The Jazz bf thread

[CliffMcTainshaw]

On some thread, somewhere, I said, the more music you listen to, the more you appreciate the skills of the musicians that produce the music and eventually you end up in the jazz area just to hear really skilled players. This is one of the bands that did it for me. My daughter flipped out when she looked at the CD case that said "Fourplay" and then the track that said, "Between The Sheets". She looked at me and said "Dad, is this some sort of porno". I said, "yes, but only for the ears".
Fourplay, Bob James (keyboards) Nathan East (5 string bass), Lee Ritnour (guitar), Harvey Mason (drums) are the band with Chaka Khan (vocals) and Philip Bailey & Phil Perry (elastic bands) for this track.
This is a live performance.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Smooth, something to drift off to. This sounds just like the music they used to have on Music To Midnight.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Really like this. From his album Whisky Kisses.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

A great Australian band Pyramid, with Australian music giant David Hirshfelder on Keyboards.

 

[Engimal v3]

Started listening to a lot of Japanese jazz and fusion lately. Had no idea what was out there, there's some incredible stuff.

 

[jle101]

Love this hard-bop kind of stuff. Steve Coleman is an ATG.

 

[PoopingHindi]

educating myself

 

[LeakyValve]

Being debating with myself if this should be posted as the jazz purists may not approve, but in the end, I won the argument.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Emmet Cohen is a pianist and has a really wonderful Youtube Channel called "Live at Emmett's" where he has some of the greatest luminaries of Jazz going round at the moment performing with his trio. Well worth having a look and listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/c/EmmetCohen

He also has his own website with more videos.

EC

 

[stax on the mull]

Stunning record.

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[smasha]

 

[the_interloper]

Was playing checkers with my 6 year old the other night and I said I'd put on some tunes, he said ok as long as it's "not that rocking out stuff", I'm a metal head btw.

So I put on Kind of Blue and he loved it, next night was the Alex Skolnick Trio (hey it's a fair compromise) and he liked that too. So maybe I'm getting into jazz again ha ha

 

[smasha]

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Post Modern Jukebox

 

[smasha]

 

[OPofJazz]

Hey cats? how you going?

 

[smasha]

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Chris Tanner, an Australian living in Denmark and touring all over Europe. Played the piano as a young kid, took up the saxophone and struggled. Changed to clarinet and a couple of months later was being mentored by James Morrison. How do I know all this? He is a former student of mine.

 

[Professor Knowall]

I went to Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill at the Arts Centre, Melbourne - in part a musical tribute to Billie Holiday and in part a serious study of her often traumatic life, as her final performance before her death, at a Philadelphia Bar is recreated. It was extraordinary - and The Age has rightfully rated it 5 stars. It was as close as watching and listening to the real Holiday as one could imagine. I absolutely recommend this for any jazz lover in particular and to any music lover in general. Here is a brief excerpt from The Age review -

You need no small part of audacity to channel a star as original as Holiday, and prodigious vocal and acting talent to be able to transfigure the art of impersonation from cheap trick into miraculous resurrection. Zahra Newman pulls off a rare feat. Lady Day lives again in this tour de force. It’s a transfixing performance, drawn from the seemingly inextricable strands of Holiday’s musical brilliance and her anguished biography. …

Patricia Cornelius tackles the AFL in #MeToo drama at Theatreworks

This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Patricia Cornelius’ AFL drama In the Club, the MSO’s genial but incisive triple bill, Zahra Newman’s five-star Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Stephanie Lake’s exuberant Manifesto, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, and The Song Company at...

www.theage.com.au

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Roberta Flack from her wonderful "First Take" album, with the legendary Ron Carter on Bass.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Bent Fabric, what a name!
Alley Cat.

 

[the_interloper]

Everyone seems to be freaking out about Matteo Mancuso, anyone listened to his stuff? Dude can play for sure, don't mind the music, will keep giving it a go (two tracks in)

 

[PoopingHindi]

Everyone seems to be freaking out about Matteo Mancuso, anyone listened to his stuff? Dude can play for sure, don't mind the music, will keep giving it a go (two tracks in)

he’s all over my YouTube suggestions lately. everyone is reacting to him, interviewing him or playing with him. sometimes, but less often it’s just his music straight. for whatever reason the algorithm loves him.

the guy is good and his right hand technique is certainly unique.

 

[the_interloper]

he’s all over my YouTube suggestions lately. everyone is reacting to him, interviewing him or playing with him. sometimes, but less often it’s just his music straight. for whatever reason the algorithm loves him.

the guy is good and his right hand technique is certainly unique.

Ok going to have to check out some videos then