Jazz

[Zombie]

I love jazz.  Big band, jazz piano, 1950s Miles Davis - there are all kinds of jazz. 

 

I don't like everything - some leaves me cold - and I can't even define what jazz is.  I just know what I love when I hear it.

Here's my all-time favourite big band number, Begin The Beguine, composed by one of America's greatest composers, Cole Porter, on an ocean liner in 1935, and played by the greatest American big band leader, Artie Shaw, in his best-selling big band arrangement of 1938 - IMHO the greatest version ever of this piece

 

 

So what's your favourite jazz number and performance? Share a Youtube link 
 

[sat8997]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu1Wx6niQBA&feature=player_detailpage

 

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Tangerine

[Breeze]

I love big band. I'm still learning more about other kinds of jazz.

 

http://youtu.be/n92ATE3IgIs

 

http://youtu.be/ZJE-onnw2gM

 

 

Two of my faves.

[sat8997]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIMZ1HcX-8

 

Mocean Worker - Shamma Lamma Ding Dong

 

A little techno jazz.

[Bill W]

I love Big Band music.  Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman... it puts me in such a great mood. 

[joann414]

Jazz and New Orleans.  perfection. 

[Breeze]

I love Big Band music.  Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman... it puts me in such a great mood. 

 

Me too. I love dancing to it. Or used to anyway, lol.

[Red_A]

I miss her standing at the door with her latest CDs

[Aditus]

Yes, yes I hum it all day in summer and I am very glad you can't hear me.

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald "Summertime"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSbARvfQQRs

 

 

 

[Zombie]

Black American jazz and R&B lyrics can be a little difficult for non-Americans to understand, so here's a clip of the late great Dudley Moore's Masterclass where he explains to Peter Cook exactly what the lyrics to Mamma's Got A Brand New Bag really mean ...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtkmOdYdKY

 

[Slytherin]

I like jazz too - Not too crazy about banjo though  and I want to visit New Orleans  

[KHCombe]

Hereby I join the crowd of admirers! The first time I went to a concert of a big band I was 8 years old, and the man beside me asked if my parents made me go. Since then I've gone to the concerts of The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw every year. I love Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. Can't really put one song forward as my favorite, though. One I've listened to a lot the past few days is this (more recent) piece: 

Zombie, that clip of Dudley Moore is brilliant! 

[Zombie]

Hereby I join the crowd of admirers! The first time I went to a concert of a big band I was 8 years old, and the man beside me asked if my parents made me go. Since then I've gone to the concerts of The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw every year. I love Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. Can't really put one song forward as my favorite, though. One I've listened to a lot the past few days is this (more recent) piece: 

 

Zombie, that clip of Dudley Moore is brilliant! 

 

 

Wow, that's a great number and really tight playing!

 

I love Dave Brubeck too and I was lucky to see Oscar Peterson from just a few feet away giving a solo performance - technical brilliance.

Glad you liked the Pete and Dud sketch

 

Thanks for sharing

 

 

 

 

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Edited August 6, 2013 by Zombie

[Aditus]

This is where I get my annual fix:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLeGKYzb9io

 

and at the same festival

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSX-7540FY8

 

The last video is a bit blurred.

[Zombie]

This is where I get my annual fix:

and at the same festival

 

The last video is a bit blurred.

 

Candy Dulfer is sensational - the alto-sax is sooo sexxyyy.

Thanks for sharing - I'd never have seen this otherwise 

[Aditus]

Candy Dulfer is sensational - the alto-sax is sooo sexxyyy.

Thanks for sharing - I'd never have seen this otherwise 

You're welcome.

The alto-sax and the piano are my favorite instruments.

[Zombie]

Jools Holland boogie-woogies with Dr John. Just incredible.

 

 

[Pete Bruno]

Dave Brubeck- 'Take Five'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs&feature=share&list=TLqkut7WF1nvk

This includes an interview with Dave, a must see IMHO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs&feature=share&list=TLqkut7WF1nvk

 

Keely Smith & Louie Prima: 'That Old Black Magic'

http://youtu.be/sfNgcDvPn1M

 

Of course the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald:

''All or Nothing at All'

http://youtu.be/1DT8ZEWWAmU

and

'Love for Sale'

http://youtu.be/Ll1Z-Z9anpU

 

Miles Davis: 'Love for Sale'

http://youtu.be/ywhutgpZLVk

 

The Eternally Sexy Bobby Darin: 'Beyond the Sea'

http://youtu.be/DLEjyDAjfbw

 

And finally, the Chairman: 'Fly Me to the Moon' (the Sax in this piece is stellar)

http://youtu.be/nMREaoVxP0U

Edited August 2, 2013 by Pete Bruno

[Zombie]

This includes an interview with Dave, a must see IMHO:

 

You posted the same link twice

Always seemed unfair Dave B got all the kudos for Take Five when it was the sax player Paul Desmond who essentially wrote it

 

Here's Aardman Animation's fab cool cats vid for Nina Simone's My Baby Just Cares For Me

 

 

[Pete Bruno]

Sorry for the screw up.  And while you point may be valid, you can't deny his genius. 

http://youtu.be/pJ1h_M5v8t4

[Zombie]

Sorry for the screw up.  And while you point may be valid, you can't deny his genius. 

http://youtu.be/pJ1h_M5v8t4

 

Aargh, I'm getting "this video is unavailable"

 

Hey, I'm not dissing Dave just saying Paul deserves a bit of the limelight too

[Pete Bruno]

Try it again, it just worked for me, not sure why.

[Zombie]

Still no good - seems there's a block on the UK to do with rights

[Y_B]

I want Kenny G playing in the background when I have my 1st time.

[Zombie]

Herbie Hancock

 

01 Cantaloupe Island 00:00

02 Watermelon Man 05:30
03 Driftin' 12:42
04 Blind Man, Blind Man 19:40

 

 

 

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Edited September 26, 2013 by Zombie