It's been many months: FAVORITE JAZZ MUSICIAN

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. No one does it for me like Coltrane

n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Cecil Taylor or Art Tatum.

I've been getting into some Art Tatum recently....and have been on a a "free piano" kick the last few days, too.

But I voted for Ornette in the poll...of course (he shares my birthday! HAve you heard "Tone Dialing," from 1996? You must.)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. Dude - check out Aki Takase

Japanese one woman piano dynamo.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005C8R/qid=1114797228/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-5872860-0716052

[Zuni]

16. Art Tatum is one of the baddest ass mofos I have ever heard

and he is blind....dude plays like thirty notes where others may fit like 4 or 5

It is like...Ivory Lightning

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. I think ebony lightning would be more apt

He was a unique gem

[Zuni]

32. I meant the piano keys

I wasn't even thinking about race

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

34. I know - so was I.

Just being a wiseass as usual

[RandomKoolzip]

30. And he was doing things in the 30's that guys like Cecil would

claim as their own.

Richard Grossman was good too....his style is COMPLETELY improvised. He tried to NEVER play the same lick twice, much less a melody.

[kwassa]

77. Another vote for Art Tatum

he played piano on a completely different plane than anybody else. No one else even comes close.

I was talking to an acquaintance in LA whose father was a jazz pianist. This guy talked of growing up with Art Tatum and Meade Lux Lewis throwing down piano duels in his living room!

Jazz is such a giant field that choosing one is kinda ridiculous. There are so many different styles of jazz, to start with ....

[Zuni]

88. I have to agree----Tatum is virtually without peer on the keys

The first time I heard him I was blown away----how does he play ALL THAT. Then I learned he was f-in blind.

It is like Beethoven composing his 9th Symphony while completely Deaf

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. Trane. But I voted for Mingus.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. why?

[RandomKoolzip]

6. Cuz Mingus was grumpier, I bet.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. Mingus did have quite a rep

Braxton seems shy

[tigereye]

112. I requested some Braxton from our best local college station

in honor of your trip to see Braxton. ( green with envy)

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. Mingus hated Whitey more.

Mingus was possibly the greatest composer of the 20th century. No playing moves me like Trane's Impulse! recordings, and that's what I always come back to, but Mingus was the master.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. You and Cassandra Uprising will get along well

indeed

[Magrittes Pipe]

17. Good.

I've been lookin' for a new one. :evilgrin:

[RandomKoolzip]

24. Back off man....Cassandra is private stock!

She wrote me a poem that knocked my socks off. Since then, I've been slowly poisoning my wife and Josh with tarantula venom sprayed on their food.

You WILL be mine, CU!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

35. Guess what

She's not coming to the Chi!

Eat it, butterball!

[RandomKoolzip]

37. I will bury you in my scum.

You will pay for this insult, little toothpick man.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

44. You look like a piece of intestine

[RandomKoolzip]

45. Your words resemble the output of a pricked abcess.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

46. There's NO WAY I'm swallowing

[RandomKoolzip]

47. Your mom REFUSES payment every time, dude.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

48. She's a real humanitarian

[RandomKoolzip]

49. And that thing about her and the trailer hitch is 100% true.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

51. Word

[cassandra uprising]

61. i thought you didn't go for

that trailer hitch thing? you hussy!

[tigereye]

113. but I want to meet both of you!

:(

[cassandra uprising]

60. a duel?

for mine honor?

alack the day! I swoon.

[cassandra uprising]

56. um, honey, there's something i need to tell you

there's a really good reason *why* i said i couldn't go to Chicago. now there are two reasons.

[progressivejazz]

103. As Joe Williams sang:

"There ain't nothin' in Chicago for a monkey woman like you to do."

[cassandra uprising]

104. baw haa haa haaa

Well served!

:rofl:

[cassandra uprising]

54. you torment me

:loveya:

[Magrittes Pipe]

57. It is a blessing...

...and a curse.

[cassandra uprising]

62. i shake my fist at you hedges

:dilemma:

[Magrittes Pipe]

63. Why dontcha shake something else?

:o

[cassandra uprising]

66. snarf, blush, cackle, snarf, blush, cackle, snarf

hmmm.... let me think,

shake martinis? no not quite yet,

shake babies? no that's sick,

shake my can in chicago?...

-am i disowned if i don't show?

[Magrittes Pipe]

72. Oh yeah.

I'm sure you can earn your keep.

[cassandra uprising]

74. you are so not going to believe this

OMG, blushing to the nth degree. holy canoli. allow my to esplain.

I meant if I pull a no show, as in if I don't come out to Chicago in June, will I be disowned from la familia?

However, my mis-speaking brings up some interesting propects...

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Kenny G.

I can't think of anyone who plays the soprano sax the way he does. Hey, if he's the biggest-selliing jazz musician of all time, he must be good, right?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. Don't you mean Chuck Mangione?

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. He blows.

