Hardbopjazz

I was having this very dscussion with someone at work today. He stopped by my desk since he knows I listen to jazz and ofter play CD's while I work. He showed my a copy of Chuck Mangione's greatest hits and said, "now this is jazz." I guess you can say it is jazz to extent, but he's not someone I'd run out to buy or see.

I've done the emusic thing when it was unlimmited as well as bought CD's each month. As Vibes said, after awhile too many CD bought at one time makes it hard to real enjoy music. Plus living in NY everything else is expensive so you have to limit youe spending. March, I bought 5 CD's. This month so far just one. Maybe 1 one this month. Less new stuff means a better understanding of the music you already own.

There's a new rock band called "The Motherfuckers" Their one album is called "We're Fucked".

That’s scary shit! The person I found to teach piano to my daughter allows the parent to sit in the next room where he/she can watch what going on.

I would love to see this done for jazz music.

If you want to hear how a real pro does it, check out Sonny Rollins' The Cutting Edge. More specifically Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Rufus Harley has the first solo on this one, a few minutes into the solo, Sonny decides he's had enough (that's what it sounds like anyway) and totally takes over. Really interesting to hear. Additionally, a very good Sonny album IMO. I guess this would the blunt way of doing it. I have a friend I use to play with. He would solo for what seemed to be hours at a time. We would practice together, something use some play along records. He only stopped when the record ended. Real funny now that I think of it.

I wonder if Miles was conscious of the change? When Bird started to play the notes outside of what was typically being played, the flatted 5th and the use different cords inversion, he realized he'd stumbled onto something different. To borrow a cliché, I wonder if Miles knew he found the road less traveled and then took it. Most trumpet players appeared to be playing a lot of notes when they were soloing back in the late 40’s. Nothing wrong with that, it was apart of bop. Being conscious of this, was Miles aware that this type of playing would lead to a new style of jazz, Cool? Did he set out to re-event jazz already at this point in his career? I believe he did.

During his early days with Charlie Parker and even when he recorded for Blue Note, Miles was playing a lot of note when he soloed. Then as he progressed through his Prestige years and on, the barrage of notes dropped. He began playing fewer notes. Now I am sure this was deliberate, but why the change? I think less note gave him a distinct sound that said MILES.

Every run into this when playing with others? How do you tell them to cut it down somewhat?

How did you get the software to change your birthday, or did you do it yourself?

There was one photo taken in the Hackensack studio, where there's photo of someone playing the piano, don't remember whom it was, but it was just a shot of the musicians back and the blinds covering the window. It doesn't appear in the book I have, but I did see it once on some website. I'll have to try to track it down.

Do you mean a sideman or as a leader? I don't know of anything before his 51' session for Prestige. His sessions with Babs Gonzales from the late 40's may be available on emusic. You can signup for the trial period and download them.

Yeah, there's a lot of photos in the book with musicans smoking. Kind of makes you say, "yeah, smoking is cool." Man, I bet Van Gelder's studio must have reeked from smoke.

One of favorite photos of his, is that of Sam Jones from Sonny Red's "Out of the Blue." You can see the smoke and the flame burning form Jone’s cigarette and rising through the air. Just a great shot. I don't know if anyone else has the book of his photos. There just so many great shots in there.

Thanks, I'll have to come up with what TOCJ's I would want and can afford.

b3-er, how much harder is it to learn the organ over the piano? I know there are all those pedals on the organ which adds to the equation.

Any CD's there that might be worth her picking up for me? Plus, would the cost be the same if I ordered them from the states. I read once that you pay list price for CD's in Japan, no discounts.

Thanks

Can someone tell me an easy way to convert US dollars to Euros?

I forgot about that one.

Of course not. Maybe my questions should have said are there any of his photos that don't grab you.

What do you think of this session? I am going through it for the 5th time, and it's starting to grow on me. Anyone else liking it?

Every photo I ever seen by Francis Wollf was great. I can't think of 1 photo I didn't like that he took, at least none from any albums. Can you think of any?

Now I wonder about the numbers. Two years ago I bought the Blue Mitchell set at the same time as a friend. The number were off by 800 from each set. Do they just grab any set and mail it? Is it done numerically one after the other?

Then maybe there's something wrong with my copy. There are points when as if the mic is outside the club and muffled.