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What's Jazz?
Name as many as 3.
Al Dimeola "Mediterranean Sundance"
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
What's Jazz?
Music that is mainly played on the upbeat instead of the usual down beat. Swing is popular type of jazz.
Too tough to name three, but these are on my mind at the moment.
"Siete Ocho" by Andrew Hill
"Shhh/Peaceful" by Miles Davis
"Crescent" by John Coltrane
I'll add "Witch Hunt" by Wayne Shorter since I'm seeing him in SA Saturday!
So What - Miles Davis
Just curious...Are Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King considered jazz?
Good question. Strictly speaking they don't improvise much, and that's a deal-killer for most snooty jazz purists. However, some elements of their performances do have jazz-like qualities. The most obvious one that comes to mind is Sinatra's practice of singing behind the beat. Me? I would count them in some kind of pop-jazz specturm, but I try to be inclusive as a matter of course. I mean you'll find a guy like Johnny Hartman -- one of my favs -- in the jazz section without fail, but he didn't improvise much either.
Cole is a special case because he was originally a jazz pianist of the first order. His playing was a stylistic bridge between the stride masters like Earl Hines and bop innovators like Bud Powell. Listen to some of his early trio recordings where he sang and played to get a full appreciation of his talent.
Not exactly "Jazz", but rather influenced by it in some way:
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Bubble House
US3 - Cantaloop
Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack
Beatles - When I'm Sixty-Four
Rolling Stones - Casino Boogie
Morphine - Early To Bed
Jools Holland & Jamiroquai - I'm In The Mood For Love
The Clash - Jimmy Jazz
Television - Marquee Moon
Jimi Hendrix - Up From the Skies
Marcus Miller - Come Together
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Sultans of swing . . . now you're talking!
All right, a real topic.
I submit that nobody really has three favorite jazz songs, they depend on the mood you're in at the time. Having said that, here are some favorites among the classics:
Haitian Fight Song - Charles Mingus
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
The Moontrane - Dexter Gordon
Songs I listen to even more than those, although probably not considered classics, are Hard Work by John Handy and Y Todavia la Quiero by Joe Henderson.
On the other hand, right now I have a hankering for Soppin The Biscuit by Roy Hargrove.
Last edited by ShoogarBear; 09-16-2005 at 09:03 PM.
3 Really good songs than. They don't have to be your favorite. Since not many are posting you can do more.
Which album is that on? Right now I'm really into the version of that song on Bobby Hutcherson's Live at Montreux. Woody Shaw was a criminally underrated composer and trumpeter.The Moontrane - Dexter Gordon
The one I have is off the album Sophisticated Giant. A really oustanding version, I think.
Thanks, I'll have to pick up some of Dex's post-exile CDs.
The first time I heard that song, and Woody for that matter, was Larry Young's Unity -- still one of my favorite discs.
Oh, yeah, Sister Cheryl off Wynton Marsalis' first album is probably the song I've most played on my MP3 player.
Haven't heard that one.
I agree about Woody. The thing I notice is that some people who prefer classical and don't ordinarily listen to jazz seem to like him a lot.
Not really into Jazz all that much, but I do love some Diana Krall.
From what I know about him, he was really heavily into theory and incorporating very exotic influnces into his music like Balinese folk tunes, etc. Might have something to do with it. Ack, the more I learn about this stuff the more I know I don't know anything.
I don'r own a lot of Jazz, but I frequently keep the cable box on the Jazz Channel. Damned if I can't remember many of those songs that I like.
Usually, when a tune pops on that I really like and I look up to check out the name, it seems like it's always Art Blakey.
Dave Brubeck-Take Five
I love me some Nina Simone any day. Don't care what song - although I do love "Mississippi Goddamn" and "Lilac Wine" - and her rendition of "The House of the Rising Sun".
John Coltrane "Giant Steps" and "Spiral"
Allan Holdsworth anything on the I.O.U. cd.
Dameron - If You Could See Me Now
Mingus - Fables of Faubus
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most - I'm can't recall right now who wrote it.
Others:
Nostalgia in Times Square
Harlem Nocturne
Anything with Rythym Changes - Oleo, etc.
I Mean You
In a Sentimental Mood
Judy's Dilemma (Fuller)
nina...ahhhhh. she makes me wanna do stuff to her....
but uhhh...yeah... i like miles's "my funny valentine" and diana krall is great to...but nina...ahhhhhh, nina.
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