[tigereye]

115. but he blows better than Kenny

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

19. David Sanborn!

Kenny G would be nothing without him.

[RandomKoolzip]

26. What about Spiro Gyra?!

Todd Steiwing's dad will be pissed if he saw them omitted from this poll.

[Blue-Jay]

27. Nah. sanborn at least has some skill.

Kenny Gorlick is a no-talent hack who can lick my arse.

[cassandra uprising]

68. that's funny

i saw you more as a yellow jackets kind of guy

:hi:

[tigereye]

114. how dare you, blasphemer!!!!!

;)

[Zuni]

11. No votes for Davis or Parker? What is this world coming to?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. That's what I'm sayin'

Parker was the greatest

[Zuni]

21. Charlie Parker wails

while he is not my personal favorite Jazz Artist (right now my favorite Jazz albums are Standard Time by Wynton Marsalis and Song for My father by Horace Silver) he is undoubtedly one of the finest Jazz musicians, saxophone players and band leaders who ever lived.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. I dig Horace Silver

I personally prefer Trane to Bird but you couldn't have the former without the latter.

[Zuni]

31. exactly.

I also really dig Django Reindhart

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

36. He's in a category all his own. Have you checked Stephane Grapelli?

[Zuni]

40. The Violinist?

Not specifically, but I have heard him before. Didn't he record a bunch of stuff with Django...? I am not up on my Jazz right now. It's been "All Blues" for me lately.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

41. That's right. He's really tight and worth listening to.

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. In all seriousness, I'm a newcomer to the jazz thing.

I'll have to go with Trane- that guy was nuts. Lately, though, I'm really digging Thelonious Monk as well.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. He was an absolute genius, no doubt

[Zuni]

28. I have a great live tape of Davis-Coltrane jamming with Adderly

and I can't remember who was on the keys, bass or drums but it is SICK.

I also really like cannonball Adderly. Work Song is an incredible jam. If you get to check it out, find the Paul butterfield Blues band's version of it...with Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on Guitar, Mark Naftalin on Keys and Butterfield on Harmonica---it is one of the sickest jam sessions ever recorded

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

33. Was your tape from the great Miles Sextet?

Miles
Trane
Cannonball
Evans
Chambers
Cobb

[Zuni]

38. Thats it---I think it is at Newport

I think Cannonball should get more accord, but hey, thats me. I think his parts might be the high light of the album


I am far more adept in Blues and 60's era Soul, but I have some decent Jazz. But its Blues I really love. Just picked up a Bobby 'Blue' Bland collection and a collection of British Blues including a smoking version of Smokestack Lightning done by the Yardbirds with Clapton in '64

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

39. My favorite blues album of late is The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions

But that's just right now

[Zuni]

43. I was listening to Howlin' Wolf on the way to work this morning

I had 'Killing Floor' and 'I'm Not Superstitous' cranked to get me going for 8 hrs of sitting behind a computer screen and answering annoying phone calls. But I have most of the week's work load finished and I get to post on DU when it is slow, and I get good benefits, so I really can't complain.

[cassandra uprising]

71. hey there Mr B

I just wanted to share with how I noticed that there are no drummers on my sweetheart's list. He's still learning, too. I recommend Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

:hi:

[Beware the Beast Man]

76. Beyond Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, I'm still foggy in terms

of drummers.

[cassandra uprising]

79. Buddy Rich is great

I'm not familiar with Gene though. Art Blakey is my favorite but Max Roach comes in at a close second.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

83. "Philly" Joe Jones or Tony Williams

[tigereye]

116. ah CU you are a woman after my own heart!

I love Art Blakey

and Max Roach!!!!

but Ronald Shannon Jackson is amazing and he is stil around to see, I think.

[billyskank]

18. Jimmy Smith

I only recently found out he was dead. Damn!

[democracyindanger]

22. It's TheloNIOUS, damnit!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

29. whoops - good catch

thanks

[progmom]

52. thanks

pet peeve of mine

[democracyindanger]

59. I think Chavez was just trying to Diebold the Monk votes

Prospective Monk voters would see "Thelonius", not know who that is, and vote for someone else...

[ralps]

42. Bob James Rocks!!!!!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Spider Jerusalem]

50. You REALLY need more than one poll for this question.

Break it up by instrument. Or simpler: winds (sax, trumpet, etc), percussion/rhythm (piano, drums, bass). But one poll isn't enough.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

53. I've done that before

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=963156

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=967598

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=967609

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1033639

[Zuni]

58. Buddy Rich takes percussion every time, I hope.

Him or Gene Krupa.

I have some Gene Krupa and Buddy rich CDs that really, really rock. But my fave is Buddy Rich vs. Max Roach---a duel between two drummers, both playing on the same songs but taking their own solos. It is nuts how these guys try to top each other

The version of Sing, Sing, Sing on there just rocks

[progmom]

65. or elvin jones or roy haynes or max roach or

ART BLAKEY!!!



or Jo Jones
or Philly Joe Jones
or Kenny Clarke.....

