The FerrariChat Jazz Lovers Thread

Personally, I think the last think Ornette Coleman would want is "to rest in peace"
It's a great loss to those he left behind though.

Last great living jazz innovator?
Well Sonny's still bopping along against all odds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8vZLljjb58

 

and Anthony Braxton's certainly no slouch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn88IKybR_s

 

What I'm listening to today...
the unique sounds of Gil Scott-Heron; rhythmically interesting, intelligent, & thoughtful
- he was always socially relevant and involved but never really well-known.

"pieces of a man" & "Lady Day and John Coltrane" are sublime...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Jm2jubZUY

 

Ah yes, how could I forget about Sonny! My first ever jazz concert was a Sonny Rollins concert and I was HOOKED!

Saw him many years later in Boston on the front row, it was amazing.

Love Anthony Braxton too but I think he comes from Ornette. Ornette is the teacher, Braxton is one of his many students. What I meant was that OC was one of the last firsts, if you get what I mean.

Like Sonny.

 

Charnette Moffett - possibly the best bass player around today.
fabulous technique, can seemingly play anything he can imagine and he has a great imagination...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCcAa9yT-JI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIjh6DRtAQY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rANsapaiA


- and slightly further out there....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3BTWpEhmzk&list=PLeWQwA5c7CKwJUxEP0S4IcA_o-DyWktUo

 

and something a little mellower; lest the thread gets a bit too "free"

my favourite contemporary female jazz singer, Diane Reeves.
great voice, beautiful phrasing; turn down the lights and crack open a bottle of Barolo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6G7K1nIPxE

 

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDICl7qBmuk[/ame]

It's a gloomy, rainy day here in São Paulo today. perfect for this kind of music. Highly recommended, however, for any meteorological condition.

 

a little something different here; Laurindo Almeda & Sammy Davis.
this ain't the Candyman!
click on each song to play.

https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sammy+davis,+jr.+the+shadow+of+your+smile&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgwEHsxCXfq6-QZppUkFSgRIniF2cYVKVpyWanWyln1tanJmsn5iTVJprVZyfl15sV5qvsHcBg-CJCP3G7UXy5u_u8XQDAPwofNBNAAAA

 

Oh man, check Laurindo out with the Modern Jazz Qaurtet, he was great!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-9OrHd6QdM[/ame]

Pretty much forgotten here in Brazil, but he was quite popular in the states for a while...

 

Brazilliance Laurindo Almeda & Bud Shank - 1953 - the birth of Bossa Nova
- it took another decade before it caught on.
The man was everywhere!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaUPR9qv1BE

 

Well, he was there, but not too important in the "birth" of Bossa Nova. 1953 is correct, and Bud & Laurindo were both wonderful performers but the creators and composers that birthed Bossa Nova are people such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes, Baden Powell, Edu Lobo, and others. The music made by Laurindo and Bud was closer to what some call Jazz Samba. They are pedantic but important differences, as Bossa Nova was more a cultural movement than just a musical one.

Laurindo spent a lot of time outside the US, as a young man, and was well versed in the Jazz idiom. One of the great interpreters of Brazilian music, for sure, but too influenced by the Americans & Europeans to be culturally important as a pioneer of the Brazilian sound.

 

Yes, I have an entire shelf of Jobim, Gilberto, Bonfa, Powell, etc.!
I was referring to their place in bringing the music to North America and to some degree to much of the rest of the world.

And now for a singer that I've always enjoyed; Leon Thomas jr.
His music is something of an acquired taste however...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh7aZ_Q6ibw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egNfNlj9y9o

 

time for coffee; something a little mellower...

pat metheny , esbjörn svensson , michael brecker ; sting's fragile -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v4kUc3J0DI

 

I've been a big Jobim fan since hearing his Stoneflower LP in the mid-1970s. Love the sleek CTI sound
(Creed Taylor) from that period. Great roster of artists on his label.

Rick, could you post a link to Leon's Creator Has a Master Plan? That one is really deep! Thanks

 

you got it!

The Creator Has A Masterplan-Peace pharoh sanders leon Thomas -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13L6sjk080c

and the better know recording;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYnvw-97II

& BONUS TRACK! China Doll...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DON5WvSVYSc

 

Funny you guys are posting about this today. I have a funny story that relates both to Leon Thomas and Pharoah Sanders.

Boston University has a very cool school of communications, which includes a student-run radio station called WTBU. Though I was not a COM student, I had a radio show at the station for 3 years running (until they sort of kicked me out) on sunday late afternoons, playing jazz music.

It was a 2 hour show, and what I'd usually do was play some more traditional jazz music for the first hour, then go into the crazier or thematic stuff for the second hour. Once I had a series of "History of Free Jazz" shows, and decided to play Pharoah Sanders' Karma from beginning to end, which was a good thing because I would always do homework during the show and it was easier if there was a long period of uninterrupted music. On this day, about half way through The Creator Has A Master Plan, the station's phone rang. It was very rare that this happened during my show, so I picked it up excitedly. There was an irate gentleman on the other side of the line who proceeded to scream at me, demanding I put on something that sounded like music, rather than a pet shop catching fire. I remember laughing my ass off and recommending he change the station. It was one of my greatest moments! By the way, the name of the show was Jazz and the Soulful Truth, a nod to Leon's album "Blues and the Soulful Truth". It all comes around...

By the way, there is a fantastic version of "The Creator..." with Louis Armstrong. It's not so easy to find, but worth the search.

 

As it happens I have it on a CD I picked up in Italy about 20 years ago...

I was listening to it last week

I hadn't played it for years and Satch doesn't come into the song until LT finishes the first minute or so of vocal. I though my CD player had skipped over the rest of Louis to the next CD which was........Leon

 

let's start with the bobby troup classic by nate cole trio -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWmw3RTOj0

 

Just thought I would add to this thread that I was just accepted to the Master's in Music in Jazz Studies program at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ.

Mike

 

Does that mean you are returning stateside? How long have you been away?

 

I've been in Kuwait for 24 years now, but, no I'll be taking the entire course on-line, with some of the lectures and all the private lessons via Skype.

Program details are here:

Master of Music: Jazz Studies Online for Military Musicians | Rowan Global

Mike

 

Very cool! Congrats!

 

Enjoy! We'll be calling you doctor soon.

I have the same aspiration too but I've missed the boat and I'm still struggling with flat 5 minor nines anyway.

 

I wouldn't say you've missed the boat. Hell, I'm 58 and just starting my Masters!


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