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The Evolution of Modern Jazz


Shadorne's thread "Outstanding Examples of Musicianship" inspired me to begin this thread. While Shadorne stated that all genre's were welcome, I felt that me and another jazz aficionado were beginning to dominate that thread. Shadorne is a "Rocker", bless his heart. This community functions best when like minded people engage in common dialogue.

The title explains this thread. We will use "youtube" the same as in Shardone's thread to illustrate our examples, and now I begin.

In the beginning, there was Charlie "Bird" Parker, and he said "Let there Be Bop" and thus it began. While walking down the street, Bird ran into John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, who had similar ideas, so they "Bopped" down the street together; Bird on alto sax and Diz on trumpet. My first illustration of this new music is "Bloomdido" with Bird and Diz. We should cover "Be Bop" in depth before we go to the next phase of this evolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MCGweQ8Oso&NR=1
orpheus10
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Fusion is merging two separate elements into a union. "When you fuse jazz and bluegrass, you get crabgrass because bluegrass don't like jazz".

Herbie Hancock and Weather Report impressed me with their albums of "Sextant" by Herbie and "I Sing the Body Electric" by Weather Report. They seemed to connect with a part of my mind I never knew existed; "The misty mid region of Wier" sounds good. First, we have "Rain Dance", from "Sextant", by Herbie.

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

This is "The Unknown Soldier", from the album "I Sing the Body Electric", by Weather Report.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZNRS5Yzlj4

"Dara Factor One" by Weather Report, I hope you like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW0YwUgtJc0&feature=related
duanegoosen
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Was a little surprised to see that you liked Sextant, (i also like it a lot) ...any possibility that a record Hancock was on the year before (On The Corner) might hit you differently than it did a few decades ago? It's sort of a drag that Hancock decided (reluctantly) to break up the Mwandishi band cuz they weren't making any $$$. They had a lot of artistic momentum. On the bright side, a few records like Eddie Henderson Realization and the two Julian Priester releases on ECM were good spin offs.
orpheus10 OP
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Shadorne, me and George go way back; I have many fond memories associated with his music.

Neal Hefti, that's a name I've been hearing forever. I didn't know I was a Neal Hefti fan until now. All of those movie scores and TV theme songs makes just about everybody a "Neal Hefti fan"; that Batman theme was tough.
orpheus10 OP
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Duanegoosen, I can still remember the stylus settling into the groove of "On The Corner". I said "What tha!" It was so different from anything I expected from Miles, that I was in a state of shock. I took it back and demanded a refund.

(Miles in his own words)
"It was just a waste of time playing it for them; they wanted to hear my old music that I wasn't playing anymore. So they didn't like "On The Corner", but I didn't expect that they would; it wasn't made for them."

I still don't like it, I think it's too choppy; or maybe it's psychological.
orpheus10 OP
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Since most Goners aren't hip to WCJ, I thought I would provide a few more examples. Linda Lawson really captures the spirit of those times in El-A, enjoy.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZKzTMr1M5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ9tIk3tw28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMcfTEGK-G8&feature=related

I'm hoping for many post's illustrating "fusion".
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