That clip of Dave Grusin comes from the excellent 'DG presents West Side Story' DVD. I own both the CD & the DVD. Unfortunately, this clip and the whole DVD are unsynced video shown with the original recording. It's easy to get caught up in the incredible playing but if you watch closely the players are rarely playing in sync with the tune! Even the Michael Brecker solo can be clearly seen as him alone in the studio overdubbing his part. I picked up this DVD expecting to see a video of the band playing the music from this magnificent recording but the whole thing is this unsynced mess! Doesn't alter the fact that it's a fantastic record! This was the last GRP Big Band recording. The 1st 3 were 'official' releases from the GRP Big Band. The 2nd group of three, although released as Dave Grusin records were actually the Big Band; 'The Gershwin Collection', 'Homage To Duke', & 'West Side Story'. GRP's usually remembered for the glut of 'smooth/fuzak' records they released but they also put out quite a few great records!
The Evolution of Modern Jazz
Shadorne's thread "Outstanding Examples of Musicianship" inspired me to begin this thread. While Shadorne stated that all genre's were welcome, I felt that me and another jazz aficionado were beginning to dominate that thread. Shadorne is a "Rocker", bless his heart. This community functions best when like minded people engage in common dialogue.
The title explains this thread. We will use "youtube" the same as in Shardone's thread to illustrate our examples, and now I begin.
In the beginning, there was Charlie "Bird" Parker, and he said "Let there Be Bop" and thus it began. While walking down the street, Bird ran into John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, who had similar ideas, so they "Bopped" down the street together; Bird on alto sax and Diz on trumpet. My first illustration of this new music is "Bloomdido" with Bird and Diz. We should cover "Be Bop" in depth before we go to the next phase of this evolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MCGweQ8Oso&NR=1
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Did I mention that I like Neal Hefti |
Fusion is merging two separate elements into a union. "When you fuse jazz and bluegrass, you get crabgrass because bluegrass don't like jazz". Herbie Hancock and Weather Report impressed me with their albums of "Sextant" by Herbie and "I Sing the Body Electric" by Weather Report. They seemed to connect with a part of my mind I never knew existed; "The misty mid region of Wier" sounds good. First, we have "Rain Dance", from "Sextant", by Herbie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RczWDQmKQtA This is "The Unknown Soldier", from the album "I Sing the Body Electric", by Weather Report. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZNRS5Yzlj4 "Dara Factor One" by Weather Report, I hope you like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW0YwUgtJc0&feature=related |
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