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

[sbrothy]

Once reason jazz and Classical are so great is they feature beautiful sounds of all the different instruments.

Does not all music do that?

Well yes and no, in rock music (which I like) you are a little restricted, guitar/distorted guitar, organ but not always.

Same with the other styles but in classical you can do what the hell you want, a piano piece? You have it.

Just Cello? Yes, Just voices? Full orchestra? Organ its all there.

Same with Jazz, this one is a flute piece but there is a cool as hell electric piano solo.

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

In Jazz there are really no rules, musical theory-wise. If a chromatic scale or blue note sounds cool they go for it. I know that's not really fair comparing to other typea of music, but Jazz is really the very definition of musical anarchy. These people are so good they absorbed all the theory and then threw it all away to just play some music.

 

[BWV]

In Jazz there are really no rules, musical theory-wise. If a chromatic scale or blue note sounds cool they go for it. I know that's not really fair comparing to other typea of music, but Jazz is really the very definition of musical anarchy. These people are so good they absorbed all the theory and then threw it all away to just play some music.

I don’t agree with this at all, Jazz has a vocabulary and grammar, I.e. ‘rules’ , just as 19th century classical music or any other style does

 

[morrobay]

Yes I favor a little up tempo^ . Saw the Modern Jazz Quartet at Pepperdine College in Malibu. Also had contact with one band member as a Customs Inspector at LAX

 

[morrobay]

In Jazz there are really no rules, musical theory-wise. If a chromatic scale or blue note sounds cool they go for it. I know that's not really fair comparing to other typea of music, but Jazz is really the very definition of musical anarchy. These people are so good they absorbed all the theory and then threw it all away to just play some music.

I have no technical musical knowledge whatsoever but I dare say the musicians got a little carried away with this no rules/anarchy/fusion that started in the 70's. For me does not sound good at all

 

[sbrothy]

I don’t agree with this at all, Jazz has a vocabulary and grammar, I.e. ‘rules’ , just as 19th century classical music or any other style does

You're probably right. It was a very personal opinion. I play the guitar myself (mostly blues), but I'm not the biggest fan of jazz. Perhaps I'm too far out of my comfort zone here to offer any meaningful comment.

 

[pinball1970]

You're probably right. It was a very personal opinion. I play the guitar myself (mostly blues), but I'm not the biggest fan of jazz. Perhaps I'm too far out of my comfort zone here to offer any meaningful comment.

I think I know where you are coming from.

In classical music the musicians take their part home, the sheet music, give it whirl then turn up to rehearsal and are guided by the conductor, tempo, phrasing, volume etc.
You can have cadenza where a soloist plays flurry often improvised but the rest of the orchestra play what is written in the score.

You get all that in a jazz set up too, where guys play their charts but can improvise on the solos if they have one.

There is a genera where all the guys are in tempo and basic structure but all of them are soloing usually clarinet, trumpet trombone (I thought that was new Orleans but just checked some out and is not that)
I am not that keen on that style.
Free form is more of a 1970s thing and everyone turns up and just stars playing!

Of the bands I have seen, they know each other well, are great technicians/musicians and find a theme and kind of just run with it, ebb and flow like they reading each others mind. Pretty far out (man)

Not everyone’s cup of tea.

I adore jazz, the structure of the tracks those scrunchy chord progressions, the technical ability of the players. So many genres and great artists.

One of the reason I was hooked on USA TV & film as a kid, jazz music permeated children and adult TV, film sound tracks.

Be-bop



Jazz funk



Is this jazz? Im claiming it- it has a flute and electric piano!

 

[difalcojr]

Had not remembered it was so pervasive in media. Interesting. The musicians did cover all the Broadway and movie themes and songs. Which I really like still. That Wilder movie trailer script is really funny. :)

As far as different guitar styles/sounds of jazz and rock, guitar always seemed so much more subdued in jazz. Didn't rock. Here's a pair that really show this, I think. Both renowned guitarists. Like both versions, but they are very different. The jazz version original (first track):


and the rock/blues fusion version cover with Mike Bloomfield in the first guitar solo, and Elvin Bishop the second. Harmonica taking the place of cornet. I think this might well be considered jazz too:

 

[morrobay]

 

[difalcojr]

I’ve always liked Herbie Hancock

don't think this one made it yet:

 

[morrobay]

Classic ^ And latin/conga drums version.

 

[pinball1970]

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

An absolute stack of stuff that will blow your socks off Greg!

