Any other jazz fans?

Sort of. I've always liked certain bits of it - more blues crossover from mainstream guys like Coltrane and Davis but I really didn't have any "jazz" specific interests.

This summer I got a better taste and have been going out to clubs to listen once in a while. Backstory:

My son plays a mean piano. He went to a jazz camp this summer and as a result he got to play at the Scranton Jazz Festival. I had thought it was going to be a bunch of kids playing jazz badly. Much to my chagrin I was charged $50 to get in... hmmmm... OK. It IS my son. I can't just leave. So, once inside I see an open bar, huge sound setup and way too many people for a bunch of kids to be honking in front of.

Turns out - it was a bonefide festival. My son opened the thing in a set with the other jazz camp guys where each (5 guitars, a few bass, a few drummers, horns etc...) each got to make their case and they were all damn impressive.

Some well known local guys came out and played a couple sets, then Dave Liebman's band did a berkeleying awesome set with Marko Marcinco on drums to open for headliner Freddy Cole. Afterward we all went in to the hotel bar where all the performers kept it going like an open mic night. It was a real eye-opener for me.

So... now I'm a fan.

dean1484 wrote: My latest creation. A "documentary" on the history of Jazz Drummers. It will be presented a week from Wednesday at the Lincoln Library. Yes it is me talking and yes I did all the video editing. I think it came out ok. It is about an hour in total length with an intermission in the middle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPFzbihLGtU&feature=c4-overview&list=UUO0LXqF_wP6Lc4Asb81HNEw

I was worried about a zombie attack bringing this thread back from a hiatus.

Instead, I'll have to watch this some evening when I have some time. Being a former drummer, this should be fun.

My jazz season start Saturday night with the Steve Lehman Octet.

I don't play or listen much anymore and forgot most of it, but I went to school for music (saxophone) performance (SUNY Buffalo and Univ. North Texas) and played in my share of jazz groups (big bands and combos).

Aside from the classics (Coltrane, Miles, etc...), I live close enough to pick up a great jazz station out of Toronto called 91.1 CJRT.
You can listen online, and I have heard on several occasions, some fantastic players that I had never heard of before, they must just be local Toronto guys. I recommend checking out that station online though if you aren't within radio-reception distance.

linkie: www.jazz.fm

I just picked up a Dave Brubeck greatest hits double LP from an antique mall.

I also listened to Amy Winehouse yesterday for a couple of hours. I liked it.

I've been a jazz trumpet player for 35 years. I've played in big bands, small combos, etc..

Lot of stuff mentioned in here that I'd have mentioned. But for me, I was a jazz trumpet player for many years, and always wanted to emulate the great swing/big band trumpeters, from Doc Severinson to my favorite, Maynard Ferguson. The Stan Kenton band was a fav growing up, but I also liked a lot of other stuff, from Weather Report to Spyro Gyra, to Herbie Hancock, to Buddy Rich, to... Well, you get the idea. And I'm big on the Swing band revival stuff, mostly Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Royal Crown Revue, and the like. I love Pandora and iHeart Radio for keeping me connected with new swing and jazz stuff.

I forgot about this thread and in the meantime, I ended up teaching an intro to jazz class at school last Spring. Turns out I know way more about jazz than I thought. Hoping to get it again this Spring, as it was a blast to teach.

Anyway--skaters will appreciate this--Ray Barbee is a damn fine jazz guitarist and this is a beautiful video (and tune) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RD3OgRIYy0

Surfy stuff from the same guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw4shSqouTk

...and some cooled-out bop from the same guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKtcF4H6yO4

...with some more Miles for good measure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vOWMz1z7rk

I LOVE when that one comes on the ipod while I'm blasting through a flat section of road on my road bike.

Been grooving to this today.

Jo Jones trio & Ray Bryant - Little Susie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UyjgBftcGs

Here is a clip I like. I have never seen the band live but I would like to.

A 90's rap song that took samples from 60's Marva Whitney and 70's Kool and the Gang

Performed live currently by an all Brass Band in a College Bar.
Cinci Brass and "Let Me Clear My Throat"
Seems like a good reminder that playing music should be fun.

Traditional jazz doesn't do much for me. I'm more in the fusion department such as Herbie Hancock Headhunters era, Return to Forever, Jaco Pastorius, etc. Miles Davis had talent but he seemed like a huge prick. I don't listen to him as much as I used to. Bitches Brew is a seminal piece of modern music but not much besides that of his catalog does anything for me. I dig Dave Brubeck and George Benson (up until he went really smooth) on the more traditional side. On the new school side of things, I dig Christian Mcbride, Christian Scott, Tia Fuller, Lionel Loueke, Roy Hardgrove, Stefon Miles and some others that are escaping my mind right now.

Also, I had both Pangea and Agharta on cd a few years ago. They were both total mind berkleys (in an unlistenable fashion). Supposedly Miles Davis didn't leave his apartment in New York City from about 1975-80 after those two albums came out.

