Official Jazz thread

[omgitswes]

Hey fellas, haven't been in here in a while.
Has there been any vocal albums released lately?

 

[Sinner]

^ Sorry brah, not too familiar with the current vocals... that's probablyone for Psk! 

Anyway...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Nicholas Payton - B****** (ft. Chinah Blac)

Save for a few artists here & there (which I've already shared), I don't listen to many jazz vocalists. Sorry Wes.

Here's a cat I've posted before from 'Nawlins. I've been lucky enough to see him live several times. Has a nice blog too. He's been a bit of a provocateur too. Wants to do away with the term jazz & use BAM (Black American Music). Some may find it polarizing but I find it engaging... Here's a vocal from Payton for ya Wes...

http://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com/

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Brittany Howard & Ruby Amanfu - When My Man Comes Home

Here's a nice cover of Memphis Minnie's song. This is more a blues song but oh well.. Also included the original.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working

I know this is a jazz thread, but I'm going to throw up some blues.






Little Walter - My Babe

 

[Sinner]

Auturoooooo.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Robert Glasper Trio - Live at The Village Vanguard

I've been listening to this while working on some spread sheets. The youtube post doesn't have a track listing but he's playing some cuts from Double Booked & Black Radio. I hope you releases a straight jazz release soon.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Robert Glasper - Smells Like Team Spirit & Golden Lady (1 Mic & 1 Take)

More Glasper. Seriously, how many artists out there can sound this lush & lyrical with just piano & a bass?

 

[bjw83]

SUPPORT THIS GUY RIGHT HERE!!!  Gregory Porter is the truth..

On My Way To Harlem

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Here's another one:When Did You Learn

Oh and Esperanza Spalding-I Know You Know

And if you guys wanna check out a jazz show, check out today's show on blogtalkradio.  All about jazz/fusion from 1981 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/musicnme/2013/03/28/1981-rbjazz-fusion-era-chic-ramsey-lewis-fuse-one

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Bebo Valdes - Pan Con Timba

Could neve get into Porter...


RIP Bebo Valdes... A musical giant...

 

[dt43]

Robert Glasper - Smells Like Team Spirit & Golden Lady (1 Mic & 1 Take)

More Glasper. Seriously, how many artists out there can sound this lush & lyrical with just piano & a bass?

Thank you.. Added to playlist and favorited. I'm picking up piano again (played when I was younger but fell off) and listening to Glasper just blows my mind. I always try to study his playing.

His voicings are incredible in those vids, that's why the sound is so full. Dude has all the nuances down, he can modify his playing perfectly depending on what type of accompaniment he has, whether there's a vocalist, etc. Great stuff

 

[dt43]

I discovered this guy today, Marcos Valle. Apparently he's an OG as far as Brazilian music, he's done a lot of really dope bossa,samba and fusion stuff going back to the '60s




How good is this? I would kill someone to get this whole record on vinyl:






BTW, I found him while checking out another artist from Brazil, a seriously dope up and coming cat Lucas Arruda. This is more of "neo/soul" or "chill music" thread vibe but ya'll can check out his soundcloud here:

https://soundcloud.com/lucasarrudamusic

 

[Sinner]

^ I like the James Bond undertones! 

Keep on runnin'... 

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Tuck & Patti - Man in the Mirror

Tuck Andress playing solo...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Stan Getz - Keep Dreaming & Samba Triste

Here is some 70's era Getz getting his Bob James on...& some classic Stan with Charlie Byrd...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Benny Golson - Killer Joe

Had The Terminal with Tom Hanks on while working from home earlier & had to find this on my iPhone to play.

 

[Sinner]

^ That's smooth.  Taking Tom Hanks and moving him to Catch Me If You Can! 

 

[omgitswes]

Heard this on Songza. I like the lyrics

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Soulive - Uncle Junior

Groovin' this mernin'... Ready to see Barca try & beat PSG today in the Champions League match at Camp Nou....





Also heard an interview somewhere that Molly Ringwald is releasing an album through Concord.... Here's a snippet of her covering the Simple Minds' song Don't You Forget About Me from the Breakfast Club soundtrack...

 

[omgitswes]

I had no idea she made music....doesn't sound bad at all.

psk, I want to thank you for putting me onto Soulive, I've been listening to a ton of their stuff lately. Hope to see them live one day.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Chucho Valdes - Mambo Influenciado & Sombras (ft. Concha Buika)

Love me some Afro-Cuban jazz... I don't think I've ever posted Chucho Valdes in here so let me rectify that... I love the mellow drama in Cuban singers...

Wes, glad you like Soulive. Although I haven't been looking as much as I've done in the past, I don't see them doing too many tours now. Like a lot of bands today, they seem to be doing festivals.

 

[Sinner]

Nice, I saw that Molly Ringwald news the other day too! Never knew she was into jazz!

