Jazz Kat

Well not my dad. He does not like jazz. Well he's a big Tijuana Brass fan, that and other oldies stuff. There is some jazz influence in that, so perhaps that's how I got into jazz, but my dad don't like any hard core stuff, like Coltrane and Miles. I guess I just always loved jazz. Since about age 11, I have become more serious about getting all the Blue Note recordings. I'm now 15. I got the chance to play with some jazz cats, a guitarist and a bassist. Cool, we played standards, like All Blues, Autumn Leaves, All The Things You Are, Caravan, etc. I was about 13 years old at time. I have just switched to guitar after hearing Joe Pass and the Poll Winners album with Barney Kessel.

I have started to. Have about 100 disks, probaly 50 of those are the RVG reissues. The other 50%, just Prestige and other jazz recordings.

I have the same question about an Art Blakey album, Live At Birdland, with Horace Silver, Lou Donaldson, Clifford Brown, and Curly Russel. I have seen the album, but not like the one I got. The one i bought does not have a fold open booklet, rather one of those cheasy one-pagers. It looks like it was made straight from a guys pc, in his basement.

Yo, for practically as long as I have been a jazz fan, I have always knew/thought there was only ONE original American art-form. Which was jazz. Now I got these fellas saying there are TWO original American art-forms, BLUES and jazz. I say, wait a minute. There is only supposed to be one art-form, jazz. (From at least what I have learned and heard for all my jazz influenced life) But then I think, didn't blues originate from jazz? And weren't the two tied together? Please help me out. If you can set me straight, that'd be great.

Any of you guys have these books, featuring the photos of Francis Wolff? I browse through that book all the time. A true blessing to own.

How true.

o I guess I took it the wrong way. My bad.

That bad?

And tell him a 15 year old just bought his 2 Souls In 1 album, and loves it.

Well, if I hear an instrumental version of a song say, Makin' Whoopie, I'll love it. Then when I hear the lyrics, I just dont like the lyrics at all.

Well I meant that statement to be a part of my whole post, but since you are taking it out of my post, well I meant, that, if a jazz musician wrote a song, and it swung and it grooved, it's all right. I might like other songs better thatn that one, but I mean I can take it. But if some pop or R&B musician does a song and calls it, "jazz" I probaly will not be too fond of it.

I never said he was dissing bebop or Coltrane. I just thought he didn't have respect for the guys who are playing bebop now, in the present day.

"What was Coltrane's latest Billboard Top 40 hit?"

Yeah you got good points. I was also thinking that he doesn't respect the kats who are playing bebop. Because bebop hasn't changed that much over time.

The following is a quote by guitarist Pat Metheny, about his reactions towards the Ken Burns Jazz Documentary. "It's nice to know where your history came from, but jazz is about moving foward." Do you agree with that. I mean, it is nice when jazz moves on and is kept fresh but, I got the idea that Metheny doesn't want to listen to or play the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. I don't know how to explain it, but that quote just gets me going, and I practically lost all my repsect for him.

My bad. Yep, Into Something. I like Green's solos on that album, but that's all he does. He doesn't play one melody, or vamps at all. When its his turn to solo, that's the only time he plays on that album. Other than that, tight session!

I guess he didnt get all the recognition he deserved, but I wouldn't call him overlooked. He had some nice dates.

That stuff I like. I even like his Breezin' album, to some extent. I was talking about his new R&B crap, like his new release.

"I'm like the biggest jazz fan ever! BTW, I hate when people make up things right on the spot!"

Kenny Drew.

I have Larry Young's Into It, Hank Mobley's Workout, G. Braith's Two Souls In One, pretty flimsy I know. But like I said, I just switched to guitar from drums, so I still got a lot to get.

Glad to see another loyal fan Jazz Kat! All I have to say, is that if you dig "Two Souls In One" THAT much, you HAVE to get his other two Blue Notes "Soul Stream" (yes, it's my handle here!) and "Extension." They are better in many ways that 2 Souls, although 2 Souls is a stone cold classic. Also, George plays on John Patton's "Blue John" LP. Also on Blue Note and recorded around the same time. It's floating around used but not in print at the time. Definately worth picking up. Yes, George's concept is quite striking. Although initially encouraged by Roland Kirk, Braith definately had/has his own thing with the harmonies. And since I see you're a Grant Green fan, you'd be glad to hear Grant plays on all of Braith's Blue Note recordings as well as Blue John. Not only that, but Grant is in TOP form on all of them. Burning. Yeah, I will take you up on your advice. I am trying to get the whole Blue Note catalogue in my collection. Pretty big right? I have this great book with pictures of all the albums made for Blue Note. Got it for a Christmas present. It's pretty damn cool! I basically try and get any Grant Green stuff I can. Green's my favorite hard bop guitarist, but Joe Pass influenced me the most, on my playing. I'm young, so I still have time to get a lot of the Blue Note catalogue.

How can any real jazz song be bad? Unless it's some lame dude crossing over from pop, o rlike you said, hip hop. I hate it when these pop singers try and scat jazz. It's like, obby dooby, scooby do bop. I'm like what the hell? What's that supposed to mean.

Yeah, I just looked at those sites. I switched from drums to guitar recently and have been delving in deep to guitarists.

Wow. Speaking of Garland, I just played his album, Jazz Winds From A New Direction yesterday. That album inspired George Benson to play guitar. I'm not the biggest Benson fan in the world, but I respect the jazz cuts he does, so think that it was cool, that, that album was the reason for him to take up the guitar.