Jazz for aficionados

This dreary Saturday morning I’m starting with Derek Smith, High Energy.

 Another underrated piano player,

IMHO.

@curiousjim

I just started streaming right at two years ago. After I realizes that I have a wall of CD’s and vinyl I’m barely touching anymore and the price of a month on any of the streaming services is less than purchasing an album, I turned to the dark side

 The "dark side" is a great thing as you can sample before spending on physical media, whether vinyl or digital.

I started using digital streaming 2 years ago as well. As you already know, being an ex CDL operator, we need music spending 8 - 12 hours per day in the rig.

Anyways Jim I have a suggested listen for you. It is based on your recent posts which indicate that you like piano trio sessions.

This is Geri Allen, Charlie Haden, and Paul Motian recorded live at the Village Vanguard, NYC December 1990. There are two discs available. The most common is the first link which is an entire album.

The second disc is entitled "Unissued Tracks" and is, IMHO, as good or better than the more common release. I could not find on You Tube the complete Unissued Tracks but individual songs are there.

The entire 2 night concert was released on a the DIW Japanese label. Dont ask me why a NYC show was released on a foreign label. The one thing that upsets me is that the label should have issued the 2 separate discs as a 2 disc "Complete Villag Vanguard"

first track on the "Unissued Tracks"

Both are available on Spotify so the hi res streaming services should also have them.

Diggin’ on Goran Starndberh, Monk’s Mood.

Hey WARNING! Tetsuo Sakurai is Japanese Bass Samurai!!!

Yogi Berra Explains Jazz:

Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?

Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.

Interviewer: I don't understand.
Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Interviewer: Do you understand it?
Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.

Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today?
Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead. Some would kill for it.

Interviewer: What is syncopation?
Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.

Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.
Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well.