All That Jazz ...

[Nikhil]

 

[Sushant Sharma]

 

[Fiftyfifty]

Not strictly jazz, but for those of you in Goa this week, here's a real treat from the Cinephile Club in Goa at the Marquinez Palace, Panjim:

This Thursday 13th February at 6.30 p.m. we are screening the acclaimed documentary on the revival of Cuban music, Buena Vista Social Club (1999, 105 mins) directed by the legendary Wim Wenders
Often regarded as one of the best musical documentaries, Buena Vista Social Club was born when renowned musician Ry Cooder went to Havana, Cuba to record an album with an ensemble of musicians away from the limelight for decades and long forgotten. German director Wim Wenders directed this documentary with some memorable music and heartfelt tales from the musicians. Nominated for an Oscar in 2000, it features many legendary Cuban musicians including Compay Segunda whose composition Chan Chan is heard across the globe. If you love music, you can't miss this one. Here is a trailer of the film -

 

[jaiwant_alex]

Not strictly jazz, but for those of you in Goa this week, here's a real treat from the Cinephile Club in Goa at the Marquinez Palace, Panjim:

This Thursday 13th February at 6.30 p.m. we are screening the acclaimed documentary on the revival of Cuban music, Buena Vista Social Club (1999, 105 mins) directed by the legendary Wim Wenders
Often regarded as one of the best musical documentaries, Buena Vista Social Club was born when renowned musician Ry Cooder went to Havana, Cuba to record an album with an ensemble of musicians away from the limelight for decades and long forgotten. German director Wim Wenders directed this documentary with some memorable music and heartfelt tales from the musicians. Nominated for an Oscar in 2000, it features many legendary Cuban musicians including Compay Segunda whose composition Chan Chan is heard across the globe. If you love music, you can't miss this one. Here is a trailer of the film -

Brilliant film. Can be watched on Mubi. Highly recommended!

 

[Nikhil]

 

[coaltrain]

TIme for some funky stuff.

Very cool. Shades of John Scofield with MMW.

 

[coaltrain]

 

[mbhangui]

This is one album that everyone of you must have heard countless number of times like me. My favourite is Take Five. Other tracks are also good but somehow 'Take Five' elates me every single time I hear it. For me, it is like a masterpiece. What is your favourite track?

It seems I'm not the only one

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-5020244/its-been-65-years-since-dave-brubeck-shook-up-the-jazz-world-with-take-five

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm A Martínez.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

And I'm Michel Martin. On this day, 65 years ago, pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet went into a recording studio in New York City and produced what would become the bestselling jazz single of all time.

(SOUNDBITE OF THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET'S "TAKE FIVE")

MARTIN: This is "Take Five." Clearly, they made it swing, but it wasn't easy. Brubeck was trying to work in an unusual time signature. Most popular music is in 4/4 time - you know, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. Well, this is in 5/4 time. Listen for that extra beat. One, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five.

(SOUNDBITE OF THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET'S "TAKE FIVE")

CHRIS BRUBECK: This goes all the way back to him studying field recordings of what African music sounded like, and it's in all sorts of crazy time signatures and polyrhythmic things.

MARTIN: That's Dave Brubeck's son, Chris. He says his dad in 1959 challenged his bandmate, saxophonist Paul Desmond, to write a song in that unfamiliar 5/4 time.

BRUBECK: And when they first went into the studio at Columbia Records, they tried to record "Take Five," and they couldn't get it. And they actually gave up after 40 minutes and said, this is just too strange for us, and we'll come back in a week. And that's when they came back on July 1 and did record the version that everyone knows around the world.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #1: Are we supposed to be leaving some hole in there? Open these drums?

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

MARTIN: Dave Brubeck died in 2012. Since then, Chris Brubeck has been doing a lot of work on his father's archives. And he found that recording of their abandoned first attempt.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #2: They're a little cocky down here.

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #3: Forget it. I'll get it. One, two, three, four, five.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #3: No.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

BRUBECK: And Dave and Paul Desmond and Joe Morello and Gene Wright, the classic quartet, they were like little demigods to me. And I thought, they never made a mistake. So it was terrific to hear them struggling to play in 5/4 (laughter). They didn't get it at first.

MARTIN: I think I can see where that would have been kind of relieving. Like, they're human, too.

BRUBECK: Yeah, right.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #3: OK, try it again. That's great. This is all rehearsal.

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #2: Yeah, you're [expletive] right it is.

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #3: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #2: And I'm not getting paid for it.

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #3: Here we go.

MARTIN: Chris Brubeck is now able to share this recording and much more. His father's archives have been kept at the Wilton Library in Connecticut, but they've digitized a great deal of it and now that's available online.

BRUBECK: Someone asked - was your mother a pack rat? - (laughter) because she kept everything. I mean, we have, you know, letters from Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis and Coretta Scott King and, you know, White House invitations and Christmas cards, and, you know, tons of records and recordings. Yeah, there's a lot of things you can see there. You can listen to records that have never come out or tapes. You can see videos, and of course, tons of photographs. It goes on and on.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST #3: Let's do something else. We'll come back to this.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Why don't we come back to this?

