Jazz Please

[AB Editor]

I like this sort of stuff - what is it? (Apart from Jazz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eowOSv9Cvsc

[AB Editor]

Or this:

[237SJ]

That reminds me of Jazz Club on the Fast Show...
Nice!

[tamborine]

modern jazz, from 40s+, Oscar Peterson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJhHn-TuDY

[VHG]

This sounds a lot like Bebop.

After the big band era of the 1930s and 1940s some jazz musicians began to jam at nightclubs after hours and gradually came up with Bebop.

It was Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (and many others) who started it.

It was VERY unpopular amongst traditional jazz fans and there were many arguments between traditional jazz fans and bebop fans.

More here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop

[VHG]

If you like piano led stuff then maybe Horace Silver

Try this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09i-nDNK1RE

[AB Editor]

thank you :)

[The Builder]

I have to disagree with VHG. It's got the quick, lots of notes feel of Bebop, but 40s/50s bebop is played over many chord changes. This is mor 60s "modern" jazz. Probably "modal". Improvisation played over one unchanging chord. There are a lot of classical things going on in this Reminds me of 60s Modern Jazz Quartet or Jacques Loussier.

Absolutely brilliant though Ed. Thanks.

Try this from a couple of years ago by the great Esbjorn Svensson Trio........

[The Builder]

Here we go again AB and the vanishing videos :o(

Try again

http://youtu.be/lGGi5_oVF6U

[seadogg]

Great combo, piano bass and drums and sounds like a rawer version of Peterson's trio to me. Oh yeah!

[VHG]

This is nothing to do with your question but it is jazz related.

I discovered this piece of music a few years ago and find it so hypnotic and enjoyable so would like to get it to a wider audience.

It is John Coltrane and is My Favorite Things (the Rogers and Hammerstein song from Sound of Music).

It is over 13 minutes long and I can listen to it over and over again.

I must say the piano playing of MyCoy Tyner really makes this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI

[The Builder]

Great track VHG. Soprano sax isn't a very easy instrument to play. This just shows what can be done :o)

I had the pleasure of seeing McCoy Tyner at the Bath Festival a couple of years ago. As great as ever at 73 :o)))