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Am I The Only Shooter Out There Who Loves Jazz?
Ceasar Maragni, Photographer
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Marion | IL | USA | Posted: 9:53 PM on 08.22.08 |
->> It's Friday night, high school and college football haven't begun yet and the Olympics are winding down, so....
It's time for a little OT question for fellow SS members, something I'm curious about.
How many of you, besides me, listen to jazz? By listen, I mean every day or at least 5 out of 7 days a week.
Whether it's working at your computer, driving to and from an assignment, or just lounging around the house, do you listen?
If you know who Trane, Satchmo, The Velvet Fog, Lady Day, Django, The Chariman of the Board and The Girl Singer are, well, you probably do. |
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Alex Surrey, Student/Intern
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Glendale | CA | United States | Posted: 10:17 PM on 08.22.08 |
| ->> I love Jazz, I listen to Miles Davis ( personal favourite) and John Coltrane, and Louis Armstrong. They are all great. I usually listen to jazz while I am editing my photos down, it helps me stay relaxed. |
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Paul W Gillespie, Photographer
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Annapolis | MD | USA | Posted: 10:47 PM on 08.22.08 |
| ->> I am a Jazz fan, older stuff though, not a fan of that Kenny G, new age, so called smooth jazz stuff. |
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Andrew Villa, Student/Intern, Photographer
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San Jose | CA | United States | Posted: 11:15 PM on 08.22.08 |
| ->> jazz, define it? I'm more of a straight ahead, re-bop and bepop kind of a guy. So yes, I do. Not all the time... but sometimes, i pull out some Trane. |
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Pat Farrington, Photographer
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Ft. Collins | CO | USA | Posted: 12:37 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> My car radio has 18 FM presets and I only use two of them - one is set to KUNC out of Greeley for NPR news and the other to KUVO out of Denver, one of the few full-time Jazz stations left in the country.
My love of jazz started way back in college and I've been fortunate to see some great acts over the years. I also have a few personal projects in the planning stages involving portraits of jazz performers as well as performance photos. |
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Daniel Bates, Photographer
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Fayetteville | NC | | Posted: 12:40 AM on 08.23.08 |
| ->> I'm not a serious jazz afficionado, but I do enjoy chilling out to the Brubeck Brothers Quartet and their peers. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 12:50 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> I like jazz when I'm working late night. Then again I also pump Slipknot through my skull candy while shooting pop warner.
So I guess I run the full range of music tastes. |
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Anthony Vasser, Photographer, Assistant
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 2:12 AM on 08.23.08 |
| ->> BigBand and Dixielander here: Harry James, Stan Kenton, Spitfire, Jim Cullum, Maynard Ferguson, etc. I have my cablebox default to the bigband music channel every time I turn it on, and I'll leave it there for hours, especially when editing. I swing dance too... and would play more gigs if pesky ol sport shooting didn't take my nights! |
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Kohl Threlkeld, Student/Intern
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Monroe | MI | USA | Posted: 2:39 AM on 08.23.08 |
| ->> I. Hate. Smooth. Jazz. |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 2:56 AM on 08.23.08 |
| ->> I'm a huge jazz nerd. Best music to edit to by far. |
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Sam Morris, Photographer
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Henderson (Las Vegas) | NV | USA | Posted: 3:01 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> Kohl,
Smooth Jazz is... well, not an oxymoron. Maybe we could call it McDonalds Jazz. |
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Svein Ove Ekornesvaag, Photographer
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Aalesund | Møre og Romsdal | Norway | Posted: 5:44 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> Rock and metal is the best music for me when editing or shooting.
But I went to a Jazz Festival here a month ago, and actually enjoyed to hear the music live. Marilyn Mazur was the most impressive jazz musician. |
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Bill Ross, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 6:25 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> I have just about everything I could find of John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Pat Metheny.
I veg with Jazz.
But then again, I still listen to Punk. |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 7:28 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> Stan Getz. Gerry Mulligan. Bird.Miles. Chet Baker. Dave Brubeck. Stan Kenton.
