Jazz Kat

Which music? If you don't mind me asking. I'm going to be vague, but modern rock. I cant name bands, I just know from what I have heard. I dont see any creativity in it.

What would you say?

How did she know to pick that one out of all the rest. She dont know anything about jazz. But never-the-less my parents were the reasons for me getting into jazz, in the very very very beginning. My dad showed me the music, my mother always put on the jazz station in the car, all those summers driving around to doctors, friends', supermarkets, and jazz. But I branched out on my own really far now, and my parents dont have a clue what I listen to 95% of the time.

Harlem, haven't visited much. I wanna make it a point to see The Village Vanguard, and now Minton's.

If anything, music seems to take me away from everything else. Seems the better I get playing music, the worse my grades get, and I hate school even more. All I wanna do is play music, and there's no time for anything else.

Me, too!!! This disc was my first real jazz education; up until I heard this disc, I really didn't know what the difference was between a tenor sax and an alto sax. (Only in my case, I wasn't so little! ) My first jazz disk ever. Got it on Easter Sunday. How my mom knew to pick out that disk, the single most revolutionary album in the jazz world, it's beyond me, but I am grateful for it. Kind Of Blue started it all for me. Met Evans, Adderly, Cobb, and Chambers for the first time with this recording. Such memories, though only about 10 years ago.

Thanks, my dad even liked John S! I played out Rollins's Bridge already, alittle bit of Grant Gree, Ornette, Shape Of Jazz To Come is spinning now. I heard alot of these records. I heard Chronilogy, John S., I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Focus On Sanity, and Congeniately on compilations and stuff but I needed the whole albums. So this is what I picked from the numerous cd's available at J&R and Virgin. The meter was set for only an hour so my dad was rushing me, "come on hurry up," I almost went crazy, needed a breath of air, I just stood there for about 10 minutes looking at all the disks! It truley was heaven! Some cuts you would never expect, they got lots of em! Ones you would think they would have, like Meet The Jazztet, and they dont got it! Oh well, I'm enjoying what I got.

But it meant the same back then, so theres no difference.

I think everybody was superb. I remember when I was real little, determining when Trane stopped and Adderly came in to solo. Those were the days.

In the same spot? I dont know much about its location.

I went Downtown today to J&R Music World, and Virgin Records for the first time in my life. WOW!!! What a selection. I bought Sonny Rollins The Bridge, The Shape Of Jazz To Come, and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. What stores!!! I wish I was closer to Downtown, I'd live there! And not expensive, by any means. Some of the Miles and Coltrane cd's were seperated by album!

That was the 1947 Carnegie Hall concert. Was reissued by BN a few years ago as 'Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Diz 'n Bird at Carnegie Hall'. Yes thank you, just saw the cd at J&R a few hours back.

I was just trying to put some of the concepts on The Shape Of Jazz To Come, to the guitar.

Wow this is news to me. A fretless guitar. I gotta get out the o'l knife.

Just suddenly change your last name to Christian, and tell them your of Charlie's family.

This has confused me alot. I get a blue note lp, thinking it's somewhat old, then I see copyright 1997 on the back.

Wasn't there an album with Dizzy Gillespie, and John Lewis, w/ Bird? I think it was on Blue Note.

I wouldnt know how to start to do what they're doing. I just draw mine on paper.

Good News!!!

There's no secret. You just play what comes out, most of the time. I do get down on myself, because I think I'm playing shit, but it all gets better with time.

Well, that's how I interpreted this statement. How did you mean it? As far as where you should go to learn theory, ask a question here and you will get many responses. While there are many excellent books available, I personally think that it's important to hook up with someone so you can ask specific questions- learning by yourself from a book can be pretty dull and dry. I also think a big part of learning jazz theory is ear training- connecting chord symbols and scales to actual sounds. There must be someone you could approach about helping you- either local musicians or someone at a high school or college in the area. At the very least there are many here who can advise you- just ask. I meant on the guitar. I know all the basic chords on the piano. And have a few 7 chords memorized. I cna sit down with a book with about 5000 chords and memorize them all. That time will come. But I need to get off the ground first.

No one chose Blue In Green? My favorite largo tempoed song on the album.

great for those ballads..

Anybody stand up when they play (jazz) guitar, here?

My music has no connection with my computer. I wish it did, but I have no clue. Nor can I download music on my computer.