That Wonderful Music Genre...Jazz! - Page 2

Starr Polish · 03-04-2003, 05:15 PM

I'm sad I can't play the piano. I can peck at notes, and learn how to play one handed melodies, but that's about it. I do play the alto saxaphone and clarinet though. Both useful in jazz (the later more in dixie land bands though).

I'm going to Cedar Rapids this Friday to perform. Jazz season has finally begun!

***IronParrot*** · 03-04-2003, 05:28 PM

Woohoo! A fellow clarinetist as well!

Jazz clarinetists are in very short supply nowadays...

***Khamûl*** · 03-05-2003, 12:09 AM

I don't really play jazz. I suppose you could call me classically trained, but I'd use that term loosely. I like ragtime, gospel, classical, or whatever. I just haven't had a chance to play jazz. I've been playing piano for close to a decade (gah, it's been that long?!

).

I would like to play trumpet in a Dixieland Combo though. I love that New Orleans dixieland sound.

Sylvee Estel · 03-08-2003, 02:38 PM

I play clarinet in my school jazz band. I love the music, but playing the clarinet in it kinda stinks, becuase in all the songs we play theres only a few songs with clarinet parts. We usually end up playing trumpet parts, or not playing at all. I've been playing the tenor sax for a year, so I think I'm going to play that in jazz band next year instead of clarinet.

***azalea*** · 03-08-2003, 02:58 PM

Ask your band director to let you play some Pete Fountain.

***IronParrot*** · 03-08-2003, 05:29 PM

Quote:

"I've been playing the tenor sax for a year, so I think I'm going to play that in jazz band next year instead of clarinet."

Noooo, another defector!

***Khamûl*** · 08-07-2003, 12:06 AM

I have just found a wonderful CD. Playboy's Jazz After Dark. I know what you're thinking -- "A Playboy CD? How good can that be?" I thought the same thing. But I was wrong. It's a great 2 CD set with the first CD being nothing but instrumentals from the likes of Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, and others. The second CD is filled with vocal songs from Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall and a bunch of others.

I love this CD. It has re-ignited my love of jazz.

gollum9630 · 08-07-2003, 12:14 AM

My uncles a jazz musician in Montreal. He plays the trumpet. My grandpa is lso as jazz musician. He plays the piano. He once played with Frank Sinatra

Sheeana · 08-07-2003, 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Khamûl
Playboy's Jazz After Dark.

Okay. So we all want to know what our dearly beloved lazy arse admin was doing browsing a playboy catalogue?

***IronParrot*** · 08-07-2003, 01:50 AM

The articles, the articles!

Insidious Rex · 08-07-2003, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sheeana
Okay. So we all want to know what our dearly beloved lazy arse admin was doing browsing a playboy catalogue?

actually Playboy has been sponsering great jazz shows and compilations for decades now. it has nothing to do with naked girls. youve never heard of the Playboy Jazz Festival? Its pretty big time. Its been going on for like 25 years now and is one of the premier jazz shows in the country. I still have a tape from like the 1982 Playboy Jazz Festival in Philadelphia with Bill Cosby doing the intros. Its a great collection.

Sheeana · 08-07-2003, 05:03 PM

Um. Yes, Isidious, I have. *prods brain with a pointy stick*

***Khamûl*** · 08-07-2003, 11:31 PM

You see, I was looking for the soundtrack to Pirates of the Caribbean in Wal-Mart and the Jazz section was right next to the soundtrack section. Then I saw a CD with a Playboy bunny logo on the front. So just because of the pure shock of seeing a Playboy bunny logo on a CD, I had to pick it up. Then I looked at it and saw that it seemed to be a good CD. So I bought it.

And that's how it happened. Honestly.

gollum9630 · 08-07-2003, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Khamûl
You see, I was looking for the soundtrack to Pirates of the Caribbean in Wal-Mart and the Jazz section was right next to the soundtrack section. Then I saw a CD with a Playboy bunny logo on the front. So just because of the pure shock of seeing a Playboy bunny logo on a CD, I had to pick it up. Then I looked at it and saw that it seemed to be a good CD. So I bought it.

And that's how it happened. Honestly.

yah right, you were probably thinking, playboy logo = naked girls. Then you bought it, and that what really happened

***IronParrot*** · 08-08-2003, 02:10 AM

Oh, lay off the guy... it's not like anybody with Internet access pays for nudie pictures anymore.

(On the other hand, not that many people pay for CDs, either...)

gollum9630 · 08-08-2003, 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by IronParrot
Oh, lay off the guy... it's not like anybody with Internet access pays for nudie pictures anymore.

what are you hinting at IP

.

**Nurvingiel** · 12-23-2003, 04:56 PM

Anything and everything to do with jazz! I started talking about it in the Classical Music thread, and Elfhelm had the good idea of starting its own thread - probably because I was leading everyone off topic.

