Official Jazz thread

[Sinner]

It's been way too long... 

 

[Sinner]

Happy Thanksgiving to the NT-fam who celebrate it!

 

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[raburns04]

Favorite Sinatra track - In the Wee Small Hours. Not strictly jazz, I know.

 

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No, I still consider it to be jazz.  Jazz ballads, I guess! [emoji]128076[/emoji][emoji]127995[/emoji]

 

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RIP

 

[neighborhoodog]

I'm looking for some modern saxophonist and trumpet players.
Any recommendations on who I should check out?

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Check out Kamasi Washington

 

[jadaqwest]

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Check out Kamasi Washington

i tried to check kamasi out cause of Thundercat collabs didnt really dig the project i heard so far still looking for there new jazz giants project....

 

[omgitswes]

The Epic was an interesting album. Really long and a few tracks that I just couldn't get into but I enjoyed a lot of the songs. First listen I wasn't overly crazy about it though

 

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[thatisnice]

Calms me down

 

[Sinner]

Classic tune.

 

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[andretti]

A night in Tunisia

Heard it in the Jazz station earlier this week

 

[slighted]

Found this album a couple weeks ago and I really liked it. She reminds me of Yukimi Nagano from Little Dragons so that's probably why I've been enjoying it so much

The group and album are called Twin Danger. Also learned Stuart Matthewman is the saxophonist and he co-wrote a couple Sade songs, "Your Love is King" and "No Ordinary Love"

Twin Danger - I Love Loving You

I also highly recommend them. Their album is up on Spotify.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Carlos Henriquez - Cuchifrito & Descarga Entre Amigos (ft. Ruben Blades)

Before I called it quits, I regretted never posting in there again so here it go... My favorite new jazz release right now & it also has my man Ruben Blades... Love that dude...





One of my musical heroes Gilles Peterson talking to Otis Brown iii... Check stuff from either guys out please.



Lastly for the heads in there & to match what my man Sinner posted up there, looks like Ethan Hawke is suiting up to play one of our favorites Chet Baker...





I wish everyone well... Take care & peace fellas...

 

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@psk2310   [emoji]128074[/emoji][emoji]127995[/emoji]

This kid! 

Saw it on TV, but couldn't find the entire segment on YT... wow. 

 

 

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[Sinner]

Nice to see this thread resurrected!

 

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[Kimchi Papi]

Haven't been in here in a while... Decided to post because BObby Hutcherson passed away a couple of days ago at the age of 75.

A nice post from npr... RIP.

Bobby Hutcherson, Jazz Vibraphone Modernist, Has Died
August 16, 20164:43 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered

Bobby Hutcherson, a vibraphonist whose improvising and composition helped to define modernity for jazz as a whole, has died. He had long struggled with emphysema. He was 75.

As a mallet percussionist, he expanded the scope of what was possible on his instrument. And the sound he created was widely influential.

It was a far cry from his first public performance. Inspired by pioneering jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson, a teenaged Hutcherson formed a band with his friend from school, bassist Herbie Lewis. Hutcherson hadn't taken any lessons, but Lewis marked up the vibraphone with which notes to play and when.

It was a system that worked great in practice — but then they entered a contest ... in front of people. Here's how Bobby Hutcherson told the story to NPR in 2001.

And the stage manager comes out and he says, 'Oh Bobby, by the way, I saw a bunch of black stuff all written all over your bars, so I took a nice wet cloth, and I wiped it.' I said, 'No you didn't! You didn't do that!' 'Yes I did!' The curtain opens, you know, and there's my parents looking, 'That's our son!' I think I hit the first two notes and the rest was complete chaos.
He signed up for lessons after that.

Bobby Hutcherson was born in Los Angeles in 1941. When his career started to progress, he moved to New York with the band he was in at the time.

By the time the '60s rolled around, he wanted to do something new with the vibraphone. He told NPR in 2014 that he thought it'd be a mistake to just copy what other big vibes players like Milt Jackson were doing.

