“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.” Ornette Coleman
Hello all
Since I last posted about Jazz in A Frankie View – Jazz Vibe 2, I have not really been listening to much new to me Jazz, there has been Guru – Jazzmatazz Volume: 1, which is not a full-on Jazz album, but an album with a mix of Hip-Hop and Jazz. Maybe not sound totally original these days, Guru was one of the first artists that tried something like this.
But the highlight of my Jazz listen has been two-fold, first off there is this compilation by Herbie Hancock that I don’t remember buying, and I found laying dormant on my serve, I must have ripped it onto the server, lord knows when. But am I glad I didn’t just skip past it, as I really enjoyed Herbie Hancock – Cantaloupe Island. It’s a jazz album that has hit me straight away, this album has been labelled as Modal jazz, so I went exploring for more, and I see why I like the other album like Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue, which I own have the same vibe that I enjoy. Some of the following I don’t understand, I deal with beats, vibe and feelings that music gives me, but I suppose my musicians mates will understand it.
Modal jazz is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework. Originating in the late 1950s and 1960s, modal jazz is epitomized by Miles Davis’s “Milestones” (1958), Kind of Blue (1959), and John Coltrane’s classic quartet from 1960-64.
The same with any music, especially with a new form of music, it can time and a lot of listens to really enjoy an album. I have been playing the album that my so-called jazz adventure started, Ray Charles Presents David Newman – Fathead, mostly in the car and I have really started to get to know this album and its just great car music, especially when you are on your own and you can turn it up a tad.
I am no Jazz DJ, and I am still trying to work out what goes with what, over the last few days I have been listening to the below playlist on my daily commute to work, and have it on now while typing away, I keep on losing train of thought and having to stop and just listen. One question for all you jazzer folk out there, any recommendations, or shall I just continue on the path I am taking?
So below is a 10 song playlist of what Jazz I have been listening to, and hopefully, in the future, some more artists and types of Jazz will be added as I explore more.
I have also been putting together these playlists, I normally make up a playlist from a variety of different music genres and see if they fit together. So lately I have restricted myself to the albums I have posted about and have decided to share it with you, as we did in the old days with tapes
The only way I can think of sharing playlists these days is with something like Spotify.
