• Do you like jazz?
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If so, what types? I myself am a huge fan of all latin-based jazz subgroups and fusion jazz. one of my favorites is cal tjader [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2eRTCfHJ4[/url] and wilson das neves [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-1ePkg3phw[/url]
is there a name for the type of jazz that's really quiet with brush playing and very slight piano playing while someone does spoken word?
Also fusion jazz, bebop & free jazz. My fav's are Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. Mouse on the Keys also hit the spot. [QUOTE=AK'z;41150069]is there a name for the type of jazz that's really quiet with brush playing and very slight piano playing while someone does spoken word?[/QUOTE] Don't think that's a subgenre, but it would be brilliant if it was. Jack Kerouac and Tom Waits did some stuff like that. Maybe you would also like Charles Spearin's music, if you don't already know it. Also, there's a band called 'Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia', who did spoken word post-rock (sometimes with piano).
I am the lead trumpet for my HS Jazz Ensemble for the second (and final) year. I think that says something.
[QUOTE=Cows Rule;41152939]I am the lead trumpet for my HS Jazz Ensemble for the second (and final) year. I think that says something.[/QUOTE] does your ensemble play jazz funk?
Our director focussed incredibly on swing, we had one rock tune the entire year and one latin after everything else was sing. He left though so we're interviewing new directors in two weeks, hopefully they'll be more open to all styles. I prefer funk/fusion/rock jazz to swing, not to say swing is bad though. Yay Maynard Ferguson.
[QUOTE=Cows Rule;41156143]Our director focussed incredibly on swing, we had one rock tune the entire year and one latin after everything else was sing. He left though so we're interviewing new directors in two weeks, hopefully they'll be more open to all styles. I prefer funk/fusion/rock jazz to swing, not to say swing is bad though. Yay Maynard Ferguson.[/QUOTE] Maynard Ferguson is not jazz at all. He just plays notes really high. There is no blues inflections, nothing. Just another trumpeteer with high chops.
[QUOTE=TrojanMan;41156189]Maynard Ferguson is not jazz at all. He just plays notes really high.[/QUOTE] thanks [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1174715&p=41156207&viewfull=1#post41156207[/url]
[QUOTE=AK'z;41156202]thanks [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1174715&p=41156207&viewfull=1#post41156207[/url][/QUOTE] Obviously you know nothing at all about jazz music if you think Maynard is hip.
[QUOTE=TrojanMan;41156235]Obviously you know nothing at all about jazz music if you think Maynard is hip.[/QUOTE] I don't know what you're saying. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydtFonXezU[/url] He may have had a bluesy style but this is jazz.
[QUOTE=AK'z;41156349]I don't know what you're saying.[/QUOTE] No need to say anymore. You've just proven my point.
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[QUOTE=AK'z;41156436]:/[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_sX1xs3ZZI[/url] Here's what a real jazz trumpeter should sound like.
I love Jazz with a vibe of Soul, Funk or Groove in it.
[QUOTE=TrojanMan;41156505][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_sX1xs3ZZI[/url] Here's what a real jazz trumpeter should sound like.[/QUOTE] Way to shove your ego in a good thread ak'z if you're looking to plunge that area you'll want to explore beat poetry more because that's how it started really, so its more a form of poetry than music Patti smith also used to do it when she only had lenny kaye as backing but then it kinda evolved
yeah it's kind of beat poetry that I'm looking for, but there's got to be things that predate that which still makes up what I'm after.
no I hate jazz [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox5MUXvhzK8[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWhrxU4VjVw[/media]
Posting some Thelonious because fantastic. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcfDfHsg2YI[/media]
no [editline]24th June 2013[/editline] just kidding [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH9uIyuAuUk[/media]
How come no-one appreciates the Djang anymore? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MTQpDgSFc[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATIHWbN-sM[/media]
jazz is the worst [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuaVQXEmiJE[/media]
I'm sort of tangentially a fan of jazz, there are albums that I like and own but I very rarely will go out and seek more. My girlfriend loves it though; she played with her band at the Montreux jazz festival last year
It was never easy to love jazz. I mean... when I first tried to get into it (as a non-musician, mind), it's a bit like "ok, these guys play well now what?". I'm talking when I first heard Kind of Blue which was around 6 years ago and I was kind of dumb anyway. After realising how much you really can get out of it, it's just one of the vast worlds in music you can explore endlessly. And it's probably the least difficult genre to find good records for. You could walk into a store, go to the jazz section, pick a record and it'll likely be very good. I suppose once you get more accustomed to things, you start nit-picking about the playing and whatever, but I'm glad I haven't reached that point yet.. hopefully I never do.
You gotta find the really catchy jazz tunes, that's how you get into jazz I think. Nobody who's a rock fan or whatever starts listening to Blues To Be There by Duke Ellington and enjoys jazz. I think games and films are a good way to be introduced to jazz, I'm sure Fallout played a big part for many people :v:
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;41178586]You gotta find the really catchy jazz tunes, that's how you get into jazz I think.[/QUOTE] That really can't be told like that unless you only like pop music to start with. Then again each his own, whatever joy you find from it is good. :v:
I definitely didn't find kind of blue to be very good but then I heard sketches in spain and man that was the record that got me for miles davis
[QUOTE=vampiresrock;41175020]How come no-one appreciates the Djang anymore? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MTQpDgSFc[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATIHWbN-sM[/media][/QUOTE] oh god yes yes yes. possibly one of my favorite genres and artists have some stephane wrembel! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr2cK5C2u_A[/media] [editline]25th June 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=AK'z;41178474]It was never easy to love jazz. I mean... when I first tried to get into it (as a non-musician, mind), it's a bit like "ok, these guys play well now what?". I'm talking when I first heard Kind of Blue which was around 6 years ago and I was kind of dumb anyway.[/QUOTE] I definitely grows on you. I learned Tune Up on my guitar classes and at first I didn't like it at all; then the melody got stuck in my head and I couldn't stop listening to it for weeks. It's the more complex jazz compositions that are harder for me to enjoy; it has to be gradually endured or something.
[QUOTE=AK'z;41178651]That really can't be told like that unless you only like pop music to start with. Then again each his own, whatever joy you find from it is good. :v:[/QUOTE] Ofcourse it depends on the person but the average person is a fan of pop wether he thinks it or not.
I play baritone sax in the school big band. Good fun except that practically all we play is funk and rocky tunes :/ Also, the tenor always gets the solos written in the music but our tenor is terrible at playing solos and just fucks around with the blues scale regardless what style of jazz it is. Life is tough being a baritone sax player. Also, John Coltrane is literally the best thing ever. [video=youtube;30FTr6G53VU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30FTr6G53VU[/video] [B]Edit:[/B] Ornette Coleman is also fucking scary to listen to [video=youtube;YedVpRzF900]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YedVpRzF900[/video]
ornette coleman is friggin' great.. what I would give to have seen him live in the 80s.
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