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Guybrush 02-16-2011 04:17 AM
Gather Round Hipsters, It's Jazz Week!
 
It's jazz week!

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Jazz is a musical tradition and style of music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music. Its West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note.

The word "jazz" (in early years also spelled "jass") began as a West Coast slang term and was first used to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915.

From its beginnings in the early 20th century jazz has spawned a variety of subgenres: New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz, free jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz fusion from the 1970s, acid jazz from the 1980s (which added funk and hip-hop influences), and Nujazz in the 1990s. As the music has spread around the world it has drawn on local, national, and regional musical cultures, its aesthetics being adapted to its varied environments and giving rise to many distinctive styles.
So, genre-wise, "Jazz" is today a bit of a an umbrella term which can/could include genres like bebop, hard bop, swing jazz, some pop music, acid jazz etc. This week you are quite free in your worship of jazz. Anything that fits under that umbrella works, so let's get it on!

Guybrush 02-16-2011 04:24 AM
Here's Chick Corea and Gary Burton playing Corea's composition La Fiesta! :)

ThePhanastasio 02-16-2011 09:40 AM
Albert Ayler - Ghosts (First Variation)


Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun (Second Take)


John Coltrane - Jupiter Variation


Sabu Martinez - El Cubanchero


Solomon Ilori and His Afro-Drum Ensemble - Follow Me To Africa


Charles Mingus - Track A, Solo Dancer


Eric Dolphy - Something Sweet, Something Tender


Gil Melle - Long Ago and Far Away

Introvox 02-16-2011 09:50 AM
Jaco





UZEB

TheBig3 02-16-2011 10:13 AM
Shouldn't it be Beatnicks? Not Hispters? Anyway...



She's currently best known as putting the two-boot dropkick to Justin Beiber in the Best New Artist category but she ought to be known for the chops. Jazz tends to be a elistist genre, full of album-checking conversation and name dropping posturing, so I thought it would be best to take from the new school. Enjoy!

Guybrush 02-16-2011 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by TheBig3 (Post 1005659)
Shouldn't it be Beatnicks? Not Hispters?
Hipster has meant so many things since the word first came about and the hipster I'm referring to is this one :)

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia's article on Hipster (1940s subculture)
Hipster, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture)


Here's a little gypsy jazz from Norway. Well, one of the guys is norwegian (Jimmy's a guitar virtuoso from the Netherlands) and the album was produced and recorded here (under the watchful eye of Jon Larsen from Hot Club de Norvège). Jimmy Rosenberg (from The Gypsy Kids) and Stian Cartsensen (from Farmers Market) recorded the album Rose Room together. No overdubs, just these two guys having fun in the studio :) This is Joseph Joseph which I assume is originally a Django Reinhardt song.

zachsd 02-17-2011 02:59 PM
Those are some good choices, phanastasio.

One of my favorite jazz recordings of all time:

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra 02-17-2011 05:58 PM
By far one of my favorite Jazz tracks:

clutnuckle 02-17-2011 09:20 PM

6underground 02-17-2011 09:47 PM

Stacey Kent - I Wish I Were in Love Again

Jedey 02-18-2011 05:28 AM
Joshua Redman is one of my favorite current artists.



James Carter is another.



A battle between the two.

Lisnaholic 02-20-2011 07:22 AM
On a website called "Listverse", I found one of those rather meaningless lists, " Greatest Jazz Musicians Of All Time" :

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15. Art Tatum
14. Thelonious Monk
13. Charles Mingus
12. Art Blakey
11. Dizzy Gillespie
10. Max Roach
9. Billie Holiday
8. John Coltrane
7. Count Basie
6. Coleman Hawkins
5. Benny Goodman
4. Miles Davis
3. Charlie Parker
2. Duke Ellington
1. Luis Armstrong
So far the combined forces of MB have only chosen the three musicians in bold from the list. ( Congrats to ThePhantastasio and Skaligojurah )

I`m going off-list as well, as one of my favorite albums is by Don Cherry. Though knowledgeable people say that he was a limited player, he was something of a pioneer in directing his jazz sensibilities back towards Africa and other parts of the globe, and this track, Degi-Degi is one of the results :

Jedey 02-20-2011 08:33 AM
Wes Montgomery ~ Impressions



Sonny Rollins ~ St. Thomas



Clifford Brown & Max Roach ~ Oh, Lady Be Good - Memories Of You



Ahmad Jamal ~ Darn That Dream



Erroll Garner ~ Misty



John Coltrane ~ Alabama



Dave Brubeck ~ Take Five

TockTockTock 02-20-2011 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by zachsd (Post 1006606)
Those are some good choices, phanastasio.

One of my favorite jazz recordings of all time:
Oh, nice suggestion. I'm going to need to check this guy out.

On another note, I didn't know hipsters listened to jazz. I thought they listened to proto-noise-electronic-ska-post-pop-industrial?

Guybrush 02-20-2011 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Jack Pat (Post 1008051)
Oh, nice suggestion. I'm going to need to check this guy out.

On another note, I didn't know hipsters listened to jazz. I thought they listened to proto-noise-electronic-ska-post-pop-industrial?
I'll reply with a quote from my earlier post :

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Originally Posted by tore
Hipster has meant so many things since the word first came about and the hipster I'm referring to is this one :)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wikipedia's article on Hipster (1940s subculture)
Hipster, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes.
And Bill Evans is great :) There are many lovely jazz records in his discography. One I've enjoyed recently is a release of him and Chet Baker playing together called The Complete Legendary Sessions. This version of Time on my Hands is one of the songs on the record (the uploader got the title slightly wrong it seems).



Very laid back :)

Love-song 02-20-2011 11:46 AM
I love John Coltrane...and when combined with Johnny Hartman's voice...simply divine...such a wonderful album...a lovely listen for a Sunday afternoon...

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My One and Only Love



the shadows fall and spread their mystic charms...
...in the hush of night while You're in my arms
I feel Your Lips so warm and tender...
...my One and Only Love

TockTockTock 02-20-2011 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Love-song (Post 1008113)
I love John Coltrane...and when combined with Johnny Hartman's voice...simply divine...such a wonderful album...a lovely listen for a Sunday afternoon...

-------

Dedicated to You



They Say It's Wonderful



My One and Only Love



the shadows fall and spread their mystic charms...
...in the hush of night while You're in my arms
I feel Your Lips so warm and tender...
...my One and Only Love
Yes! Coltrane is wonderful. I love his album, A Love Supreme. I've played it countless times, and I still haven't burnt it out.

Neapolitan 02-20-2011 09:29 PM
Jimmy Smith - Root Down


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