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Philosophy is Jazz Solo

How about Bob Fosse?!??


---sorry, i'm really really sorry.
 
Not as sorry as I am...

Kenny G
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Monk.
I don't really like his goofy stage antics. I always thought it was too much attention seeking. but I loved his goofy piano antics.
 
I like Dizzy without the puffed up cheeks but damn can he play.
 

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And you know what, I'm not apologizing this time. I liked them as a kid.
 
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Soren Kierkegaard Live at the Blue Note (Sorry Miles, I couldn't resist, man!)

I hadn't actually realized that Plato wrote a lot on jazz. I kind of thought it was a twentieth century thing. I guess the Afro-Cuban migration to Athens has only come to light in recent years?
 
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RandFan said:
I like Dizzy without the puffed up cheeks but damn can he play.
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I saw a clip on Public Television from an old TV broadcast in which a young Dizzy was playing with Louis Armstrong. They were trading off solos and after each one played the other would smile, shake his head in amazement then launch into his own solo.
 
Foster Zygote;2134696 said:
It boggles my mind that someone could have such great technique and yet be so utterly, paralyzingly, boring to listen to.
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I remember hearing a recording of Kiri Te Kanawa singing a collection of songs usually associated with Ella Fitzgerald. Here was one of the best voices in the world singing some of the best popular music ever written, and it would put you to sleep. Or, as Sy Oliver told our parents in 1939, "It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it". I'm rather glad that Ella never attempted Madam Butterfly. (If she did, I really don't want to hear it.)

In Kenny G's case, however, it's more a case of "It ain't how you do it, it's what you're doing". He's found a niche that pays the bills very well. I have no doubt that he can play, and I would love to hear him stretch out and do something worth listening to.

Disclaimer and shameful admission: I have at least one Kenny G CD. Sometimes music just needs to be there as wallpaper.:blush:
 
PeterB said:
I remember hearing a recording of Kiri Te Kanawa singing a collection of songs usually associated with Ella Fitzgerald. Here was one of the best voices in the world singing some of the best popular music ever written, and it would put you to sleep. Or, as Sy Oliver told our parents in 1939, "It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it". I'm rather glad that Ella never attempted Madam Butterfly. (If she did, I really don't want to hear it.)

In Kenny G's case, however, it's more a case of "It ain't how you do it, it's what you're doing". He's found a niche that pays the bills very well. I have no doubt that he can play, and I would love to hear him stretch out and do something worth listening to.

Disclaimer and shameful admission: I have at least one Kenny G CD. Sometimes music just needs to be there as wallpaper.:blush:
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This reminds me of a fuzzy memory.
From a conversation/interview I saw on TV with Paul McCartney (I think it was him, it could have been him, George Harrison, or Eric Clapton).

"He" was relaying a conversation of he had with Muddy waters saying, something to the effect, "Man, I wish I had your emotion and ability of expression." And Muddy replied, "I wish I had your tecnical skills, but we have what we have."

Please note that this is a fuzzy fuzzy memory, but the intent was accurate and seems to be a classic musical imbalance.

Another account of this "grass is greener" game was between Steve Vai and Frank Zappa. Steve had commented in an interview how during a zappa concert he was reduced to tears over a live performance of watermelon in easter hay. Vai said to zappa something to the effect of, I would kill to play that song like that. And zappa was like, and I'd love to play (Some crazy shredding vai song) but that's how it goes.

I can say, I've never had this problem. I have neither emotive capacity nor technical skills, which saves me from this musical struggle. I just wish i had a little of either.
 
joobz said:
This reminds me of a fuzzy memory.
From a conversation/interview I saw on TV with Paul McCartney (I think it was him, it could have been him, George Harrison, or Eric Clapton).

"He" was relaying a conversation of he had with Muddy waters saying, something to the effect, "Man, I wish I had your emotion and ability of expression." And Muddy replied, "I wish I had your tecnical skills, but we have what we have."

Please note that this is a fuzzy fuzzy memory, but the intent was accurate and seems to be a classic musical imbalance.

Another account of this "grass is greener" game was between Steve Vai and Frank Zappa. Steve had commented in an interview how during a zappa concert he was reduced to tears over a live performance of watermelon in easter hay. Vai said to zappa something to the effect of, I would kill to play that song like that. And zappa was like, and I'd love to play (Some crazy shredding vai song) but that's how it goes.

I can say, I've never had this problem. I have neither emotive capacity nor technical skills, which saves me from this musical struggle. I just wish i had a little of either.
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I forget which pianist said he'd like to have Monk's imagination and Tatum's technical virtuosity. Now that would be a monster!

Vai can certainly play emotively though. I know some people who think he's "just a metal guitarist" but he's much more than that. My cousin (the Wes/Django fan) and I were listening to Vai once and he did a little "cheesy metal" shred bit in the middle of an improve and we both burst out laughing because we recognized the "musical joke" as it were. Vai even grinned and chuckled to himself as he did it.
 
Foster Zygote said:
I saw a clip on Public Television from an old TV broadcast in which a young Dizzy was playing with Louis Armstrong. They were trading off solos and after each one played the other would smile, shake his head in amazement then launch into his own solo.
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:)

I would love to have that in my collection. I will defiantly be on the look out for it.
 
PeterB said:
Django Reinhardt.

People who know me will understand why Django is of special interest to me right now. People who don't know me just have to think of the words "pruning", "secateurs", "index finger", "left hand", "guitar", "getting better", and "very lucky".
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No one else said it, but I'm sure they all join me in saying I'm glad for those last two phrases.

Django is the bomb.
 
I have a request. Please do not make jazz into a metaphor. It really doesn't deserve such sloppy handling.

The only allowable metaphor for jazz might be an old baseball game, but only given orally, and in proper vernacular. Otherwise, please don't.
 
mercuryturrent said:
I have a request. Please do not make jazz into a metaphor. It really doesn't deserve such sloppy handling.

The only allowable metaphor for jazz might be an old baseball game, but only given orally, and in proper vernacular. Otherwise, please don't.
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Why should jazz not be used as a metaphor? How would you construct a metaphor between baseball and jazz? Why should such a metaphor be restricted to verbal use only?
 
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