Gotta check in here. I'm a sax player, mostly tenor and soprano these days, although I pull out the alto now and then. Not a big fan of bebop or atonal stuff, but love lyrical players like Desmond and Stan Getz. Like most styles from dixieland to Weather Report. Currently playing in a sax sextet, mostly jazz arrangements, although we play some funk and classical. Like early Miles, especially Sketches of Spain, and some Coltrane, particularly A Love Supreme. But for me, Desmond is THE sax player.

92dxman wrote: Supposedly Miles Davis didn't leave his apartment in New York City from about 1975-80 after those two albums came out.

That's not "supposedly". He was destroyed on heroin during those years, called his "dark period". The story of his detox from it as told in his autobiography is pretty startling.

Jim Pettengill wrote: Gotta check in here. I'm a sax player, mostly tenor and soprano these days, although I pull out the alto now and then. Not a big fan of bebop or atonal stuff, but love lyrical players like Desmond and Stan Getz. Like most styles from dixieland to Weather Report. Currently playing in a sax sextet, mostly jazz arrangements, although we play some funk and classical. Like early Miles, especially Sketches of Spain, and some Coltrane, particularly A Love Supreme. But for me, Desmond is THE sax player.

Agreed. I like the word "lyrical" to describe Getz's playing. 'Desafinado' doesn't need lyrics as long as he's playing it!

Return to Forever

berkeley_yes. And obviously "Light as a Feather" is the E36 M3, but that one with the red, acidy cover is the berkeleying jam. The engineering on that record is berkeleying NASTY! Everything sounds live-r than live.

Also, if you don't have this E36 M3, GET IT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDeB7xyj3XU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Anyone have an upright bass they want to sell cheap? That is on my bucket list to learn.

I'm currently way into Kenny Burrell and Jimmy Smith's 1963 record on Verve, Blue Bash. Killer blues/jazz/groove record by two masters, backed by Milt Hinton and Mel Lewis.

Played jazz and classical when I was young. Trombone/bass trombone. Made more $$ playing swing era back then, dances at the lodge.

String of Pearls

poopshovel wrote:

Return to Forever

berkeley_yes. And obviously "Light as a Feather" is the E36 M3, but that one with the red, acidy cover is the berkeleying jam. The engineering on that record is berkeleying NASTY! Everything sounds live-r than live. Also, if you don't have this E36 M3, GET IT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDeB7xyj3XU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It's funny--the RTF version of "Spain" came up on shuffle on today's bike ride. Such a pleasant song to rip through a flat stretch of road on a bicycle.

I also love the payoff at the 6:40 mark of this version of Sorceress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSksWyHsYw8 Stanley Clarke is just redonk here. I think the 'fro helped him play like that.

my local NPR station, WNCW.org … has a 3 hr jazz show every Sat morning

gamby wrote:

poopshovel wrote:

Return to Forever

berkeley_yes. And obviously "Light as a Feather" is the E36 M3, but that one with the red, acidy cover is the berkeleying jam. The engineering on that record is berkeleying NASTY! Everything sounds live-r than live. Also, if you don't have this E36 M3, GET IT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDeB7xyj3XU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It's funny--the RTF version of "Spain" came up on shuffle on today's bike ride. Such a pleasant song to rip through a flat stretch of road on a bicycle. I also love the payoff at the 6:40 mark of this version of Sorceress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSksWyHsYw8 Stanley Clarke is just redonk here. I think the 'fro helped him play like that.

You started clapping along with "Spain," didn't you? I can't not do it.

<img src="" /> Thought you guys would like to see these. Have played trombone in big bands on and off for most of my life and love old jazz.

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poopshovel wrote:

gamby wrote:

poopshovel wrote:

Return to Forever

berkeley_yes. And obviously "Light as a Feather" is the E36 M3, but that one with the red, acidy cover is the berkeleying jam. The engineering on that record is berkeleying NASTY! Everything sounds live-r than live. Also, if you don't have this E36 M3, GET IT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDeB7xyj3XU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It's funny--the RTF version of "Spain" came up on shuffle on today's bike ride. Such a pleasant song to rip through a flat stretch of road on a bicycle. I also love the payoff at the 6:40 mark of this version of Sorceress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSksWyHsYw8 Stanley Clarke is just redonk here. I think the 'fro helped him play like that.

You started clapping along with "Spain," didn't you? I can't not do it.

Not on the bike, but when I used it in a Fusion lecture, I clapped along with it in front of a classroom of students!!!

Loving the berkeley out of this:

Danilo Perez "Across the Crystal Sea"

and

Alex Guilbert Trio "New Slang"

Our sextet will be playing "Spain" at our spring concert next April. Great piece. At our holiday concert we're playing Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke" (!) along with Handels' Hallelujah from the Messiah, and speaking of The Duke, one of the best concerts I have ever seen was back in the mid sixties, Duke with Ella Fitzgerald. Wow.