Love it. |
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Mark Abbott, Photographer
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Durham | NC | US | Posted: 9:21 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> I split my listening between Old jazz( Bix Beiderbecke Louie Armstrong,Ella and Dixieland)
and Oldtime stringband ( Skillet Lickers, Charlie Poole,East Texas serenader's)
I'll listen to new music only on local college radio |
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Wesley R. Bush, Photographer
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Nashville | TN | U.S. | Posted: 9:31 AM on 08.23.08 |
| ->> Love jazz, but it frustrates me to listen to it in a car for some reason. Much better live and with beer. |
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Daniel Putz, Photographer
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Jefferson | MD | USA | Posted: 9:43 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> >> Much better live and with beer.
This goes for any outdoor/indoor mass spectator event. |
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Dianna Russell, Photographer
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Springfield | MO | USA | Posted: 9:45 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> Of the many different types of jazz, my personal favorite is smooth jazz.
I consider smooth jazz some of the best stress relief music out there. You can call it New Age or whatever you want. Most of my favorites *are* in that new age/smooth jazz genre. Craig Chaquico is my all-time favorite and I have most of his albums. I also like Michael Gettel, David Lanz, Ottmar Liebert, Billy McLaughlin, Cusco and many others. I like the compilation albums from Narada or Windham Hill as a way to find new favorites.
But then, my other all-time favorite, maybe for another thread, is Joe Satriani. ;o) |
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Corey Perrine, Photographer
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Hudson | NH | USA | Posted: 9:49 AM on 08.23.08 |
| ->> I've been a fan of Carlos Boozer and Jerry Sloan for quite some time now...wait. |
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Walter Calahan, Photographer
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Westminster | MD | USA | Posted: 10:14 AM on 08.23.08 |
->> I had a front table in Blue's Ally in DC to listen to Dizzy Gillespie.
Photographed a Master Jazz class at Rutgers University with Sonny Stit.
Attended a free concert starring Sarah Vaughn.
Had a one on one photo shoot with Ella Fitzgerald.
What's not to like? |
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Ben Shyman, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 4:11 PM on 08.23.08 |
| ->> Ardley, Blakey, Corea, Morgan....and oh, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus! |
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Andrew Sullivan, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Kissimmee | FL | USA | Posted: 9:14 PM on 08.23.08 |
->> I keep two jazz stations on Pandora.com, one populated solely by the track 'Flamenco Sketches' by Miles, the other is acid jazz, which I seeded with The Reminiscence Quartet.
They get play time at the end of the day. When I need to hustle at my desk I'll set the metal station or the mash-up station (check out a DJ named Girl Talk) and get through some edits.
Andrew Sullivan
http://www.picandrew.com |
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Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Central | NJ | USA | Posted: 11:20 PM on 08.23.08 |
| ->> If you ever get the chance to visit the Fest Int'l de Jazz de Montreal, do it. It is amazing! |
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Mark Sutton, Photographer
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Herndon | VA | USA | Posted: 8:45 AM on 08.24.08 |
| ->> I grew up listening to jazz as a kid because my dad loved Dinah Washington and Miles Davis to name a few. I used to be a DJ back in my early days in the US Air Force, so my Jazz collection rivaled Kareem Abdul-Jabar's jazz collection (yeah right). I've loaded every jazz CD onto my Ipod which has 80 gigs and I have maybe 15 gigs left, so if you ever see me at a game listening to my Ipod. I'm probably listening to my favorite type of jazz, Fusion which I started listening to in high school. I love Return to Forever, Weather Report and the Pat Metheny Group. |
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Nic Summers, Photographer
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Mount Prospect | IL | USA | Posted: 9:00 AM on 08.24.08 |
->> Occasionally you will find some spiffed up acid jazz here but not always.
http://www.deep.fm
Click on the little Apple icon in upper left corner of page to open a Quicktime player.
