soulpope Posted June 17, 2023 Report Posted June 17, 2023 12 hours ago, Peter Friedman said: Fabulous .... Quote
Gheorghe Posted June 17, 2023 Report Posted June 17, 2023 14 hours ago, felser said: I always enjoy any of the iterations of this cooperative and the Mingus Dynasty. Saw the Mingus Dynasty live once at the Painted Bride Art Center when they had Jack Walrath, Joshua Redman, John Hicks, Michael Formanek, Alex Foster (forget the others) and it was an outstanding show. Since I saw Mingus live 2 times I didn´t have too much desire to see the "Dynasties" after his death, which was a terrible blow to me. The problem over the years was that they lost players who really HAD played with Mingus. Jack Walrath of course knows Mingus´ music more than many other Mingus Alumni and was the trumpet player who was with Mingus when I heard him. I think I was most impressed by his fantastic latin solo on Cumbia, or his boppish attack on "Three or Four Shades of the Blues". Wait a minute......I really SAW a Mingus Ghost Band one time. It was conducted by Jimmy Knepper and had former Mingus members like George Adams and John Handy , really ! So I was looking forward hearing that edition, but it was a sad and week thing. Jimmy Knepper, former one of the hottest guys on trombone, just conducted and did it in a completly vacant and indifferent manner, many of us laughed at his "conducting" which anyway was not necessary because you can play that music without a conductor. George Adams seemed to have lost all his fire, it is possible that it was not long before he died. John Handy was better. The drummer was a good one whom I had heard many times, but he is not a Mingus drummer . Danny Richmond was still alive then but he was not in that band. 6 hours ago, rostasi said: Of course the music was not to my liking, I can´t enjoy anything else then jazz (well maybe some old shlagers or maybe an opereta or a ballett) and this was always the same monotonous thing. But I liked to look at the audience. Reminded me of a similar country in pre 1989. You think they are poor but they have pride and they are neatly dressed and I like to see them, women look like women, and men look like men...... More of that ! Not for the music, but for seeing the folks.... 6 hours ago, rostasi said: this is one of the funniest things I ever saw. From what country is that, Pakistan ? India ? It´s like a parody for our eyes and ears, all those extremly serious expressions on that tune that seems to attract mostly non jazz listeners (I heard so often non jazzers say they don´t like "jazz" but they like "Take Five". All them fiddles lookin the same way and fiddlin´ with the same movements, like if it was not individual players but on thing with dozens of arms and feet and heads 😄 Again, I think the "conductor" is only for the show because I doubt you have to "conduct Take Five" 😄 Quote
Dub Modal Posted June 17, 2023 Report Posted June 17, 2023 13 hours ago, rostasi said: Ha, unlike @Gheorghe I dig this. Maybe the entire string section isn’t necessary but the sitar, guitar and tablas look to be played by guys with chops. Thanks for posting it Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted June 17, 2023 Report Posted June 17, 2023 35 minutes ago, Dub Modal said: Ha, unlike @Gheorghe I dig this. Maybe the entire string section isn’t necessary but the sitar, guitar and tablas look to be played by guys with chops. Thanks for posting it I completely love this, and there is nothing wrong with the string section. I wonder if they have records. Quote
mjazzg Posted June 17, 2023 Report Posted June 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said: I completely love this, and there is nothing wrong with the string section. I wonder if they have records. Add me to the completely love crew too Quote
T.D. Posted June 17, 2023 Report Posted June 17, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Dub Modal said: Ha, unlike @Gheorghe I dig this. Maybe the entire string section isn’t necessary but the sitar, guitar and tablas look to be played by guys with chops. Thanks for posting it I also like it. I sometimes attend concerts of Indian / Pakistani music, and these sitar / tabla players are seriously good. Edited June 17, 2023 by T.D. Quote
Gheorghe Posted June 18, 2023 Report Posted June 18, 2023 16 hours ago, Dub Modal said: Ha, unlike @Gheorghe I dig this. Maybe the entire string section isn’t necessary but the sitar, guitar and tablas look to be played by guys with chops. Thanks for posting it I didn´t say I don´t "dig" it😉 But I can´t really say I dig or I don´t dig it. It just looks funny to me all them deadly serious guys . Music is love, even if it is "Take Five" 😜, and they look so angry..... 7 hours ago, EKE BBB said: Great picture. This must be an interesting sound . Two completly different styled sounds of tenor. Dexter had deep respect for Webster, but I don´t know how it was vice versa, since there was a story that Ben Webster hated it, when Dexter started to play Body and Soul in a more modal manner (the way he plays it on "Manhattan Symphony". Quote
Gheorghe Posted June 18, 2023 Report Posted June 18, 2023 13 hours ago, rostasi said: I like that better than the Take Five with them "angry string players" 😄 That native flute player is really playin´something and compliment for having a jazz feeling with such a strange wooden flute. They all are great, but really I don´t understand why there has to be a conductor ? I think that´s a kind of music and groove that works for itself. But it is really fun. Well I wouldn´t buy it, but yeah it´s fun and fine players from a different part of the world . Quote
Balladeer Posted June 18, 2023 Report Posted June 18, 2023 13 hours ago, Peter Friedman said: Wow, what a find! In Germany Gitte Haenning has been popular as a sort of Schlager-Chanteuse. I like this cool Dane, too. I know that earlier in her career she sang jazz but never heard a record such as this 1969 album with arrangements by Francy Boland. How is it? Quote
sidewinder Posted June 18, 2023 Report Posted June 18, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Balladeer said: Wow, what a find! In Germany Gitte Haenning has been popular as a sort of Schlager-Chanteuse. I like this cool Dane, too. I know that earlier in her career she sang jazz but never heard a record such as this 1969 album with arrangements by Francy Boland. How is it? Not the greatest thing the CBBB ever did but very enjoyable and Gitte sounds fine on it. I have the reissue CD and a vinyl copy on German Hor Zu/Columbia, 70s reissue. I’ve not heard any of it but believe that she has done more jazzier stuff in recent years. Not a Schlager fan, it is up (down) there with C&W in my book ! Edited June 18, 2023 by sidewinder Quote
HutchFan Posted June 18, 2023 Report Posted June 18, 2023 Prompted by the Christy posts above: Fine music for a lazy Sunday morning. Quote
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