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NotIt
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Malaga Cove
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Aug 29, 2009 - 11:07pm PT
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While this is arguably a crossover from straight jazz (headed to easy bop - ! yes I said it! - though the break to swing 8ths at 2:35 is trying to prove me wrong), the problem is not lack of guys who can crank in this genre, is lack of exposure and a near complete lack of audience. Go sit in on a recital week at Berkeley Boston and see if you still think that wthe world suffers a wont of players of SAJ.
In the 50's (there they go again @ 4:00!) and 60's, straight ahead jazz was truly POPular music and got airplay and broader media exposure commensurate with that status.
Now, this stuff is fringe. They are/this is quality, though.
Oh! Hazeltine has great rythm. Nice stuff on his chorus in the 7th minute, but his left hand work sounds weak through here (though not as bad as mine!).
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NotIt
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Malaga Cove
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Aug 29, 2009 - 11:16pm PT
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Lokesh -
I have NEVER seen a MORE Japanese keys player trying harder to be NOT Japanese!!!
So technically perfect, so playing dead ON TOP of the beat (she makes Scofield look like a positive laggard), yet totally WANTING to be behind.
Hard to explain to a non-musician. Though maybe you are a musician and understand this perfectly...
Do you have a clip where she digs in to the Nord sitting on top of the piano? I love Nord Leads and have a Nord Electro 3 on the way. Nevermind found it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-HHG5B4GZs&feature=related);.
Personally I think, having seen the clip I just referenced, that she is a more gifted keys/synth player than pianist.
You would probably like EST, though Esbjorn Svensson, the founder, died a year or so ago. Their Strange Place for Snow album was a about as far outside of the traditional trio genre as you can take the traditional instrumentation of the trio format.
EDIT:
my god. this woman. what hand independence... As a pianist this is truly tough to fathom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCniYVLlXs&NR=1
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NotIt
Trad climber
Malaga Cove
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Aug 29, 2009 - 11:25pm PT
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PC -
What a beautiful horn head on Fuller Love.
Moanin' is probably my first pick if I just want to swing. Van Gelder's production is almost too Van Gelder on this one, but all is forgiven when the first three notes of the horn solo drop on the album version.
Geeking out on music on Supertopo... I did not think that my two loves would ever meet. Good thing I had an early gig today or I probably would have missed this thread!
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Aug 30, 2009 - 01:34am PT
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Very Tasty!
Thanks for the links.
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pc
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East of Seattle
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Aug 30, 2009 - 01:52am PT
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Aw Jeez, another perfectly good Saturday evening blown on YouTube. Thanks guys ;)
Man, now I've got to check out that movie 1900. Looks too good to miss. How could I have?
And for something completely unrelated but so damn good and cute I can't help but post it. Just goes to show the degrees of wandering possible on the 'tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRGIWfptVo - Bjork, straight ahead ;)
And Notlt, You never know what treats you'll find in the virtual campfire. I there are quite a few jazzers in the crowd here.
skoal,
pc
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tonesfrommars
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Aug 30, 2009 - 01:55am PT
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Morricone is the bomb.
Who dropped the speed in hiromi's cheerios? JESUS. impressive, but akin to violent musical projectile diarrhea..
Supermario brothers is as much of an influence here as Oscar and Art.
Music is great, ain't it?
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Aug 30, 2009 - 11:13am PT
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Tonight at the Idyllwild Jazz festival Pete Escovedo and his daughter Sheila E. They will deliver smoking fine latin jazz grooves.
http://www.peteescovedo.com/
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Radish
Trad climber
Seki, California
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Aug 30, 2009 - 03:04pm PT
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I just put a few Weather Report songs on my pod. Good Jazz,I wish they were still around. Saw some of the players in Santa Barbara for Joni Mitchell's shadows and light tour, at the bowl. Pat Matheney was there.............
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Aug 30, 2009 - 11:32pm PT
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Just back from the Idylwild Jazz Festival.
Two days' worth of all kinds of jazz, plenty of it straight ahead. Quite a few good young players coming out of the Academy there. Straight ahead jazz may not be what it was but
notices of its demise are greatly exagerrated.
Oddly, the headliner Saturday was Mindi Abair who I would classify more as Funk. Very enjoyable to be sure and certainly jazzy at times but a bit of a departure for the die-hard jazz fans.
ps
Went for a 10 PM Snake Hunt on the Suicide Trail. Yes, alcohol
was involved. Alas, not snake one but we were treated to the show of headlights coming down from 'Lily Rock' at 11 PM! A 'learning
experience' I guess as we didn't hear any sirens.
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Iron Mtn.
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Corona, Ca.
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Aug 31, 2009 - 12:27am PT
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Nice, if there was ever a musical trend that needs to come back, I would say the Hard Bop Jazz from the 50's and 60's would be a welcome relief to all the noise pollution out there.
In the meantime, how about a little avant Jazz courtesy of Sun Ra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFp_gGxEais
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