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I am wondering if there are any jazz fans here, and who are your favorite artists?

I just started listening to some Charlie Parker after rewatching Clint Eastwood's "Bird".

Fantastic.

I'll begin.

Another classic

As I used to play a little trumpet myself, I am partial to Clifford Brown's "Joy Spring" as well...

Every note articulated, clean as a whistle.

Amazing.

For all those that want to denigrate "urban culture", here's the evidence that music can transcend all boundaries...

This album is the 8th wonder- just close your eyes and listen to every track

ALLL RIGHTY THEN!

Effed up that link, try this:

Has to be considered one of the top 5 albums in any music genre, EVER.

You probably have no idea where Tunisia is anyways...

On the topic of jazz.... I'll bite BTW... The Buena Vista Social Club shall go down in my mind of good jazz....

Tunisia is in the "Motherland"

BrotherEagle,

This is Fred's blog. Please let him and only him post in this blog from here on out

ntf. seriously.

Kind of Blue isn't even Miles Davis' best album. Birth of the Cool is better and Bitches Brew is outstanding. Sketches of Spain left me cold.

I'm partial to Coltrane & Monk. Stan Getz is OK if I don't want to think that hard. Same for Chet Baker. Dexter Gordon has his moments.

But my hands down favorite is Dave Brubeck. It's jazz for math geeks. Brilliant stuff.

What's your opinion on Jazz Singers?

This is Fred's blog. Please let him and only him post in this blog from here on out

Coming from "The Gay Blogger", that's hilarious


Please post more gay stuff, we never tire of that

Tunisia is in the "Motherland"

Correct in a sense... "Land of Islam" would be closer..

Another vote for Bitches Brew being Miles' best album.

Miles is definitely the man, but I'm also partial to Coltrane. "A Love Supreme" being probably my favorite album of all time. Fagel, do you own Coltrane and Monk live at Carnegie? It rules.

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Charles Mingus. "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" and "Mingus Ah Um" are both sick.

James Carter, who Talon digs as well, is a very unheralded tenor sax player. Check him out.

For me, any discussion on Jazz begins and ends with John Stockton.

Speaking of Charles Mingus, I have an odd disc of Elvis Costello with the Metropole Orkest doing some Mingus tracks.

SZR, I've got some Coltrane & Monk, but not the Carnegie disc. I'll see if I can pick it up.

Sketches of Spain left me cold.

I actually like Sketches Of Spain.

Just curious. How much of the Jazz we enjoy was made possible by heroin?

I don't necessarily advocate its use (like intro classes at Julliard: Horse 101 or elective Chasing the Dragon), but I think music would be a whole lot blander without drugs.

That's true for a lot of music, but the jazz guys were the first recording artists to really make way with it. Of course, the double-edged sword is that the same stuff that enabled many to aspire to greatness also killed them.

I've never done heroin and really don't know anyone who has, so I can't speak to its effectiveness in music, but it's a known fact that many of these guys were bigtime users. Obviously, the effect on the ballads is there, but from what I know, heroin doesn't exactly speed you up and many of these heroin users were in the hard bop era, which featured speedy runs.

BTW, good thread, Fred.

Sketches of Spain does very little for me, but I really dig BOTH Bitches Brew and Kind of Blue. It's very hard to compare the latter two, but when I was in college and getting baked on a regular basis, I much preferred Bitches Brew. Now that album is more of a special occasion thing for me, but Kind of Blue is good all the time.

FYI, if you dig Bitches Brew, you need to see Miles Electric: A Different Kind Of Blue. It's his performance from 1970s Isle of Wight Festival, and his 39-minute performance is one long jam that just sort of ends when he walks off the stage. As he left, they asked him what the name of the song was, and he said, "Call It Anything," so the name stuck. It really is a very cool jam with Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnetter, Dave Holland, Airto, and more.

Also, on the DVD front, I highly recommend the Jazz Icons series. Each one has rare concerts from Brubeck, Mingus, Coltrane, Ellington, Wes Montgomery, Dexter Gordon, Sarah Vaughn, and more. These are real gems.

And since you started this with "A Night in Tunisia," the version by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers is what really got me into jazz. Blakey was just an incredible drummer, and he had a real eye for up-and-coming talent, including Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter, who are featured here:

Talon, that Isle Of Wight DVD is excellent indeed. How'd you have liked to be at that festival by the way> The Who, The Doors, Hendrix, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Free, the list just goes on and on.

By the way - 3rd batch of Jazz Icons is coming out on 9/30:

Jazz Icons: Roland Kirk Live In '64 & '67
Jazz Icons: Cannonball Adderley Live In '63
Jazz Icons: Oscar Peterson Live In '63, '64 & '65
Jazz Icons: Sonny Rollins Live In '65 & '68
Jazz Icons: Lionel Hampton Live In '58
Jazz Icons: Bill Evans Live In '64'75
Jazz Icons: Nina Simone Live In '65 & '66

Yeah, that was a killer lineup. Too bad those whiny bitches thought the whole thing should have been free:



Avoid Joni Mitchell warbling and fast-forward to 1:04.

Art Blakey
Chick Corea
some Spyro Gyro

Blakey was just an incredible drummer

dood, have you heard his solo on Freedom Monday? holy ish that man beat it in.

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