This was my post about jazz:

Quote:

I just went to a great jazz concert called "Jazzy Nutcracker", by the Toronto Septet. It was awesome. The feature, a jazzed up Nutcracker, was so good, you would have thought Tcaicovsky wrote it for 4 saxaphones, jazz piano, drums, and upright bass. They also did Ravell. I think the two composers would have enjoyed the concert!

I should have mentioned that the saxaphone players also played bass clarinet, clarinet, alto flute, and flute.

Then we started talking about different jazz instruments. Bass clarinet was one, and jazz oboe another! My brother has played his oboe in a jazz performance, but I did not get to hear him.

Jazz is cool.

hectorberlioz · 12-23-2003, 07:53 PM

gotta love swing!

but i'm not into anything else in the jazz area....

gollum9630 · 12-23-2003, 09:16 PM

jazz is petty cool. last feb. i went to Montreal and saw my uncle play. Also my granda plays jazz piano and he pnce played with Sinatra

***Khamûl*** · 12-24-2003, 01:59 AM

I think I'll merge this with the other jazz thread that I seem to remember being around here... Later edit: merge successful.

03-04-2003, 05:15 PM	#21
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	I'm sad I can't play the piano. I can peck at notes, and learn how to play one handed melodies, but that's about it. I do play the alto saxaphone and clarinet though. Both useful in jazz (the later more in dixie land bands though). I'm going to Cedar Rapids this Friday to perform. Jazz season has finally begun! __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-04-2003, 05:28 PM	#22
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	Woohoo! A fellow clarinetist as well! Jazz clarinetists are in very short supply nowadays... __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

03-05-2003, 12:09 AM	#23
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	I don't really play jazz. I suppose you could call me classically trained, but I'd use that term loosely. I like ragtime, gospel, classical, or whatever. I just haven't had a chance to play jazz. I've been playing piano for close to a decade (gah, it's been that long?! ). I would like to play trumpet in a Dixieland Combo though. I love that New Orleans dixieland sound. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

03-08-2003, 02:38 PM	#24
Sylvee Estel Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Tennessee Posts: 115	I play clarinet in my school jazz band. I love the music, but playing the clarinet in it kinda stinks, becuase in all the songs we play theres only a few songs with clarinet parts. We usually end up playing trumpet parts, or not playing at all. I've been playing the tenor sax for a year, so I think I'm going to play that in jazz band next year instead of clarinet. __________________ ~Sylvee

08-07-2003, 12:06 AM	#27
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	I have just found a wonderful CD. Playboy's Jazz After Dark. I know what you're thinking -- "A Playboy CD? How good can that be?" I thought the same thing. But I was wrong. It's a great 2 CD set with the first CD being nothing but instrumentals from the likes of Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, and others. The second CD is filled with vocal songs from Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall and a bunch of others. I love this CD. It has re-ignited my love of jazz. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

03-08-2003, 02:58 PM	#25
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Ask your band director to let you play some Pete Fountain.

08-07-2003, 12:14 AM	#28
gollum9630 Canadian Guy. Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The true North Strong and Free Posts: 1,513	My uncles a jazz musician in Montreal. He plays the trumpet. My grandpa is lso as jazz musician. He plays the piano. He once played with Frank Sinatra __________________ "Canadians are so apathetic, but, what are you gonna do about it" -Glen Foster Wierd Harry Potter quotes the old nintendo duck hunt game Lemmings Swron Random Homer Simpson Quotes

08-07-2003, 01:50 AM	#30
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	The articles, the articles! __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

08-07-2003, 05:03 PM	#32
Sheeana Lord of the Pants Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 1,382	Um. Yes, Isidious, I have. prods brain with a pointy stick

08-07-2003, 11:31 PM	#33
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	You see, I was looking for the soundtrack to Pirates of the Caribbean in Wal-Mart and the Jazz section was right next to the soundtrack section. Then I saw a CD with a Playboy bunny logo on the front. So just because of the pure shock of seeing a Playboy bunny logo on a CD, I had to pick it up. Then I looked at it and saw that it seemed to be a good CD. So I bought it. And that's how it happened. Honestly. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

08-08-2003, 02:10 AM	#35
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	Oh, lay off the guy... it's not like anybody with Internet access pays for nudie pictures anymore. (On the other hand, not that many people pay for CDs, either...) __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

12-23-2003, 07:53 PM	#38
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12-23-2003, 09:16 PM	#39
gollum9630 Canadian Guy. Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The true North Strong and Free Posts: 1,513	jazz is petty cool. last feb. i went to Montreal and saw my uncle play. Also my granda plays jazz piano and he pnce played with Sinatra __________________ "Canadians are so apathetic, but, what are you gonna do about it" -Glen Foster Wierd Harry Potter quotes the old nintendo duck hunt game Lemmings Swron Random Homer Simpson Quotes

12-24-2003, 01:59 AM	#40
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	I think I'll merge this with the other jazz thread that I seem to remember being around here... Later edit: merge successful. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

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