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Jedey · 09-05-2010, 08:22 AM

The Blues will take a short break for a little Jazz Break.
If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know. ~
Louis Armstrong

Like many the first Jazz album I owned was "Kind Of Blue" by Miles Davis, and it is the best album I have ever heard of any genre, if you look at my LastFM the most played song is "So What". So this is where I will start on a Sunday Morning Jazz Break.

John Coltrane is probably my favorite artist, I say probably because there are about ten I can claim as a fave but today I will say it's Trane.
Getting into the music of John Coltrane was a little more difficult than the immediate love of "Kind Of Blue". I had found a best of that covered mostly the end of his career and that was not a very good starting point, then I stumbled on "Live At The Village Vanguard" and the tune "Chasin' The Trane" coming from being a fan of Jimi Hendrix this made sense to me.

The Sonny Rollins tune "ST. Thomas" off of the "Saxophone Colossus" album is one of the great classics of Jazz.

Be-Bop came into being during World War II and because of the recording ban during that time not a lot of the very early Bop was recorded, it started after the players were done with their gigs with the big bands they would go to the smaller Jazz clubs and jam all night for free thus inventing the new sound of Be-Bop. Two of the best of the new music were Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, here is "Hot House"

Also out of the Bop scene cam Thelonious Monk, one ogf the great composers of Jazz. "Round About Midnight" is one of his best known tunes.

In the late 1950s Jazz music was the sound of the College Campus and one of the most popular artists was Dave Brubeck and the album "Time Out" which featured the song "Take Five".

Clifford Brown was on the path of greatness when his life and the life of piano player Ritchie Powell were cut short by an auto accident. "Joy Spring" is one of the tunes he wrote for the Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet.

Django Reinhardt the Elegant Gypsy is one of the greatest guitarists to ever pick up the instrument and without the use of two fingers on his left hand. here is "J'attendrai Swing" with Stéphane Grappelli.

Charlie Christian is the guitarist who took the electric guitar out of the shadows of the rhythm section into the limelight. Here is one of the first recordings ever made of the new sound of Be-Bop. "Swing To Bop" was recorded at a late night session at Minton's Playhouse in May of 1941 just a few months before the World War II recording ban.

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Jedey Veritas vos liberabit Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Musicapolis Posts: 477	The Blues will take a short break for a little Jazz Break. If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know. ~ Louis Armstrong Like many the first Jazz album I owned was "Kind Of Blue" by Miles Davis, and it is the best album I have ever heard of any genre, if you look at my LastFM the most played song is "So What". So this is where I will start on a Sunday Morning Jazz Break. John Coltrane is probably my favorite artist, I say probably because there are about ten I can claim as a fave but today I will say it's Trane. Getting into the music of John Coltrane was a little more difficult than the immediate love of "Kind Of Blue". I had found a best of that covered mostly the end of his career and that was not a very good starting point, then I stumbled on "Live At The Village Vanguard" and the tune "Chasin' The Trane" coming from being a fan of Jimi Hendrix this made sense to me. The Sonny Rollins tune "ST. Thomas" off of the "Saxophone Colossus" album is one of the great classics of Jazz. Be-Bop came into being during World War II and because of the recording ban during that time not a lot of the very early Bop was recorded, it started after the players were done with their gigs with the big bands they would go to the smaller Jazz clubs and jam all night for free thus inventing the new sound of Be-Bop. Two of the best of the new music were Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, here is "Hot House" Also out of the Bop scene cam Thelonious Monk, one ogf the great composers of Jazz. "Round About Midnight" is one of his best known tunes. In the late 1950s Jazz music was the sound of the College Campus and one of the most popular artists was Dave Brubeck and the album "Time Out" which featured the song "Take Five". Clifford Brown was on the path of greatness when his life and the life of piano player Ritchie Powell were cut short by an auto accident. "Joy Spring" is one of the tunes he wrote for the Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet. Django Reinhardt the Elegant Gypsy is one of the greatest guitarists to ever pick up the instrument and without the use of two fingers on his left hand. here is "J'attendrai Swing" with Stéphane Grappelli. Charlie Christian is the guitarist who took the electric guitar out of the shadows of the rhythm section into the limelight. Here is one of the first recordings ever made of the new sound of Be-Bop. "Swing To Bop" was recorded at a late night session at Minton's Playhouse in May of 1941 just a few months before the World War II recording ban. __________________ My Tunes Last edited by Jedey; 09-05-2010 at 11:59 AM.