Be aware the page is written in Dutch and the music streams in from Amsterdam. |
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Fj Hughes, Photographer, Assistant
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Baltimore | MD | USA | Posted: 9:04 AM on 08.24.08 |
->> Bebop, hard bop, free jazz here. Mingus, Coltrane, Miles and especially Ornette Coleman. I also love the swing of Django Reinhardt.
It's a shame their almost all gone. |
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Chet Gordon, Photographer
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Newburgh | NY | US | Posted: 11:11 AM on 08.24.08 |
| ->> Good thread. Nice to see so many here with similar tastes in the music. Let’s see, off the top of my head and in no particular order: John Coltrane, Al Jarreau, Astrid Gilberto, Bebel Gilberto, Dori Cayammi, Azymuth, Billie Holiday, Brandford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Delfayo Marsalis, Bill Lee, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Steve Rodby, Jeff Haynes, Cassandra Wilson, Birelli Lagrene, Bobby McFerrin, Jon Hendricks, Weather Report, Roy Ayers, Roy Haynes, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Return to Forever, George Benson, Lenny White, Hugh Masakela, Miriam Makeba, Angilique Kidjo, Charles Earland, Charlie Parker, Charlie Haden, Diana Krall, Diane Reeves, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter, George Duke, Donald Harrison, Grover Washington Jr., Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, Lonnie Liston Smith, Michael Brecker, Nina Simone, Norman Conners, Phyliss Hyman, Angela Bofill, Gary Bartz, McCoy Tyner, Jaco Pastorious, Patti Austin, Pheobe Snow, Ronnie Laws, Roy Hargrove, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Gilberto Gil, Pharoah Sanders, Hubert Laws, Toninho Horta, Wes Montgomery, Wayne Shorter, Cannonball Adderly, Esperanza Spaulding, Art Blakey, Johnny Hartman, Billy Taylor, Carmen McRea, Toni Childs, Dinah Washington, Ramsey Lewis, Quincy Jones, Chuck Mangione, Steve Gadd, Michael Franks, Lyle Mays and I think I have just about everything Pat Metheny has ever recorded. -cg. |
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Mark Sutton, Photographer
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Herndon | VA | USA | Posted: 2:11 PM on 08.24.08 |
->> Chet,
If my Dad were still alive, he’d be mad at me for posting this because he thinks anything off the “Kind of Blue” album by Miles Davis is the greatest recording ever. But, “San Lorenzo” off the “Pat Metheny Group” album which came out my senior year in high school is one of the best. I love Pat Metheny and also have everything he’s produced. Growing up I was always considered weird for listening to “old people’s music” and because my favorite group in high school was Return to Forever and not Earth Wind and Fire, The Isley Brothers or Kool and the Gang. This was a GREAT thread…. |
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Bradley Leeb, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 4:58 PM on 08.24.08 |
| ->> I'm a jazz guy as well, not only musically, but I love the Utah Jazz too. Deron Williams is the man.... |
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Geoff Miller, Photographer
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Portage | MI | USA | Posted: 11:03 PM on 08.24.08 |
| ->> Rather odd mix: Gershwin, Scott Joplin, Leon Redbone, Herbie Mann, Weather Report, Pat Methany, and The Asylum Street Spankers. |
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Dave Prelosky, Photographer
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Lower Burrell | Pa | US | Posted: 11:22 PM on 08.24.08 |
->> One of my stringers asked me earlier today if I was up on this guy he'd just heard about. Grover Washington Jr.
He was a bit skeptical when I told him I'd made out to Mister Magic about the time he was conceived... |
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PJ Heller, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 12:04 AM on 08.25.08 |
->> Brubeck (anything better than Take 5?)
Anybody know Eddie Higgins . . . piano player extraordinaire but not very well known (used to see him whenever I could in Chicago a long time ago). Try to find his Soulero album and give it a listen.
