All That Jazz!
Jul 26, 2015 12:28:44 #
johnh1944
Loc: North Las Vegas
I still love listening to my LPs (approx 1000) which include West Montgomery, Cannonball, Monk, Miles, Bird, Dizzy, Trane, Duke and many many more.
Jul 26, 2015 12:50:13 #
Congratulations on your dog. Dashounds are great pets,
very smart and loveable, but sometimes self minded. They
where originaly bred as hunting dogs for Badgers. At times
they are fearless. :thumbup: :thumbup: :wink: :P :P
very smart and loveable, but sometimes self minded. They
where originaly bred as hunting dogs for Badgers. At times
they are fearless. :thumbup: :thumbup: :wink: :P :P
Jul 26, 2015 13:50:22 #
erickter
Loc: Dallas,TX
jerryc41 wrote:
Exactly!
As for the saying in your avatar, I remember when bringing film to the drugstore and waiting a week was the fastest way to get a picture. :D
As for the saying in your avatar, I remember when bringing film to the drugstore and waiting a week was the fastest way to get a picture. :D
Love Jazz and play it too. Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Lee Rittenour, are a few favorites. Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra and his big band, and so many more. Some of Americas greats.
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Jul 26, 2015 15:02:50 #
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Jul 26, 2015 21:30:20 #
Used to listen to WJZZ out of Detroit, great call letters, GREAT JAZZ until they were bought out in the 90s.
Jazz/Nature/Photography = cure for stress!
Jazz/Nature/Photography = cure for stress!
Jul 27, 2015 01:49:01 #
Some Jazz make me feel like I'm
listening to the coolest music created
and I want to listen to it forever...
then the next piece the radio plays
goes bleeb blab discordant boobly blib and I
cant change the station quick enough.
listening to the coolest music created
and I want to listen to it forever...
then the next piece the radio plays
goes bleeb blab discordant boobly blib and I
cant change the station quick enough.
Jul 27, 2015 12:19:08 #
i guess that is the difference between good jazz and bad!! I used to go to the 'Crawford Grill', in the hill district of Pgh. the first time that i heard John Coltrane i had exactly the same reaction. Took me a long time to appreciate his music!!
Jul 27, 2015 12:45:45 #
I love jazz & play modern jazz on piano. Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett et al. I love Dizzy & Wynton. They make their instruments talk. Parker, Bud Powell, all geniuses, most destroyed by drugs.
Jul 27, 2015 14:19:25 #
I have been fortunate to have been the selected photographer for the Medford Jazz Jubilee ( now the Southern Oregon Music Festival) for the last dozen years. It takes place over a three day weekend with nearly 20 bands playing at up to 5 separate venues. The bands travel between sets to a different venue and you can follow your favorite band or stay in one place and see them all. The music is great, the dancing fantastic, and the photography is challenging using only existing light. Here are a few images taken during live performances.
Jul 27, 2015 18:59:19 #
Just listened to "All Blues" again, the first cut on the second disk of Kind of Blue. Great stuff.
Jul 28, 2015 00:06:14 #
hobie 33 wrote:
I have been fortunate to have been the selected ph... (show quote)
Nice images
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Jul 28, 2015 02:46:08 #
I'd like to remind everybody that vocalists, as well as instrumentalists, play an important part in jazz. That includes such performers as Billie Holiday (Lady Day), Ella Mae Morse, Ella Fitzgerald, June Christy, Peggy Lee, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, Anita O'Day, and Helen Forrest. One of the coolest cats in the early 40s was a pianist who headed the King Cole Trio. He was forced against his will to sing as well, becoming Nat King Cole. All those early recordings prove his qualifications as a true jazz performer. In fact, even swing's top money-earner, Glenn Miller, cut several jazz 78s with Coleman Hawkins and Jack Teagarden among others in 1929, under the name of the Mound City Blue Blowers. My parents bought our first radio in 1935, and the strongest signal was from WJZ (I think it was in New York City), which carried a wonderful assortment of programming. I recalled being entranced in 1938 by Glenn Miller's "By the Waters of Minnetonka", a semi-jazz double-sided 78 rpm that lasted twice as long as the usual pop instrumental.
Jul 30, 2015 00:54:58 #
Here's a treat I found sometime ago on the internet and bookmarked. The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Germany. Pull up the link, and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8QrVDKDbg0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8QrVDKDbg0
Jul 30, 2015 17:08:31 #
Back in 1950, I spent a lot of nights in my home darkroom and tuned in to WOR for The Symphony Sid Show, LIVE(!) from The Roost and other Bird nests after midnight. Years later I found LPs with excerpts from those same programs, with interviews. Great combinations, including Tommy Potter, Max Roach, and many others..
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