Jazz for aficionados

So I’m trying to listen to Walter Davis Jr. Trio, Scorpio album and it is so hard for me to get past Walter’s noises that are as loud as everything else on the album.  Even my wife came out of the back room to ask what that horrible noise was.

I don’t understand why they would leave that in the recording.

Getting off my soapbox now.

An overlooked gem from the 80's

@curiousjim

Good question.

I don’t enjoy many K. Jarrett recordings for the same reason.

Of course, in some circles, such a statement is liable to provoke a similar reaction to ramming a stick into a hornet’s nest!

I don’t enjoy many K. Jarrett recordings for the same reason.

Of course, in some circles, such a statement is liable to provoke a similar reaction to ramming a stick into a hornet’s nest!

I like Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis but i love Bill Evans and Chet Baker ...

Keith Jarret is a marvellous super talented pianist with an ego he never learned to forgot though ... He play for himself first ...than there is mannerism in his playing so captivating it is and it is... I own one hundred albums of Jarrett by the way then nobody can accuse me of hating him 😁 ...

But Bill Evans play for people, forgotting himself, without an ego or forgotting his ego , lost in music with us and moved by the music as we are with him ...

Keith Jarrett impress me more than he moves me ...

It is the reverse for Bill Evans....

I exactly remember the first time i listened Keith Karrett in 1976 in the Koln concert with a friend in his appartment ... i was impressed...Something pulsating in my mind i never forgot ...

I remember exactly where and with whom i listened Bill Evans in a car long time ago and i was instantly moved ... Not so much impressed but moved by his playing something beating in my heart not in my mind at all ...I never forgot...

Now Jarrett cannot stop speaking, mumbling etc because he is alone with the music, oblivious of us, we are not with him for him ...

Evans is with us silently ....Music for him is not a show so good it can be but a sacred intimate moment he partake with us and never just for himself ...

It is the same for Chet Baker ...I own 100 albums of Baker too ... I admired Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis; but Evans and Baker are more my friends than mere idols ... They spoke to me personaly more than they play music...

I remember even thinking the first month : are Baker a top virtuoso and Evans too are they top good musicians ? I never doubt one second that Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis were top musicians virtuoso and never ask that question in my first listenings because it was evident from their playings...

But like as you are with a woman that moves you a lot, you dont think about his way of making love if it must reflect a perfect or imperfect love making styles mastery waiting to be evaluated ... We think as such with a woman who we paid for entertainment not about a woman we love nevermind what ... I apologize for my example... I could not have a better one ...😁

For me Baker and Evans are in a class of their own with no comparison with anybody even to musicians with more virtuosity ... And they are many other top musicians at the trumpet as at the piano ...But they are not my personal friends...

@mahgister

Now Jarrett cannot stop speaking, mumbling etc because he is alone with the music, oblivious of us, we are not with him for him ...

Evans is with us silently ....Music for him is not a show so good it can be but a sacred intimate moment he partake with us and never just for himself ...

I saw Bill Evans in mid 70’s.

With Evans, I’d just begun to listen to Jazz and wasn’t able to really take it in. Jazz still sounded "foreign" and "abstract’ to me. I didn’t know how to connect with it. Oh well.

I saw Jarrett in late 70’s. By that point I was much more tuned into Jazz and was eagerly exploring the genre. At the Jarrett gig, the crowd treated him as if he were a god and when he got up and reached into the piano and began plucking the strings (in a not particularly musical fashion) they went nuts, as if he were walking on water or something. It was at that point that I realized that what I’d assumed was a concert was in fact a cult ceremony and I left.

Subsequently, I’ve come to appreciate both, although forced to choose, it’s no contest for me -- I’ll go with Evans. If I had to choose just one piece of music to be played at my memorial service, it would be the live V. Vanguard performance of "My Foolish Heart" .