youkrst wrote:just been chilling to "Stormwatch" after the muse whispered "dun ringill" in my ear at work this morning.

good grief!

how are the lyrics to Orion and Dark Ages

That Dun Ringill is a great one.

A concert of kings . . . as the white sea snaps . . .

one for the tull heads

rainbow blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goN5BWbvn-I

"Rainbow Blues"

Through northern lights on back streets
I told the coachman, "Just drive me on,
It's the same old destination
but a different world to sing upon."
So he threw back his head and he counted.
I jumped out about five to nine.

And I waved at the stage door-keeper
said, "Mister, get me to the stage on time."
Oh, but the rain wasn't made of water
and the snow didn't have a place in the sun
so I slipped behind a rainbow
and waited till the show had done.

I packed my ammunition.
Inside the crowd was shouting, "Encore",

But I had a most funny feeling
it wasn't me they were shouting for.
So when the tall dark lady smiled at me
I said, "Oh, baby let us go for a ride."
And we came upon two drinks or four
and popped them oh so neatly inside.

Oh, but the rain wasn't made of water
and the snow didn't have a place in the sun
so we slipped behind a rainbow
and lay there until we had done.

Let me pack you deep in my suitcase.
Oh, there's sure to be room for two
or you can drive me to the airplane
but don't let me catch those rainbow blues.

touchdown!

Deep red are the sun-sets in mystical places.
Black are the nights on summer-day sands.
We'll find the speck of truth in each riddle.
Hold the first grain of love in our hands.

full tull ahead

Let me bring you all things refined:
galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greetings well met fellow, hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail.
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times.
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.
Songs from the wood make you feel much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUw6t3b6oE

youkrst wrote:
reminds me of the time we went to that guitar trio thing with Al D, JM and i forget who the third was

Paco de Lucia? My younger brother was really really into them. Still is, I suppose.

DB wrote:Paco de Lucia?

if it was Paco de Lucia i would have have died and gone to heaven, that guy is one of my favourite all time players, el hombre sincero indeed.

i'm thinking Paco Pena was filling in.

awesome gig though, made special by Steve Morse's participation, Morse has an amazingly vibrant energy about him quite aside from his uncanny musicality. (though not aside from it at all)

I still remember my first recognition of Jazz, many decades ago. Throwing frisbees in a quad at college when someone was blaring strange music from speakers in his window. After a while I couldn't restrain curiosity and asked "What was the name of that last tune?"

"Take Five by Dave Brubeck"

That was all it took..... Fortunately over the next several years I was able to make a semi-structured listen to the history of jazz starting with ragtime and dixieland through the various schools big band, cool, bop, hard bop, etc... winding up at Free Jazz and Fusion. Exploring that evolution is one of my favorite memories and I recommend trying it if you haven't done so...

I was also fortunate to live in a town that broadcast shows by Oscar Treadwell. He was an expert on the history and paired music with poetry. OT's standing was such that Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Wardell Grey wrote tunes honoring him.
http://www.oscartreadwell.com/

I don't listen to straight up jazz very often now, but one current band I recommend is The Bad Plus. Very creative and kinetic! Currently touring on and off with Joshua Redman - if they come close to your location let us know the experience!
http://www.thebadplus.com/
http://www.thebadplus.com/tour-dates.php

Here's The Bad Plus treatment of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ6Xo1mYSJg

I can't even imagine how freaking cool this would be:
The Bad Plus performs Ornette Coleman's landmark album Science Fiction with Tim Berne, Sam Newsome and Ron Miles!

thanks for the heads up on all that LanDroid

The Bad Plus

fantastic hearing "radio tunes" used as a base for a rep, great for people like me who weren't around when the old standards were pop songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9hOSZGMXlI

Treadwell's poetry was so easy to get into, resonated immediately with me.

http://www.oscartreadwell.com/poems/jazz_is.pdf

I am in a jazz mood at the moment, listening to a so-called new year jazz

It's my playlist to share with you:

