Some great jazz artists are so well known that instead of their given names, their albums are titled by their street names, such as "Bean Bags".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_Bags
Jazz for aficionados
Some great jazz artists are so well known that instead of their given names, their albums are titled by their street names, such as "Bean Bags". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_Bags |
Coleman Hawkins ("Bean"); fantastic player. His 1939 solo on "Body And Soul" is considered pivotal in jazz and one which took improvisation in an entirely new direction away from the comfortable linear style of the swing era to a more modern angular style that just about every modern player would be influenced by. Btw, the album title "Beanbags" is a combination of Hawkins' moniker "Bean" with that of co-leader Milt Jackson's "Bags". https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zUFg6HvljDE |
Here are a couple more tunes by Ammons that I like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If77_P8v7iE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AFyS7sZvN0 |
I am sorry to say that I fully agree with Schubert, and more. But I wouldn't have put it quite straightforwardly as he did. This doesn't mean that I wouldn't have wanted to. Orpheus10, our taste is sometimes similar or at least not dissimilar, but at other times I completely fail to understand you. Schubert listens to classical music, I don't, and yet.. I know when classical musician plays as it should be played. And I truly miss Paganini, I guess. |