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Who is your favorite "Old School"jazz musician?
Topic Started: Aug 27 2012, 10:03 AM (704 Views)
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MILES DAVIS !!

he was just great

he just kept changing jazz with every album release

birth of the cool
sketches of Spain
a kind of blues
bitches brew
tutu
u name it
he was a genius... he just gets a group of musicians .. let them play whatever... he sneaks in with his trumpet ties up the loose end and everybody arrive at a new sound and destination they didn`t know they were searching for or knew even existed
not the greatest trumpeter but definitely the smartest and best arranger/musician jazz ever knew

dude was arrogant though ... who could call out a fellow competing trumpeter like `dude is fucking up the trumpet"
but he delivered though he wasn`t all lips

my dislikes... too much drug history...
listen to this radio interview from a radio station to his home
miles was just plain grouchy . disoriented .... guess they were fucking up his high ..lol

listen to this radio interview....
http://youtu.be/qeiYh3J3vZ0

http://youtu.be/07uXWEqLxPY



Edited by beserker, Aug 27 2012, 08:14 PM.
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reddgirl64
Aug 27 2012, 02:52 PM
UTB,

No love for the ladies of Jazz?

Ella? Sarah? Lil Armstrong? Mary Wilson? and Billie?

I love the ones you listed, but if I may add these guy these guys,

Thel Monk
The Count
Benny Goodman

and I just recently got into Art Tatum.

Now, a topic that's got my blood pumping.......
billie holiday... she could sing but what impressed me most was her timing

was watching an old double vhs tape CBS jazz presentation in black and white, it was like a final introduction of jazz to the mainstream

watched her sing .. u perceive this .. with her sitting down swing her head listening and singing like on que i don`t know if iam right but but i could feel that timing about when and tone made her great ,,,, not the voice really

found a u tube of said cbs concert .... watch her

http://youtu.be/Jf0ldEBBJhY


my favorite billie holliday track is `billie blues" incidentally same track she was also singing .... i will post the lyrics below

song embodied women lib+ pragmatism



Lord I love my man tell the world I do
I love my man tell the world I do
But when he mistreats me
Makes me feel so blue

My man wouldn't give me no breakfast
Wouldn't give me no dinner
Squawked about my supper and put me outdoors
Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes
I didn't have so many
But I had a long, long way to go

(bridge)

Some men like me 'cause I'm happy
Some 'cause I'm snappy
Some call me honey
Others think I got money

Some tell me baby you're built for speed
Now if you put that all together
Makes me everything a good man needs
Edited by beserker, Aug 27 2012, 06:38 PM.
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reddgirl64
Aug 27 2012, 02:52 PM
UTB,

Lil Armstrong?

...
one of the best
from orphanage played and clowned his way all through racist time
http://youtu.be/PjRH7eefXyY

my likes .. dat gravelling vioce .. can`t beat dat
those `funny cigarettes" - early pioneer of u know what
, stayed with one wife , finished his letters your truly rice and beans

my dislikes.... too much clowning

dat damn laxative commercials for one...unbecoming and just too much!!


http://louismaistros.livejournal.com/1867.html
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My favorites:
Wes Montgomery; Kenny Burrell; Lee Morgan; Jimmy Smith; Antonio Carlos Jobim; Herbie Hancock; Ramsey Lewis; Gene Harris; Hubert/Ronnie Laws;David Nelson;Ahmad Jamal; Erroll Garner; The Jazz Crusaders; among many others.
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Aug 27 2012, 06:24 PM
My favorites:
Wes Montgomery; Kenny Burrell; Lee Morgan; Jimmy Smith; Antonio Carlos Jobim; Herbie Hancock; Ramsey Lewis; Gene Harris; Hubert/Ronnie Laws;David Nelson;Ahmad Jamal; Erroll Garner; The Jazz Crusaders; among many others.
could have guessed.... mostly ALL keyboards

favoritism... lol
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beserker
Aug 27 2012, 05:56 PM
reddgirl64
Aug 27 2012, 02:52 PM
UTB,

No love for the ladies of Jazz?

Ella? Sarah? Lil Armstrong? Mary Wilson? and Billie?

I love the ones you listed, but if I may add these guy these guys,

Thel Monk
The Count
Benny Goodman

and I just recently got into Art Tatum.

Now, a topic that's got my blood pumping.......
billie holiday... she could sing but what impressed me most was her timing

was watching an old double vhs tape CBS jazz presentation in black and white, it was like a final introduction of jazz to the mainstream

watched her sing .. u perceive this .. with her sitting down swing her head listening and singing like on que i don`t know if iam right but but i could feel that timing about when and tone made her great ,,,, not the voice really

found a u tube of said cbs concert .... watch her

http://youtu.be/Jf0ldEBBJhY


my favorite billie holliday track is `billie blues" incidentally same track she was also singing .... i will post the lyrics below

song embodied women lib+ pragmatism



Lord I love my man tell the world I do
I love my man tell the world I do
But when he mistreats me
Makes me feel so blue

My man wouldn't give me no breakfast
Wouldn't give me no dinner
Squawked about my supper and put me outdoors
Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes
I didn't have so many
But I had a long, long way to go

(bridge)

Some men like me 'cause I'm happy
Some 'cause I'm snappy
Some call me honey
Others think I got money

Some tell me baby you're built for speed
Now if you put that all together
Makes me everything a good man needs
Strange Fruit....

That song makes me cry....
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beserker
Aug 27 2012, 06:39 PM
memdear70
Aug 27 2012, 06:24 PM
My favorites:
Wes Montgomery; Kenny Burrell; Lee Morgan; Jimmy Smith; Antonio Carlos Jobim; Herbie Hancock; Ramsey Lewis; Gene Harris; Hubert/Ronnie Laws;David Nelson;Ahmad Jamal; Erroll Garner; The Jazz Crusaders; among many others.
could have guessed.... mostly ALL keyboards

favoritism... lol
Ah Haaaa, you left out Gene Harris, one of my absolute favorites :wub: And Lee Morgan is a Trumpet genius.
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