Dipping into j***

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Originally posted by Whizzkid:

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Originally posted by BigH47:

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And I don't see what loving other genres has to do with whether one likes jazz or not.

It might make you realise you can manage without jazz though.

I mean you get the impression from some people,
that liking jazz should be compulsory.

BigH,

Jazz is such a wide canon of music that I'm sure there is some that you like. Jazz is such an influential genre of music it has permeated most music genres at some point, do you like Steeley Dan? thats a form of Jazz Funk/Fusion.

I myself, and this will not come as a shock to some, I cannot get on with 50's and 60's Jazz which is mostly played around here though I like late period Miles Davis, European Jazz and Improvisational Free Jazz from people like Evan Parker and Paul Dunmall. So its just finding that flavour that tickles your ear.

Litening to this at the moment and Sniper avoid like the plague.





Dean..

Well actually I saw this band in Bristol, St Georges Hall, a couple of months ago and they were supurb. It was the drummer Tony Levin's (no, not the bald bass player with the same name) birthday bash.

I have always been a fan of Keith Tippett especially as he has done stuff with Robert Fripp, and is a local to Bristol chap. Paul Dunmall on sax, especially his soprano playing was just about as good as it gets on this night.

I play in a jazzy type band and our drummer and sax player came along. They also thought it was excelent.

I too have the recording in question and yes, maybe it does not capture the band as they were on the night that we saw them. This is the problem with fairly loose structured, near free form jazz. The album was recorded five years ago and the piece has now evolved into a much better work IMHO.

This is always the danger of putting out an album when maybe it has not been worked on and gigged enough first.

If the band ever get to your neck of the woods I would strongly recomend seeing them.

John Coltrane -- Blue Train
Sonny Rollins -- Vol. 1 
Sonny Rollins -- Vol. 2
Dexter Gordon -- One Flight Up
Horace Silver -- Songs for my Father

Could this thread now be titled 'Dipping onto Jams'?

Thanks to the profanity police software on the forum we are presented with a perversion more suitable for fetish forums than a serious place to discuss music.

Whoever installed this programme must have been a real **** **** of a ****** with a ***** up their *****.

Kids, how do we discuss Jazz without using the J*** word. 

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I have a couple of suggestions!