Play a jazz/big band tune

[Inchworm]

I admittedly know very little about jazz, so this will be a learning experience for me.

I just wanted to bridge the "play a blues tune" thread to contemporary stuff. How better to do so than to add syncopation and backbeat. Hmmm.. I guess backbeat is in blues too. I'm not real sure what syncopation is. I'm guessing it is out of the ordinary stressing/not stressing of beats. That makes jazz the best candidate in my mind.

Duke Ellington is the only jazz name I can think of :P
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Duke Ellington - Mood Indigo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohBkHaHap8

:hi:

[Ptah]

1. Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa

http://youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2Obko

[Inchworm]

2. cool

Thats got a beat that goes through ya!

*boogies*

Thanks!

:applause:

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Best dance tune ever written

Dog bless Louis Prima.



Here's one from "Swing Kids" — "Bei Mir Bist du Schön." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO_jxqcGxmc

That's Janis Siegel of Manhattan Transfer on vocal.

[Inchworm]

8. I like it

I think a full day of Jazz on a playlist would be motivating. I never listened to much.

Thanks.

:thumbsup:

[grasswire]

98. our song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q

[Forkboy]

3. My fave jazz tune.

Wish I had the extra long live version to show you, but this is still fantastic stuff, with majorly cool sax work by Paul Gonsalves.

Duke Ellington - Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkElnIiE4U4

And one of the world's greatest drummers, jazz or otherwise, in action.
Buddy Rich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgeX9iYOFSQ

[Inchworm]

5. WoW!!

Buddy can do it can't he?

Yowza!

:applause:

[Forkboy]

7. Boggles my mind every time I watch it.

:wow:

[Auggie]

6. One of my favorites from Artie Shaw

Begin the Beguine

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NpVgSxsP5V0

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10. Isn't this the music on most cartoons?

I guess that is what Big Band music is.

I like what I'm hearing though.

:hi:

[Auggie]

14. Big Band Swing falls under the classification of jazz.

What cartoon and what cartoon era are you referring to?

[grasswire]

15. no

Cartoon music is mostly the genre called "Hot Dance" from the 1920s.

Here's an example of Hot Dance music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhXKRtqvI4c

[Inchworm]

21. I see

Very different.

I am learning as I go :)

Thanks.

:yourock:

[sarge43]

20. Oh yes.

Roseland Ballroom, summer night, 1943, him in dress whites, her ivory satin, he's shipping out tomorrow, just a few hours left in heaven.

[Burma Jones]

9. Here's one from Dizzy Gillespie

One Bass Hit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twewCH3phmc

[Inchworm]

11. I like the difference in this one

The doghouse is a feature rather than background.

Jammin.

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli

In the Quintet of the Hot Club of France

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBdmsHryP0&feature=related

And here's a later Grappelli: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kh9ku8q2sdA

I regret few things in my life; but one of them is that I never went to hear him perform live...

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22. The guitar is kickin!

Pretty neat.

:hi:

[CBGLuthier]

34. And the guy playin that kicking guitar

Only had two functioning fingers on his left (fretting) hand. He was burned in a fire.

He came back to be one of the greatest although everyone he ever worked with said he was a bastared and a half but damn he could play!

[Inchworm]

39. Thanks for the backstory

Woot!

I love it when those little tidbits are brought up.

Thanks.

:applause:

[Pierre.Suave]

13. Here are some of my favorites...

Nina Simone, My Baby Just Cares For Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYSbUOoq4Vg

One of my favorite new artists, Sophie Milman, My Heart Belongs To Daddy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNLu--cwL7c

Another one of my favorite new artists. Jane Monheit, in this instance, a duet with Micheal Buble...

I Won't Dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DSrJXQV9Og

Frank Sinatra, The Way You Look Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iXyM6TCMIU

Jane Monheit again, Cheek to Cheek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsWzeihciSU

Diana Krall, in this case covering Billy Joels Just The Way You Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-a_cCBzXRg

plenty more if you would like, I am quite the jazz fan. If you have questions, ask away.

Edit: It would not be a complete list without some Brubeck...

Dave Brubeck, Take Five!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOgYw5-pNs

[Inchworm]

23. d00d! *whew*

Back in an hour after I soak these all in :P

:rofl:\

EDIT: Lyrics

Also, You are the first to play "jazz" with voice so far. At first I thought..hmm, that is "Lounge" music then I could hear it. How about "scat" is that jazz?

nina simone - my baby just cares for me

My baby don't care for shows
My baby don't care for clothes
My baby just cares for me
My baby don't care for cars and races
My baby don't care for high-tone places

Liz Taylor is not his style
And even Lana Turner's smile
Is somethin' he can't see
My baby don't care who knows
My baby just cares for me

Baby, my baby don't care for shows
And he don't even care for clothes
He cares for me
My baby don't care
For cars and races
My baby don't care for
He don't care for high-tone places

Liz Taylor is not his style
And even Liberace's smile
Is something he can't see
Is something he can't see
I wonder what's wrong with baby
My baby just cares for
My baby just cares for
My baby just cares for me

Sophie Milman - My Heart Belongs To Daddy

While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But when I do, I don't follow through
Cause my heart belongs to Daddy

If I invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine food and haddie
I just adore, his asking for more
But my heart belongs to Daddy

Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
So I simply couldn't be bad
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, DAAAAD

So I want to warn you laddie
Though I know that you're perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to Daddy
Cause my Daddy, he treats it so well

While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But when I do, I don't follow through
Cause my heart belongs to Daddy

If I invite a boy some night
To cook up some hot enchilada
Though Spanish rice is all very nice
My heart belongs to Daddy

Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
So I simply couldn't be bad
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy
Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, DAAAAD

So I want to warn you laddie
Though I know that you're perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to Daddy
Cause my Daddy, he treats it so well

Jane Monheit and Michael Buble - I Won't Dance

I won't dance, don't ask me
I won't dance, don't ask me
I won't dance, Madame, with you
My heart won't let my feet do things that they should do

You know what?, you're lovely
You know what?, you're so lovely
And, oh, what you do to me
I'm like an ocean wave that's bumped on the shore
I feel so absolutely stumped on the floor

When you dance, you're charming and you're gentle
'specially when you do the Continental
But this feeling isn't purely mental
For, heaven rest us, I am not asbestos

And that's why
I won't dance, why should I?
I won't dance, how could I?
I won't dance, merci beaucoup
I know that music leads the way to romance,
So if I hold you in arms I won't dance

I won't dance, don't ask me,
I won't dance, don't ask me
I won't dance, Madame, with you
My heart won't let me feet do things that they want to do

You know what?, you're lovely,
Ring-a-ding-ding, you're lovely
And, oh, what you do to me
I'm like an ocean wave that's bumped on the shore
I feel so absolutely stumped on the floor

When you dance, you're charming and you're gentle
'specially when you do the Continental
But this feeling isn't purely mental
For, heaven rest us, I am not asbestos

and that's why
I won't dance, I won't dance
I won't dance, merci beaucoup
I know that music leads the way to romance
So if I hold you in arms I won't dance!!

frank sinatra - the way you look tonight

Some day, when I'm awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you...
And the way you look tonight.

Yes you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.

Lovely ... Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it ?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.

Mm, Mm, Mm, Mm,
Just the way you look to-night.

Jane Monheit - Cheek To Cheek

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to climb a mountain
And reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Dance with me
I want my arm about you
That charm about you
Will carry me through...
To heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing, out together dancing
Out together dancing cheek to cheek

Diana Krall Just The Way You Are

Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you

I said I love you, and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are
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:hi:

[Pierre.Suave]

29. Ella Fitzgerald did scat quite well...

I would consider her Jazz.

:hi:

[grasswire]

16. a whole new beautiful world awaits you

My particular area of musical interest is the popular song of America from roughly 1910-1940. The most notable happening during that time is the rise of America's music, jazz, from the bordellos and saloons to mainstream music. Springing from ragtime and obviously from the earlier African American slave experience, jazz has passed through many styles. At its heart are two elements. Syncopation and improvisation.

One of the most interesting happenings to me is the revival of Hot Dance music of the 1920s and the jazz previously called "Dixieland" -- now called Trad Jazz.

I can sure post a lot of you tube examples of different types of jazz for you. They will mostly be made prior to big band/swing, or will be recreations of that music by today's musicians.

Here, for example, is a 1987 video of the band that is generally assumed to be the best Trad Jazz band in the U.S. in the last thirty years -- the Jim Cullum Jazz Band of San Antonio. They were at the prime of their musicianship in this video.

On edit: the tune on this video is written by Thomas "Fats" Waller.

On edit 2: the pianist in this video, John Sheridan, is generally thought to be one of the finest stride piano players in the world. Stride is a particular style utilizing the left hand in a sort of "walking" syncopation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgpIWddqeFM

[Inchworm]

25. I'm sure there is

Thanks for the detail! I have ingrained in my brain what "jazz" is. Mostly it is closer to this one, Dixieland-ish. I'm familiar with "improvization" through bluegrass. Those breaks are the best when they each take turns on their instrument.

Wouldnt this be "jazz" by your definition?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHXOwk3xNo

hehe

:shrug:

[grasswire]

41. okay, I guess that definition was too loose.

Wikipedia:

Jazz is an American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note of ragtime.

[Inchworm]

48. I could discuss this topic for days

It has always been a question of mine.

What makes -insert music genre- what it is. Like, what makes a song blues and not jazz. I don't want my head to explode thinking too much on it though :P

:yourock:

[grasswire]

71. my favorite question is this:

What makes a person favor one kind of music over another? Why do I really dig music of 1900-1940 when it's not the music of my generation? Why do I really, truly thrill to a particular kind of jazz band when other people thrill to a string quartet or a bluegrass mandolin? What makes our musical taste? How and when does that happen?

[Inchworm]

74. Well, that has to be learned somewhere

I'd guess.

All great questions, but if you can't define what makes jazz jazz and rock rock it gets even more difficult. I wonder the same things you asked as well.

:)

[grasswire]

17. If you want to get a taste of the real Ellington...

....here's a recording of a Cotton Club radio show from 1929.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFx6IiOuPOc

[Inchworm]

27. diggin it

I guess this is the name that comes to mind when I think jazz.

:)

[Pierre.Suave]

18. Another one of my favorite bands.

Lavay Smith And Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

Seriously, they are awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SmqNkjfYpA

Although it is hard to find a good recording of them on youtube.

But I bet you don't get to see this at most jazz concerts...

Caution, probably not safe for work...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZk80iGYPpU&feature=related

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30. Found a clear Lavay Smith

You have to cut and paste from http to mp3. I hate when links have spaces.

http://www.serenascapini.it/summerjamboree/mp3-ms/Lavay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers - Walk right in, walk right out.mp3

The second one I reeeealy likes :)

:applause:

[Pierre.Suave]

31. Yeah, I was a bit surprised by that second one...

I was not expecting that at all.

I have both of her albums, I really like them.

[grasswire]

19. here's my current favorite you tube band

A band from Budapest playing hot jazz of the twenties and thirties in the best manner of American music! I have a huge crush on that bass player!

Here they are playing a Hungarian tune. The musicianship is top notch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAd1hB9nfgs

And another, American:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ARpFwQ9E0Y&feature=related

You'll notice that this band intersperses arranged ensemble parts with improvised solos. A strictly Trad band uses less ensemble work and more individual improvisation.

[Inchworm]

33. I see, I was wondering about that

Above, a few of the individual solos are the only part that is off the script. Then one or two started all as a unit then broke off individually to a finish.

The second song here "breaks off" towards the end to a point of cut up perfection.

Filling my ears and brain :)

:D

[sakabatou]

24. "Tank!" - The Seatbelts

Here's the live version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-TAxm00jOg

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35. People need stuff like this when doing marathons!

Sooo much energy.

wow.

:hi:

[sakabatou]

77. Go watch Cowboy Bebop

[hellbound-liberal]

26. When you say Big Band, the first person I think of is Glenn Miller!

In the Mood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3K5uB-wMA

Always reminds me of my Dad!

Here's Brian Setzer's version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUh6TAll_7o

[Inchworm]

38. I love the first one!

I know it when I hear it too :)

It is cool the "show" they put on in the video.

Thanks!

