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Post by ARENA on Mar 27, 2014 13:52:52 GMT
What's your style?
I'm listening to Ramsay Lewis right now.
My favourites are Dave Brubeck and Charlie Parker.
How about yours?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2014 15:24:22 GMT
Strictly Trad. I used to belong to the S London jazz society many moons ago. Live music at least once a week and I even had the drippings from Humphs trombone dripping on my nice suede shoes at one event. He bought me a pint in the bar over the road as recompense.
And later jazz outside the Landrougher Trow in Bristol, where Acker Bilk introduced us to 'The best, and if not the best certainly the wettest piano player in the West' At the time it was pissing down but they carried on with the water just sheeting off the piano. And we did not care. Wonderful memories.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 27, 2014 15:41:18 GMT
When I was young, yes............ |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2014 16:18:21 GMT
Great. Lucky I have my own office. I had that on with a bit of volume!
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Post by scorp on Mar 27, 2014 20:59:43 GMT
"Trad" is funny hats and a sodding banjo... commercial. I like the real early stuff - first record I ever bought was Bunk Johnson's Weary Blues - Bunk was provided with a trumpet and false teeth when rediscovered, driving a tractor in the New Iberia rice-fields.
After all that came Louis - that spread to Chicago, among other places. Thus was born Basie, Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young...
Where I fall off the wagon is Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Coltrane - the people who seemed to want it to sound ugly... I liked Miles Davis, the MJQ ("a man hitting a small gong with a small stick"). The contemporary people seem mostly to be in the ugly school...
Here's a soloist I've only just learned about - I never knew you could do these things with a trombone!
They are playing Juan Tizol's Caravan by the way...
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Post by ARENA on Mar 28, 2014 10:57:51 GMT
I was hooked the first time I heard him..............
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Post by scorp on Mar 28, 2014 12:51:23 GMT
Great stuff... and here's another classic rendering - reckoned to be a masterpiece:
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Post by scorp on Mar 28, 2014 13:10:20 GMT
And while we're talking of Jazz Classics, there was this, from 1926... |
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Post by jimshoo on Mar 29, 2014 9:23:21 GMT
I was a Chris Barber fan.
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Post by scorp on Mar 29, 2014 11:29:11 GMT
Chris had a good band - still does, I believe, though less traditional than in days of yore (whatever 'yore' is).
Ottilie Patterson, Monty Sunshine, Lonnie Donnegan, Ron Bowden - Ken Colyer too. That was my teen-age music... at least for a while.
I'm happy to know Chris is still going... Kenny Ball and Terry Lightfoot having died fairly recently. I last ran into him
in - blimey! - the late seventies, when he came in backstage at the Talk of the Town to see Madeline Bell during one of our cabaret seasons there.
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Post by ARENA on Apr 3, 2014 12:24:44 GMT
Nice bone...........
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Post by jimshoo on Apr 3, 2014 13:14:32 GMT
I can go with that!
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Post by scorp on Apr 3, 2014 14:06:16 GMT
He was with Stan Kenton's Orchestra later on.
Now this is a BAND...
Neil Hefti's Splanky from the Count Basie 'E=MC2: The Atomic Mr Basie' album
(I'm on my third copy, having worn out two LPs...)
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Post by ARENA on Apr 7, 2014 9:34:15 GMT
I like..........
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Post by scorp on Apr 7, 2014 15:49:04 GMT
J and Kai - masterly. Whoo!
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