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Post by Richard on Jan 11, 2016 13:24:03 GMT
Groovin' with Golson
Con Alma by Ray Bryant
Thelonious Alone in San Francisco.
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Post by Richard on Jan 11, 2016 13:25:01 GMT
And The Cape Verdean Blues
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Post by bassman on Jun 15, 2016 18:36:00 GMT
This has happened a few times to me. The one time that stands out the most though is when I was listening to the album Monk's Dream by Thelonious Monk. I'd listened to that album a few times before, but something just clicked in my head I think on this particular day when I heard Bolivar Blues. I can tell you at what point in that track it happened too. It's when he's playing all those notes around 4:20. Since then I've bought about 30 of his albums. Monk's Dream was one of my early favourites too. I also remember an early fascination with some of those jazz themes which are known for their apparent (though often deceptive) simplicity. One of them was "All Blues" from "Kind Of Blue", which I first heard in a German TV film noir, "Laura" (1962). Another one was "Jay Jay's Blues" from "Birdlanders" (Milt Jackson & J.J.Johnson, 1954). I didn't know much about jazz at that time, but I somehow sensed that these were genuine "jazz themes", something that was entirely different from both classical and pop melodies. I soon found myself listening to "Blues And The Abstract Truth", and to Ellington's "Anatomy Of A Murder". Beyond the obvious appeal of improvisation and swing, it was jazz themes and jazz composition I was looking for, and that's what led me to Monk and George Russell and all the rest of them. "Kind Of Blue" appealed to me because it was pure jazz, I thought. And I still feel that, great as the American Songbook may be, these are not jazz tunes, and improvising on them for the entire length of an LP just won't do. |
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