:applause:
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Gettin' In The Mood (some of the lyrics)

We're gonna party
I know how
To get it started
In the mood
I'm good to boogie
Blow that jivin' music now

And When the party's over
I just know where to go
Where after hours people
Boogie you know
I wanna hang a while
Where the lights are real low
Whisper to my baby
And be takin' it slow
And baby if you're ready
Then I'm ready to blow
Baby,now I'm really getting
In the mood

I'm in the mood
The joint is jumpin'
In the groove
We're onto somethin'
In the mood
The band is pumpin'
Swingin' and a swayin'
And a rock and rollin'
Come on now
We're gonna party
I know how
To get it started
In the mood
I'm good to boogie
Blow that jivin' music now

i got on my best threads
and my favorite shoes
now it's my time to play got
no love for the blues
understand what i'm sayin
or u better get back
got no time to waste cause i'm
one hip cat and when i start it
werkin i cruise like ?? flows
and when i'm in the mood i spread it
all around i might the be man want his
party on the run and when u see me comin call me big king fun...HAH

When the party's over
I just know where to go
Where the after hours people
Boogie you know
I wanna hang a while
Where the lights are low
And whisper to my baby
And be takin' it slow
Baby if your ready
Then I'm ready to blow

chorus

[hellbound-liberal]

44. If you ever get a chance, watch the Glenn Miller Story. It's a classic!

It stars Jimmy Stewart as Glenn Miller, June Allyson as his wife and features cameos by Louis Armstrong and Gene Krupa. Great movie. By the way, I appreciate the threads that you post and the fact that you always seem to make an attempt to answer people who respond. That's really cool!:yourock:

[lost-in-nj]

28. This is one of the few types of music I don't like

and my dad was a jazz drummer

it's a picture of a picture.... not great quailty





:hug: :hi:


lost

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40. Thanks for sharing the picture

I never really gave jazz a chance. I mean I like it, but can't remember ever leaving it on the radio as I passed. I have got caught up in it when listening to XM on Direct-TV. "Music from the 40s" or close.

Hope your eve is a good'n

:hug::hi:

[palindrome]

32. This is my first post... :)

I was a jazz piano student, and for sure, an overwhelming amount of jazz fans that I've met tell me Miles Davis' album "Kind of Blue" brought them to jazz. Bill Evans' piano playing is gigantic as is Paul Chambers' Bass. Not in volume, (in fact you will find both very subtle!), but in the creation of a 'cool' blue texture, if there is such a thing. If you haven't heard it, I suggest listening to it at all times of the day. It's phenomenal. If you're already a big jazzhead, then I might suggest a change of pace with Jean Luc Ponty's violin, specifically the album he did with an all African band. It's disgusting, in a good way.
Tim

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43. Woohoo! Welcome to DU!

I am listening to Jean-Luc Ponty now. It is smooth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3de34NInKz0

But not as smooth as the first one you mentioned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D27myqFuxHY

That is straight-up lovemakin music :P

Again, welcome to DU. I'm honored you hit this thread up with #1 :)

:hi:

[palindrome]

57. Word. That's not the Jean Luc Ponty I wanted you to hear... check THIS one out.

http://www.last.fm/music/Jean-Luc+Ponty/_/Mouna+Bowa

Like I said that was for a change of pace... it's got sick violin and the bass is awesome as well.

[palindrome]

61. i posted that before i realized the song was a clip... :/

And it didn't even get to the solos, the good part :/

sorry. I'll suggest something funky: Medeski Martin and Wood's cover of Wayne Shorter's "Orbits" (Notes from the Undeground). The original is on Miles Smiles I believe??

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86. Ok- I found a few mp3s of Medeski Martin and Wood

Wouldnt that be "funk?"

Or.. is funk ALSO part of jazz hehe

:shrug:

[palindrome]

99. iuts funky jazz

i was referring to the ;notes from the underground; album. it's piano not organ :)

[hellbound-liberal]

46. Welcome to DU, meniscus420! Interesting screen name you have there!

Kind of Blue comes up often in these threads, I am sure you have plenty of kindred spirits on this board. I'm more of a Big Band person myself but I do like some jazz. Good to have you here!:hi:

[CBGLuthier]

36. Much more modern

Dave Brubeck, Take Five

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DDOgYw5-pNs

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45. Heard this one a bit ago

It is definatly worth hearing again.

It's like a leaf in the city wandering aimless at the whim of the breeze.

:applause:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

37. Not big band, but the progenitor of cool at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bddHE6AX4w

Miles Davis, "'Round Midnight," from the album Round About Midnight (1957, though recorded in 1955).

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50. "progenitor of cool"

I must be a pev most definatly, because all i want to do when I hear him is give someone a great big hug.. that ..slowly.. leads... to...

