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Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Mon March 11, 2013 2:33 pm
Fake NYC Setlist Relayer
Joined: Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm Posts: 7652
I eluded to this in the wax thread, but this weekend picked up the Dirty Dozen Brass Band's New Orleans Album ($4) and Volume 2 of some collection of songs from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band ($3). I quite enjoyed both. Ah, the power of the Just In bin at Academy Records.
Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Tue March 12, 2013 4:22 am
Broken Tamborine
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 1:18 am Posts: 319 Location: Seattle, WA
LOVE Coltrane!
And Miles of course!
I loved a lot of different Jazz from back in the day... Spiro gyra, Lee Ritinour, Grusin, Al DiMeola, etc. I need to go back and revisit the genre a lot more than I do actually... There's some great, great music there!
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Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Wed June 12, 2013 9:12 am
Jeff's Infallible Pendulum
Joined: Fri January 04, 2013 2:06 am Posts: 1919 Location: Australia
I just picked up a 5cd Modern Jazz Quartet budget box sets with replica LP sleeves. So good.
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Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Mon September 23, 2013 1:33 am
Jeff's Infallible Pendulum
Joined: Fri January 04, 2013 2:06 am Posts: 1919 Location: Australia
Nothing ruins a good online jazz radio stream than someone slipping that first Norah Jones album into the playlist.
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Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Mon September 23, 2013 1:47 am
NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32296 Location: Buenos Aires
Fuzzcharger wrote:
Nothing ruins a good online jazz radio stream than someone slipping that first Norah Jones album into the playlist.
Really depends on what was playing before her, doesn't it? I can understand being pissed off if it transitioned from some Sonny Sharrock noise jam, or like a great Mingus rave-up, or some abstract instrumental stuff. But if you're listening to vocalists doing the breezy, brushy stuff, a la Stacey Kent or Diana Krall, it fits in pretty well. That Norah Jones album gets a lot of flack because it got so hugely popular, but I actually really like it. I think her subsequent career has proven that she was more than a pretty-faced dilettante, more than a Bublé.
And this is where I hand in my jazz enthusiast credentials. I've just defended Norah Jones.
Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Mon September 23, 2013 1:52 am
Jeff's Infallible Pendulum
Joined: Fri January 04, 2013 2:06 am Posts: 1919 Location: Australia
theplatypus wrote:
Fuzzcharger wrote:
Nothing ruins a good online jazz radio stream than someone slipping that first Norah Jones album into the playlist.
Really depends on what was playing before her, doesn't it? I can understand being pissed off if it transitioned from some Sonny Sharrock noise jam, or like a great Mingus rave-up, or some abstract instrumental stuff. But if you're listening to vocalists doing the breezy, brushy stuff, a la Stacey Kent or Diana Krall, it fits in pretty well. That Norah Jones album gets a lot of flack because it got so hugely popular, but I actually really like it. I think her subsequent career has proven that she was more than a pretty-faced dilettante, more than a Bublé.
And this is where I hand in my jazz enthusiast credentials. I've just defended Norah Jones.
You're right about the sequencing, it did come after some instrumental tunes with Hancock, Coltrane and Miles but there was a bit of Chet Baker in there too and Sinatra at the Sands. Norah just sounded so new. I probably just have an aversion to contemporary vocal jazz that I've never picked up on before.
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Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Mon September 23, 2013 2:41 am
tl;dr
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She was always more than a Buble, even on that billion-selling first record. Equally glad to be harking back to that era of songwriting, perhaps, but it's very clear that she's filtering her own emotions and melodic ideas through it (even though the dudes in her band wrote most of the songs) and not just sculpting a novelty recreation of it. I played that album quite a bit during the summer of 2003--poppy without being trite and sophisticated without being pretentious, it was a refreshing alternative both to the other stuff on the radio as well as the other stuff in my collection. I stopped paying attention to her after her first two albums, but I did think "Chasing Pirates" was a good single.
I like that she set Hank Williams to a walking jazz bassline, and she covers Tom Waits as well as anyone.
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Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Mon September 23, 2013 2:49 am
Jeff's Infallible Pendulum
Joined: Fri January 04, 2013 2:06 am Posts: 1919 Location: Australia
I've also discovered that I don't really dig Jamie McCullum or Diana Krall either.
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Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Mon September 23, 2013 2:52 am
jeeeesus relax already
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm Posts: 36302
Kevin Davis wrote:
She was always more than a Buble, even on that billion-selling first record. Equally glad to be harking back to that era of songwriting, perhaps, but it's very clear that she's filtering her own emotions and melodic ideas through it (even though the dudes in her band wrote most of the songs) and not just sculpting a novelty recreation of it. I played that album quite a bit during the summer of 2003--poppy without being trite and sophisticated without being pretentious, it was a refreshing alternative both to the other stuff on the radio as well as the other stuff in my collection. I stopped paying attention to her after her first two albums, but I did think "Chasing Pirates" was a good single.
I like that she set Hank Williams to a walking jazz bassline, and she covers Tom Waits as well as anyone.
Great post, and my exact feelings. I used to be a big fan of their first two albums and i love Chasing Pirates as well. Saw her live around that time, and she was great, a really good mix between jazz, soul and Country.
Post subject: Re: Entire genres that only need one thread #1: "Jazz"
Posted: Mon September 23, 2013 3:01 am
tl;dr
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Kevin Davis wrote:
Equally glad to be harking back to that era of songwriting, perhaps
I take this back, actually. Apart from a few tracks, the instrumental arrangement, and the fact that the album was on Blue Note, stylistically there's just as much other stuff in her repertoire as there is Tin Pan Alley-style jazz standards. Even on that first record there were just as many songs that were country- or folk-based as jazz-based. By the time of her second album she was even deeper into the "Americana" thing.
Fuzzcharger wrote:
I've also discovered that I don't really dig Jamie McCullum or Diana Krall either.
I don't think I would have appreciated Diana Krall had I not discovered her through her album "The Girl in the Other Room," which is half-composed of songs that she co-wrote with her then-new husband, who happens to be one of my favorite musicians ever. She has a strange interpretive style, and her voice is one of wisdom and experience more than one of technique or soul. Most of those songs she co-wrote with D.P.A. MacManus are heartrending, though, and I like her a lot now. Every Christmas I look forward to her version of "Jingle Bells."
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