Oscar Peterson
Could keep going naming more and more but those three top my list. |
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William Hallstrom, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Pasadena | CA | USA | Posted: 1:46 AM on 08.25.08 |
| ->> I'm a huge Mingus fan, as well as Coltrane, Miles et al. Funny, haven't thought of using jazz as editing music. Sounds nice,...gotta try it. |
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Chris Peterson, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Columbia Falls | MT | USA | Posted: 8:51 AM on 08.25.08 |
| ->> Mingus. Monk. Coltrane. Brubeck. Davis. Parker.Ellington. Listen to all of them. Just not everyday. My family hates jazz. But back in the old days, two guys I worked with would play jazz all night as we cranked out a newspaper.That's how I got into jazz. |
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Bill Ross, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 8:53 AM on 08.25.08 |
->> Sorry to jump in here again but I have a question for all you Jazz aficionados.
Back in the late 70's early 80's I heard what I thought was a progressive jazz band named BRAND X. Anyone know where I can find some their stuff? |
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Bill Ross, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 8:56 AM on 08.25.08 |
| ->> Nevermind... My God, I'm such a dolt. They were fusion jazz and I found some info. The Internet CAN be your friend. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 10:27 AM on 08.25.08 |
| ->> no, you are not apparently! |
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Christopher Anderson, Photographer
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Machesney Park | IL | U.S.A. | Posted: 11:00 AM on 08.25.08 |
| ->> Love jazz, from current artists like Diana Krall to some of my oldie favorites like Weather Report - gotta love Jaco on the fretless. |
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Collin Erie, Photographer
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Lindy Dugger, Photographer
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Rome | Ga | | Posted: 6:31 PM on 08.25.08 |
->> I can dig some forms of jazz, but others... I just can't get into Kenny G. Sorry. Reminds me of that awful music at that dirty department store my mom shopped at (and I always got lost in) when I was a kid.
My brother is a jazz musician - started doing pro gigs when he was 13, I think, now he's on scholarship in college - and while I certainly respect and admire what he does, I think I got my fill of most of it back home.
I don't do much listening to music while editing at the office, as we're supposed to keep an ear on the scanner at all times, but sometimes I have to in order to tune out the news editor hooting and hollering about who knows what in the other room.
When I do listen to music when I edit, I find it usually depends on the type of assignment and culture of the people surrounding it. Just sort of helps me get into a little more (unless I'm just angry or exasperated, then I tend to veer towards some old school punk or something else with a lot of energy). Is that nuts? Anyone else do that? |
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Dirk Dewachter, Photographer
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Playa Del Rey | CA | USA | Posted: 7:12 PM on 08.25.08 |
| ->> Jazz is good for ya! I'll add two names Modern Jazz Quartet and Grant Green. Especially the MJQ are great for long edit sessions. |
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Renay Johnson, Photographer, Assistant
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San Diego | CA | | Posted: 11:52 PM on 08.25.08 |
| ->> I'm a big fan of the old Jazz. Definately Ella and while she's more blues(she had a rough life)I am a big Billie Holiday fan. Tragic life. |
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Paul Jordan, Photographer
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Rochester | NY | USA | Posted: 10:06 AM on 08.26.08 |
->> I would challenge you standards lovers, and I'm a big Coleman Hawkins and Oscar Peterson fan to listen to David Sanborn's Here & Gone and tell me again how you don't like current smooth jazz.
Love Harry James, the above mentioned, Patrick Yandall, Nick Colionne, Matt Marshak, Norman Brown, Paul Brown, Kashiwa Waters Cole, Eric Darius, Marion Meadows.
Cut my teeth on a bazillion hours of Louis Jordan and his Tympanny Five growing up. One of a kind.
However as much as I dig jazz, THE BLUES is where it's at. Don't get me started. |
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Ceasar Maragni, Photographer
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Marion | IL | USA | Posted: 10:44 AM on 08.26.08 |
->> It's great reading all the responses to this post. To me jazz and photography have always gone together. Not a day passes that I don't listen to a jazz recording, just as not a day goes by that I don't think about a photo I'm taking, have taken or am going to take.
Walter, you were so fortunate to sit table front for a Gillespie performance. Of course, you know that.
So many of you seem to be fans of Pat Methany. With that in mind, I'm going to purchase my first Methany CD this week. Any suggestions?
