Jazz

agutierrezb said:
I purchased this boxset from Amazon last year. It was all superb until I got to "Plays the blues" and I found the record inside the jacket was "The avant garde" from that same set. I loked into the Avant garde jacket to see if the "Plays the blues" record was in there, but it wasn't, so I basically had 2 Avant gardes and no blues. Amazon made me send it back and sent me a replacement which turned out fine. I just hope my messed up boxset doesn't end up being sold to someone via their "Warehouse deals," because that would be really shity.
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Ah- eek. I better check in the morning! Only played and looked at Giant Steps and it sounded incredible. Got me worried now as don’t want to send back - if there’s a mistake - at the price payed as not sure I can afford a replacement at full price !
 
SherlockOhms said:
Over on t’other place there was a recommendation from someone regarding good pressings of the Bill Evans Trio - specifically the village vanguard season which had included the waltz for Debby recordings - but as the forum has been canned I’ve lost the recommendation.

A little help?
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Skip the latest boxset. Sourced from CD masters. A travesty, really.
 
Mr Moore said:
Morning jazzbos, just browsing Amazon and came across this for sub tenner. I remember it getting decent reviews but never listened.

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I'm giving it a shot.
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That word always makes me think of the Pavement song Fillmore Jive and the lyric "jazzbos skinny arms"
 
Mr Moore said:
Morning jazzbos, just browsing Amazon and came across this for sub tenner. I remember it getting decent reviews but never listened.

Wonder Trail [VINYL]: Amazon.co.uk: Music

Shop Wonder Trail [VINYL]. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk

I'm giving it a shot.
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It's gone now, but I remember streaming a bit of their previous record and noting that I needed to get back to them. Also, never got back to them because so many things popping here.
 
whatwhatsaywhat said:
is flying lotus jazz?
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Ya know...I’ve been thinking about him and Thundercat more lately in the context of jazz with FlyLo’s new album our. I saw Thundercat at the Blue Note recently too and it made me realize how deeply rooted in Jazz he is. Live show especially. He often plays live as a trio and in most songs, trades back and forth with the drummer and keyboardist as they solo and improvise for a stretch, then it’s the next guy’s turn and they get back into the groove. Got to see a FlyLo in a similar setting/stage show once. He played with Thundercat, Ravi Coltrane and I think Thundercat’s bro Ronald Bruner on drums. It was probably my favorite FlyLo show I’ve seen.

I’d say FlyLo is more jazz-influenced while I’d say Thundercat could maybe just be classified more by straight up jazz fusion. It’s also funny to listen to some of their influences and favorite songs. Thundercat did something on the radio not that long ago where he played some songs that influenced him. He played Arrow Through Me by Wings and Little Church by Miles. Both awesome songs and kinda blew my mind that I hadn’t associated those songs with Thundercat before since you really hear the influence.
 
Captainfog said:
I'd probably classify 'You're Dead' as a jazz album, but the new one not so much. But yeah, he's not really definable by any genre, he's doing his own thing.
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This was a conversation we were having in regards to Anthology about Monk, someone, I think Cam brought up Monk as Bebop and the consensus is pretty much by everyone else, including musicians, that Monk is his own thing.

Thundercat is interesting to me, because most people have accepted him as Jazz now, which is cool, but most of his stuff along with The Robert Glasper Experiment or even Brand Coleman’s recent record make me wonder how far we want to stretch Jazz.
 
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Lee Newman said:
This was a conversation we were having in regards to Anthology about Monk, someone, I think Cam brought up Monk as Bebop and the consensus is pretty much by everyone else, including musicians, that Monk is his own thing.

Thundercat is interesting to me, because most people have accepted him as Jazz now, which is cool, but most of his stuff along with The Robert Glasper Experiment it even Brand Coleman’s recent record make me wonder how far we want to stretch Jazz.
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Thundercat has a jazz background, but he's making soul music. His albums don't sound like Jazz at all, to my ears anyway.
 
Captainfog said:
Thundercat has a jazz background, but he's making soul music. His albums don't sound like Jazz at all, to my ears anyway.
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I don’t disagree. I guess it’s kind of the same in the London scene where they don’t want to be conceptually pigeonholed and don’t like to be defined by Jazz as a result. Both notions are cool, because it expands the palette.
 
It’s also interesting because if you look at the history of Jazz... the reintroduction of blues motifs lead to Hard Bop and the introduction of R&b motifs lead to Soul Jazz... the informing of other genres back and forth and evolution of the genre is a constant.
 
Lee Newman said:
I’ll also admit that I’m very new to FlyLo but it is obvious that Jazz informs his music. Maybe even more so than some of the stuff I mentioned above.
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He grew up around the Coltrane family since he’s related to them. I think Alice is his great Aunt or something like that. His entire family is very musical and influenced his music greatly (Alice is sampled on some of his older stuff). He’s doing his own thing too but it’s deeply rooted in the foundation that the Coltranes laid out. I won’t say he’s straight up jazz, but he’s one degree away from it IMO. I agree that You’re Dead is his jazziest though.
 
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