What jazz have you been listening to today?

teddy

teddy

Duckmeister
Last Sonny Rollins album. Very enjoyable even through my computer speakers. Looking forward to having the house to myself to That I can bang them out through the stereo

teddy
 
White Knight

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
Lee Morgan--The Sixth Sense
ArtBlakey and the Jazz Messengers--Mosaic
John Coltrane--coltrane plays the blues and trane's blues
 
gord

gord

New member
dizzy gillespie allstars-the gillespie jam sessions-verve. norman granz produced session, excellent. gord
 
gord

gord

New member
gene krupa plays gerry mulligan arrangements-verve
gene krupa-drumming man-verve
two excellent big band albums recorded mid 50s. gord
 
Mat

Mat

Sr. Regulator
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I went to a solo Bobby McFerrin concert today (well, technically it was yesterday). At the beginning, I was kind of disappointed that it was a solo performance, but man, was I wrong. He's got an amazing voice. And the range, too. He is really a one man band, and I mean - literally. He doesn't need an accompaniament. He does all by himself. No later than after 20 minutes he made the audience sing along with him. He divided us, and we sang some short riffs as background for his singing. He made us sing the whole Ave Maria melody (the Bach/Gounod version) while he provided the other voice. We also sang both (!!) themes from Ravel's Bolero. Do bear in mind that most of the audience were not muscians/musically trained. And they did really well. He invited some people on stage and made them dance while he improvised some short melodies for each of them individually. It may seem that he spent most of the time interacting with the audience, but he did sing alone, too. The ease he changes his voice with between high and low octaves is spectacular. Anyway, he also invited some more people from the audience up stage and turned them into his presonal choir. He divided them into SATB, assigned each of the group a short riff and improvised over them. Later, he invited another couple of people and improvised while they were singing songs of their choice. One girl sang Route 66 while he was singing the walking. 'T was pure magic. And last but not least, he actually taught the audience the pentatonic scale. In the same manner he did it here. After a nearly 5 minutes of standing ovation he performed an encore. It was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.
 
GoneBaroque

GoneBaroque

New member
Mat said:
I went to a solo Bobby McFerrin concert today (well, technically it was yesterday). At the beginning, I was kind of disappointed that it was a solo performance, but man, was I wrong. He's got an amazing voice. And the range, too. He is really a one man band, and I mean - literally. He doesn't need an accompaniament. He does all by himself. No later than after 20 minutes he made the audience sing along with him. He divided us, and we sang some short riffs as background for his singing. He made us sing the whole Ave Maria melody (the Bach/Gounod version) while he provided the other voice. We also sang both (!!) themes from Ravel's Bolero. Do bear in mind that most of the audience were not muscians/musically trained. And they did really well. He invited some people on stage and made them dance while he improvised some short melodies for each of them individually. It may seem that he spent most of the time interacting with the audience, but he did sing alone, too. The ease he changes his voice with between high and low octaves is spectacular. Anyway, he also invited some more people from the audience up stage and turned them into his presonal choir. He divided them into SATB, assigned each of the group a short riff and improvised over them. Later, he invited another couple of people and improvised while they were singing songs of their choice. One girl sang Route 66 while he was singing the walking. 'T was pure magic. And last but not least, he actually taught the audience the pentatonic scale. In the same manner he did it here. After a nearly 5 minutes of standing ovation he performed an encore. It was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.
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For those who may not know Bobby McFerrin's father Robert was a baritone with the Metropolitan Opera.

Here are two videos of Bobby; the first is at the 2008 Jazz Fest Wien at the Wiener Staatsoper with the German Bass Baritone Thomas Quasthoff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RESX8YroSCQ

The second is the Bach Gounod Ave Maria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgvJg7D6Qck&feature=related

Enjoy and be amazed

Rob
 
Corno Dolce

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
To be honest, I don't know if it is a cover of the original - This I must investigate.............


Harrison Crabfeathers by Brian Bromberg.
 
gord

gord

New member
today i listened again to john coltrane- a love supreme- impulse. this is considered one of the best albums ever, by a lot of jazz fans. but for some reason it doesnt do it for me. i can think of at least 8 or 9 coltrane albums i like better. gord
 
White Knight

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
gord said:
today i listened again to john coltrane- a love supreme- impulse. this is considered one of the best albums ever, by a lot of jazz fans. but for some reason it doesnt do it for me. i can think of at least 8 or 9 coltrane albums i like better. gord
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Gord, I absolutely agree with you on this; I've always found it to be too abstract and meandering, somehow. I'd rate coltrane plays the blues and trane's blues much higher, because their sound is more "mainstream" and accessible to music illiterates such as myself! {I don't even know if I've spelled illiterate correctly! :banghead: }
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
gord said:
today i listened again to john coltrane- a love supreme- impulse. this is considered one of the best albums ever, by a lot of jazz fans. but for some reason it doesnt do it for me.
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White Knight said:
Gord, I absolutely agree with you on this; I've always found it to be too abstract and meandering,
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I am with you both in fact He is not one of my favourites at all!
 
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