I was telling people that I wrote about jazz by meeting people at a plane or meeting at a party. If they wondered what they were surprised about "living" type, they said with a smile "I love jazz" and added "I do not know about that".
They had something like chart charts and graphs for the development of jazz. 50s Bebop creates free jazz of the '60s and all of it. As if there is a textbook (actually, one of my critical friends, that is another story), there may be tests. Of course nothing of political conflict, why was the swing a king, or was the fusion of the seventies kill it all?
Or was not the technical discussion all over? Flat No. 5 and long code, the number behind the rhythmic promotion of the swing was like rocket science.
There are also sides of the cult: The elderly people who are bending and shaking behind the club will make the Jewish elders quietly sway in the temple, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane (who is a saint Information on whether it describes the status of course).
It is not just that, everything is jazz. Appreciation does not require previous knowledge, but continuous listening always provides rich wealth. The technical aspect of the musical achievement of jazz combines both the beauty and complexity of mathematics. Music has a real religious burden for both old spiritual tradition and instantaneous meditative thinking.
I can not give you 12 best lists, or tell you that the next thing totally tells the story. However, the following list represents a line of thought, tool technology, rhythmical idea, group concept. Dots are easy to connect, names are clearly shown, sounds can not be forgotten.
And this list is like a magical sponge toy in water. As well as natural connection with many artists and recordings, you can easily absorb extensive knowledge.
Listen to Hot Five and Seven
Artist: Louis Armstrong
Release date: 1925
To talk about jazz without Louis Armstrong is to cut the head of living creatures that are jazz. Armstrong is a trumpeter's accomplishment, an influential singer, and perhaps most importantly it has changed jazz from rigorously instrumental music to a complex blend of solo and ensemble sounds. In that sense, nearly all jazz in the 20th century came out of these recording innovations. In these sessions, you can listen to the process changes from the traditional New Orleans collective style to various blends, by Armstrong's Horn Clarion call.
Listen to Art · Tatam · Solo · Masterpiece Volume 1
Artist: Art Tatum
Release date: 2001
I will do one edition created from this 8 CD set. And anyone is enough to feel the credibility of Tatum's genius and the extensive influence on all subsequent music. Tatum played more pianos than other musicians and had more instruments. He was directly linking from a whore piano man to a classical soloist. Here, at the end of his life, he plays a song after the song, starts with "Too Marvelous for Words", sets each of the treble ranges, establishes a lot of logic of contemporary jazz melody, harmonics, improvisation Tailor it to a concerto.
Listen to a concert at Carnegie Hall: January 1943
Artist: Duke Ellington
Release date: 1943
Little jazz is comparable to the dignity and delicacy, honesty and spark of the band of Duke Ellington of the 1940s. It was popular music that reflects the mind and spirit of the country, and the artistic revolution that jazz was straddling the two functions. In Ellington, Jazz had a leader who understood both drives, probably not as a musician other than Louis Armstrong. It was a dream for Ellington to play Carnegie Hall and today I was hoping for the results of Lincoln Center at Wynton Marsalis. This recording contains short songs (wonderful miniatures with amazing scope) and Ellington's more ambitious, longer form work "Black, Brown, Beige". Saxophone players such as Ben Webster and Johnny Hodges have players' prideful solo statements, but the full band and Ellington's comprehensive vision is truly fascinating.
Listen and I have a question tomorrow
Artist: Ornette Coleman
Release date: 1959
Ornette Coleman's music is always on the tradition. When I listen to Charlie Parker's story, echoes will come here. Distill it to a new one and point it straight towards the future, or curl like a strange phrase. Colman's title starts with both ideas. And the music announced the setting of his piano quartet. The harmonics of chord changes alone will no longer detain Coleman's music. The way Coleman and trumpeter Don Cherry exchanges lines and ideas with each other, the process is closer to pure joy than hard science. About half a century later, it sounds fresh yet.
