I need to Jazz

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Well...Got ready for seeing Peter Green
We were all Gee'd-up..ready to see the man that we both admire.
It was an open air gig, and i was going with my Dad ( who is an accomplished musician.) Got there in the pissing rain only to be told, gig cancelled. On the way up from London he was taken ill and went to Hospital.


Ended up sitting on a bench in a graveyard..in the rain. Was good to have a proper Dad/Son chat.

Now Dad's into Jazz n Blues n RocknRoll and Spanish..Well owt apart from most of the stuff i play, but we are bonded by the love of The Blues. He and a friend have managed to get Jerry Bergonzi to come over to England with his band (£850..cheap as chips) and play in town. Now i hate not being able to get into types of music...i feel like i'm missing out on something..But i can't get my head around jazz.

Obviously i'll be trying some Bergonzi, but are there any Jaaazzz Catz out there gimme some pointers?
I have a Best of Miles Davis and a Dizzie Gillespie and some Cannolball Adderley Lps and they don't do it for me.
Maybe some Piano driven Jazz?...Dunno.

Hit me with links.


Pat
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[The Artist]

omg, my mate has just been and told me it was cancelled!

[The Shaggy D.A.]

I'm not that great a jazz fan, but from being subjected to it in my childhood, there's a couple of Kenny Ball tracks I do love, Midnight in Moscow and The Green Leaves of Summer.

Although seeing this whilst looking through YouChoob makes me want to spooge :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHMC2nnbwMg
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[Ariel Badger]

Music that makes me cry
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Pass the tissues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejcZEogGOIk
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Then again, there's always...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWVCRkJWow
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

'Kenny Ball can Feck off '

...see what i mean?

Ok, Jazz is huge innt. Now i like chillout stuff...not too minimal and not keen on the rainforest/waterfall/beach shit. More weird chillout.
Or sexy chillout, sometimes abit of mental chillout.
I also like Killing Joke ...Damm i'm going nowhere.

Don't want squarking Trumpets/Sax/Clarinet whatever.
Don't want covers of popular songs all jazzed-up.
Or that crap Cleo Laine does.
No Ragtime style stuff.
Solos under 15mins would be Niccceee.
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[Ariel Badger]

[Amreet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmtYs_k8WOE&feature=related




then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk



jazz is good.

[kate t]

Peter Green = awesome.

Jazz is wrong.... don't try to get into it, I've tried - For me it was like pretending to enjoy red wine (it makes me want to puke) because it looks more sophisticated than a pint of lager!

Don't get me wrong, I respect what other people enjoy.... each to their own, but if you've got this far without Jazz in your life.... you probably don't need it

I detest it and my other half loves it - we argue!

[Amreet]

[Ariel Badger]

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Talvin Singh some Sawhney..State of Bengal, Autechre, Luke Vibert n DJ Shadow.....into Miles, Gill, Mingus, Train and Ornett.

I have some more exploring to do.

(Think i might do my own Jazz track, and depending on how it turns out, that might help point me towords a flavour.)

@Amreet: Didn't hear all the details, but he's a players player and was happy to be invited by devotees. I'll get info about exact date etc.

Not sure what happened to Dad. Seemed like one moment he was playing screaming lead with mental arpeggios, and now it's Sax and Harmonica Now he could always blow a good harp, but these things he's got are amazing...
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[mistergixer]

For me it's all about the Coltrane, especially:

John Coltrane - Central Park West

If you like fancy a bit of a reggae tint, check out Ernest Ranglin:

Surfin' and Below the bassline

Also, there's the New York Ska Jazz Ensemble's cracking cut of the jazz standard Harlem Nocturne.

Just be careful that The Spirit of Jazz doesn't get inside you.


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[Carl_steveo]

Never really understood Jazz it just seems a bit boring sometimes. It's not my cup of tea but I don't dislike it. I prefer Blues, was just listening to some Billy Branch on the tube of you.
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