"! |
Great clips of Sonny Rollins in Denmark '65 & '68. Pederson is on bass both times around, really going all-out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cneBpjwfxhg |
Sweet - 1957, Ben Webster's "Soulville" with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis. Webster's tone: always thick, sometimes husky, sometimes raunchy. I could go on & on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZhmuUhcn9k |
O10, this album is on its way to me. Ex+ and ultrasonically cleaned. Oscar Pettiford Memorial album "Prestige Historical Series" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTu7i3oK75c Do you have that one? I've only heard a couple of tracks so far. |
@frogman Your Cliff Notes version of that study is a great explanation for the difference between "thick" and "husky." The player's initial attack on blowing each note does seem to be the difference between a raspy "edge" and a smooth, rich "thick" tone. Can "husky" be extended beyond the initial attack and maintained through the entire note? I doubt it, but I need to listen more to focus on that. Seems we always learn that we have much more to learn. |
One more tonight. Powerful performance. Nina Simone - Antibes (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mL3L9hN2l4 |
Man, that tenor tone. Tough to beat. Ben Webster - "Solitude" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VihgeOi0Rn8 |
Still in the vein of Weather Report's "Black Market" - from 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=embxt0jQ8f4 |
frogman, Coryell was a virtuoso, and he didn't seek acclaim. He just kept pursuing his love of the music, the beauty of its structure and his reverence for its roots (be they European or African). I wasn't a big fusion fan. The performance that initially got me hooked was solo acoustic at Montreux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMPkkZX2F8Y Watching his fingers work the fret board is akin to watching music theory graphically illuminated right before our eyes, all with passion and abandon. When we lost Coryell, we lost one of the masters. |
Warning: Chicago Blues ahead. T-Bone Walker, Joe Turner, Otis Spann & more. It is what it is. "Super Black Blues" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSivRo8rYGA |
@ghosthouse This popped up on YT. "The Making of 'River: The Joni Letters'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWd9_vnNM7A |
Cannonball video '63. Check out the personnel (Nat, Lateef, Zawinul): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpkN8nR0EEg |
Another sweet Django/Davis track from '39. I had no idea Beryl Davis was 15 when these were recorded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikY-TzugkKk |
@ghosthouse I'm not a "fan" of Corinne Bailey Rae. As I mentioned, I bought her first CD. I played it once or twice. It sits on the shelf. I think she did decent work on the Joni Mitchell tribute, but, now that you mention it, she does throw in too much "baby talk" effect. Rickie Lee Jones does that too. That's pop, right? Intriguing style though, and I do like her cockney moments. |
Another wonderful performance, beautifully filmed. Note Paco's use of a capo on the 2nd fret in the opening piece, as a soloist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYYDdn1rRKs |
"Nowhere on the continent of Africa can be found the quality of African
rhythms and music as in Brazil; the musical soul of Sub Sahara Africa
sailed away on a slave ship." Your conclusion that the musical soul of Africa "sailed away" to another continent and was somehow drained away forever is, in a way, elitist - the last thing I would have ever expected of you. African music is, to this day, just as amazing as Brazilian music. Sometimes you get carried away. |
Keith Jarrett Trio - "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Live in Tokyo, 1993) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENrRAIzlL1A |
