Listen and read. Enjoy Jazz on Saturday.It may or may not be common knowledge that Cody B. and I are pretty good friends. We met on MOG and have seen each other a few times, we even call each other on a semi regular basis and talk about whatever (MOG politics and happenings mostly and of course music). Well one of our conversations turned to ideas for posts. It was Cody's idea for me to do a an...
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The Miles Davis Quintet featuring: Miles Davis (trumpet) John Coltrane (tenor sax), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) Has anyone ever seen the Cameron Crowe movie, Jerry Maguire? How about the scene where the jazz-nut baby sitter...uh, child-technician, Chad is talking at (certainly not talking to....) Jerry about Miles Davis and John Coltrane: "This (hol...
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So Momma B & I were talking yesterday & being that she is really into the book I am working on, she had some great suggestions for me. One thing she really wanted me to impart to all you is an author that both she & I adore. Frank Conroy. He's a music prodigy & one hella writer... brought jazz to Nantucket... sadly it's my Mum who should be writing this post - hopefully she will & I can add ...
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Mine is: ...and it's one of the FINEST albums in my collection. The rumors surrounding the recording sessions, the interplay between Miles and Sonny Rollins.... wow. gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. So...POST 'EM UP! What's the oldest full album in your collection? I have several older sitting on the shelf but in my enormous Itunes library, this one happens to be the current old...
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...hey there MOG...been keepin' your powder dry and the wind at your back? Hey, you lookin' kinda different...you been workin' out or something? it's all good...I thought I'd holla as I was feeling this Miles Davis cut while typing some CoR shite up-- I guess because sometimes you need to put on the big, bullshit detecting glasses, kinda like the ones the angel of darkness is wearing in the pic...
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The secret to creating music that stands the test of time is to create timeless music: Sketches of Spain was, and remains, quite unlike anything else created in the jazz idiom.
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were by no means his creative peak, as we all know, and he was very often "carried" by his sidemen, confining his own contribution to the occasional brief flurry. Having said that, and recognising that there's no "So What" or "My Funny Valentine", he did record some halfway decent funk tunes - this, for example.
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...As Cody B can attest, I've written in publications elsewhere about "*why I love jazz so much*":http://rhino.com/RZine/StoryKeeper.lasso?StoryID=922 , not that new-fangled, electro-muzak they pump on those "Cool Jazz" stations that makes me want to tear my teeth out with my bare hands, no...I'm talking about that stuff that got dropped from the early 50s on into the early 60s...I'm talking ab...
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...oh, to be in France today which is Beaujolais Day over there...today wineries from the region north of Lyon, the Rhône River and south of Saône-et-Loire (or Burgundy) unveil this season's newest crop of bottled arrivals-- "Beaujolai noveau":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaujolais_nouveau which is made from the Gamay grape and tastes real purty...by French law, none of that year's crop can be.
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So I haven't added a post in quite sometime. I've actually have had plenty I wanted to say but have found things somewhat busy. I have been listening to a lot of Jazz and also listening to as much new music as I usually do. So my Jazz collection has grown exponentially and here are some of my layman's reflections on Jazz:1) There is no way that I will ever catch up on several decades of Jazz.2)...
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The great bands that Miles Davis led, especially this one and the earlier quintet and sextet with John Coltrane, had the audacity and skilll to create a unique setting and mood for every soloist in a performance. You can really hear that here in this performance of Wayne Shorter's "Footprints". The rhythm section, and especially drummer Tony Williams, carry on a high velocity, intense convers...
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This is October for me:ooh, and this:Thanks to Brian for replacing my lost album; Brian has yet to MOG, but I'm workin' on him
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Unbelieveable what shows up now that there are video sites available like YouTube and Daily Motion. Just found a performance by Wayne Shorter with a European rhythm section at the Molde Jazz Festival in 1966. I wonder if this was a one-time band hired for the occasion or if they toured.I don't recognize any of those musicians, but the playing is very good. I've never seen video of Wayne playing...
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