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

[pinball1970]

Trying to find a version that will not be blocked.

Great example. Chords, close harmony, brass and flute stabs, brilliant.

 

[morrobay]

The 60s/70s used good music for TV. This is how we learned what jazz was!

Good , I identified this on Google search a song

 

[morrobay]

These guys did birdland too.

This group pre dates the Manhattan Transfer

 

[Hornbein]

What breath control.



Terrific arrangement.

 

[morrobay]

 

[Hornbein]

The antithesis of jazz. Get oughtta here.

 

[morrobay]

What breath control.



Terrific arrangement.

Then what do you call this slop

 

[Hornbein]

Then what do you call this slop

You are devoid of musical taste.

Not that there is anything wrong with that. Many are that way. Perhaps there is hope.

 

[morrobay]

You are devoid of musical taste.

Not that there is anything wrong with that. Many are that way. Perhaps there is hope.Y

Check out all my selections in the Favorite Songs thread

 

[pinball1970]

Anyone would think we are discussing climate change or the wave function collapse!
I would say “you’re no good” is more rock blues and “Lush life” is full on crunchy chords jazz.
All good music. (peace man!)
@Hornbein @morrobay

 

[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.