Re: Re: [Harp-L] re: was timbre etc, now music theory

[Pierre <plavio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Garry said:

> so i should spend several years listening to music i don't like, and if i
> happen to pick the right people to listen to, i then will find i don't 
> like
> any of the music that i like now.
>
> what a deal.

Well yeah, you can sell all your blues CDs and start all over again. Ummm... 
Maybe I should sell mine.

I have to say I did not like jazz much up until about 5 years ago but I 
slowly got sucked in, its like drinking beer at first if awful, then 
eventually it starts tasting fine. Eventually it's just great. Same with 
wine, people often start with sweeter wines and move up to drier wines, try 
and go back to those sweet german wines, can't do.

Some jazz is pretty far out and I think we tend to remember those weird 
abstract things we hated and start thinking that that is jazz, but jazz has 
many styles some of them are pretty mainstream, anyways if anyone is 
interested, the following CDs are very mainstream and I am sure they could 
move anybody on the list, these are like the sweet wines, the list gets a 
bit drier as one moves down. I used these CDs to get my wife hooked on jazz 
and it worked, now she buys Jazz CDs on her own and she does not turn the 
volume down on the stereo anymore; how cool is that?

Ben Webster, Soulville            (Ben Webster on tenor and Oscar Peterson 
on Piano, match made in heaven)
Kenny Burell, Midnight blue  (SRV raved about him so I checked him out when 
I got started, nice)
The Getz/Gilberto cd,            (Robert Bonfiglio got me on this one, thank 
you Robert, I will forever be greatful )
Stanley Turentine, Hustlin'      (With Shirley Scott on B-3 organ and Kenny 
Burell on guitar)
Winton Marsalis, Joe Cool's blues
Dave Brubeck, Take Five
Herbie Hancock, Gershwin's world (these are not the usual Gershwin's 
overplayed standards, some classical jazz, Some Stevie W.)
Danny Gatton and Joy DeFrancesco Relentless        (Blues people will love 
this I think)
John McLaughlin, After the Rain with Joy DeFrancesco

Ben Webster is a "stylist", that means he's like a blues harp player, he 
goes for the sound. Unless you've heard Ben, you've never heard a sax played 
like like this.

Joy DeFrancesco is a great B-3 jazz organ player. Danny Gatton is an awsome 
guitar player with roots in blues, rock, country, whatever. Not sure what he 
is, but can he play. Kind of a child prodigy at age 12 like Stevie Wonder 
but on guitar.

Note: Winton Marsalis has all the critics after him because he (they say) 
did not advance jazz, but he is awesome technically on the trumpet. The band 
on Joe Cool's blues is one of the best I have heard. They Swing. Joe Cool is 
fun jazz and great music.

Stan Getz had 2 follow ups to the Getz/Gilberto CD, they are both classics:
 - Jazz Samba,
 - Jazz Samba encore

BTW I still like blues, but it has to be really good,

Pierre.







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Hodgson" <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [Harp-L] re: was timbre etc, now music theory


> Pierre <plavio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Listen to jazz for a few years and you will probably get a whole new
> > perspective on music and you may find that most blues start sounding 
> > boring,
> > same with most rock and pop. This is not snobbery, once you get used to
> > jazz, other music just starts to sounds too simple, too basic.
> ...
> > Listen to the top
> > jazz artist for a few years and you will be forever changed. Warning: It 
> > may
> > take a while before you develop a taste for the music but there is no 
> > going
> > back once you do. Trick is to find the right people to listen to.
>
> so i should spend several years listening to music i don't like, and if i
> happen to pick the right people to listen to, i then will find i don't 
> like
> any of the music that i like now.
>
> what a deal.
>
> truth be told, i like some jazz.  and some classical, and some of lots of
> other kinds of music.  i don't see any of them as superior or inferior. 
> it
> either moves me or it doesn't.
>
> ----
> Garry Hodgson, Senior Software Geek, AT&T CSO
>
> But I'm not giving in an inch to fear
> 'Cause I promised myself this year
> I feel like I owe it...to someone.
>
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