Who is your favorite Jazz musician and what is your favorite song?

[BWV]

 

[pinball1970]

When I saw the title I thought, "Mm....folk perhaps? 1970s pop?"
Played the song and yes! That's jazz!

 

[morrobay]

Indeed, Bill Evans is just coming to my attention

 

[BWV]

Indeed, Bill Evans is just coming to my attention

Bill played piano on Kind of Blue BTW

One of the true masters

 

[BWV]

RIP

 

[pinball1970]

RIP

Beautiful beautiful voice. Just so natural, easy and light. You cannot learn that.

 

[Astronuc]

Juarez Maciel - NÁUFRAGOS​

I was trying to use Siri to identify the following tune, which identified NÁUFRAGOS!

What is this tune?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peo...c-piano-while-people-watch-in-awe/vi-AA1ccFUk

 

[pinball1970]

Juarez Maciel - NÁUFRAGOS​

I was trying to use Siri to identify the following tune, which identified NÁUFRAGOS!

What is this tune?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peo...c-piano-while-people-watch-in-awe/vi-AA1ccFUk

Nothing rings a bell, it has a Coltrane/Miles Davis feel to it

 

[pinball1970]

RIP

She deserves an RIP in dispatches.

I have put one in general.

 

[pinball1970]

RIP

Live.

 

[Astronuc]

Nothing rings a bell, it has a Coltrane/Miles Davis feel to it

I think tune is a recent composition. I recognize the tune, but I but I heard it orchestrally, rather than piano solo. I just don't remember where or when I heard it, but it's been running around in my head for at least a year.

 

[Hornbein]

Where Coltrane got his ballad style. Today it seems a lost art.

Webster seems like such a nice sensitive soul here, but "after he had a drink or two, he'd change". He was dangerous. His nickname was Animal. When jazz lost out to rock and roll and the gigs dried up or perhaps to escape his past he expatriated to Europe. At the time it was a bargain, still depressed from the big war, and a relief from the racial bigotry in the USA. A great deal.

I suppose I shouldn't say this but Oscar Peterson's piano solo impresses me as being a string of lame cliches. Well he wasn't always like that.

Lover Come Back To Me is seldom played like this anymore. Current practice is dominated by a famous 1949 bebop session in Carnegie Hall where they were playing it fast. I imagine Carnegie Hall was a very big deal after years in funky nightclubs so they were really on. I'm particularly impressed by Flip Phillips' tenor solo. Never heard of him before. The audience is most enthusiastic too, that makes a difference. I think it was Dizzy who later said they played fast because it was something the whites couldn't co-opt. Not for a while anyway.

Here's the original.

 

[Hornbein]

Osaka Jazz -- C Jam Blues

Quite the bass viol solo.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I'm a huge fan of 20s-40s jazz. I'm not big into any modern jazz.

 

[difalcojr]

Please post more. It's all good.
I only know 60's jazz mostly, all from my older brother who loved it. I don't think 60's jazz is considered modern, is it? Here's one my brother played a lot. My favorite album of his.

 

[difalcojr]

 

[difalcojr]

 

[difalcojr]

 

[morrobay]

Indeed and in particular it is 1965 that produced the most and best jazz in that time.

 

[Hornbein]

Please post more. It's all good.
I only know 60's jazz mostly, all from my older brother who loved it. I don't think 60's jazz is considered modern, is it? Here's one my brother played a lot. My favorite album of his.

It's a swinging blues, straight ahead jazz. Modern jazz tends to use complex harmonies and doesn't swing as much. I guess the difference is that trad jazz was basically music for dancing and modern jazz isn't. A lot of it is too fast or too slow to dance to. It's more artsy. It came in when rock and roll took over the dance music market by being louder with fewer people to pay. Jazz players had to do something else.

I have no kick against modern jazz.
Unless they play it too darn fast
And lose the feeling of the melody
And make it sound just like a symphony.
-- Chuck Berry



But these categories are pretty loose. I don't worry about them.

 

[difalcojr]

I think you make an excellent analysis of why it disappeared, or rather changed and evolved. It did just die out back then. In listening, rhythm and beat is always needed, but for me, I also need some melody too, some tune to remember. Some harmony if possible too. What I like in classical too, like Schubert. A tune or theme that is returned to. I don't mind wild dissonance and freeform music, but if it doesn't come back to the initial tune, I have difficulty liking it too much. Some jazz is like that. Hip hop I consider mostly just poetry, having only rhythm and beat.

 

[difalcojr]

 

[BWV]

 

[BWV]

 

[pinball1970]

Harry James for me. 1964 and......"Mr Buddy Rich ladies and gentlemen."

 

[pinball1970]

Wow!!! That is amazing playing!

 

[pinball1970]

Drums a let down, the other players are so good.

 

[Hornbein]

Corey Henry -- Donna Lee

I'm pretty sure those are organ pedals, not ebass.

 

[difalcojr]

More 60's jazz.

 

[difalcojr]

 

[difalcojr]

think this classic, slow tune could be fused up or rocked up in a cover.

 

[difalcojr]

maybe his best known album and song:

 

[difalcojr]

 

[morrobay]

Indeed it's not about nostalgia - Just the best jazz ever.

 

[BWV]

Indeed it's not about nostalgia - Just the best jazz ever.

The studio recording w/ strings is probably my favorite piano solo ever