just wondering if people do actually like the old jazz music ( nat king cole - perry como - frank sinatra etc ) if so would you like it to come back again?
When I hear improvised Jazz I can't help but think back to the Morecambe and Wise sketch in which Andre Previn tried to conduct Eric on piano for the Grieg's Piano Concerto.
"I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order".
I love Jazz. I attended 2 days (last 2 weeks) of the Manchester jazz festival that happens every year. There is quite a mixture of Jazz and I found a new one. A liverpool band last week called The Wizards of Twiddley and they mix jazz with heavy and punk. Bought the CD and love it. Not really into big band but I can listen to almost anthing live.
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it depends what you mean by old jazz. what is old? i'd say 20 years was pretty old, so thats 1988 backwards. or do you mean 50's jazz, so bop and going backwards, or the old jazz vocalist crooners like sinatra?
personally i'm not a fan of bop of the preeceding jazz, but i like the modular styles, although i'm more a fan of the fusion from the late 60s to mid 70s. things get a bit craptastic and disco ish towards the end of the 70s (although i do like proper disco) and then the 80s just killed jazz, although tutu was a great miles davis album and some of herbies stuff was okay, but just not a patch on the mid 70s
i like some progressive 70s jazz too, like pharoah saunders and alice coltrane, but there are some very hard to listen to works such as interstellar space by john coltrane and rasheid ali, which is only drums and saxophone, in what sounds like a dirty aural fight to show who can sound the worst. even some of miles greatest works are very hard listening to begin with. when i was first played on the corner by a drummer friend i thought it was absolute garbage, but it was simply that 30 years or so previously, miles was streets ahead of everyone else, and he didn't really care if he lost his old fans on the way, he preferred playing to new audiences into new styles
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I like most Jazz and would welcome a big revival into the mainstream, hopefully enabling all media styles to be a less regressive towards the Jazz genres. may it be concerts, music availability, radio and tv.
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I wish speech could go back to how it was 'back in the old days', or 'back in my day'.
Where the did '...back in the day' come from?
Back on topic - I think all music goes through phases. The jazz we have on record/CD hasn't disappeared, and I'll be listening to Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme probably until I die (or go deaf). See the link to my blog in my sig.
If anyone comes up with some new jazz that's as good, then I'll give that a listen, too.
'A colloquial dream' is the best 'drunk and alone' tune ever written.
'Isabels table dance' is possibly the best 'drunk and not alone' tune ever written.
I tend to like all the well known classic jazz acts, I don't like the modern stuff too much, with the exception of Saint-Germain and a couple of others I can't recall just now.
just wondering if people do actually like the old jazz music ( nat king cole - perry como - frank sinatra etc ) if so would you like it to come back again?
or do you prefer electronic sounds.....
I love jazz but not the names you've mentioned. Did Como do jazz? There's little vocal jazz I like. Annette Peacock and Billy Jenkins come to mind for that.
just wondering if people do actually like the old jazz music ( nat king cole - perry como - frank sinatra etc ) if so would you like it to come back again?
or do you prefer electronic sounds.....
I wouldn't associate those artists with Jazz. I don't see the connection.
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