Listen alone in San Francisco
Artist: Thelonious Monk
Release date: 1959
The most habitual hippie I learned at college was Monk's music. I opened up a whole new idea of how the piano sounds and what kind of music can be done: his compositions, arpeggios and tone clusters, mathematics, R & B, abstract expressionism and slapstick humor. I have found a world of jazz musicians. Everyone looked like him, directly or indirectly, of the monk. And Monk recorded a considerable number of albums leading outstanding bands, but his music brought special insights and unity to others, but the piano I want is monk only. Here, in the beginning of his career, he himself transforms San Francisco's Fugazi Hall with a unique piano performance architecture. This is not something like jazz, it's a monk-like jazz world.
Bill Evans Trio: Listen to Sunday at The Village Vanguard
Artist: Bill Evans
Release date: 1961
Although Bill Evans's trio may be the biggest debate of jazz, there are lots of religious, folklore and literary evidences that support the idea that three are magical figures. Evans is one of the most lyrical pianists in jazz, he is doing his best here. But Evans, Scott Rafael of the bassist, and drummer Paul Motorian are not sticking to the customary role. And with three pointed cheese slices in the room of Village Vanguard (closest to the sacred space remaining in today's jazz) music boasts prayer-like quality.
Listen Live Trane: Europe tour
Artist: John Coltrane
Release date: 1961
By 1961, Coltrane's solo style - free flow through critic's code changes and scale-based improvements that Islay guitar named "sound sheet" was his impression. His band concept was similarly inclined to the boundary line and explosive energy expansion. Coltrane may describe some of Jazz 's most memorable studio sessions, but there really is nothing like he actually took a live. These tracks were drawn in 3 LPs and will find him in two powerful words over two years: in 1961's Quintet including Eric Dollfie, Alto sax, flute, clarinet Including. In 1963 and 1965 he was facing his classical quartet at the concert. In the later article, we saw a fire, especially friendship with Coltrane and drummer Elvin Jones.
Listen to spiritual unity
Artist: Albert Ayler
Release date: 1964
In the first release of Bernard Stollman's ESP label, this is a session where Albert Eyler was pushed into the forefront of jazz avant-garde. He is a gem for open musicians seeking the sound possibilities of instruments, hoping to exploit the intensive effects of small groups and dig up spiritual significance of musical expression. For some, Ayler showed a new contour of the sound, the screams of the sounds shouted from his saxophone - screams, screams, cry, horn, and the mile-width vibrato when he felt it. I listened to the expression of early jazz like Soprano · sax of Sydney · Beché. Ayler's appeal anticipates that the current axis reciting punk rockers will release jazz. He picked up the simplest song and turned it into the most complex internal splatter. His "ghosts" are rendered here in two versions and will truly come across you.
Listen to Afro Cuba's jazz mood
Artist: Dizzy Gillespie And Machito
Release date: 1975
When I edited the jazz magazine, I felt periodic inconvenience with writers who thought Latin jazz was a small sidebar for American jazz. Jazz is a lot of stories, the central one is African diaspora. Music in Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean is a cousin of American music (And it contains a rhythmic secret we forgot, I say.) Cuba has music relations, especially with the United States, and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was one of the ranks of jazz praising the truth with depth and style. Dizzy made his Big Cuban Bang a few decades ago, but this 1975 session introduces a wonderful Cuban trumpeter called Franio "Machito" Grillo's prosecuted band Mario Bauzá. Composer / arranger Chico O & Farrill's "Oro, Incienso y Mirra" is a fusion of contemporary intercultural ideas.
Listen to the moon
Artist: William Parker
Release date: 2002
Born in 1955 [ck]William Parker is a bit older than music known as Free Jazz. Some people say the music revolution is dead: they are wrong. The most important vital signs are on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and Parker's bass echoes in the center of this scene. Like the legendary band radar, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, he is the figure of a father who distributes life lessons and music wisdom. Among the many bands of Parker, he leads here is a band with soulful vocals along with Leena Conquest. Among the deep connections he is sharing there is something that drummer Hamid Drake strongly feels through this music.
