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[Wombat]

Isn't FZ the guy who said : Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny?
Edit : I should have listened to the documentary first!

Yes. He was waiting for it to get some fresh life infusion.

 

[Theo]

 

[StevenEleven]

 

[RayDunzl]

Isn't FZ the guy who said : Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny?

Jazz: The Music of Unemployment

In 1969, George Wein, impresario of the Newport Jazz Festival, decided it would be a tremendous idea to put the Mothers of Invention on a jazz tour of the East Coast. We wound up working in a package with Kirk, Duke Ellington and Gary Burton in Miami at the Jai Alai Fronton, and at another gig in South Carolina.

The touring package did not carry its own PA -- we had to use whatever speakers existed in each of the venues we were booked into. The hall in South Carolina was rigged with small jukebox speakers, set in a ring around the building. Useless, but there we were -- we had to play the show.
Before we went on, I saw Duke Ellington begging -- pleading -- for a ten-dollar advance. It was really depressing. After that show, I told the guys: "That's it -- we're breaking the band up."

We'd been together in one configuration or another for about five years at that point, and suddenly EVERYTHING looked utterly hopeless to me. If Duke Ellington had to beg some George Wein assistant backstage for ten bucks, what the fuck was I doing with a ten-piece band, trying to play rock and roll -- or something that was almost rock and roll?

I was paying everybody in the band a weekly salary of two hundred dollars -- all year round, whether we were working or not, along with all hotel and travel expenses when we did get work. The guys in the band were pissed off -- as if their welfare had been canceled -- but at that point I was ten thousand dollars in the red.

http://pierroule.com/ZappaRealBook/TheRFZBook.htm

 

[Theo]

Jazz: The Music of Unemployment

Yeah, you need to be stronghearted to be a jazzman... I remember going to listen to Dizzy Gillespie in Dallas (in 1983, I think). He was playing in a hotel. I managed to get there early to be sure to be seated as it was going to be, you know, Dizzy, yeah THE One Dizzy!!!. First I thought the gig was cancelled as there were no lights... They told me not and that I could seat anywhere almost in the dark. Then, they eventually turned the lights on 10mn before the beginning of the concert, when a couple more people came in. It turned out that there were more musicians on the stage than in the room! Dizzy was drunk, but that was a great concert!

 

[Wombat]

An overview of the journey of Jazz: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/25/entertainment/cnnphotos-jim-marshall-jazz/index.html

 

[StevenEleven]

Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Jaco Pastorious, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Woody Shaw, Billie Holiday, Art Pepper. . .

It's a tightrope.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/03/24/chet-baker-biography

 

[StevenEleven]

Wild world-class scat singing and piano and human percussion.

 

[Wombat]

Charlie Watts at his 'real' job:

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At Ronnie Scott's Club

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At Ronnie's again:

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[Apesbrain]

Especially at this time of year:

 

[andyc56]

"Ugetsu" by Art Blakey
My favorite Blakey tune

 

[Patrick1958]

Pia Beck : Tell me where i can go

 

[VMAT4]

I thought this was a great album on first listen.:

It seems to be out of print. I also wonder why Mr. Peterson doesn't get more FM air time.

 

[Hemi-Demon]

My current favorite

 

[Theo]

 

[Theo]

This guy left us 20 years ago...

 

[FooYatChong]

Fred Hersch and Julian Lage - Free Flying (2013)

https://tidal.com/album/68330405

 

[FooYatChong]

Nels Cline - Lovers (2016)

https://tidal.com/album/63438971

 

[Monte]

 

[andreasmaaan]

Hadn't realised Mingus was also an excellent pianist: