Jazz for aficionados

O - I will go back and listen to all of that Shadowfax track you linked and then provide some comments.  I was mainly focusing on the music category assignments you made.  For me, I don't think of New Age as jazz.  I guess there might be exceptions...

By the way, I said I liked some Be-bop and Hard-bop along with Fusion. Probably less Be-bop and more Hard-bop and Post-bop (along with Fusion).  I was doing some reading about what those category names mean.  Reminded me about the latter parts of Eastwood's "Bird" where CP is sort of bewildered by the ascendency of R&B.  As per Wikipedia,  some music writers claim Hard-bop was the response by certain jazz musicians to this "trend".  Very interesting.  

Pryso, according to your post, while you like jazz, you don't listen to jazz exclusively; am I right or wrong?

Could you give your evaluation on the four musical tracks I submitted for everyone?

Sometime, I go so far out that you would have to send "Han Solo" to find me. Today is such a day.


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X01bSO44_Cs


We haven't heard from Acman or Dave. Rather than a complete evaluation could everyone give a thumbs up or down on all the other submissions?

o10, not that it will matter to most here, but yes, I do listen to a wide variety of music, including classic rock, blues, string band (blue grass), classical (mainly symphonic), World Music (that catch-all for other than American or European), and selected soundtracks.  I have around 3,000 LPs, 300+ CDs, and even still at least 100 cassettes (self recorded, I didn't care for commercial, hi-speed duped offerings).  However between recordings I own and (fortunately) a great local college jazz FM station, I listen to more jazz than any other music.

Then I assume the four tracks for comment were in your 8/26 post.  So here are my quick impressions.

- Shadowfax: never really listened to them, nothing offensive there but only a step away from "light jazz" which holds no interest for me at all.

- Jazz Crusaders: yes, I enjoyed them, even after they went for a larger, main-stream market when they dropped Jazz from their name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OahE2GGaGq4

- Silver:  I've not heard them all but never listened to a Horace Silver album I didn't enjoy.  As a footnote, over the first couple of years in college I attempted to play with friends in a trio or quartet.  The pianist was self-taught and heavily influenced by Silver so that was the groove we attempted to play in.  "Filthy McNasty"!! I don't have any real musical talent but was able to find a cheap upright bass and learned some basic "walking bass" patterns after being shown them on the piano.  It was great fun, even if we were not very good, other than my friend on piano.

Charles & Bags:  good stuff, I like Brother Ray whether vocal or instrumental.

Pryso, the factors that determine what music we like are many, and incredibly diverse. It's easy to understand how someone steeped in jazz, would not care for anything "New Age".

As far as "The Crusaders" go, I liked them better when they were "The Jazz Crusaders".

One of the local musicians who was a pianist, could play as well as Silvers, and I questioned him as to why he stayed local. To make sure that I understood that staying local was a personal choice, and that he could have gone on the road with ease; when he saw me come in, he began to play Silver's most popular tunes.

I sat there with eyes closed enjoying the music, and for that time, it could have been Horace Silver himself there on the piano.

Since then, I have learned going on the road and becoming a famous jazz musician is not all it's cracked up to be; I thought that rich automatically went along with famous, but it ain't necessarily so.