 

[pinball1970]

Had not remembered it was so pervasive in media. Interesting. The musicians did cover all the Broadway and movie themes and songs. Which I really like still. That Wilder movie trailer script is really funny. :)

As far as different guitar styles/sounds of jazz and rock, guitar always seemed so much more subdued in jazz. Didn't rock. Here's a pair that really show this, I think. Both renowned guitarists. Like both versions, but they are very different. The jazz version original (first track):


and the rock/blues fusion version cover with Mike Bloomfield in the first guitar solo, and Elvin Bishop the second. Harmonica taking the place of cornet. I think this might well be considered jazz too:

Yes the media follow the genre, this is why game shows, TV series and films had synth naff in there.

 

[pinball1970]

Louie Bellson. "Cool" live, from 1962, a track from Westside story.
The arrangement makes it, I could gush about it but I won't.

 

[difalcojr]

few more sixties before older stack starts.

 

[difalcojr]

I liked jazz because they played off-key on purpose and made it sound good.

 

[difalcojr]

and it could be so romantic

 

[difalcojr]

She was very popular.

 

[pinball1970]

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.

I would class that as "blues" rather than jazz. I know there is cross over but I am not a fan of it particularly. The format.

 

[pinball1970]

I liked jazz because they played off-key on purpose and made it sound good.

In terms of being off key it is very hard to do on purpose vocally and make it sound good. This track I have never heard till today.
I picked Billy Holliday as an example of Jazz blues cross over.
The lyrics are grim and she singing with horror and disgust.
See what you think.

 

[pinball1970]

Something a bit more light hearted.

Did they record this and mime it? Pretty certain they and Bing Crosby lip syncs with Louis Armstrong brilliantly, even when he laughs!

 

[pinball1970]

When Rogers and Hammerstein meets Jazz!

 

[pinball1970]

When Jazz meets Mozart!

 

[pinball1970]

This is great, the look, the sound. Love it.

 

[pinball1970]

The 1980s dropped off sharply in terms of good music but there was this.

 

[pinball1970]

This was from Disney's last film 1970. Boogie woogie @1.40!
Scatman Crothers, The Shining guy!

 

[pinball1970]

few more sixties before older stack starts.

I could play that every day.

 

[difalcojr]

I would class that as "blues" rather than jazz. I know there is cross over but I am not a fan of it particularly. The format.

The Billie Holiday song was very hard to listen to. Guess what I don't like in jazz is the opposite of what I do like. What has already been said it can be: upbeat, uplifting, driving. Or slow and sweet, but not melancholy or too sad and bluesy for me either.
That Matt Bianco piece is very good, interesting.
And now Dixieland jazz too. Happy jazz. In that Mozart cover!
And in another cover of Grieg's "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen"! Dixieland style. Lot of good music.

One more of Mose Allison, a fast piano piece with a good drum solo. He sang bluesy but played jazz piano.

 

[difalcojr]

This was the one jazz song selected and engraved on the golden record attached to the two Voyager 1977 space probes.

 

[Hornbein]

Body and Soul by Osaka Jazz

This is the drummer's channel. It appears he is hired by the best players in Osaka. I didn't know they had a jazz scene there.

I've been to Osaka. It is a big city with lots of corporate headquarters. It is unbelievably cheap for what you get. It has a huge pleasure district with sound piped onto the street. They were playing 60's Coltrane over that.

Most Japanese castles don't impress me much. They are made mostly of wood (?) and all look the same. The castle in Osaka was built by the brand new shogun as a symbol of dominance and is meant to be imposing. It is. It looms over you like nothing else. I wouldn't mess with that shogun.



If their jazz is this good I might try living there.

 

[Hornbein]

As far as great small combo jazz goes you can't beat Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons. Some real chemistry there. I don't know why they aren't more famous.

 

[Hornbein]

A very fast Hiromi Euhara piano solo. She is the first Japanese artist to make it internationally. Won't be the last.

 

[pinball1970]

Buddy in Germany

 

[difalcojr]

As far as great small combo jazz goes you can't beat Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons. Some real chemistry there. I don't know why they aren't more famous.

Not sure why. There were just so, so many jazz musicians in the 50's and 60's. Many, many great piano players and saxophone players. Wikipedia defines this sound as soul jazz.
Maybe the Japanese bands will start some tours soon where you live so you don't have to move. I think they would fill much more than a small nightclub or racetrack side stage.
BB King performed at Harrah's casino on a small, side stage during the daytime at a time in his life. He also filled the SF Fillmore Auditorium as often as he wanted.
Also, are the Japanese bands there also playing Dixieland jazz?
Or jazz with Latin beats like this one.

 

[morrobay]

Indeed the Japanese cover alot of music from soul/blues,R&R, jazz as well as culture styles They even have a low rider scene

 

[morrobay]