Gil Bernal do you mean? Who played with Wry and apparently died a few days ago.
NickS and I must have very different tastes in jazz. Low key, good spirited, and generally calming are not things I look for.
(I mean the track you can play at the review page—I haven't heard the whole set and doubt it's all low-key.)
I don't know about jazz that's casual, low-key, and good spirited. Let's go in another direction.
Whimsical multi-instrument improvisation!
Wow, those guys can sure improvise well while wearing mom jeans.
I suspect NickS would enjoy New Orleans Jazz, which I also enjoy, though it's not my favorite music in the world.
To be honest, I wouldn't have passed that along if we hadn't spent the last two days talking about debtpocalypse. I thought casuaal excellence seemed like the right palette cleanser.
Besides, it's Happy Birthday
10: I think that note that comes in at 0:17 might keep it from being low-key for many listeners. Or does it keep it from being easy listening? Perhaps this thread should be devoted to teasing out the difference.
11 to 3, I was having trouble quoting on my phone.
Besides, it's Happy Birthday
Whose birthday is it?
15: Emily Brontë, Thorstein Veblen, Henry Ford, Thomas Sowell, Bud Selig, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Anita Hill, Lisa Kudrow, Tom Green, Hilary Swank, and Prince Hridayendra of Nepal (among others).
Random British/Euro jazz:
Polar Bear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsQ3eK_uNis
Cut-down Polar Bear with multi-tasking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-7MfIvko4
Same blokes, with their other band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqr1W-4-Wo
Rosario Giuliani [pretty orthodox bop/post-bop sort of player but excellent, nonetheless]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctlkqHpiA80&feature=player_profilepage
Tommy Smith [epic sax tone]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uiR4z5hVe0
Or John Taylor's piano trio?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--kbjcPv3o
I love this video, so much so that I put my breakfast on hold and wrote a post on my own blog.
http://jpv206.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/how-to-listen-to-jazz/
And then I made an egg sunny side up, two strips of bacon, and a pile of grits with butter.
Polar Bear is not doing it for me.
Gino Robair & John Butcher, so good, but not really "jazz" any longer.
re: 21
They've done a fair bit of variation in style over the years. The most recent line-up has the guitar and a different bassist and keys player; their very first line-up is much more straight jazz. Seb Rochford is pretty much the go-to drummer for a lot of jazz and post-rock/post-jazz type outfits in London.
I haven't especially liked the last couple of albums from either -- there's a saminess to the groove, and I don't think the guitar player works that well* -- but have still really enjoyed them live.
* although I do like what he plays; he's a good player, it's just not the right blend.
These are tracks from the first Acoustic Ladyland line-up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRPPXAM1o0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O12ghijZ6E
I want to interject here that I deeply dislike the practice of applauding after solos, which family oral history has it took off with the Norman Granz tours and the concertization of jazz.
Not as much, though, as I hate the spontaneous clapping in time. We apparently think every performance would be better as a hoedown?
23: Huh. As a performer, I appreciate it when a crowd gets all clap-happy on occasion, but I'll agree that I'm unlikely to participate in it as an audience member because it usually feels forced for me to do so.
Also, everyone please make fun of me for calling myself a performer. Good lord, how twee.
More Butcher + Robair goodness, here with Miya Masaoka as well.
Clearly not everybody was in the mood for a palette-cleanser.
I suspect NickS would enjoy New Orleans Jazz, which I also enjoy, though it's not my favorite music in the world.
I really don't listen to much jazz but, for what it's worth, it's likely that the album I have listened to most is this which is fantastic.
Clearly not everybody was in the mood for a palette-cleanser.
What do you mean? I posted nothing but!
I was thinking of the link in 26, which happened to be the first one I clicked on.
I liked it! But it wasn't calming. Though, perhaps, by nosflow standards it's practically a lullaby.
The linked stuff in 26 I like; the stuff in 21 not so much. It expect it'd be great when you are there in the room, but not so much listening after the event.
Here's some Billy Jenkins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF6gvK-JeTM
It expect it'd be great when you are there in the room, but not so much listening after the event.
This is very true. It helps, when listening after the event, to have been there in the room for previous concerts, I think, though you're still enjoying at a remove.
