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

[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 a lot of music from soul/blues,R&R, jazz as well as culture styles They even have a low rider scene

 

[morrobay]

 

[Hornbein]

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.

Dixieland jazz I have seen. There was a group call Orchestra De La Luz that moved to Latin America and was quite popular for a number of years. I've also seen 50's rock done very well. Very few tribute bands and they all seem to be for The Beatles. Superfly was very popular, doing 60's rock sort of like the Rolling Stones. I think they were great. Techo was invented by Germany and Japan and evolved into hiphop. The Yellow Magic Orchestra appeared on Soul Train.

Japanese taste goes for complicated music hot fast and tight. They can do ballads equally well but usually prefer not to. They avoid is anything that is simple and repetitive. You don't hear contemporary US music there at all.

 

[morrobay]

 

[Hornbein]

Elvin Jones -- Anthropology

 

[Hornbein]

Anthropology (Remastered 2002) · Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra ·

 

[Hornbein]

Saori Yano Donna Lee

Bird Lives

 

[morrobay]

 

[difalcojr]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_Madness.
Sonny Rollins with John Coltrane and Miles Davis' band. 1956.

 

[difalcojr]

Jazz covers so many moods too. Happy jazz.

 

[difalcojr]

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

Found out it was Oliver Nelson who wrote the scores for Ironside, Columbo, The Six Million Dollar Man, and The Death of a Gunfighter. Here is his "Stolen Moments".

 

[morrobay]

Here is some more big band jazz with Gearld Wilson.