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

MARTIN: That was Chris Brubeck. His father's band, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, went into the studio 65 years ago today and came out with one of the biggest jazz hits of all time, "Take Five."

(SOUNDBITE OF THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET'S "TAKE FIVE")

 

[acemachine26]

This is one album that everyone of you must have heard countless number of times like me. My favourite is Take Five. Other tracks are also good but somehow 'Take Five' elates me every single time I hear it. For me, it is like a masterpiece. What is your favourite track?

It seems I'm not the only one

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-5020244/its-been-65-years-since-dave-brubeck-shook-up-the-jazz-world-with-take-five

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If you like Take Five, you'll love Take Ten which has quite a similar vibe:

 

[Analogous]

For Zappa fans
He was what his peers only pretended to be; a true nonconformist, who pursued the path of most resistance not because he wanted to, but because he had to.

Frank Zappa: America's last rebel

unherd.com

 

[acemachine26]

Donald Byrd laying down some serious funk in 1973

 

[Nikhil]

Another superb recommendation from @sameer kumar

 

[Analogous]

 

[ajay124]

The Shape of Jazz.

A spontaneous and by no means comprehensive list. Personally these are the musicians who immediately come to mind when I imagine Jazz! In recent years my personal inclination has been to listen more often to Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, Bud Powell and Ornette Coleman. I've heard Miles Davis and John Coltrane so frequently in the past that for the moment I'm taking a break!

1. Duke Ellington
2. Louis Armstrong
3. Count Basie
4. Charlie Parker
5. Dizzy Gillespie
6. Thelonious Monk
7. Miles Davis
8. Charlie Christian
9. Coleman Hawkins
10. Lester Young
11. Clifford Brown
12. Max Roach
13. Bud Powell
14. John Coltrane
15. Sonny Rollins
16. Charles Mingus
17. Ornette Coleman
18. Art Blakey
19. Cannonball Adderley
20. Eric Dolphy
21. Dave Brubeck
22. Wayne Shorter
23. Wes Montgomery
24. Sun Ra
25. Albert Ayler

 

[sameer kumar]

The Shape of Jazz.

A spontaneous and by no means comprehensive list. Personally these are the musicians who immediately come to mind when I imagine Jazz! In recent years my personal inclination has been to listen more often to Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, Bud Powell and Ornette Coleman. I've heard Miles Davis and John Coltrane so frequently in the past that for the moment I'm taking a break!

1. Duke Ellington
2. Louis Armstrong
3. Count Basie
4. Charlie Parker
5. Dizzy Gillespie
6. Thelonious Monk
7. Miles Davis
8. Charlie Christian
9. Coleman Hawkins
10. Lester Young
11. Clifford Brown
12. Max Roach
13. Bud Powell
14. John Coltrane
15. Sonny Rollins
16. Charles Mingus
17. Ornette Coleman
18. Art Blakey
19. Cannonball Adderley
20. Eric Dolphy
21. Dave Brubeck
22. Wayne Shorter
23. Wes Montgomery
24. Sun Ra
25. Albert Ayler

It’s almost similar to my current listening choices.
Happy listening

 

[sameer kumar]

Pablo Records reissues by Analougue production are superb in sound quality

 

[Fiftyfifty]

Pablo Records reissues by Analougue production are superb in sound quality

I'm sure these reissues are great but the originals are among the best pressed jazz recordings ever made imho

 

[coaltrain]

In a misguided attempt to curb my spending on CDs, the missus gifted me a turntable on my birthday. Guess she really didn’t think that through!
Initially, I made the mistake of picking up dupes of CDs I already own. But given the ridiculous pricing, common sense has finally prevailed. This is a double album of unreleased 80s Miles featuring Scofield, McLaughlin, Stern and others. Funky as hell, and you can hear Miles growling between tracks

 

[Fiftyfifty]

In a misguided attempt to curb my spending on CDs, the missus gifted me a turntable on my birthday. Guess she really didn’t think that through!
Initially, I made the mistake of picking up dupes of CDs I already own. But given the ridiculous pricing, common sense has finally prevailed. This is a double album of unreleased 80s Miles featuring Scofield, McLaughlin, Stern and others. Funky as hell, and you can hear Miles growling between tracks

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Happy birthday @coaltrain . Tell us about your new tt and the albums on the table

 

[sameer kumar]

In a misguided attempt to curb my spending on CDs, the missus gifted me a turntable on my birthday. Guess she really didn’t think that through!
Initially, I made the mistake of picking up dupes of CDs I already own. But given the ridiculous pricing, common sense has finally prevailed. This is a double album of unreleased 80s Miles featuring Scofield, McLaughlin, Stern and others. Funky as hell, and you can hear Miles growling between tracks

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Pump up the volume to feel the trumpet growl …enjoy the birthday Miles way on a Sunday