Jazz for aficionados
Happy Labor Day! I agree with everyone about John Park. Simply amazing talent! Thanks nsp for those links. I’m going to try and hunt down that one recording you say he did! frogman that Cosby link was hilarious. I was having a few drams of bourbon last night and playing a lot of Art Pepper. As you all know Art always had substance abuse problems. In his autobiography Straight Life he writes about those 3 nights of recordings at the Village Vanguard. He was up every night looking over the arrangements while snorting Cocaine. The fact that he never slept those 3-4 days/nights and still sounded great is beyond my comprehension! Fast forward on this link to the 8:28 mark. An interview with Art. At the 12 minute mark Art explains how he always makes sure to play standards that the audience are accustomed to before playing something radically different like the song "The Trip" because after hearing and enjoying what they like they will be more receptive to something not "ordinary" to them. That part of the interview is where rok2id needs to pay attention!!… A little labor day sarcasm! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn8VzO-KbfQ |
"stop and think people". Very good advice rok, which you might take yourself. Who stated that KOB and SE were the two best jazz albums in creation? I certainly didn't, and I don't believe o10 did either. My understanding was this discussion debated which one deserved the highest classics status. So that was a consideration of only two and no attempt to say either one was the number one jazz album of all time, that would be a ranking not a rating. BTW, an impossible task in my opinion. o10 and I had a friendly discussion over which of those two we prefer, or possibly rate higher as a classic. That certainly doesn't exclude other fine albums from classic status. But I would never pretend to proclaim any one album as the best in creation. |
