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Title: Jazz
Post by: Groth on July 29, 2014, 08:54:05 PM: I love all kinds of music. At the shop I rather run as only mech fixing all the stuff 'they' break I installed my own large speakers that i run music thru..granted I run some just to get people to leave, but that's another post. My 'boss' calls classic 'wedding music' and leaves ASAP...
But I like radio drama and JAZZ..
I'd like some of ya knut bags to post your fav jazz..here's some of mine by 'buddy' in france
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXP3FNGUfNQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXP3FNGUfNQ)
Peace
JGroth
Title: Re: Jazz
Post by: Saxman on July 29, 2014, 09:43:39 PM: Dimenuendo and Crescendo in Blue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYgow060zOg)

Greatest sax solo of all time. Conveniently, also one of THE greatest jazz performances ever.

The Duke Ellington orchestra's performance of Dimenuendo and Crescendo in Blue from the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. The audience (mostly stolid East Coast sophisticates) got so fired up they nearly RIOTED. Especially after a platinum blonde jumped up and started dancing (and nearly got even WORSE when the showrunners tried to pull the band off the stage two songs later, much to the audience's displeasure).

Funky Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrmT1J7K1zQ)

I've always loved this recording. An unprecedented collection of saxophonists: Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Benny Carter, Ben Webster and Flip Phillips. Hodges and Parker both playing on one track alone makes the whole 13-minute run time worthwhile (and the other soloists are great, too!).

April in Paris (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw0rVXblI6g)

Bird at it again, from one of the best jazz albums ever recorded: Charlie Parker with Strings. Parker is at his best, and the album in general highlights his pure musical and improvisational genius.

Prelude to a Kiss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4EnjP2NGcE)

Back to Hodges. I don't think there's ever been a saxophonist who could milk a ballad for all its worth like Rab. So, SO many to choose from (Star-Crossed Lovers, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) being among my favorites). But I especially love the lick on this one at about 3:20-3:27 as the crescendo builds.

Caravan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0P-vGqvdmo)

Really not much needs to be said about anything Maynard Ferguson ever recorded.
Title: Re: Jazz
Post by: Groth on July 29, 2014, 10:07:15 PM: Great Stuff!

JGroth
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Post by: Hajo on July 29, 2014, 10:50:45 PM: Tom Scott has done some nice work on the sax. Blow it out one of my fav albums.

Don't forget Mulligan, Coleman Hawkins (The Golden Hawk). Both fine Sax players.
Title: Re: Jazz
Post by: Groth on July 29, 2014, 10:53:25 PM: Was able to hear Duke Ellington at Disneyland in early 60's ...will always be great.
JGroth
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Post by: Nath[BDP] on July 29, 2014, 11:30:04 PM: Chet Baker

http://youtu.be/emKvxsvzux0
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Post by: nrshida on July 30, 2014, 01:19:27 AM: I don't really like Jazz Music but conversely find Miles Davis conducive to ACM. Random.
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Post by: Hetzer7 on July 31, 2014, 11:53:36 AM: Dave Brubeck :aok
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Post by: potsNpans on July 31, 2014, 05:46:48 PM: Besides the Old standards its Bebop for me like Cannonball Adderley Quintet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI9kMSZ28vE. Clifford Brown, Jimmy Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1z2BdvHVCk, Eddie Harris, Horace Silver, Lee Morgen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJi03NqXfk8.
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Post by: Yankee67 on July 31, 2014, 05:55:13 PM: Neither a rap fan nor a jazz fan, but when mixed together, I like it: "Don't Sweat the Technique" by Eric B and Rakim.
Title: Re: Jazz
Post by: Saxman on July 31, 2014, 06:05:50 PM: This one's awesome just for the giggles it causes when the main theme starts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgWPaIRsd3w