Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:28:22 +0200 From: "Diex Co" Subject: (All That) Jazz
As some might go "what? Who? where? when?" preventing any freak - outs that all the jazz din may cause , how about some *easy* *introductory* jazz primers (yet , gems) ?
* Coleman Hakinns "Soul" and "The Hawk Flies High" * Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus" and "Way Out West" * John Coltrane "Coltrane Plays The Blues" and "The Last Trane" (skip the 1st track on this. * Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong "Ella & Louis" * Count Basie : pick a Best of , it's chaos out there. There's a great LP titled , if I remember , E = m c 2 (Einstein's Relativety Equation) If it's still availiable, take a shot at it! * Duke Ellington / John Coltrane on Impulse label and if you can track it down on vinyl , the reprise label LP : Duke Ellington plays the OST of Mary Poppins ( I think it's all included in a Reprise Complete Ellington Collection ) * Chet Baker "In New York" and "In Milan" The latter is recorded with italian jazzists. * Stan Getz "Jazz Samba" and "Getz/Gilberto" (Elevator music you say ? Bet your biscuits no !!) * Herbie Mann : pick ANYTHING , use innie - minnie - minie - moe for choosing. * Gene Ammons "Uptight" * Dave Brubeck "Time Out/Time Further Out" * Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue" and "Porgy & Bess" BUT GET "Bitches Brew" and stash it for later. *Art Pepper "Meets The Rhythm Section" and "The Way It Was" * Benny Carter "Jazz Giant" * Illinois Jacquet "Bottoms Up!" * Wes Montgomery/Milt Jackson "Bags Meets Wes" * Oscar Peterson : pick ANYTHING but one that comes to mind is "Night Train" * Cannonball Adderley/Milt Jackson "Thing Are Getting Better" * Grant Green : pick ANYTHING * Ivan Boogaloo Joe Jones "Snake Rhythm Rock/Black Whip" * Claude Bolling "Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano Trio No1 , No 2" which feature the late classical master flutist Jean Pierre Rampal and all of Bolling's projects with , Andre Lagoya , Maurice Andre , Pinchas Zukerman , Englich Chamber Orchestra , Picnic Suite , Jazz A la Francaise , Original Ragtime , Claude Bolling's Original Boogie Woogie Claude Bolling's Big Band. His first Suite for flute & jazz piano record , is indicative : over 450 weeks on the billboard charts (p) 1975........ *Jimmy Smith : pick ANYTHING
And a few introductory - and my favourite - jazz singers :
* Lou Rawls : pick ANYTHING * Jimmy Whitherspoon : pick ANYTHING * Nina Simone "Finest Hour" * Dee Dee Bridgewater ( today's queen of scat BTW ) ALL of her works
And a movie..... :
* The Five Painnies Saints (comedy) Starring : Louis Armstrong , Danny Kaye It's the story of the white classical musician of the 20s-30s era who made the crossover in jazz (then cornetist).
A moment from there.... Louis and Kaye do When The Saints :
Danny Kaye " How about Haydn ? " Louis Armstrong " who ? " Danny Kaye " Joseph Haydn " Louis Armstrong " WHO ?? " Danny Kaye " HAYDN !!" Louis Armstrong " Would' y' let him come out ?"
