Jazz for aficionados

I hate to be misunderstood. What I said in regard to going to the movies just to hear the soundtrack didn't make much sense; that's why it will require some explaining.

In the late 50's, there was still a big demand for movies for drive-ins and movie theaters as well; not first run but cheaply made movies. Investors would hastily put together a movie, say a detective thriller with a lot of action, and then work on the soundtrack; here's where a good deal of time was spent.

There were a lot of good musicians on the West Coast, and a good soundtrack could really help a not so good movie. The musicians made the music to fit the action on the screen. Sometime these musicians made soundtracks that were better than the movie.

Me and my running buddy were restricted to the base, a big base with several movie theaters. There were a number of other Airmen who were jazz addicts in the same fix. To kill time during long periods of boredom, we would go to the movies without even knowing what was playing. Since they had all those dynamite musicians in LA, the soundtrack would be better than the movie. One jazz fiend would tell another about a boss soundtrack attached to a jive movie, and that's when we would get a good "buzz" on and go see the movie, just to laugh at the jive flick while digging the boss sound track.

The very same West Coast musicians that we are reviewing now, were the one's who made those sound tracks.

Mary Jo a ?


Are the dislike of Serbs still high in your native land ?
Took NATO a long time to do much !


Love that De Lucia , put some real juice into Spanish music .










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Mary Jo a ?

Are the dislike of Serbs still high in your native land ?
Took NATO a long time to do much !

schubert, with all due respect to you and other soldiers here, let’s not talk about NATO. But as for Croatian hating Serbs and vice versa, if you exclude people who were affected by the recent war very badly (small part of Croatia), I dare to say it’s more propaganda than anything else. Propaganda from the authorities - that reaches it’s peak for instance and mostly during some election period (you know how that works - it serves only to heat up the atmosphere, to bring out the lowest passions in order to manipulate with the crowd. Crowd is so easy to manipulate. Especially if the crowd is hungry, meaning being with low income and other basic things without which is one’s life unbearable) And of course, there are always people who, by the default, hate anything that is different, but generally speaking, if you put this aside, nobody hates anybody in a raw way that others might see as it. It’s a special mixture of love and hate that you could only understand if you have lived here. We have food from Serbia on the shelves of our local stores, we have people from Serbia who have their jobs here in Croatia, during summer season, we have guests from Serbia and most of all, many Croatians are crazy for Serbian turbo folk music. For instance, few days ago, Serbian turbo folk star had grand concert here in Croatia, in capital city Zagreb. It was crazy there, the interest for the concert was huge, the star had to organize one more concert the day after!

Check this link - at 6:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRWGZ_giemI

But, on the other side, check this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBlQMVsjic
The same city! Maybe even the same people. On the concert of a "patriotic singer" who promotes fascism and whose most famous song starts with the official salute of the Ustaše, the Croatian Nazi ally of the World War II Axis forces and whose concerts were banned in some European countries.

So, ain’t we crazy Balkanian people? 

After those clips....its hard to say anything,ha,ha....
Or better, perhaps,no problem, (just) get me to the flight....

...for Denmark?

Duke Pearson

https://youtu.be/KIQVjK13PzI

...'No problem'...same first tune....
Duke Pearson and Chet Baker
https://youtu.be/E95STK2tnoM

Below is the soundtrack to "Bullitt" staring Steve McQueen;



      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUo9ogmtBoU&list=PLE8CE30B5153C0A8D


Calling "West Coast" jazz "Cool Jazz" is inappropriate for me, East Coast is cool at times. Maybe it's because I can readily identify "West Coast" jazz, and "Bullitt" is definitively West Coast jazz at it's best. (it's on order)



"The Hustler" about pool sharks "like Minnesota Fats";


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnzYdDR5Ls&list=OLAK5uy_lCAkFoLhRUiMcbcsTF3RktRgIVI_5M4s0



This one is for you Mary-Jo;


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA81pRYtEXc