Here's who will be playing with Horace Silver in his up coming shows.
Horace Silver, piano
Michael Mossman, trumpet
Eric Alexander, tenor sax
Ray McMorrin, tenor sax
Steve Davis, trombone
Conrad Herwig, trombone
Jon Weber, bass
Joe Farnsworth, drums
Kind of Blue was the first CD I lent him. I thought of playing a joke by giving him Unit Structures. But I might set him back.
I lent him Lou Donaldson's Lou Takes Off. Nice record to keep the interest.
How many musicians here write music they hear in their sleep? I always have melodies come to me while I'm sleeping. The hard part then, is getting up and writing down melodies down so I don't forget them by morning.
Anyone else have music come to them in their sleep?
Do any of the other guitar players here listen to mostly other guitar players, or do you find yourself listening to other instruments? I find I listen to more horn players then guitar players. It also effected my playing by listening to horn players.
I have a friend that started listening and buying jazz. I lent him John Coltrane's "Giant Steps". At first he couldn't get into it. I told him, listen to it a few more times. He gave it back to me this morning. He said it grew on him and that would be the next CD he is going to buy.
Now would "A Love Supreme" be too much for a newbie to understand? How far along does it take to fully understand a piece of work like Trane's "A Love Supreme." He saw me listening to it this morning. He wanted to check it out. I said it might turn you off to Coltrane. This piece is his signature work, and very model.
I was listening to Grant Green's Standards this morning. The back of the CD case states , "The slight phasing effect on the cymbals on serveral performances is derived from an azimuth problem which occurred in the 1980 tape transfer of this sessions."
Now, I really can't say I hear anything that I shouldn't hear from the cymbals. Anyone know where I should be listening for this?
Wow, sad to hear he didn't have it. He's one of the great trumpet players in the 50 through the 70's. "Getting old sucks!" I saw Clark Terry in December,and those were his words.
Walter was a wonderful spirit and I wish for more too.
So, which ones do you have?
Just Davis Cup and stuff with him as a sideman. Art Blakey and the Jazz messengers
Do you think if record companies would market jazz like they do top 40 music, jazz would sell just as well?
Or
Does jazz require one to think too much for the average person and it would never work marketing it like top 40?