Jazz

[Gintaras]

I liked Bela's early stuff with the Flecktones, Sinister Minister in particular.  But, haven't listened to much since then.

[knoxharrington]

Seems like he's stayed in a creative mode, not sitting still.  I think Jeff Coffin (who also plays sax for Dave Matthews Band) joining up in 1997 was a plus -- really like his flute and all the interesting pedal stuff he does with both sax and clarinet.   

[Lhoffman]

Coffin is a pretty decent guy who has been willing to share knowledge with students.   Runs some great clinics that cover everything from the basics (Use a metronome in practice) to those pedal techniques you mention.

[Gintaras]

If you are into "jazzy" bluegrass I would recommend Strength in Numbers.  Powerhouse ensemble of pickers, including Bela Fleck,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaxdj4wLHnA

[Gintaras]

Bo, Mezzo has been showing a lot of classic jazz concerts like Coleman Hawkins last night.  Looks like these concerts are form the Jazz Icons series.

[knoxharrington]

Thanks for the SIN link, gintaras.  Good instrumentals transcend genre.

[Gintaras]

No problem, knox.  I'm glad to see a lot more cross-over taking place in recent years.  One of my favorite contemporary jazz groups is Medeski Martin and Wood and they each do quite a number of individual projects and projects with other musicians, not letting themselves get trapped in a particular groove. 

[madupont]

Of Related Interest

 

Hard Luck Blues
Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression
Rich Remsberg
"Rich Remsberg's brilliant selection of photographs broadens and deepens our understanding and appreciation of American music. It is a potent reminder of the wealth and variety of music played by "ordinary folks," from church singers and hoedown fiddlers to brass bands and barroom entertainers. The result is a moving historical document, a feast for the eyes, and spur to the imagination."--Elijah Wald, musician and author of Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

  

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[vookaleer]

Rest In Peace Lena Horne

[madupont]

Gintaras

http://www.bvonmovies.com/2010/05/13/mary-j-blige-nina-simone-biopic-update/?icid=main|htmlws-bv-n|dl6|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bvonmovies.com%2F2010%2F05%2F13%2Fmary-j-blige-nina-simone-biopic-update%2F

Rumored that Cynthia Mort will film this in France. I do not know if you saw the previous film that she made for Jodie Foster with Terrence Howard, or if we talked about it way back when(?) but this was one of the weirder Jodie Foster films ever and you already know she is known for "Weird".

This is not likely to be an important movie in my area which is geared  to a much younger audience and I think that I may have seen exactly one non-white show up at the time of American Gangster with whom  mutually we could talk together about the topic  of the shift in encouraged drug use of choice between the Midtown clubs going Uptown, the music within the film itself and the cast of every mothers' son

Anyway, here are a couple of tapes, one surprisingly visual performance by Nina who was such a plain straight forward down to earth woman (without frills)just playing that piano when we met maybe a year short of the Sixties  in some "saloon" hard-by the East River in Manhattan. Although it must be said that she could make very strong emotional statements somewhere between herself and that piano.

The second song has merely a faint image but if you let it warm up, the song is completely there and the image of a running man vaguely made out.

Her daughter by the way, performed at Longwood on May 1st for  Wine and Jazz festival with gourmet organic regionally-grown refreshments, first of the season garden parties. Nina's daughter's name is Simone, just Simone. Very slim but curvaceous, fairly tall, and drats I missed hearing what she sounds like !

[bodiddley]

Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater are playing at the Shanghai Expo this weekend.  But I saw DD last Fall in Shanghai, and her show was decent but not much more.  Have never seen HH.

Dee Dee B was always a big favorite of Newark jazz station WBGO, often headlining their annual jazz cruise and other events.  WBGO was a little too contemporary jazz and latin jazz for my taste, I always preferred WKCR and its greater attention to jazz history, with some hip contemporary jazz featured at times.

[Gintaras]

'Tis a shame to see Lena Horne go.  Haven't heard much from her the past few years.  I remember the night she was honored at Kennedy Center.

Dee Dee has been in Vilnius as well, but like you, bo, I'm not a big fan of hers.  Partial to Cassandra Wilson.  I really liked her latest effort, Loverly,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csxth4DJ6VM

[vookaleer]

'Tis a shame to see Lena Horne go.  Haven't heard much from her the past few years.  I remember the night she was honored at Kennedy Center.

Dee Dee has been in Vilnius as well, but like you, bo, I'm not a big fan of hers.  Partial to Cassandra Wilson.  I really liked her latest effort, Loverly,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csxth4DJ6VM

I had the pleasure of meeting Lena Horne once.  It was brief.  All  I said to her was I enjoy her music.

I think she recognized I said it with respect.  I am sure she appreciated it and knew it was real.

[bodiddley]

Dee Dee has been in Vilnius as well, but like you, bo, I'm not a big fan of hers.  Partial to Cassandra Wilson.  I really liked her latest effort, Loverly,

Great voice.  I love a lot of Cassandra Wilson's covers of pop/rock songs (Last Train to Clarksville, Tupelo Honey, So Lonesome I Could Cry, etc.).
Not that excited by what she's done the last few years.
Maybe I should give the Loverly album/cd another try, but I remember it as sort of uninspired jazz-lite.

I had tickets to see Cassandra in Shanghai maybe 4-5 years back, but she canceled (apparently her mother was ill).  Disappointed I didn't get to see her.
Not that many interesting artists come to Shanghai.

[Gintaras]

I had been avoiding Cassandra the last few years as well, but I picked up a copy of Loverly and found myself enjoying it.  They are classic standards as the title implies, but she gives each piece a new inflection, if that is the right word.  A couple of old Blues standards are worked in nicely, St. James Infirmary and Dust My Broom.  All in all, good album.