Do you like/listen to Jazz?

by **Slowhand** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:15:00

Napalm wrote:do you have a mustache

I could give it a shot I guess.

by **Philly the Kid** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 17:18:58

Smooth - what are you listening to these days?

by **drsmooth** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 19:17:09

Stuff from olden days, Kid. Had this album playing my car the past few days:

Blue Lights (When Farmer Met Gryce) - Art Farmer, Gigi Gryce, Freddie Redd, Art Taylor, someone else

by **drsmooth** » Sun Apr 03, 2016 08:31:20

Slowhand, something you may already be familiar with: trailer for the documentary made a few years ago about Philadelphia guitar genius Pat Martino's recovery from surgery on a brain tumor that wiped his memory:

Love that a portion of the trailer's soundtrack is a "pop"-y version of Martino's Mac Tough

Interesting options: the movie costs $30 (!?!) to purchase, but you can rent a viewing on Youtube for $2.99. Click through the youtube clip to watch the above trailer on Youtube, then look for the link to the right of the vidclip display for the Martino Unstrung $2.99 link.

Notes with the clip tell us Joe Pesci makes an appearance. Well, of course he does

by **Slowhand** » Sun Apr 03, 2016 13:19:28

I was aware of the film, but the last time I checked the only way to watch it (legally) was the $30 option, so I wasn’t going to do that. The $2.99 is a better option, so thanks I’ll definitely check it out.

As for Joe Pesci, it actually makes sense. I read Pat’s autobiography a while back, and if I’m remembering correctly, Pesci was (is?) a jazz guitarist way back when and played some of the same clubs Martino did. No idea if he was any good. Anyway, Pat talked about how sometime after his surgery Joe Pesci came up to him and started talking to him as if he’d known him for years and Joe said something like “You don’t know who I am do you?”. Pat says, “sure you’re Joe Pesci” and rattles off a few of his movies. Pesci responds that yes, but they’ve known each other before the surgery and tells Pat what drink he (Pat) used to order all the time back then and then Pat remembers that he had been friends with him before.

by **Slowhand** » Sun Apr 03, 2016 13:46:27

Found an excerpt from a radio interview about this

"Due to the brain operations that I had I had forgotten all about him. I’ve known Joe since I was seventeen years old. He was 19 at the time and I was playing at an establishment in Harlem called “Small’s Paradise.” Joe was a guitar player and vocalist working with a local group out near Mahwah, NJ where Les Paul – god rest his soul- used to live. He worked on Rt. 46 at one of the nightclubs there, one of the bars and he was singing in front of a group. After his show was over he and his band would come over to Small’s where I was playing with Willis Jackson at the time.

I had forgotten all about that because of the surgeries and then sometime around 2001/2002 I was playing at the Blue Note. I came up from one of the sets and I was soaking wet in terms of perspiration. I headed back into the dressing room and into the bathroom and put some cold water on my face to refresh myself. When I opened the door to come back into the dressing room there was standing Joe Pesci and his manager Tommy DiVito. I said, “Gosh Joe Pesci, man this is really far out! I hope you enjoyed the show.” He said, “You don’t really remember me do you? I said, “Sure I do” and I started to project some of the names of the films that he was so prolific in.

He said, “No, no you don’t remember me at all.” He said, “I’m going to tell you something that might help you remember me. I remember what you used to drink. You used to drink a mint julep.” When he said that, I immediately had an explosion in the back of my mind and I had this picture at Small’s Paradise standing with Joe Pesci and having a mint julep. It just ignited that recollection.

by **drsmooth** » Sun Apr 03, 2016 14:59:01

Slowhand that's pretty amazing - thanks for sharing that!

But a mint julep? No wonder he blotted that out of his memory.

There's still a Smalls in NYC & it's still a jazz club, but now it's in Greenwich Village

by **pacino** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 22:51:10

Mavis staples was very good. What a voice. I think she's losing her mind a little but what a showing

by **drsmooth** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 20:53:15

Piano jazz/Bill Evans fans may be interested in this news. Apparently someone's dug up the masters for studio recordings Evans made with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette back in 1968. The release title is Some Other Time (cle-verrrrrr).

If you're one of those fancy-schmantzy vinyl snobs, you can get the 2 disc release right now, for about 50 bucks.

For us digital types, the recordings become available April 22, for about $16.

Amazon's doing something I haven't seen done - if you pre-order, you get 4 tracks NOW - and pay about $5 of your order total now - and then get the entire release on the 22nd.

The sample tracks sound really well-recorded. Evans-Gomez-DeJohnette ain't Evans-LaFaro-Motian, but it ain't chopped liver neither.

by **TomatoPie** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 23:56:52

I love me some Bill Evans. Thanks Doc.

FTR, correct me if my impression is wrong, but the cool thing about jazz people is that they are often more musically open.

Rock people have knee-jerk hate for country. Country people have knee-jerk hate for rap.

I figure most jazz people find the music in all of it. Doesn't mean that Shania is as good as Bird; but broad taste is a sign of higher mindedness.

by **Slowhand** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 06:11:15

drsmooth wrote:Piano jazz/Bill Evans fans may be interested in this news. Apparently someone's dug up the masters for studio recordings Evans made with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette back in 1968. The release title is Some Other Time (cle-verrrrrr).

If you're one of those fancy-schmantzy vinyl snobs, you can get the 2 disc release right now, for about 50 bucks.

For us digital types, the recordings become available April 22, for about $16.

Amazon's doing something I haven't seen done - if you pre-order, you get 4 tracks NOW - and pay about $5 of your order total now - and then get the entire release on the 22nd.

The sample tracks sound really well-recorded. Evans-Gomez-DeJohnette ain't Evans-LaFaro-Motian, but it ain't chopped liver neither.

Well that’s a rather interesting combo, Dejohnette being much more towards the fusion end of the spectrum. I will check this out. I don’t claim to know much about drumming, but he’s one of the few drummers whose playing always sticks out to me. Whenever I hear something where the drumming really catches my ear, when I go to find out who it is on drums, approximately 87% of the time it’s Dejohnette.

Again, more on the fusion side if you’re into that sort of thing, but this one has been in heavy rotation for me lately:

by **drsmooth** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 09:39:23

TomatoPie wrote:FTR, correct me if my impression is wrong, but the cool thing about jazz people is that they are often more musically open.

Well, I have no objective data to back me up, but my own observation is that jazz fans can be among culture's most irritating snobs. I know I am...

8-)

just as a f'erinstance, I'm pretty sure you could collect a big pile of dough if you were to start a GoFundMe to underwrite the destruction of every Kenny G recording, musical instrument he wields, and the guy himself

by **Philly the Kid** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 15:09:20

drsmooth wrote:Piano jazz/Bill Evans fans may be interested in this news. Apparently someone's dug up the masters for studio recordings Evans made with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette back in 1968. The release title is Some Other Time (cle-verrrrrr).

If you're one of those fancy-schmantzy vinyl snobs, you can get the 2 disc release right now, for about 50 bucks.

For us digital types, the recordings become available April 22, for about $16.

Amazon's doing something I haven't seen done - if you pre-order, you get 4 tracks NOW - and pay about $5 of your order total now - and then get the entire release on the 22nd.

The sample tracks sound really well-recorded. Evans-Gomez-DeJohnette ain't Evans-LaFaro-Motian, but it ain't chopped liver neither.

I'll keep an eye out. The thing is - that Bill did evolve a bit and by time he was playing with Gomez and recordings like Montreaux III in the 70's - he was doing more than he did in '61 at Live at the Village Vanguard w Lafaro piano-wise. Iwould still take live at vv with me to desert island over the later w gomez but there is some advanced stuff. '68 though - not sure what the music will be?

I also really like Bill Evans solo. Reflections in D, Turn out the Stars, Here's that Rainy Day - solo - man....

by **drsmooth** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 16:35:10

Kid, FWIW, these rediscovered recordings were recorded about a week after the trio played - and recorded - at the Montreaux festival. That live recording was/is well regarded

by **drsmooth** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 18:36:46

Good VV article on a day in the workaday life of a contemporary jazz musician - specifically that of terrific bassist Linda Oh.

A little corny at the end, but gets her - and basically (pun intended) IMO jazz right now - to a T.

by **drsmooth** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 09:09:43

POTUS nominee interviewing a candidate for Secretary of State? We can dream:

[Reveal] Spoiler:

Sonny Rollins, y'dig

by **drsmooth** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 09:15:16

meanwhile, lining up for an opposing candidate's cabinet:

by **drsmooth** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 17:51:34

Seinfeld explains Buddy Rich's influence on - well - Seinfeld:

by **drsmooth** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 20:16:13

Whisper Not, the autobiography of Philadelphia native, friend of John Coltrane, and composer of the title number - Benny Golson - came out a month ago. Gonna go get it. Soon as I finish Albert Murray's Murray Talks Music.

by **drsmooth** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 20:40:00

jazz humor, somewhat of a nod to Mingus' inclinations when naming compositions

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