Entertainment For Lively Minds
Just curious......Part 1; jazz
Purely in an interest as to see what we have lurking on and in our systems outside Rock or Rock and Pop, I thought it may be interesting to do a mini randomiser survey on those "other" genres. Yes, yes, I know we hate genres nearly as much as we hate star ratings, but, c'mon, if you have any, put the filter on "jazz" and hit your first 5. No squabbling about the worth of jazz etc etc, we do that frequently enough as it is.
Me first:
1.Mood Indigo/Jimmy Smith. Phew, thank goodness, an easy and fully accessible first choice, hammond led version of a standard. Mellow mood music at it's best.
2.Rhythm-a-ning/Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Fairly standard bum,bum,bum bass and brushes with curiously atonal piano and lively brass.
3.Arriving/Accoustic Triangle. Well it sounded good live at Lichfield Cathedral. Probably one for enthusiasts. What one might call modern.
4.Both Sides Now/Ian Shaw. Yes, that song, Joni's, from an LP of this singer covering a selection of Mitchell songs. Sounded better on amazon. I'm sure it's good but a little dull.
5.Alfie/Roland Rahsaan Kirk. Lovely breathy sax. Is it the Michael Caine film, you ask? Of course it is! Better than Cillas version by miles.
Next month, country......
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My 5...
1. Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown With Strings
2. Miles Davis & Gil Evans - Miles Ahead
3. Johnny Hodges - Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges
4. Horace Silver Quintet- Song For My Father
5. Stan Tracey Quartet - Jazz Suite: Under Milk Wood
and mine.
1. Singin' The Blues - Bix Beiderbecke. Lovely, poised and syncopated.
2. She's Funny That Way - Billie Holiday & Lester Young.
3. Jungle Town - Spike Jones & His City Slickers. Demented.
4. Not Mine - Artie Shaw. I love Artie.
5. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis.
five from me
1) The Way You Look Tonight - Johnny Griffin [Introducing Johnny Griffin]
2) The Ankh Of Amen-Ra - Alice Coltrane [Universal Consciousness]
3) Solitude - Sonny Rollins [The Freelance Years]
4) The Last Blues - John Coltrane [Complete Impulse Sessions]
5) Chronology - John Zorn [Spy Vs Spy]
OK, hit it...
1. Muggles - Louis Armstrong
2. Lotus Blossom - Duke Ellington
3. Nutty - Thelonious Monk
4. Airegin - Sonny Rollins
5. Sleeping Giant - Herbie Hancock
A bit odd that there's nothing modern in that lot. My iPod must be feeling nostalgic.
I suspect a preponderence of Miles
Teo - Miles
Springsville - Miles & Gil
Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) - Miles & Gil
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - Louis Armstrong
There's a Boat Leaving Soon For New York - Miles & Gil
Thought so. I do have other stuff as well. Just rather a lot of Miles.
iPod
Excuse my stupidity, but how do you make the shuffle genre-specific?
PS. I rather fear doing so makes a mockery of the randomizer concept.
how to ?
easier done in iTunes - enter "jazz" in the search bar, click on the shuffle icon, play whatever is first in the list (and discard that), then click the double arrow for Next Track - take a note and repeat until you have 5 tracks.
easier way...
Smart Playlist of Genre "Jazz".
Press shuffle.
Presto!!
Metheny heavy (as expected)
Agua De Beber - Al Jarreau
The Dark Prince - John McLaughlin
Understanding - Pat Metheny
In Her Family - Bob Curnow's LA Big Band (Plays The Music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays)
The Sweetest Punch - Bob Frissell
I've never put any work into sorting out Genres in my iTunes library but just checking now I've found the following:- Jazz, Jazz Vocal, Jazz Vocals, Jazz-Rock, Jazz* (not my asterisk), Jazz/Pop, Jazz+Funk & Jazzrock. Not to mention many, many non-Jazz connected genres. Could be a world of pain awaits sorting this lot into something sensible for very little reward I suspect.
Are there any compelling reasons for tidying up my genres?
At last - a Metheny Fan
Just file it all under Pat and luxuriate in his genius.
Me too!
Offramp and First Cirle are regularly on the playlist.
And Hammersmith '87 was pretty good too.
I still struggle with Jazz.
Some of the shorter tracks are great, but a Coltrane 15 minute sax solo bores me stiff.
I only have a few proper Jazz cds and got most as study guides for my son who's learning Jazz saxophone.
Windows media player doesn't let me shuffle inside a genre but the artists/albums that popped up were -
Abdullah Dollar Brand Ibrahim - African Sun
Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island
John Coltrane - Introducing/Soultrane/Very Best Of
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue/Essential
Mose Allison - Mose Allison/Allison Wonderland
Stan Getz - The Sound Of Jazz
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
and for some strange reason filed under Jazz -
Winifred Atwell - Compilation
Various Artists - Stay Awake : Interpretations of Various Disney Films
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Back Home Blues
Scott Joplin - King Of Ragtime
Lyle Lovett - Live In Texas
Lonnie Donegan - King Of Skiffle
shuffle shuffle
1. Louis Armstrong - Confessin' (St. Louis Blues)
Warm start...
2. John Coltrane - I Want To Talk About You (Live) (Absolutely Out There)
Fairly lounge atmosphere by now...
3. Ella Fitzgerald - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (The Essential)
I feel like I'm in a 1940s war drama....
4. Tom Waits - Nobody (Nighthawks At The Diner)
Returned to lounge setting...a hobo is singing
5. Charles Mingus - Ellington Medley (Live In Chateauvallon)
The band has returned...unable to play instruments.
Brilliant.
Here goes
Goodbye - Chet Baker
Music for a new crossing - Andy Sheppard and Kathryn Tickell
Exodus - Jimmy Scott - absolutely fucking stunning if you dont mind me saying
Minuano - Pat Metheny
Bang Bang - David Sanborn
Odd that it's a bit White Boy which is not at all representative of my available Jazz selections.
OH retro, by the way you mentioned in an earlier posting your love of British Blues - Proper are advertising a very cheap sampler of this very stuff along the lines of the Proper Folk cd that came outlast year. Snap it up, you know it makes sense.