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I just thought you'd want to know that.
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33 made me laugh.
(Over here, we've had our first parental neglect baby accident. Poor O tipped himself head first out of a chair he ought to have been strapped into. He is fine, but CA and I are dead of strokes.)
33 is great, but it only works in print. In speech there's a subtle difference in emphasis between noun compounds (stressed on the first noun, i.e., the first word) and adjectival phrases (stressed on the noun, which is the second word) even when the component words are identical.
The sentence I heard today that can be read aloud with two different meanings is, "He gave her cat food."
The syntax of that one is more complicated, but the basic idea is the same.
I love this video, so much so that I put my breakfast on hold and wrote a post on my own blog.
Hey JP, that's an awesome post. I just sent it to a couple of folks I know who are working on cross-cultural communication -- which is really about becoming comfortable with improvisation in a culture not your own.
Thanks!
Okay, so, did / do we not have an actual commenter who used / uses the 'nym Wry Cooter? Do we mean they died, or that RY COODER died? If the latter, is there some reason not to be just be calling the dead man by the actual spelling of his name? Because that's confusing, and not in the good, buttsex way.
35: 33 is great, but it only works in print.
Not so. If someone's shouting in a way that overrides the usual subtelties of emphasis (and some people do), the ambiguity is preserved well enough to be funny; funnier, actually, as the intended meaning would still be relatively clear. Try reading the sentence in 33 the way J. Jonah Jameson would say it, for instance.
34: They don't call 'em bouncing babies for nothing. Fortunately, they're really difficult to break.
I assume you've come to see my mistress, Mr. Danger.
Okay, so, did / do we not have an actual commenter who used / uses the 'nym Wry Cooter?
AFAIK we have never actually had a Wry Cooter. The name has only ever been used in the context of general discusssions of pseudonyms. (I have no idea what heebie meant in this post, as the actual Ry Cooder doesn't appear to have died.)
If someone's shouting in a way that overrides the usual subtelties of emphasis (and some people do), the ambiguity is preserved well enough to be funny; funnier, actually, as the intended meaning would still be relatively clear.
Fair enough.
A search of the archives reveals that there was someone who posted as "Wry Cooter" for a few months in early 2008, which I had forgotten. I think that was an existing commenter who adopted the name and later changed to something else, but I forget the details.
I love this video, so much so that I put my breakfast on hold and wrote a post on my own blog.
Thank you, by the way. I just forwarded the link to the person who originally sent me the link to the Wynton Marsalis video.
Oh whoops. I read an obituary recently and Ry Cooder was mentioned, and I briefly made the Wry Cooter connection but I didn't know if the pseud Wry Cooter was already playing off of Ry Cooder, or what.
Then I forgot about it. Then there was this music post, and all I remembered was Ry Cooder/Musician/Obituary. Then I didn't bother to read the wikipedia entry because I am a lazy fuck. So he's alive. Go Ry.
I bet it was the guy in 2 unless he somehow got mentioned in a Clarence Clemons obit (in June).
Okay, so nobody died? I can go on masturbating to both Ry Cooder and Wry Cooter? Excellent.
Ry Scaggs is alive, but Boz Cooder isn't.
I told a friend yesterday that Ry Cooder had died. Heebie. He was all like, "What?! Oh no! I love him! Really?! I didn't hear that, where did you hear that?!" So I clicked through, and you know, I didn't know what to say except that mistakes had been made. Sheesh.
Let's not cry over spilt Cooter. Or Cooder. Or whoever.
Let's just say that when someone asks, "Where did you hear that?!" I am no longer going to say, "Unfogged."
51: You were telling people "Unfogged"? My goodness.
53: I know. I shouldn't do that. To be fair to myself, there's only one person I reveal that to.
NMM to Unfogged as a reliable source of masturbation targets. Do consider the source of this information beofre acting (or not acting) upon it, however.
Oh, it happens. I mistakenly led a bunch of people to believe that Fafblog wasn't being updated because the author had stomach cancer.
I think Heebie should correct the original post. Call me a nitpicker.
Yeah, whatever. It doesn't matter; I'm just grumpy.
I'm mopsy. Oh, wait. Wrong story.