Jazz for aficionados
I haven't played this a few years so here goes some early Joey D. with Marchel Ivery and Clint Strong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzVSMLHXwas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Enp4AfNPI |
nsp, I'm glad you enjoyed Oran Etkin; the fact that you reviewed him, will encourage me to post more new jazz. Straight ahead jazz plus world music on a bass clarinet, sounds like an interesting combination; let me see what I can find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTBJzGMgRYY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bsnZcamJB0 The more I listen to Oran the better I like him. What I detest is "stereotypical" jazz; that's when someone recreates all of the most typical riffs and phrases they've heard, and it always sounds like something I've heard before. If it's going to be new, make it "new" An old tune played with a different kind of horn; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hql_zpc2OTE |
bluesy41, you’re right, Joey DeFrancesco is a bad man! Great clips all. Some of my favorite work of his is with the great Pat Martino; very complimentary approaches and they burn! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O15Xmzn6T1Y |
pryso, re your “challenge” and to use some of your examples: Bill Evans. Instead of “Waltz For Debby’ which, although deserving it, gained increased popularity from the relatively new wave of audiophile reissues, my choice for an introduction to Bill Evans would be “Everybody Digs Bill Evans”. A little less “moody” and itrospective than WFD with an overall more upbeat feeling and still with that beautiful suave sophistication. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRh9kGdYB9I Cannonball Adderley. We discussed “Somethin’ Else” here quite a while ago mostly in comparison to KOB for overall merit. For me there is no contest with KOB being the most important of the two. O-10 and Rok disagreed, feeling that KOB was too much of an “audiophile darling” (?). However, I also argued that I felt that “Somethin’ Else” was really, more than anything, a Miles Davis date. Not to go there again, but for an introduction to Cannonball I would pick his album with a most fitting name, “Presenting Cannonball Adderley”; and not because of the title: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SN7ajvau50E Miles Davis and speaking of KOB. You’re right, it would be difficult to argue against KOB being the choice, but I’ll play Devil’s Advocate and suggest that a better choice for an introduction would be “Round About Midnight”. Miles’ overall scope of styles is huge and amazing as we know. KOB, with all its greatness is a record that clearly defines a dramatic move to a style (modal) that would help shape just about everything he did afterwards. In some ways what came before might get lost a bit to someone new to Miles.. I would pick the record that hints at the more modern style of KOB and beyond, but is still more obviously rooted in the pre-modal tradition. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6FD0274FA2A10567 Interesting topic. |
