Discovery: Cool Jazz

Really good stuff here. This is mostly a book mark, but nobody seems to have mentioned Dave Brubeck -- isn't his music "cool jazz"? Among many great songs: Blue Rondo, Take Five, It's a Raggy Waltz, Three to Get Ready.

Yeah Piff...I'm playing "Blue Rondo" as we speak...

Nice... playing it yourself or playing a recording?

LOL...actually, you oughta know that I have two weeks off so I set up all my instruments in the sun room...gonna get serious about practicing.

The keyboard and mic stand. The 4 channel mixer with the ol' monitor. The guitar effects unit with the little Crate amp. The MP3 boom box for playing along and the acoustic guitar and Tele.
Oh, and the computer's right there so I can use this neat program called "Slow Blast" that slows down loops without changing the key.

Re: Discovery: Cool Jazz


Guys, I know the artists, I'm asking for specific tracks to sample.

I just dug out Less McCann & Eddie Harris' 1969 Swiss Movement .... haven't listened to it in years. "Compared to What" still cooks.


BTW, CdK - dunno if you've been there yet, but Carlos Santana's work is well worth a listen if your ear is becomin' attuned to jazz - whole different perspective. Same with Leonard Cohen.

Tisk Tisk, aren't we short this morning?

Bill Evans- Israel
Haunted Heart

Thelonious Monk-In walked Bud,
Well You Needent
Ruby My Dear
Round Midnight

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_monk_thelonious.htm

Dave Brubeck-Take 5
Blue Rondo

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_brubeck_dave.htm

Stan Getz-Early Autumn
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=early+autumn-stan+getz
"His justly celebrated performance on Early Autumn (1948), with its characteristically languorous melody and delayed rhythm, captured the imagination of many young white jazz musicians of the time and helped to precipitate the "cool" reaction to bop in the years that followed".

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_getz_stan.htm

Compared To What rocks!

West coast jazz was usually referred to as cool jazz.

Back later, in other words.

Sorry, Craven. I don't know anything about specific tracks, but we did have an old album called Jam Session that featured some of the most fantastic jazz artists in my memory:

http://test.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=prd&src=exp&pid=11131

Don't care for Dinah Washington, and there is one performer on that album not listed who played Heather on the Hill. Tenor sax man.

Coooollllll

oops, Herb Geller and it was alto sax.

http://microgroove.jp/mercury/MG36024.shtml

Re: Discovery: Cool Jazz


Sheesh...that's almost like asking to see Michaelangelo's David, but just the left arm. Anyway, I have one you might like, not technically "cool" jazz, but in the era. Charles Mingus, "Solo Dancer", from the album "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, again, one of my fave jazz albums of all time.

Cav makes a pretty good point - the whole concept of the "Concept Alnum"sorta grew outta jazz. Many of the "Tracks" really only "work" in context.

Was just listening to some very, very good Miles.



01. Walkin'
02. Blue 'N' Boogie
03. Solar
04. You Don't Know What Love Is
05. Love Me or Leave Me

-last two are magnificent!


Picked this one up as well recently, knock your socks off!



Reissue of a 1955 album recorded live at the Basin Street Club to get 'the feel'. Add this to your collections!

Lover 4'56"
Little Girl Blue 10'32"
Fare Thee Well, Annabelle 7'20"
Love Walked In 8'43"
Sometimes I'm Happy 5'17"
The Duke (Brubeck) 2'38"
Indiana 5'48"
Taking a Chance on Love (CD only)
Closing Time Blues (CD only)

Good stuff Stilly...I still have the first one...

And Letty...Junior Mance is my fave on piano.

If you like very good guitar played in octaves try any album by Gabor Zsabo. Im searching for reissues in CD or MP3

I prefer lowdown guitar in seedy bars myself.

<I saw Szabo in a low down seedy bar...>

You don't know what love is. Funny how we zero in on things that remind us of yesterday. That song was also done by The Accidentals with Beethoven's fifth woven into the background.

Don raye / gene depaul

You don't know what love is
Until you've learned the meaning of the blues
Until you've loved a love you've had to lose
You don't know what love is

You don't know how lips hurt
Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost
Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost
You don't know what love is.

Ah, Panz. I have never heard Junior Mance, but I most assuredly have heard Oscar Peterson. <smile>

I didn't realize that Billie Holiday sang Gloomy Sunday, either.

Hey, BillW. That Lady Day song was for you.

I don't mean it that way, I simply don't have any use for the album and artist recommendations (I only listen to digital music and I already knew the artists and albums) and had asked for tracks.



Nah, if anything it's like being very specific about asking for only the arm since the beginning. Some albums (like the one by John Coltrane that Gus recommended) are basically full packages that can't easily be separated, but that's not what I'm looking for, which is why I was specific about asking for tracks from the beginning.