*sigh*

[grasswire]

42. Cab Calloway

I saw him a couple of times in his elder years, in Washington. A legend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8

And here's those dancers, in an earlier clip that I just love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifk9paFSyuk

Look at that little guy mimic Louis Armstrong!

[CBGLuthier]

47. Speaking of Calloway

From the Big Broadcast of 1932, Reefer Man

EDIT: My Mistake, this is from International House, not the Big Broadcast.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D44pyeEvhcQ

[grasswire]

56. He was a naughty, naughty fellow! Heh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7Ul-t3JaQ

[CBGLuthier]

62. Lord, he so fine

Even Denzel didn't look better in a Zoot Suit.

And that voice. MMM MMM MM.

[grasswire]

51. speaking of which....

...Louis Armstrong is the top. The gold standard. The foundation. Not the commercialized "Hello Dolly" Louis, but the true genius.

Here's a clip of Louis and the legendary Jack Teagarden doing a Hoagy Carmichael tune "Old Rockin' Chair"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT3nAICeEVE

And here's a clip of famous Italian jazzman Lino Patruno and his sideman Walter Leibundgut copying Armstrong and Teagarden on the same tune!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=comdEAwLlRc

[CBGLuthier]

64. Thank you for bringing Mr. Armstrong in

A jazz thread without Louis Armstrong would be hollow and empty indeed.

Personal favorite

It's a Wonderful World

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqYMTpXHc

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80. I never considered this song jazz

I just considered it one of the best songs ever.

:thumbsup:

[grasswire]

91. technically, it's a simple straightforward ballad.

It could be played in a jazzy style. But it's probably just thought to be associated with Louis here, and Louis WAS jazz.

[Inchworm]

53. I do love Cab Calloway

I bet he was a nut!

OH! I remember tap being involved now. It seems that is where I learned the word "syncopation." I think it was Gregory Hines on Sesame Street who taught me that :P

______________________

Cab

Hep Hep
Hep Het
Boy?
What ya gonna say there gate?
Oh, boy!
What ya gonna say there gate?
Panama, Shanama, Swanee Shaw,
Let me dig that jive some more;
Boy?
Take it right on down to Decater
Oh boy!
Gotta dig a fine little Gator
Well now Cant you hear them Hep Cats Call
Yeah!
Come on Boys lets have a ball!
The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive
Makes you get your kicks on the mellow side.
Hep! Hep!
Hep! Hep!
The jim-jam-jump with the solid jive,
Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five,
Hep! hep!
Hep! Hep!
Don't be that ickeroo,
Get hep and follow through,
And get your steady foo
Make the joint jump like the gators do,
The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive,
Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side,
Hep! Hep!
Hep! Hep!
The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive,
Makes you hep! hep! hep! on the mellow side
Scat--
Hep Hep
Hep Het
Boy?
What ya gonna say there gate?
Oh, boy!
What ya gonna say there gate?
Panama, Shanama, Swanee Shaw,
Let me dig that jive some more;
Boy?
Take it right on down to Decater
Oh boy!
Gotta dig a fine little Gator
Well now Cant you hear them Hep Cats Call
Yeah!
Come on Boys lets have a ball!
The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive
Makes you get your kicks on the mellow side.
Hep! Hep!
Hep! Hep!
The jim-jam-jump with the solid jive,
Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five,
Hep! hep!
Hep! Hep!
Don't be that ickeroo,
Get hep and follow through,
And get your steady foo
Make the joint jump like the gators do,
The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive,
Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side,
Hep! Hep!
Hep! Hep!
The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive,
Makes you hep! hep! hep! on the mellow side
___________________

:applause:

[nomorenomore08]

49. And here's "big band" turned on its head - Coltrane doing "My Favorite Things."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_n-gRS_wdI

[Inchworm]

54. omg! MSM ruined it

hehe. I love the song, but I associate it with Christmas.

Ok, so pop-culture ruined it. I still will blame Main Stream Media :P

:hi:

[CBGLuthier]

52. And some Coltrane to take you as far out as it could get

Not as approachable as earlier stuff but still fascinating if you are receptive

http://youtube.com/watch?v=q6WwuxqXPOg

[nomorenomore08]

55. Yeah, I tend to lean more toward the "wild" side of jazz (Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, 'Bitches Brew')

No offense to the other posters, but a lot of the stuff on this thread kinda puts me to sleep. Just my own tastes.