[Zuni]

86. I'll give you blakey

good call.

But I am much more comfortable talking about Blues than Jazz, and I know you are a Jazz DJ.

Buddy Rich is the best drummer that I could think of, and one of the few drummers who I actually want to listen to play a drum solo

I mentioned Max Roach---he smokes, but I only know him from his duel with Buddy Rich

[progmom]

110. you gotta give me elvin too

the classic Coltrane quartet would have been very different without his work.


and today, on the date of his 80th birthday, we gotta pay respect to Roy Haynes!!!

[frylock]

55. horace silver

[cassandra uprising]

67. nice! n/t

[Zuni]

102. His album 'Song for My father" absolutely smokes

especially the title track

[frylock]

for real..

His "Doin' the Thing" recording has several great joints as well, namely "It Ain't S'posed To Be Like That" and "Kiss Me Right".

[cassandra uprising]

64. mingus is the man

without a doubt, but you should also have Rashaan Roland Kirk up there too honey.

[Rabrrrrrr]

69. Coltrane. Pfagh. Hack. Barbara Mandrell - there's some REAL fuckin' jazz!

:evilgrin:

[cassandra uprising]

70. Shame on you! No drummers?

Sweetheart, come on, no drummers on your list? tsk tsk Max Roach, Art Blakey

[frylock]

92. idris muhammad

[cassandra uprising]

100. i'm not familiar with him

Please, tell me more about him.

[frylock]

105. check out a tune called "loran's dance" from the "power of soul" lp..

great groove/soul style jazz.

[cassandra uprising]

106. sweet, thanks! n/t

[frylock]

108. welcome

:hi:

[redqueen]

73. This is ridiculous, man... how can you chooose?

Mingus... Parker... Coltrane... FUCK!

I'm gonna be a bitch and say Sun Ra, motherfucker!

(but really, I voted for Parker this time. :))

[cassandra uprising]

78. you go girl

You just go right back to Saturn where you came from. Sun Ra is awesome! You're right, about the list, but I'm sure he *meant* to phrase the poll in such a way that would get people talking. Isn't that right, honey?...honey?

:yourock:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

81. But of course

[cassandra uprising]

82. you da biz-omb

:loveya:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

84. oh - you're flirting with me now?

[cassandra uprising]

90. hey i figured I do something new

spice things up a bit.


I mean, come on baby, you don't gotta be like that, you know that you're my main squeeze.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

91. if you say so

:eyes:

[cassandra uprising]

93. Dizz-am

:spank:

oh, hey wait, what are you doing later tonight?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

95. going out with you

remember?

[cassandra uprising]

96. ummm

Spank smile icon thingy

in the act of spanking

spanking,

what are you doing tonight?....

[redqueen]

89. It's like goddamn Sophie's Choice.

We went round about this last time, didn't we?

[bobthedrummer]

75. I voted for Trane.

My personal favorite is Rhassan Roland Kirk though.:woohoo:

[Burma Jones]

80. Pops - Louis Armstrong

Hot Fives and Sevens.......................

[Zuni]

87. mysteriously he was absent from the poll.....

as was Django

[Zomby Woof]

85. Miles, the essence of cool

His DNA had the word "cool" in tiny little letters imprinted on it.

Also:

Eric Dolphy, Tony Williams, Monk, and Mingus. And McCoy Tyner, and Art Tatum, and of course, Trane.

True fact: I was in Cheraw, SC last week, and it is Dizzy Gillespie's birthplace. As soon as I get the pics, I will post the one of me standing next to his statue in the town square.

[leftofthedial]

94. Bill Evans

[mark414]

97. Sun Ra

[cassandra uprising]

98. nice choice

I'm partial to Pharaoh Sanders myself and I just Anthony Braxton this week.

:hi:

[Ron Green]

99. BENNY CARTER and ART BLAKEY

They both gave overwhelmingly of themselves to the music, played their asses off, stayed around a long time and had enormous influence on up-and-coming musicians. And they did swing!!

[progressivejazz]

101. Of the choices given, it's gotta be Bird.

Pure genius. I dare you to listen to the "break" on "Night In Tunisia" and deny it.

But Coltrane is a damn close second.

Actually, J.J. Johnson's music gives me the most enjoyment right now.

[cassandra uprising]

107. Bird is brilliant

But Mingus' cannon cannot be denied. Jazz, Roots, Classical. That man was a genius. If only Bird had a longer life span, he might have done the same.

:hi:

[progressivejazz]

109. Maybe I'm not deep enough to understand Mingus.

But on the 70th listening I begin to understand Bird. It takes about the same number of listenings for me to understand Trane. Mingus just never did it for me, no matter how hard I've tried.

[BlueJazz]

111. Paul Desmond for me

[tigereye]

118. nice

Mary Lou Williams should be on there, too.

[immoderate]

117. Friday? It's Charlie Christian.

--IMM