02-28-2002, 10:46 PM | #1 |
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That Wonderful Music Genre...Jazz!
Ah, how I love it. One of my favorites. I am currently in jazz choir and listen to jazz bands and choirs on a regular basis.
In fact, I have a jazz choir 'concert/critique' tomorrow, and I'm the only soprano in the group. The other soprano is academically ineligible (sp?). This ought to be interesting, considering I am kind of sick Wish me luck! What is your favorite jazz song?
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03-01-2002, 01:55 AM | #2 |
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I don't know if this is jazz; but I like Cross My Heart by Everything But The Girl.
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03-01-2002, 05:58 PM | #3 |
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OK, well, it's not really true jazz, more like rock/jazz, but I really like the group Chicago. They are very cool and all - original, which I love to see in a group.
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03-03-2002, 12:29 PM | #4 |
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Er, I just rewrote one of Peter Cetera's songs on this thread:
http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/show...&threadid=3647 One of my quirkier sessions with the muse.
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03-17-2002, 01:03 AM | #5 |
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Jazz = probably the only real music left nowadays, the way things are going. I play piano and clarinet... and do a LOT of jazz improvisation on piano. So much, in fact, that I hardly bother reading music anymore - I just do everything by ear. Playing all the standards and such. I'll upload a recording sometime.
Favourite jazz artists include but are not limited to: Oscar Peterson Ella Fitzgerald Harry Connick, Jr. Diana Krall Billie Holliday Frank Sinatra Benny Goodman Artie Shaw Louis Armstrong Miles Davis BEST jazz radio programme on the planet: "After Hours" hosted by Ross Porter, on CBC Radio 2 for the Canucks out there. I have learned almost everything I know about jazz from this show alone... in fact, that's where my love and understanding of this great music came from. You can listen on streaming audio online, too... http://winnipeg.cbc.ca/afterhours/
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02-28-2003, 01:47 AM | #7 |
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I was just about to post a thread about how much I love jazz... then I did a search to see if it had been done. Now, just what is this thread doing, sinking all the way to the bottom with only FIVE replies?
Come on, I know there are more jazz fans out there.
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02-28-2003, 11:18 AM | #8 |
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I guess I miss all the good threads while im asleep! I love Jazz. I mentioned before I love all types of music, but Jazz ranks up as some of my favorites. I also like Jazz/ blues type stuff. I like all the artists above and my sister once made me a mix tape with some beautiful jazz songs.
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02-28-2003, 01:39 PM | #9 |
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Jazz is great. Im surprised theres actually Jazz fans on the moot. And some rather young! I still play Kind of Blue in my car CD player all the time. Now how many of you guys like the Blues?
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02-28-2003, 03:28 PM | #10 |
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My brother started playing trumpet last year, so I got him "Kind of Blue" for Christmas.
What varieties of jazz do you guys like? I have a particular preference for the older stuff... big band, swing, cabaret, that sort of thing. I wrote in to a jazz radio show about a year ago. It was a contest to "define jazz". They just contacted me earlier this week and told me I'd be getting a (very) belated prize.
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02-28-2003, 03:38 PM | #11 |
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cool. what was your definition? Have you ever been to New Orleans. Geat place if you like Jazz. I love it there.
My preference is the Miles Davis stuff but also beebop and the older stuff like Louis Armstrong. I cant tell you how many times I have listened to St. Louis Blues and tried to figure out how Armstrong did that solo.
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02-28-2003, 03:40 PM | #12 |
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I love jazz! I used to listen to Jazz Classics every Sat. night when I lived in Atlanta. It was one of the things I missed the most when I moved. I love the artists IP mentioned in his list, but I would also add George Gershwin.
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02-28-2003, 03:45 PM | #13 |
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Oh, Gershwin was a marvelous composer. Really the man who brought jazz out of the clubs and into the concert halls.
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03-01-2003, 12:05 PM | #14 |
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My favorites -the Miles Davis/ John Coltrane/ Thelonius Monk era- !950s-early1960s
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What? No one has mentioned Wynton Marsalis yet? I'm disappointed. I saw him in concert and it was amazing. I also love Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and John Coltrane. *looks back at list* Gee, 4/5 of them are trumpet players. What does that tell you about me? As far as my other instrument, the piano, goes, I like Diana Krall and Harry Connick, Jr.
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03-02-2003, 09:36 PM | #16 |
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I love jazz, but mostly older stuff. Really like bebop, especially Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington. Charlie Parker was a genius (BIRD LIVES!). Also love Miles Davis, but only the early recordings (BEFORE he went electric). Kinda Blue was a favorite, but it's been displaced by Birth of the Cool. Keyboards are a passion of mine, and at the top of my list would be the immortal Bill Evans, followed by Thelonius Monk. Oscar Peterson is OK, but sometimes he sounds too lush. Could be the classical training resurfacing.
I also love singers like Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Dinah Washington. For contemporary, Kurt Elling (occasionally). Not a fan of Harry Connick, I'm afraid. If the musician is current, he/she has gotta be experimental for me to be interested. If he/she is covering old ground, I'd rather go to the source... One of my treasured memories is seeing Ornette Coleman perform live. Any free jazz fans out there? I confess to a weakness for crazy atonal stuff...
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03-02-2003, 11:05 PM | #17 |
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Khamul, some of my friends just went to a Wynton Marsalis concert the other day. I've been meaning to listen to some of his stuff.
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If you can, see if you can find "Sunflowers" by Wynton. He wrote it for a French jazz festival. He said that he wrote it in 5/4 because he got tired of hearing the people clap on beats 2 and 4. He got all of us to clap on 2, 3, and 5 while they played it. It was cool because I can say that I've played with Wynton Marsalis.
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03-04-2003, 02:33 AM | #19 |
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My high school band director (she played trumpet, obviously) was a huge Marsalis fan.
I got a call from back home today. Supposedly, that radio show I mentioned earlier sent me a CD wallet, about ten compliation albums and a T-shirt. Whoa. So Khamûl, you're a fellow pianist, I see. Do you do mostly small ensemble, large ensemble, or solo? I'm primarily a soloist out of practical concerns alone, but my hands aren't big enough to reach even a 10th very comfortably, so I can't get really open-sounding stride accompaniment in the left hand going, but oh well...
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03-04-2003, 10:56 AM | #20 |
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Yeah! Other painists on the 'Moot! I've been classicaly trained for about four years, but now a gutarist friend of mine is teaching me jazz. I love playing it!
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