[grasswire]

58. that's the great thing about jazz

...there's enough variety for every taste. None is "cooler" than any other. Each one will fall in and out of style as long as musicians will bring it to us.

[CBGLuthier]

60. I love most of it

Yeah, Miller can be a little sedate but no denying the power of Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing.

Was saying to the wife just yesterday that I prefer The Benny Goodman story to The Glenn Miller Story just because the music is hotter. :-)

Love both movies though.

Lately, not that far out but lately been enjoying some of the stuff Bela Fleck does. Today heard Brazil, with Chick Corea I think.

Cool stuff.

[grasswire]

92. you might like this clip of Benny Goodman

...along with Lionel Hampton, from an old Danny Kaye movie. Notice Louis Armstrong in the background, sans instrument.

For those new to jazz: this clip swings.

[Inchworm]

59. oh, I'm receptive alright

Coltrane is smooth too

I like it.

:thumbsup:

[KamaAina]

63. Dirty Dozen Brass Band's version of Junko Partner

the tune made famous by Dr. John.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkD7_S96YQw

Bonus trivia: The beat to this song is known as the "jailbird beat". Legend has it that the beat was developed by inmates at the notorious Louisiana state prison at Angola.

edit: spelling

[Inchworm]

69. A jammin beat it is too!

Thanks!

:hi:

[CBGLuthier]

65. You know, this entire thread has put me in such a great mood.

That and the eight glasses of wine I have had while listening.

:-)

[Inchworm]

67. Super deal!

You contributed quite a few good'ns to it as well

:yourock:

:toast:

[CBGLuthier]

66. A little Charlie Christian in praise of my city

Local talent (Oklahoma City) Charlie Christian playing some of the earliest recorded electric guitar.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mkyIqYYBX-4

Sadly he left us at the age of 25. Can only imagine what would have been.

[Inchworm]

73. Definately making it talk

:applause:

[hellbound-liberal]

68. Here's an often overlooked, and under appreciated, group of very talented musicians

Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Orchestra

Stardust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cusms_vKpP4

[Inchworm]

76. Almost forgot about him

Thanks for the reminder :)

:applause:

[Forkboy]

70. Looks like you got some new stuff to listen to today.

:)

I got into jazz about 5 years ago and it was like discovering a whole new planet to explore. I'm still just scratching the surface, though I know a hell of a lot more than I did when I started. It's freedom is like a lot of the music I already liked, but done in entirely different ways. And there's so much within the jazz genre, as you're finding out, that there's always something new just around the next corner. It's truly a wonderful type of music.

[Inchworm]

78. Indeed

Not to mention it helped get that Coldplay earworm outta my head.

I replaced it with "Take Five," but at least I don't have to struggle with the words :P

Thanks for all the participation.

:yourock:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

72. I've got a couple for you:

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Take Five"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNrmYRiX_o

Miles Davis and John Coltrane - "So What"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FAKRpUCYY

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - "Hot House"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91dolWWdetI&feature=related

Any jazz questions, you let me know. ;)

[Inchworm]

79. Miles Davis & John Coltrane

was awesome. So chill. So not. It is hard to explain.

I like the "original" feel to the Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie one.

Thanks SA!

:applause:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

81. The Miles/Coltrane song is from the Miles album Kind of Blue.

My favorite album ever, and if you don't have it, you need to get it. Every place I've seen has it for $10 or less.

The Brubeck album Time Out (on which "Take Five" appears) is also essential. You can find it cheap, too.

:hi:

[Inchworm]

84. It is on my list

hehe, someone mentioned it upthread as the album that turned many on to jazz.

Thanks again!

:woohoo:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

85. It's called the one jazz album owned by non-jazz fans.

And damn near everybody else. :D

If you need a bigger list, let me know. :hi:

[Inchworm]

87. Gotcha

I'm gathering my style :P

Right now I'm getting totally funked out by Medeski Martin and Wood.

:smoke:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

88. They're good, too.

I have "It's a Jungle In Here." :thumbsup:

[grasswire]

75. Is this bluegrass, or jazz? Whaddya think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZxfFpz2qzA&feature=related

[Inchworm]

82. Very jazz to me

Like what I'd imagine played in New Oleans. Ragtime perhaps?