Anyway, was watching The Score.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Thelonious Monk - Round About Midnight

Always thought the story of Monk & the "Jazz Baroness" was interesting especially because there is another member of the powerful & wealthy Rothschild family (Kate Rothschild) that left her billionaire husband for Jay Electronica. There are some small parallels to their stories.

I don't know if I read it somewhere or if one of my family members said it but Monk always sounded like he was chasing a note(s) or chord(s) that wasn't there. Listening to him is like going on a journey of him trying to find that note or chord.







The glamorous heiress who devoted her life to jazz
By Stephanie Busari, CNN and Tara Kelly for CNN
updated 10:22 AM EDT, Thu April 11, 2013

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

London (CNN) -- The jazz record was only three minutes long, but it was enough time to cast a spell on a wealthy European heiress who became determined to meet the artist behind the beautiful ballad with the haunting overtones.

That record was "Round Midnight," by a relatively unknown jazz singer Thelonious Monk and hearing it would herald the start of a life-long friendship between the singer and heiress Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter.

Born into the hugely wealthy Rothschild banking dynasty and married to a French diplomat, the baroness, known as Nica, gave up a world of privilege for the love of jazz and devoted herself to Monk, who was considered one of America's great musical geniuses.

She later became known as "the Jazz Baroness"—and could be spotted mingling with music legends of the bebop era, such as Charlie Parker, Art Blakey and Miles Davis.

To explore Nica's elusive past, Hannah Rothschild tells her great aunt's mysterious life story in her book, "The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the rebellious Rothschild".

Nica was first touched by jazz in 1948 while on a trip to New York. Just before catching a flight to join her family, she stopped to visit a friend, the jazz musician Teddy Wilson who put on "Round Midnight."

After hearing that record, the baroness' life changed forever, recalls Rothschild. "It was like the vinyl version of a spell being cast."

"It quite literally spirited her from one world to another and she never went home. That was it. She missed every single plane, stayed in New York, determined to meet this man Thelonious Monk."

In that very moment, she left her husband and five children behind and devoted herself to meeting the legendary musician.

Armed with a mile long cigarette holder, a fur coat and a set of pearls, Nica could be found swaying to the blues in the big apple's jazz clubs or ferrying bands to performances in her convertible Bentley.

But Nica didn't find herself in the presence of Monk until some years later at the 'Salon du Jazz 1954' concert in Paris. She was introduced to Monk backstage by a mutual friend - pianist Mary Lou Williams -- "and once they met they were inseparable", notes Rothschild.

Though Monk was married, the relationship between the Baroness and him remained platonic, according to Rothschild's research.

"I believe what kept them together was their love of music, particularly his music might I add. A real sense of companionship and friendship."

Part of Nica's passion for jazz could be traced back to her experience during World War II.

With Jewish relatives disappearing in the Holocaust, she played an active role in the war and even fought in the battlefields of Africa for Charles De Gaulle's Free French Army in Congo. After serving in numerous capacities, she ended the war as a decorated lieutenant.

"She had a very interesting war and when she came back it was impossible for her to settle down to a life of normalcy and domesticity," explains Rothschild.

While Nica never took up composing or playing music herself, she remained a friend and philanthropist to the genre. As a result, she was a source of material for a dozen songs composed by jazz greats. Songs included Sonny Clark's "Nica", Kenny Dorham's "Tonica", Tommy Flanagan's "Thelonica"—to name a few.

The baroness remained close friends with Monk, funding his performances and even went to to jail for him. The incident happened in 1958 when police stopped the pair en route to an out-of-town gig and found a small amount of Monk's marijuana in her car.

Nica claimed it was hers and she was sentenced to three years in prison.

After a two-year legal battle funded by the Rothschild's, the case was dismissed on a technicality in the appeal court.

In Monk's last years, he suffered from mental health problems and withdrew from playing jazz altogether by secluding himself in Nica's New Jersey home. But at his funeral—Monk died in 1982, from a stroke, both his wife Nellie and Nica were greeted by mourners as widows.

Six years after Monk's death, Nica passed away, aged 74, after undergoing a heart valve operation.

Though Rothschild only met her great aunt a handful of times on her visits to New York, she was devastated by the loss. "I went into a silent mourning of not having spent more time with her and not having asked those questions," recalls Rothschild.

"It occurred to me one day that just because somebody has died or passed on, it doesn't mean that your relationship with them is completely over."

And each time Rothschild listens to that infamous Monk record, she wonders, "Maybe this time it'll change my life and I'll leave my children and my country and my friends—but it hasn't happened yet."

Tara Kelly contributed to this report

 

[Kimchi Papi]

1959 The Year that Changed Jazz

I listened to this the other night while working on something at home. I'm going to go back & watch this. The discussion centers around 4 albums released that year that changed the direction of jazz; Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck - Time Out, Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um, & Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come. I'd also add Coltrane's Giant Steps released a year later also helped the change.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Eric Krasno - Lenny (Stevie Ray Vaughan cover) & Thumbs Out, No Ride

Guitarist from Soulive.






Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny

The one & only...