Jazz for aficionados

Acman3, fabulous clips of James Blood; very soulful and funky.  The clip with George Adams was a big surprise.  I've never heard George Adams play like that before.  Great stuff, thanks.

Rok, I continue to amazed buy the Horace Silver clips. So many great records! Had not heard "The Gringo" either. Once again, great tune with his stamp all over it. Great soloing, especially Blue Mitchell who sounds amazing on this cut. The Village Gate! Blast from the past for me. Last time I went there was to hear Nat Adderly’s group shortly before the place sadly closed down. Nat was one of those players who could be very inconsistent sounding absolutely brilliant as on the record with his brother Cannonball and Nancy Wilson, and other times sounding not so good. I have a feeling that he was one of those trumpet (cornet) players who suffered from chop problems. Here he is in top form:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLBKaAMksEpBvQKZr76feeW_6YUDKxhnkT&v=HTXUHSHmziA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLBKaAMksEpBvQKZr76feeW_6YUDKxhnkT&params=OAFIAVgI&v=bTmiCq...

Hi O-10 - I went back and found the Andre Previn jazz piano clip you say your "controversy" is about.  "Elevator music" is a pretty good description, actually.  For me, the best that can be said of it is that it is very light entertainment, and while there is nothing wrong with that, it is certainly not great art.   The string accompaniment is pretty cheesy stuff.  Previn is a musician who could do a lot of different things very well, but no one of them truly great, and I mean by that world class, on a consistent basis.  There are certainly much better examples of his piano playing, both in the jazz and classical idioms, than the ones you have posted here.  I heard a record of his jazz playing that was pretty cool once, but I just checked, and I don't own any of it, so unfortunately I can't tell you what the title of the album was.  

I am also not understanding why you felt the need to post the entire Wikipedia entry on Previn a couple of times??  I am very familiar with who he is and what he has done in his career in a general sense, as is Frogman.  I have never met or worked with him; I don't know if Frogman has.  I am not so familiar with much of his recorded output as a pianist. Being an orchestral musician myself, I am naturally therefore more interested in him as a conductor than as a pianist, and I am much more familiar with his work in that field, where again I would describe him as good, not great.  

I own only seven or eight classical albums where he is the conductor - most of them where he is conducting the music of British composers, which he was justly well known for.  In particular, he recorded much of the music of Ralph Vaughn Williams with the London Symphony on RCA, and I have a few of those.  There is also a good recording he did of William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, also with the London Symphony, on Angel.  That one has an interesting cover, too.....

Learsfool, after the third time, maybe this will sink in but I doubt it.

André Previn (2012)
André George Previn, KBE (/ˈprɛvɪn/; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929)[1] is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings (and one more for his Lifetime Achievement).

You're another one of those who can't hear "The Flow", and you demonstrated that when you called it "elevator music". You and Frogman seem to believe that if you say something enough times that will make it so.


Enjoy the music.

Learsfool, do all of these version of "Like Young" sound like "elevator music"?


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCZxvAG5wHg



      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxkfFRsUA3Q


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZKzTMr1M5E



      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roeBmPN7MJE



Enjoy the music.