I freakin LOVE it though. I got chills hehe

:yourock:

[grasswire]

94. nope -- not ragtime

The ensemble part is similar to what a dance band of the 20s or 30s would play; the banjo introduction is just a novelty solo.

Here's another version of the same tune; this one is Louis Prima and orchestra, also with a lot of showboating. I don't particularly like this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTO5jc71fbE

[RainDog]

83. some more

John Coltrane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR9ixWP-P9I I Want to Talk About You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlZs4lbo5mQ Blues Waltz

Bill Evans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2LFVWBmoiw My Foolish Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIQ6bc3nJE Israel

Wes Montgomery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhZk4piVpbY Twisted Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG8I34ZOSIo -lost tapes

Anita O'Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1V3n1u0JI8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQiFvTK-kNI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZkD1koLepA

Anita O'Day was a great vocal stylist
apparently someone made a doc about her http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfcH8fAf7TM
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Chet Baker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=007P6bFgRCU

Thelonius Monk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFNGppc9pJ8 --Ruby My Dear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI1tW-YykWQ --Off Minor

Lionel Hampton on vibes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_rTICMVXQQ

Billie Holliday - Strange Fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Billie Holliday, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Roy Eldridge, Doc Cheatham, Vic Dickenson, Danny Barker, Milt Hinton, Mal Waldron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tNSp7MaADM

Paris Combo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3S_sOEjsmo Moi, Mon Ame Et Ma Conscience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuuS0bhm3GA Mobil'homme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45-uM-iVPhY Lettre A...

Paris Combo is current. They're a great live show.

Nick Cave singing Mack the Knife- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3_2zbZwDlM

this is a treasure - film clip of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday - it's sort of passed from jazz to "movie fugueion"™
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLHCR0OTqhs
Goodbye To Storyville - (New Orleans)

[Inchworm]

90. That was a good collection for me to wind down the day

And think how lucky I am. I heard some very cool new music today. Thank you everyone who played along and pointed out your favorites. I think I will go lay down and dream of my Dove, perhaps in a restaurant with white tablecloths and 3 glasses per setting.

:loveya:

I just HAD to comment though. hehe, each selection was so unique.

I'm starting to thing Coltrane's bands have a certain planned chaos to them. It is very different than most of what I've heard today.

Of the two Bill Evans tunes I liked My Foolish Heart. It is perfect lazy rainy day music.

With Wes Montgomery, I like the way the photographer caught the fingerwork of each musician on their break in Twisted Blues. Hard to imagine how talented they are.

I really enjoyed Anita O'Day. She uses her voice like a jazz instrument. Hec! She even seems to improvise on her intonations in Sweet Georgia Brown/Tea for Two. Awesome.

Thelonious Monk seemed off to me. Too technical perhaps. The flow is too detailed in my ear.

Lionel Hampton was good tunes and fun to watch. Man, I bet these gigs live were something else.

Billie Holiday was great! Almost plain, sad and sultry at the same time.

Oh dear.. Paris Como raises yet another question. If jazz is american, what was France's jazz, Brazil's, Poland's, Scottland's...

For now, I sleep.

:hi: *waves g'night*

[grasswire]

96. you can't stop this now!

I've got two more goodies here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5OfaukAb50


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYHAh88MbY&feature=related

[Inchworm]

101. Thanks for the morning laugh

I remember watching the Jackie Gleason Show with my dad as a kid. Crazy Guginheimer(sp) was our favorite.

Ain't they sweet

Ain't they sweet? See them walking down that street.
Yes I ask you very confidentially, ain't they sweet?
Ain't they nice? Look them over once or twice.
Yes I ask you very confidentially, ain't they nice?
Just cast an eye in their direction, oh me oh my, ain't that perfection?
Oh I repeat, well, don't you think that's kinda neat?
Yes I ask you very confidentially, ain't they sweet?

Thanks again. I couldnt find the middle song's lyrics.

G'mornin!

:applause:

[RainDog]

107. France and Jazz

Django Reinhardt, already linked here, was a Belgian (Walloon, i.e. French speaking/region) Roma, of gypsy. His Hot Club Quintet is, in a way, the essence of european jazz/swing. Stefan Grappelli wasn't American.

