Jazz for aficionados
Acman, I find it hard to believe this is a current album as well as he's playing. I've seen him live many times, good clean living has really paid off; while the other musicians might fraternize after the set, Ahmad was on his way home; that was when he was in Chicago. "Blue Moon" is on order. Enjoy the music. |
****Frogman, that's an interesting comparison between "East of Suez" and "Night in Tunisia"; one is well known, while the other is almost unknown.**** Check out the solo "break" by Kai Winding (trombone) at 1:01 on "East Of Suez". He quotes part of the melody of "Night In Tunisia", the seven note melodic fragment at the end of the repeated eight measure first phrase of NIT. Obviously, that comparison was made a long time ago. That same little melodic fragment is first heard at :25 in the clip below. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KxibMBV3nFo Further proof that the evolution of jazz is linear; the past influences the present and future. |
****Frogman, that's an interesting comparison between "East of Suez" and "Night in Tunisia"; one is well known, while the other is almost unknown.**** Check out the solo "break" by Kai Winding (trombone) at 1:01 on "East Of Suez". https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PnrYk1pq12I He quotes part of the melody of "Night In Tunisia"; the seven note melodic fragment at the end of the repeated eight measure first phrase of NIT. Obviously, that same comparison was made a long time ago. That same little melodic fragment is first heard at :25 in the clip below. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KxibMBV3nFo Further proof that the evolution of jazz is linear; the past influences the present and future. |
Only musicians would notice something like that musical similarity between "Night in Tunisia" and "East of Suez", but not many people other than musicians are familiar with "East of Suez". That was when Miles had something so special, that not even he knew what it was, but "Bird" heard it. Right now, that ranks as the number 1 "Night in Tunisia" for me. Enjoy the music. |
Rok, aficionados don't intellectualize the music we call jazz. Before "you tube" we were limited to words, which are a horrible way to communicate music. Now we can communicate with music, it makes statements that words can not be found to express. Maybe that's why Miles was so horrible with words, they failed to communicate anything he was trying to say. Music is like a gigantic mirror of the times in which it was created; notice how music of the 40's seems to have some kind of common denominator that I can not put into words; and so it is with the 50's and 60's, those decades also have some kind of "common denominator". When someone posts a statement with music, I can understand what they're saying much better than with just words. "You tube" has blessed us with a quality of sound, higher than we ever had, back in the day. For example; I'm sure I heard Miles and "Bird" on "Night in Tunisia" before, but I never heard it without distortion, pops, clicks, and record noise almost as loud as the music. Musicians have a sound as distinctive as the human voice, and I can't think of anything more distinctive than that. If you were in a crowded room with everyone talking, you would instantly recognize an old friends voice, even if you didn't see his face; that's what I mean about hearing this persons unique sound, not his style, but his musical voice that makes him different from any other musician before or after; now, we can hear things we never heard before. Being an "aficionado" is about listening to the music. One of the most amazing people in jazz, never played any kind of instrument, she never wrote or talked about herself, but there is one statement she made that rings in my mind, that's when she told her talkative niece, "Listen to the music Hanna"; that's what being an "aficionado" is all about, listening and hearing. We hear things musicians say that can never be put into words, and others don't hear. Enjoy the music. |
