Jazz Kat

Thats great! You guys are finding jazz groups and dates with guitar and bass, (and drums for some reason which I did not say) but my initial comment was that it was not COMMON. Did not say never, just not as common as a tenor, piano, bass, and drums setup.

guitar, bass, talking bout setups. Just a guitar and a bass isnt the MOST common format in a jazz setting.

You know, it took me a long long time to dig Weather Report's Heavy Weather. I just played it last night, 10 times straight, I think it's starting to get to me. After long hours of 70's fusion, I had to just let my Joe Pass spin for a while. The synths got to me, too much.

Pretty soon I will be playing with just a bass player, with me on guitar; dont believe I have seen that too much.

I just found out today.

O, okay then..

N*O*N*E I dont go for the 'lovey dovey' feeling of James Taylor's music, or 80's hair bands, or any 80's pop for that matter. Just jazz for me.

Apparently there is an auction for the original sheet of music of Love Surpreme, Bird's alto, and Monk's jacket, somewhere in New York. Just thought it was cool.

Didn't he write for Buddy Rich? I remember that name from the New One album.

That guy freeked me out when I saw him on BET Jazz. That black curly hair, uh! Man, that was scary, hes scary...

Do you guys like Wynton Marsalis

Yo, Gerry Neiwood up in da house!

Well since he's only got 6 posts, Im assuming he does not know what goes on here, but I think he was joking...

10 Commandments.

I gotta get me an elevator.

It was All Blues that did it.

That happend to me with, Kind Of Blue, (of all albums). When I got it, I knew nothing about jazz, and just thought of it as boring. As I got older, I easily understood of its greatness.

You had me looking at my date. Hmm Sep. 16, 2004, .........

Horace Silver, Song For My Father

Im just kidding.

No elevators I been in. My dad didn't seem to think so either.

Why that the day you joined?

So where did the term, 'elevator music' come from? I never heard no music in any elevator.

Well what are you into?

You got it. I think when people lock jazz into different styles, bop, avant garde, free, cool, it really hurts the artist. Say an artist gets comfortable as a bop musician, then gets labeled a bop musician, he will only play strictly in a bop sense. It prevents the artist from creating something new, and it all stays the same, and even though the artist might be making some A+ stuff, he is not really doing anything new or creating something nothing that has been done before.