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- toulouz0
lol Blo, no way i would nick work.
but i also have a pair of king congas...i love the latin stuff
yeah i will have to make the effort and move my sad arse as you say
- laurus0
"Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny."
-Frank Zappa
- Blofeldt0
What you like on the congas Touloz? I've got three Mienl Live Sound congas and a Gon Bop (Don't know how I got that one). So out of practice on them though. Used to play them for some latin groups in Bristol (where i'm from) for slasa classes/parties etc. I Really need some Timbales though, but they're well expensive!
Seriously, if you're any good on the congas i'll give you a shout if we get this Jam going.
- Baskerville0
Anyone in and around london who's a jazz musician should check out the Jazz Cafe jam on sunday afternoons in Camden Town. It starts about 12pm and goes on util about 4. The house band are called Tomorrow's Warriors and are really good and pretty young (20s) Anyone can sign up to play and the general standard is pretty high. (Denys Baptiste dropped in not so long ago!)
You sometimes get 16 year-old looking guys who are unbelievably good, it's make you feel good that jazz has a promising future, especially with guys like Soweto Kinch around.
It's one of the best jams around
- mr_snuggles0
My wife and I wanted to check out the Jazz Cafe when we were in London in September but there wasn't really anythin particulary striking going on at that time. Which is too bad, everytime I look at the monthly listings in Staright No Chaser it just makes me so jealous...
- ********0
Oh no, a thread where the ego's of designers crash headlong into the ego's of jazz officionados.
- Baskerville0
lol Bottlerocket.
It seems a lot of designers are also jazz musicians, must be the creative genes or something
I pride myself on being both a jazz AND a design snob ;o)
- digitalsource0
Just played:
Herbie Hancock - Future 2 FutureCurrently playing:
George Duke - Face the Music
- Blofeldt0
I've thought of going up the Jazz Cafe jam, but am usually playing. I also hear it's really good, but it should be really good seeing as it's one of the capitals top venues. I know a few guys who've been.
I've been doing a bit of playing with Tony Wood and a little bit with Tim Whitehead. Also did a gig with an amazing bass player who plays with Clark Tracy.
I've a residency in Shepperton every other Wednesday with a female vocal quintet. Good group, if you're in the area come down. Barley Mow Shepperton, next one is 22nd Dec
- ********0
arn't most jazz musicians just a bunch of old woodwork teachers call 'Keith Bishop and his Arthritic eleven'
- vespa0
i still love listening to jazz but am moving away from it for my personal musical direction. i reckon unless you are brilliant, it's all too easy to fall into that lame bland land and even jazz *influenced* stuff can be too clever to rock a crowd. or maybe i just have too short a creative attention span. my drummer has a degree in jazz, she plays for the national youth jazz orchestra and is right into all that but it seems to me that sometimes when people are too educated they can miss a trick in making simple tunes that connect with people. i'm right into simplicity at the moment. but then i'm just a vocalist so *insert simple vocalist jokes here*
- Mimio0
Jazz is what Rock & Roll will sound like when it's dead.
- aliendn0
i love bob james " nautilus" and "take me to mardi gras" what other artists sound like this stuff?
- ********0
Jazz is what Rock & Roll will sound like when it's dead.
Mimio
(Dec 9 04, 09:04)jazz is what rock & roll will sound like when it learns more notes
- vespa0
ROCK WILL NEVER DIIIIIIIEEE
i'm gonna do bossanova ac/dc covers, dammit
- Blofeldt0
The singer I play with has done some singing at some NYJO rehersals recently and written them some arrangements. Her name's Nette Robinson.
Yeah it's common argument amonst schooled jazz musicans and the rest of us. I don't really know if it's true. Thing is generally you run into musicans who've been on Jazz courses when they're young, and that's their main credential, so they're still pretty Music school.
- Blofeldt0
It also depends upon how you describe yourself Vespa, are you an 'artist with a voice, or are you a side man. I can never really be arsed with trying to play in a band with a distinctive voice because their usually full of shit musicans with litltle expirence. and you have to Three band nights in crappy clubs for no money.
Having said that, buy my last album will you? It's not Jazz mind.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obi…
- vespa0
fair enuff Blofeldt - congrats on the album - any samples to listen to?
i used to want to be more of a muso type but all the proper musos i worked with were so clever they couldn't tell if something was cheesy or not! now i think i want to work with shit musicians with little experience cos i think they're more on my tip, and anyway that's all my music requires :)
so i guess i want to be an artist with a voice cos i'm certainly not a man
- Blofeldt0
Yeah, side person sounded weird. I didn't mean offence by the way. I guess i'm used to playing and getting paid rather than rehersing lots in dingy garages in mile end
Dunno if there's any samples. I might MP3 some off the CD sometime in the next hundred years or so. I'll let you know if i do.
- Baskerville0
I agree with some of that Vespa. A lot of famous jazz musicians do produce music that I would class as having a cheesy sound (not like kenny g but still the approach is cheesy, the actual notes are good)
exapmles of this would be some Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek can be cheesy on occasion, I'm sure you know the kind of thing.I never listen to jazz with vocals myself, apart from really old school stuff like ella fitzgerald and stuff but that's not particlularly exciting to me. I hate people like Diana Krall but for some reason I quite like Jamie Cullum, but maybe that's because I class him as pop.