How About Jazz?

[Spanish Key]

Love, LOVE jazz. There's nothing better than to chill outside with a glass of wine on a full moon with some classic jazz tuning in. Favorite artists bands would be John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hartman, Thelonious Monk, and The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

 

[silk skin paws]

In recent months I started listening to Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra.

 

[auxt]

I like these cool Australian vibes from John Sangster.
The music was written for 70s nature documentaries, so it's not straight jazz -- often closer to "mood music". But tracks like "The Birds" really do it for me.

rateyourmusic

http://neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.com/2009/07/john-sangster-australia-and-all-that.html

(volume 1 and volume 2 are linked in the comments)

 

[Filipe]

Haha, I love Jazz, listen to it all the time.

Singers: Frank, Billie, Dean Martin, Sarah Vaughn, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Kenny Burrell, Buddy Holly, Marvin Berry etc ....

Bands: The Four Aces, The Mills Brothers, The Shirelles, The Ink Spots ...

 

[Ryan Riverz]

Be bup uh be bop pow...be bup e bip be bop POW

No seriously..I like Jazz.

 

[papa_levante]

My favorite jazz song comes from Japan from a band called J.A.M.

I don't know who the song features, and I'm pretty sure the album is called 'Just a Maestro.'

The song is called Jazzy Joint.

 

[runner]

"bill had this quiet fire that I loved on piano" - miles davis






personally I see the fire overflowing as if it was manifesting itself from his back.

 

[flyingace]

"He was a great little piano player, but I don't think he ever sounded as good after that[talking about quitting Miles' band] as he did when he played with me" - Miles Davis

and I actually agree with him.
By the way... what's going on with his head? (I can think of a few things that would be censored here) I know that some pianists like to move and bow their heads until they eat the piano, but he is particularly exaggerated.

Singers: Frank, Billie, Dean Martin, Sarah Vaughn, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Kenny Burrell, Buddy Holly, Marvin Berry etc ....

really?

 

[runner]

"He was a great little piano player, but I don't think he ever sounded as good after that[talking about quitting Miles' band] as he did when he played with me" - Miles Davis

and I actually agree with him.
By the way... what's going on with his head? (I can think of a few things that would be censored here) I know that some pianists like to move and bow their heads until they eat the piano, but he is particularly exaggerated.

I take it as miles's usual brag/pride.
though I wouldn't rank bill's works, I find the performance all the more beautiful when there is a faint smell of death, to be honest.

maybe unless the inner music that he must be listening to that precedes his actual playing by a moment was shared with you, you could not understand the "gesture" really. or how about trying to reach the same level and trying to do the same thing, if you really want to know what's going on.

 

[Filipe]

really?

My fault. They are actually musicians.

 

[flyingace]

maybe unless the inner music that he must be listening to that precedes his actual playing by a moment was shared with you, you could not understand the "gesture" really. or how about trying to reach the same level and trying to do the same thing, if you really want to know what's going on.

well, I don't need to understand the "gesture" or what's going through his mind to know that it doesn't necessarily have to be translated physically. It happens to some classical pianists as well, that they move a lot and put strange faces but that doesn't make them play better that the ones who don't, it's just some kind of help. But it's a help that looks really bad, really distracting from the music itself. But anyway, don't get me wrong, it's not like I was criticizing him, I just found it curious, after all this comes from someone who loves Keith Jarrett despite his totally anoying singing along.

 

[runner]

so I wrote that because you said " By the way... what's going on with his head? "
and again you could not conclude things like whether it's really an exaggeration, etc, without experiencing his private causation.

anyway it seems to me it's like the shadow of his feeling (or his emotion) rather than a help.
it's natural that it appears there if he feels something inside, and he doesn't need to hide it all the way.
in large music is about humanity in my opinion it's good some of them cannot behave like an android and wear a poker face. I'd enjoy each style.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

Queen Latifah and Natalie Cole are also excellent vocalists

 

[Deleted member 1957]

this is a beautiful piece..its more on the lounge side but still great piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvq4z7LKStw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvq4z7LKStw

 

[adorefaith]

Great to see this thread, i hadn't noticed it before.. i've been listening to a lot of Miles Davis and Django Reinhardt lately and also getting into Bill Evans who i wasn't familiar with before. i love Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra as well....two of the best imo..

and bossa nova....such cool music...I think it's one of the only genres of music i could listen to in any mood.

 

[runner]

wanted to find "spartacus" by john young trio on youtube since it may sound good at this time of the year, but no luck. a nice little piano piece. and my favorite take on that love theme.




btw, I like this.

 

[runner]

sabu martinez the oracle

 

[runner]

 

[flyingace]

probably my favourite band right now:



it's not one of my favourite songs, but I wanted a video where they played with double bass, it sounds a thousand times better than the electric bass in my opinion.

And another personal favourite, Avishai Cohen:



By the way, yesterday I saw Nils Petter Molvaer live, apart from the visuals it was great, the drummer was fantastic.

 

[runner]