Jazz, anyone?

Subject: RE: Jazz, anyone?
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 05 Nov 18 - 06:22 PM

Well, Helen, I didn't watch the series --
but I take it that the parts you watched
included Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie,
what did you make of them?

Subject: RE: Jazz, anyone?
From: Helen
Date: 05 Nov 18 - 07:51 PM

I haven't heard any Dizzy Gillespie for quite a while but I used to like his style.

I'm just reminding myself about Charlie Bird Parker's work, i.e. listening to a video of All the Things You Are. I probably haven't heard much of his work, so I'm not sure. But I usually like "raucous" music (all styles) more than the laid-back type.

Subject: RE: Jazz, anyone?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Nov 18 - 01:14 PM

There are links to recorded performances, by Roy Hargrove,
in this online article from The Guardian.

Subject: RE: Jazz, anyone?
From: PHJim
Date: 06 Nov 18 - 10:55 PM

I'm always amazed to see these 16 year old threads revived.
I became a jazz fan in the mid-sixties. With some high-school buddies, I'd often hitch-hike to Buffalo or Toronto from Dundas to hear performers like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Hall, Cannonball Adderley, Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Junior Mance, Jimmy Smith, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Joe Williams, Gabor Szabo, Chico Hamilton, Herbie Hancock, Barney Kessel. . .
In 1968-69 I was hitch-hiking overseas and in London I broke my "Pound a day" rule and went to Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. I was watching Jack McDuff play when I noticed three familiar faces at the next table. I knew I had seen them, probably on an album cover or in downbeat magazine.
Then Jack McDuff said, "I'm going to ask a friend of mine to come up and do a tune or two. That's John Hendricks sitting over there with Bill Cosby and Clarence Williams III."

Subject: RE: Jazz, anyone?
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Nov 18 - 02:52 AM

I've played in jazz outfits and occasionally as a solo guitarist for over 50 years - in between playing rock'n roll, funk and folk music! I first heard "traditional" (in the UK) jazz in the late '50s, when there was a vogue for that music here, and started playing in a 7-piece mainstream band around 1978. I was with them for about 5 years before peeling off to play other music and, in that time, played with people like trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, clarinettist Monty Sunshine and tenor player Danny Moss. All great experiences in a period which taught me a huge amount about music, improvisation, transposition, etc.

My current "hero", if one can have such a thing in one's mid-70s, is New York guitarist Woody Mann, who studies with Reverend Gary Davis as a teenager, then went to Juillard and also studies with Lennie Tristano. I've taken the plunge and signed up for Woody's 3-day guitar "retreat" in Buxton, Darbyshire next June. I don't know whether I'll be up to the assorted standards there, but it will be a wonderful experience.

And so it goes on.

Subject: RE: Jazz, anyone?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Nov 18 - 01:58 AM

This instrumental is only ten years old.
Other musicians are all over it -- I just heard it for the first time.

Strasbourg St Denis by the Roy Hargrove Quintet