Jazz for aficionados
frogman I have 1 Miguel Zenon disc I purchased years ago titled "The Puerto Rican Songbook" and its a good one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmKbC_1t7Cs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmKbC_1t7Cs |
Shubert I don’t think jazz will ever come close to the popularity it once had. Great performances live, as you have pointed out, will help but the younger generation has to be at these shows to begin with. As far as jazz being main stream to the masses, which will never happen, here is a man that since I started posting here I have never seen mentioned and he pulled it off with this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IyXo9jL7Vc From Wiki: Leaving military service, he worked in New York City before returning to Chicago where he signed a contract with Vee Jay Records. His first album for Vee Jay, Exodus to Jazz, included his own jazz arrangement of Ernest Gold’s theme from the movie Exodus. A shortened version of this track, which featured his masterful playing in the upper register of the tenor saxophone, was heavily played on radio and became the first jazz record ever to be certified gold. The single climbed into the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 16 in the U.S. R&B chart. Some jazz critics, however, regarded commercial success as a sign that a jazz artist had sold out and Harris soon stopped playing "Exodus" in concert.[3] He moved to Columbia Records in 1964 and then to Atlantic Records the following year where he re-established himself. In 1965, Atlantic released The In Sound, a bop album that won back many of his detractors. I have the Exodus to Jazz disc and quite a few other Eddie Harris recordings including this gem at Montreux with Less McCann on piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UrjQSVbIkk&list=PLm7ogPYlDbGyVNmwz2txcpKuDKk4opeVH |
Strange frogman , I heard Eddie Harris Saturday on our jazz station , which according to Nielsein (?) has the biggest audience slice in the USA . Was going to find some Harris to post . "Compared to What " is absolutely fabulous ! Like a steam engine coming down the MAIN track at 110 mph . I have some de-facto family Chinese students at U of MN in my condo complex .They and American kids can get out thousands of people on "smart" phones in a hour . I had them watch Grace at Berklee on my 55" off their I-phone and without telling them to they were at it right after .she finished .I hear she got a big audience at the Twin Cities Jazz Fest last Friday . I think Jazz could get up to 10% in US , the last Classical concert will be in Tokyo . I grieve for the swing era not for the music but for the difference 70% of the nation being on that same musical page made in all aspects of life .
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https://youtu.be/dgCoYz-5PqQ?list=RDdgCoYz-5PqQ Count Basie knocks out another jewel with the vocal group that put the R in rhythm . |
