i HATE smooth jazz
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- bhawk0
Man I wish I had hair like Yanni.
:( and the moustache. Gold.
- fusion410
Kinda like this guy?
- bhawk0
WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
- fortunerook0
dude! thas hilarious!
- loudubs0
funny carver, kenny g jazz....heh, actually, there's only one thing kenny G is, and that's an abomination of Scientology
- fusion410
thats saying a lot considering scientology is an abomination in itself.
- bhawk0
Man, fusion. You made day. :P
- fusion410
Cool.
My work here is done. I’m going to take the rest of the day off
:)
- bhawk0
Job well done go outside and play and frolock with the animals.
- oeuf0
Just a few recommendations of good non-cheesy-pop-jazz :
Coltrane
Davis
Ken Vandermark (vandermark 5)
Brad Mehldau
Bill Stewart
Chicago underground trio
Eric Dolphy (espicially sonny rollins' "oleo")too many others... but those ones are pretty terrific.
- Turtle0
I love smooth Jazz...never had a problem with it. Good tunes to work to.
- fortunerook0
Aite, here's my list of pure jazz going down my ipod. I recommend every single one of these artist. I would love to learn more too. So throw some names out. And no fushion jazz and acid jazz. Love latin jazz though.
Art Blakey
Art Tatum
Benny Goodman
Billie Holiday
Blue Mitchell
Cannonball Adderley
Charles Mingus
Charlie Parker
Chick WEbb
Christian McBride
Clifford Brown
Count Basie
Dave Brubeck
Dexter Gordon
Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Freddie Hubbard
Grant Green
Herbie Hancock
Horace Silver
John Coltrane
Lester Young
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Ornette Coleman
Oscar Peterson
Pharoah Sanders
Ron Carter
Sarah Vaughan
Sidney Bechet
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
Wayne Shorter
- BetterLiving0
Amen to that, jack.
dig Coltrane's "Interstellar Space", just Trane on tenor and Rashied Ali on drums, wild and throwing the free sounds to it's auditory limits.
Also, dig on John Zorn. A little more recent and a little less "jazz" but just as fantastic.
- fortunerook0
sounds wicked!
i'm definately going to check it out. first thing after work. thx for the info.
- fortunerook0
smooth jazz is pretty much water down jazz. it's fine. it does what it needs to do for those who like it. but for any pure jazz fundamentalist, it's the pure destruction of the essence of jazz music.
the saying is true, "you have to go to jazz, it doesn't come to you".
it's not easily understood or attainable in the sense of reconizing what's happening. it's inner speaking of the human soul, especially those of the afro-americans... a deeper step into their world.
overall, it's also just entertainment and music. but to others, it means more.
smooth jazz is fine. but it has no power like pure jazz. the raw energy, the struggle behind it, the hours of dedication put into the practice that makes it seem so effortless.
can't fuck with that.
- oeuf0
ah shit!
I forgot about my sweet sweet Ornette!!!!
hey nice list fortune! lots of great musicians!
Listen to some Coleman Hawkins, this guys sings through his saxomophone! He's absolutely brilliant.
And i'm actually doin' Brubecks' Bossa Nova U.S.A. with my band. That song is great!
- fortunerook0
ah snap! Coleman Hawkins! thx for the reminder. there's so many more jazz artist i forgot about. lost in the shuffle, ya'know? ;)
oh snap! how is it trying to tame a brubeck arrangement? props to anyone that can play his stuff.
he's a genius indeed.
- oeuf0
well, we are a small trio (guitar, bass, drums), so we are trying to arrange it the best we can. It's a nice chanllenge and it's very cool to try to translate all those instrument partitions and try making it our own.
- fortunerook0
thas much better then playing the tune straight up. it would be too mechanical.
record it and post it bro. i would love to hear your trio's interpretation of it.
i'm curious to hear how your guitarist might handle the piano and the sax lines.
- oeuf0
That is one of the problems we are facing right now. I'm not sure how to record it and post it, don't have the necessary equipement, but we are supposed to go record some tracks soon and prolly record that one. Ill let you know.