April is Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). For the Jazz lovers in you and even not, please join me in appreciating the beauty of this genre of music and the jazz-ers who made it famous.
In HD, I invite you to watch a slideshow of my own (Incomplete) List of the Who's Who of Jazz. (Sorry, if your favorite missed the cut. This is unscientific list. Yours probably better than mine.) Musical accompaniment is that of the ever-famous jazz piece, Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, the first jazz single to sell a million copies. It was from the album, Time Out, the first jazz album to sell more than a million copies.
Midway in the music (around Duke Ellington's), enjoy the fascinating battle of rhythms between the drums and piano which lasted about 2 1/2 minutes. You'll notice your feet tapping to the beat of "5/4" first introduced in this particular piece of music. Just as the battle was getting heated, out of nowhere the alto sax showed up and took control of the tempo. Oops! Enough babbling.
Here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIm-cpsaXZU Enjoy. Thanks for watching.
Amen to "Take Five". Immediately takes me and the wifey back to North Texas State University (now University of North Texas) my freshman year in 1961. Seemed like every time we walked through the Union Building one of the superb NT jazz bands was playing this. Those were good days. Been awhile, but I do have the album so I can relive anytime I want.
ron
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Loc: Nature Coast of Florida
Thanks for sharing, that was well done.
AndyH
Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire
One of the greatest albums ever. Every track is a gem. If I were exiled to that proverbial desert island, I’d be hard pressed to choose between Take Five and Kind of Blue for my one album to listen to for the rest of my days.
Thanks for sharing!
Andy
markngolf wrote:
Thanks for posting!
Mark
You're welcome, Mark.
Got the idea of posting jazzy musical gem from you. Love your video postings of the icons of jazz such as "Sassy" Sarah Vaughan, Joe Pass, etc.
Thanks.
Sunnely wrote:
You're welcome, Mark.
Got the idea of posting jazzy musical gem from you. Love your video postings of the icons of jazz such as "Sassy" Sarah Vaughan, Joe Pass, etc.
Thanks.
Thanks for the compliment!! There used to be a guy from Florida who posted tons of jazz. (Bcheary) I learned from him and a few others. We could probably have a section on UHH devoted to jazz.
Mark
cucharared wrote:
Amen to "Take Five". Immediately takes me and the wifey back to North Texas State University (now University of North Texas) my freshman year in 1961. Seemed like every time we walked through the Union Building one of the superb NT jazz bands was playing this. Those were good days. Been awhile, but I do have the album so I can relive anytime I want.
ron
I second your emotion about "Take Five." Sometimes when I'd hum it, wife would say, "Stop it! I'm getting an earworm." I'd take it as a testament to "Take Five's" staying power.
What a memory you have of this musical gem. It's a jazz standard in its own right. Here's a couple of trivia about "Take Five":
It spawned a number of jazz compositions in five-four time from lots of musicians. According to Hall, the unorthodox 5/4 beat that makes Brubeck’s “Take Five” so distinctive, developed because his drummer Joe Morello got bored playing 4/4, and started fooling around with an uneven time signature for kicks. It was even used as the theme song for the Today Show in the early 1960s.
Thanks for watching.
cucharared wrote:
Amen to "Take Five". Immediately takes me and the wifey back to North Texas State University (now University of North Texas) my freshman year in 1961. Seemed like every time we walked through the Union Building one of the superb NT jazz bands was playing this. Those were good days. Been awhile, but I do have the album so I can relive anytime I want.
ron
For sure!! North Texas State U. had phenomenal jazz. Stan Kenton willed his entire library to North Texas State.
Mark
markngolf wrote:
Thanks for the compliment!! There used to be a guy from Florida who posted tons of jazz. (Bcheary) I learned from him and a few others. We could probably have a section on UHH devoted to jazz.
Mark
I agree with your idea of having a UHH section devoted to jazz. I can think of 3 words why photography and (jazz) music are related: Composition! Composition! Composition!
"Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it." --Louis Armstrong
Thanks for the kind word.
AndyH wrote:
One of the greatest albums ever. Every track is a gem. If I were exiled to that proverbial desert island, I’d be hard pressed to choose between Take Five and Kind of Blue for my one album to listen to for the rest of my days.
Thanks for sharing!
Andy
Thanks, AndyH.
Wow! What a decision to make.
"Take Five" was the third track on the album Time Out, recorded in 1959. That was the year Miles Davis and Gil Evans introduced the jazz audience to modal music with the landmark album Kind of Blue.
https://www.npr.org/2000/11/19/1114201/take-fiveThanks for watching.
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