December 8, 201213 yr I was brought up on jazz and have loved it all my life. I notice that with the passing of Dave Brubeck, that there are a lot of jazz fans on this forum. There is still so much great stuff that I have not yet heard and would appreciate anyone interested in posting 'their particular greats'. I look forward to hearing some great music (instrumentals and vocals). John Coltrane - Live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEgp-cckoz4
December 8, 201213 yr Author Thelonious Monk - Round Midnight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1cfjVyc5Q
December 8, 201213 yr Any or all of the above + anything from Clifford Brown + Arturo Sandoval. Note: I was a music performance major in college in the States and made a living as a freelance pro trumpeter years ago.
December 8, 201213 yr Always been partial to Nina Simone, privileged to have seen her live a few times as well
December 9, 201213 yr @UPTHEOS: Yep; same here (I too was brought up on jazz and have loved it all my life). Some of my all-time favorites include Dinah Washington; Ella F.; Billy H.; Eroll Garner and of more recent date, there's the absolutely fabulous Diana Krall. In any event; if somebody can explain to me how I can get a Youtube-Flick from it's "home" into this forum, I would post a few of my favorites in a heartbeat ! Thanks for your help. Cheers
December 9, 201213 yr @UPTHEOS: Yep; same here (I too was brought up on jazz and have loved it all my life). Some of my all-time favorites include Dinah Washington; Ella F.; Billy H.; Eroll Garner and of more recent date, there's the absolutely fabulous Diana Krall. In any event; if somebody can explain to me how I can get a Youtube-Flick from it's "home" into this forum, I would post a few of my favorites in a heartbeat ! Thanks for your help. Cheers Just copy and paste the url on any youtube clip you want..Look at the top of your screen now, it says www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/ etc etc etc Thats the url. Easy.
December 9, 201213 yr I am just following yr directions Krisb on how to post an you-tube . My problem is everything on my You tube is in Thai and i am not that talented to read it yet and i don't know how to change it back to Anglit .Hope it works, but one my favourite jazz pieces is Gil Evans doing spoonful, an old Willie Dixon number. http://www.youtube.c...YGRjNKonw#t=16s
December 9, 201213 yr Albert Ayler playing at John Coltranes funeral , - astonishing and very worthy of the moment Coltranes wife, - also astonishing
December 9, 201213 yr There's a delightful Japanese movie from a few years ago called Swing Girls The finale is a back-to-back performance of Mexican Flyer followed by Sing Sing Sing. Sing Sing Sing is one of my favourites. From the OST (clean track) and from the actual movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7N6slVrQeY Good thread uptheos
December 9, 201213 yr @UPTHEOS: Yep; same here (I too was brought up on jazz and have loved it all my life). Some of my all-time favorites include Dinah Washington; Ella F.; Billy H.; Eroll Garner and of more recent date, there's the absolutely fabulous Diana Krall. In any event; if somebody can explain to me how I can get a Youtube-Flick from it's "home" into this forum, I would post a few of my favorites in a heartbeat ! Thanks for your help. Cheers Just copy and paste the url on any youtube clip you want..Look at the top of your screen now, it says www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/ etc etc etc Thats the url. Easy. Oh well; goes to show you what I know . . . . . Thanks very much, mate !
December 9, 201213 yr And here are some of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tAU3GM9XIo
December 9, 201213 yr 'A love supreme' and various tracks from the girl singers... I knew a girl who was no slouch as a singer but she hated Coltrane's 'A love supreme'... she came from a small town in northern California and when she heard the opening bars of the piece she would mutter: 'blasphemous negro...' when I said: 'what?' she replied with vehemence: 'I said that John Coltrane is a blasphemous n**ger!...what of it???!!!'...she was a large white woman with nice brown tresses and sang operatically with a compelling soprano, not suited for most popular music but right in there for folk tunes...she was about my same weight and height and I didn't take the issue any further...
December 11, 201213 yr Well it seems that Jazz is not as popular on this forum as the OP imagined,its a pity. I am tempted to do a "Ron 19" -- "Blasts from the Past- Avante Garde Jazz from the 60's". i am sure it would be just as popular !!!!!. I would have loved to see this guy on the same stage as Jimi Hendrix, i think they would both have appreciated playing with their equal. Roland Kirk,Mcoy Tyner, Stanley Clarke Sun Ra
December 11, 201213 yr Perfect version of Summertime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voek71m-yf8&list=FLadSHxdCY2P0-z2K36BC_yg&index=1 Perfect version of Summertime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5fPmdCjmHc&list=FLadSHxdCY2P0-z2K36BC_yg&index=6
December 12, 201213 yr I have been thinking about why i don't have as many favourite Jazz tracks as i do with rock and pop. I have my favourite artists like Miles and Mingus , in particular, but i don't have the nostalgic associations with jazz. and being able to connect with time and places like i do with rock and pop . I didn't grow up with jazz as it was always viewed by my immediates as something far too exotic and bohemian . I grew into jazz as rock grew to be more tedious but listening to jazz is much more of a present tense enjoyment . Exploring jazz is much more of a musical maturity like enjoying classical or any other form of musical expression. I will enjoy it now , in the present , and then it is gone ,forever. It is very similar to looking at apiece of modern art or sculpture . Enjoy it now but I don't take it home with me because tomorrow it will be a different piece of art , and a different reflection of my moods and sense of where i am . Incidently , Watusi , thanks for making me aware of Albert Ayler . Great stuff . Just discovered David S Ware - similar field but different.
December 12, 201213 yr one day in Oakland we had a musician (tenor sax) with us and we all got high and listened to some music...some how the subject of the recently released Nonesuch recording of a-capella choral Bulgarian music came up and the conversation increased in intensity... we were all floating on heroin and thinking of getting some more and I said: 'do you think that you could replicate that exquisite vocal dissonance on an instrument?'....and he said: 'yeah...man, if you quit believing in the possibilities then the creative process stops and then, generally speaking <deleted> is the point?...' then the roomate went out and got some more stuff...
December 12, 201213 yr there was a time when discussion and the music thereof was a daily occurrence... a roomate had her daughter practicing with her tuba for the school band and she plugged her ears and complained: 'will it never stop???!!!'...then tutsi approached in high dudgeon and declared: 'do you hear what that woman is doing? she needs yer support and not yer absurd opprobrium...' then she thew a silver teapot at me that was a family heirloom and that was subsequently damaged and there was hell to pay... (later I straightened it out with some vice grips to everyone's satisfaction...)
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