"In New York, you know, there was a big influx of new musicians," he told host Arun Rath. "There was a lot of history being presented at that time. I mean, you can stop on the street corner and hear Malcolm X, you know.

Hutcherson said that feeling was reflected in the music.

"There was an awful lot of things going on," he said. "For the music to describe, you know, because at that time the music was almost like a — it was like a newspaper of what was going on in the streets."

Hutcherson caught the ear of more adventurous musicians like saxophonist Jackie McLean and trombonist Grachan Moncur III. That led to recording work with Blue Note Records, which documented a lot of progressive jazz in the 1960s. Hutcherson would eventually lead several albums on Blue Note, like Dialogues and Components, and performed on others, like Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch!

However, he was arrested on marijuana possession in New York City, and lost his cabaret card – his permit to perform in the city's clubs. He moved back to California in the late 1960s, and later to the San Francisco area. He continued to perform and record, notably with the saxophonist Harold Land and with the pianist McCoy Tyner.

As his discography grew, so did his influence. Warren Wolf is a vibes player – in fact, a musician who Hutcherson used to call up when he couldn't make a gig himself. He says Hutcherson took more chances than other vibes players.

"He came along and just totally changed the way most people were used to hearing the vibes," Wolf says. "He brought an avant-garde technique to the instrument, and he kind of played the vibes like how a horn player would normally play. So he was just a natural wonder."

Hutcherson was known for his use of resonances and other tone colors, and for his command of harmony – of note choices that he made to work.

"Every note fits," Hutcherson said in 2001. "There is no wrong note — it's only the reaction on your face. You hit a note and you say, 'Ow!' — that note is wrong. You can hit that note again and 'Pow!' — that note is right. It's the same note."

 

[Sinner]

^ It's been a while man!  In this thread I mean! 

I must admit, I don't think I have any of Hutcherson's CD's...

 this needs to be rectified. 

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Grant Green - Down Here On The Ground

A Tribe Called Quest's Vibes & Stuff just played on my iPhone so I had to post since I was in there earlier...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

RIP Rudy Van Gelder.You created the gold standard of recording. Your work helped to really envelop not only me but millions of others in the warm sound in your recordings. It really did feel like a warm embrace. Just you, the artist you recorded, the vinyl, & some really good speakers (B&W for me). Thank you, god bless, & RIP.

Bluenote's remarks on his passing -

We're deeply saddened by the loss of another Blue Note legend, the great recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder, who has passed away at age 91. Read The New York Times obituary.

Rudy was as vital a part of the "Blue Note Sound" as the incredible musicians he recorded, and his importance to the legacy of jazz cannot be overstated. In addition to his work with other labels, most notably Impulse! for whom he recorded classics including John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Rudy was the go-to recording engineer for Blue Note Records between 1953-1972, capturing in sterling sound the monuments of the Blue Note catalog.

Rudy first came to the attention of Blue Note founder Alfred Lion in 1952 when Rudy was still a practicing optometrist moonlighting as a recording engineer, and Alfred began using him regularly the next year. Rudy initially recorded sessions on evenings and weekends in his parent’s living room in Hackensack, New Jersey, giving each label a day of the week for their sessions. Later on, in 1959, he closed his optometry practice and built his own studio in Englewood Cliffs, a holy site of jazz music.

Blue Train, Song for My Father, The Sidewinder, Moanin’, Somethin’ Else, Back at the Chicken Shack, Midnight Blue, Speak No Evil, Maiden Voyage, he recorded them all and thousands more. Our Classic Hits playlist is a staggering collection of landmark recordings that Rudy allowed to shine bright. Our Classic Ballads playlist becomes an elegy in his honor.

Thank you Rudy, for all that you gave the world of music. Rest In Peace.

Very hard to say which of Rudy's recordings are my favorite. I will say Coltrane's A Love Surpreme had a profound effect on me.





Awesome interviews with the master.