Stevie Mclean

"Gleedin Like a Red Rag How Could I Shed Tears" - Black Kray aka. Sickboyrari

"Black Hole Sun" - Soundgarden

"The Silver Meter" - Big John Patton

Chartreuse - Kenny Drew

Condition Blue

Part of me wants to see all of them. How many more ways can we entitles a blues? White Gardenia

That's a good one! Tangerine

Back in black

Hey, that's cheating... somehow

Yellow Submarine

Post any songs that have a color in the title. Bonus points for any colors that have not been mentioned. Blue in Green Turquoise Red Arrow

This was my first exposure to Joe. I agree with the similarities to Joe Henderson. I really like the version of Fort Worth on this livestream.

I say that with my tongue in my cheek. Making fun of the many reactions that I get in response to being vegetarian in the construction industry. I also observe many people to be angry/upset at humanity when coming to veganism from an animal rights perspective. If one views animals as spiritually/morally equal to humans then I can definitely see why they might be upset at the current state of things. I digress, don't want to derail this thread too much...

Maybe that's why he was so angry!

Interesting quote from miles. What was the context fr him saying that, was he vegetarian?

How's the vegan restaurant scene over there? Here in Vancouver it seems like half of all new restaurants are vegan, makes it real easy to spend $. I want to go to Europe sometime but I'm worried it might be hard to find vegan/vegetarian food.

Wow, Hank Jones is so tasteful. His comping voicings are so full. Somehow they remind me of this:

I completely agree. Kendrick has a few songs that have many similarities to that Paris song, but the majority of his music has more hip-hop inspired instrumentation and backing. I can definitely get behind those kind of songs when I am in a certain kind of mood, but I think rap music that uses more jazz inspired, acoustic live instrumentals along with a modern vocal delivery in the vein of Kendrick or Jackie is under-represented. I know that classic hip-hop uses these kind of instrumentals, but the flow is too on the beat with barely any triplets or varied swing ratios or rhythms. I come to this perspective as initially a rap listener who discovered jazz and realized that most rap listeners are seriously deprived of high quality musicianship. I now scour the rap Spotify playlists seeking anything that remotely exemplifies that which I can now only find in Jazz.

Which came first, the singer or the ego?

Yeah I might have to concede that. I guess in the context of modern music Jackie is just another pimp saying it how it is. Speaking of rap music, the next time someone excuses rap's lack of harmony/melody by stating that it's a rhythmic art form that should be judged on the basis of rhythm/flow I will play this for them: love to see them reconcile with the fact that this has better "flow" than the vast majority of new rap music. I'd add this one to the "scary good" category as well. Maybe Jackie's friend in YMY was make believe too?

Yeah, ummm... I'm gonna blame that on Edward Herman and Johnny Green. I don't think Jackie's heart was into this one... Hopefully😳.

I think all of these songs are included on the Brunswick record with a few more as well. With that being said, I completely agree. This is my favourite vocal performance by a large margin. If I could either have this record and destroy all other vocal records or have all the others but lose this I would choose the former. Now I wish that wasn't the case, I have searched, maybe not so long or so far, but I have searched, and I can't find anything that scratches the same itch as this record. Even Jackie's later albums just don't do the same thing as this one. His rhythmic phrasing might have gotten a little more "modern" (for lack of a better word) but I find that his pitch control never reaches the heights of the Brunswick. I also think that his phrasing on the Brunswick is so wonderfully subtle while being much more interesting than the average vocalist. The way he stretches the phrases over bar lines and varies the syllabic stress is just so swinging and intriguing.

I can see how my post comes off as quite negative, that is definitely not how I feel in general about this forum. I could not be more grateful for this place and all of its members. I would estimate that 80% of my time on the internet is spent on here and it has almost become my sole form of "social media" (open to dissenting opinions on that classification). It is nothing short of miraculous how much Jazz experience and wisdom exists on this forum in the form of old posts and current members and it continues to amaze me how long many people have been here. I also completely agree with Dub regarding the unattainability of perfection. I tried to convey that in my initial comment, but I understand that complaint without the expectation of change is just wasted bytes. I will use your responses as motivation to ignore the doubts and just make that post on that thread from 10 years ago.

While I do agree that this is by far the best place for Jazz discussion, I think there are a few instances where this forum leaves a little to be desired. It has been discussed earlier in this thread how there are advantages to the forum style method of bumping posts based on replies and not just upload date. I do agree that it is really nice being able to carry out discussions for months and even years, however I have come across the issue of almost any idea or artist I would like to discuss being already talked about in previous threads. With this boards (justifiable) tendency to "use the search function" any new user trying to start a new thread on a previously discussed artist, this board ends up acting more like a library rather than a collaborative space for live interaction. This is evidenced by 90% of posts these days being "album covers", "what are you listening to" or just random topics, usually not jazz related. I know that it is a pipe dream, but I scroll through decade-old threads and yearn for the opportunity to participate in these archived discussions. Like many things in life, I wish for a middle ground between the daily "Awesome picture of famous saxophone player John Coltrane" posts on Reddit and the singular Organissimo thread from 2005 on (pick any of the greats) that hasn't been replied to in a decade. I digress, back to reading the John Patton thread for the nth time. By the way... Where has Soul Stream been lately?

Yeah I think we need to make use of our collective artistic and cognitive superiority and make a "jazz circlejerk circlejerk" thread here.