Josephine Baker moved to Paris, you know, and in the 1920s, a lot of African-Americans moved to Paris to live because of the acceptance of blacks, vs. the racism of the U.S. Just like the migration of black Americans from Mississippi, etc. to the midwest. That's how St. Louis, Indianapolis and Chicago became noted for their jazz scenes... believe it or not Indiana used to lean toward radical... home of Eugene Debs, big jazz music scene...who knows how it became a stronghold of libertarian conservatism.

Anyway, France has a long history of jazz because of the influx of Af.-Ams. Lots of clubs... where do you think those beats got the ideas for their berets? :)

[Critters2]

89. Bix!

Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke and I share a birthplace, Davenport, IA. He was a great jazz musician, played with the Paul Whiteman Band, but died too young.


Here's a recording of the Whiteman Band, featuring Bix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ue9igC7flI&feature=related

Here's an interesting video with biographical info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X8AaAxQPDM&feature=related

[Inchworm]

100. Good Morning

If this music sets today's mood, I'm golden.

:donut:

[newmajority]

93. Jazz from a most unexpected source

Van Halen - Big Bad Bill (is Sweet William now)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOrXaFYAfag


what other hard rock band could have pulled this off?

[Inchworm]

102. That's where my mind is today

What is the next step of progression from jazz. Blues and Jazz are very important to what we listen to and what is written today I feel. Remember "Ice Cream Man?"

Stop me when I'm passin by...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxl53ElwJdY
____________________________________

Van Halen - Big Bad Bill (is Sweet William now)

Well,way down yonder in louisville,
Lived a cat named big bad bill,
I wants to tell ya,
Ah the cat was rough and tough and would strutt his stuff
Had the whole town scared to death,
When he walked by they all held their breath,
He's a fighting man, sure enough
And then bill got himself a wife,
Now he leads a different life...
Big bad bill is sweet william now,
Married life done changed him somehow,
He's the man the town used to fear,
Now they all call him sweet pappa willie dear,
Stronger than samson i declare,
Til the brown skinned woman,
Bobbed his hair
Big bad bill dont fight any more,( no he dont )
Doing the dishes,mopping up that floor ( yes he is )
Well he used to go out drinking,
Looking for a fight,
Now he gotta see that woman,everynight,
Big bad bill is sweet william now
Ah play it boys.
I likes that jazz.
Big bad bill dont fight any more,( no he dont )
Doing the dishes,mopping up that floor ( yes he is )
Well he used to go out drinking,
Looking for a fight,
Now he gotta see that woman,everynight,
Big bad bill is sweet william now ( doing the dishes )
Big bad bill is sweet william now ( mop up dat floor )
Big bad bill is sweet william now
Cha........ yeah!
__________________

:applause:

[Wapsie B]

95. Something from His Royal Highness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL1Fj7LJHDA

[Inchworm]

104. They are bringing several recent groups to mind

Yes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVU5PDikm0

Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxbFLYa0_bw

Or maybe it's early hehe

:hi:

[ornotna]

97. Pharoah Sanders - An Abandoned Tunnel

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7EGQzn8e1k

[Inchworm]

105. I'm up, I'm up!

That was so laid back, so relaxing.

Thanks!

:hi:

[Bragi]

103. Great thread!

I'm just (once again) getting into Jazz, and want to thank everyone for the sample tunes in this thread. I'll probably end up spending a few bucks at the Itunes shop as a result of this thread, but thanks for the selections.

- B

[Inchworm]

106. I'm learning a lot in this thread

Definately some cool stuff.

:hi:

[tishaLA]

108. A Couple

Abbey Lincoln: I Must Have That Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIv6cQLul8

"Little" Jimmy Scott: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4aHWG7aqPM

Dinah Washington: All of Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0w_1fsnqHg

Betty Carter: Tight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBgfKgDqzjs&feature=related

Antonio Carlos Jobim/Pat Metheny/Joe Henderson: Desafinado
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19lxpVzkoXk

Sarah Vaughan: Day In, Day Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBX74eeqtuM

Shirley Horn (RIP) and Wynton Marsalis: Basin Street Blues (watch this one!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5w48Ou0-so

The First Lady of Song: Angel Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6vtHIXzF8
w/the Duke Ellington Orchestra: Satin Doll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DDyMe3T9LA
w/the Duke Ellington Orchestra: Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1CI9sPzDFU
w/Joe Pass: Stormy Weather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teXOPAFMOp0