One of the wonderful things about this genre of music is that I'm constantly learning to appreciate new artists, be they contemporary or old school. Believe it or not after all these years it was not that long ago that I discovered Art Tatum. Oh my gosh, what a masterful musician he was!
For Sports Shooter members who have only tasted jazz, my I suggest enjoying a full meal by taking 2:54 of your day to view this absolutely masterful rendition of Duke Ellington's I LET A SONG GO OUT OF MY HEART sung by Joe Williams, backed by the George Shearing Quartet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FKWl5687aw |
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Bill Ross, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 11:24 AM on 08.26.08 |
| ->> My suggestion would be to get on iTunes or Amazon and listen to anything by the PAT METHENY GROUP (Quartet with Lyle Mays on Keyboard). He's done alot of recordings. I like The Pat Metheny Group more than his solo stuff. But that's just me. |
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Josh Anderson, Photographer
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Nashville | TN | United States | Posted: 11:38 AM on 08.26.08 |
| ->> Alice Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Art Blakey, Oliver Nelson, Monk, etc. Ive been a jazz head for a long time. I used to live in Chicago and their NPR station, 91.5FM, would just play jazz from 10 until 2am every night. It was great. Looks like you're in Illinois so I guess you might know about that. I think its classical now though. Im also into stuff like Eugene McDaniels, Jimmy McGriff, and El Michael's Affair. Thats more soul though I guess. |
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Dianna Russell, Photographer
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Springfield | MO | USA | Posted: 1:29 PM on 08.26.08 |
| ->> I've also enjoyed the variety of artists in mentioned in this thread and look forward to expanding my music appreciation -- especially those mentioned more than once. |
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Mark Sutton, Photographer
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Herndon | VA | USA | Posted: 2:33 PM on 08.26.08 |
->> Caesar,
You have to pick up Pat Metheny Group and Bright Size Life to start off with. Then get Watercolors, 80/81, As Falls Wichita, so Falls Wichita Falls and Off Ramp. That about covers his first 5 or so, then you can probably start buying 1 each week after that starting with the Live album which came out while I was still in Okinawa, so that should be about late 82' or so. He has a lot, so my main man Pat can be expensive, but once you listen to him. You will always listen to him. Like I said in my earlier post, I listen to San Lorenzo daily because I've added it to almost every playlist I have on my Ipod.
Hope this helps.... |
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Mark Sutton, Photographer
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Herndon | VA | USA | Posted: 2:56 PM on 08.26.08 |
->> Caesar,
I just went on Itunes and looked up what they have on Pat Metheny and you can actually down load them cheaper than what I paid for them over the years at the BX which was costing around $11.99 at the time of some purchases and now up to around $15.99 and Tower Records which some times had ECM CD's on sale. But I saw 80/81 for $19.99 and I think I paid about $25.00 in Yen for the album and the CD ran me $24.99 at Tower Records. Most of the other stuff on ITunes are for $9.99 or cheaper which isn't bad....
Take care and you will really-really love Pat Metheny.
Right now I'm listening to Secret Story which is a GREAT album. Man this guy is the GREATEST.... |
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Chet Gordon, Photographer
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Newburgh | NY | US | Posted: 3:36 PM on 08.26.08 |
->> Mark & Ceasar,
I posted an earlier reply but I guess it never went thru. There's also the site: http://www.patmetheny.com and also Pat Metheny Radio, which you can find a link to on the site or on iTunes in the Radio / Jazz - streams menu. I also stream quite a few Jazz stations thru iTunes; WBGO-FM of Newark, NJ (24 hrs.), WKCR-FM of Columbia University, NY, KKJZ-FM or "K-Jazz" out of Los Angeles (also 24 hrs.), and WLIU-FM from Long Island, NY (good selection at night)
Mark>>> When were you on "The Rock...?" I was there from June '84 - Nov. '86. Camp Foster. 2nd. Btlln./ 12th. Marines. *(man that seems like a lifetime ago...)
Semper Fi,
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