Entertainment For Lively Minds
Don't be afraid...it's only Jazz
Posted by Handsome.P.Wonderful on 13 May 2009 - 8:15am.
For those of you who have toyed with the idea of listening to jazz, it is now much more socially acceptable than it used to be. iTunes have just put up an excellent Blue Note compilation The Finest In Jazz Since 1939. 50 tracks for £9.99 and there are some absolute belters. Go on, I won't tell anybody.
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There seems to be a spate of deluxe edition reissues coming up
including Mingus Ah Um and Kind Of Blue (for the second time in a year), which should continue to get us all clicking our fingers and sparking up our gitanes...
Go for it, really, go for it
Throw away your bias and preconception, dismiss "Nice!" and blow away trumpephobia. Jazz is great dance music. I took this journey a couple of years back, having had a life of hitherto dismissing it all as noodly and self-indulgent nonsense. There is a shedload of accessible, cheap and fantastic music, as well as, it's true, noodly self-indulgent nonsense, but Blue Note would be a great place to start. Verve and Vanguard aren't far behind, for further archive digging, before venturing forward into ECM.
I won't revisit themes and artists, as we have indeed done this several times before, but I implore you to review the opinions prepared earlier. When there isn't (or doesn't seem to be) much new, there's sure as hell some old!
Great Dance Music
it really, really is. Back in my raving days in Brighton, there was a great Sunday lunchtime old duffers' jazz session above the Pig In Paradise pub, which we would often turn up to as a nice way of unwinding with a pint of Guinness after a night on the tiles (or beaches or hillsides or wherever). Being full of, ah um, youthful exuberance, it was not unknown for us to get up out of our seats and get a groove on. The joy seeing kids in their early 20s dancing to "their" music brought to the old duffers in the bands and the audiences - as they often told us - was no small thing.
Good grief
That's a mouth-watering track listing and I think I only actually own about 8 or 9 of them already. Goodbye, tenner...
(And thanks for the tip-off, Handsome.)
(Which isn't a sentence I was expecting to type today.)