1) The Nearness of You - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

2) What Are You Doing New Years Eve? - Ella Fitzgerald

3) Santa BabyOriginal Mix - Eartha Kitt

4) The Little Drummer Boy - Burl Ives

5) The Christmas Song - Mel Tormé

6) All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - Nat King Cole

7) Merry Christmas Baby - Etta James

I Am Blessed - Nina Simone

9) Baby, It's Cold Outside - Ray Charles & Betty Carter

10) Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Devol Orchestra

11) I Get a Kick out of You - Ella Fitzgerald

12) Everybody Loves Somebody - Frank Sinatra

13) Ain't Misbehavin - Billie Holiday

14) I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

15) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Devol Orchestra

16) Far Away Christmas Blues - Esther Phillips

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Happy winter holidays, everyone!

I love 20s jazz of which there were three types: sweet, corn and swing. I was in a 20s band once and hand to play bass and tuba even though I had no training on tuba and it gave me a headache to play it but I got decent on it. The difference is that tuba pieces are usually 2/4 time and double bass is 4/4 time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3LS0PDFuR0
Called "Four-Four Rhythm" even though it's in 2/4. A sweet example of corn jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ACtACBX0gM
These ladies were incredibly talented but aren't remembered because they are women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybf9s-gVnjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_f-nn4PFog
A couple from Emmett Miller, blackface minstrel jazz singer whose band contained such great as the Dorsey bros, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3btN5m6iYw
Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike. He was cast as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in 1940 and sang "When You Wish Upon a Star." According to one poster, this is Gene Austin not Cliff Edwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8fQePz4FcE
Roy Smeck was recording in the 20s but I chose this 30s clip because you have to see him play. Tremendous musician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXHdqTVC3cA
Louis Armstrong's Hot Five. The opening trumpet strain is considered by the originators of bop jazz to be first bop jazz solo. Louis, however, was NOT a bop musician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSVD0bW ... 22RbuR95eS
Jelly Roll Morton from 1926. The first composer in jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61jR9b2RdHc
Ethel Waters singing "Sweet Man" in 1925 written by my favorite songwriter, Maceo Pinkard. The lyrics were written by Roy Turk who would co-write "Are You Lonesome Tonight" with Lou Handman two years later which would go on to make a bundle for Elvis. Maceo Pinkard also wrote "Sweet Georgia Brown" the same year as "Sweet Man."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59OFJhNXLJQ
Paul Whiteman, the premier sweet jazz master, doing a Maceo Pinkard number in 1927--"Sugar." Features a gorgeous cornet solo by Bix Beiderbecke with the great Frankie Trumbauer on sax. Great clarinet work by Chester Hazlett.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP9Uubvm91I
This is really from the early 30s. If it gives you a spooky feeling it's because you probably heard it in Kubrick's "The Shining." Ray Noble with Al Bowlly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP9Uubvm91I
Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke from 1928 who did a spate of solo material apart from Paul Whiteman who never let them really cut loose. These recordings are considered some of the best jazz ever recorded. This is the actual the birth of cool jazz still a good 15 or more years in the future. Frankie was Lester Young's idol and that ain't small potatoes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGc3FJTLF7Q
Irving Mills was a New York nightclub owner who loved jazz so much that he started his publishing empire and owned an entire stable of amazing talent including Ellington, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Lucky Millinder, Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Ben Pollack, Raymond Scott, Willie Lewis, Will Hudson and others. Mills got in on the act himself and formed his own band's by borrowing smaller orchestras from the other bandleaders and singing lead or conducting. He co-wrote such songs as "Don't mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing," "Black and Tan Fantasy" and "Mood Indigo."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yBn5FqUWaE
Irving Mills assembled the first interracial bands in the twenties. Warren Mills and His Blue Serenaders from 1928 was Duke Ellington & orchestra backing singer Adelaide Hall, the Hall Johnson Singers and Matty Malneck conducting. When Victor records balked at recording them due to segregation, Mills threatened to pull his every artist off Victor's roster and Victor immediately capitulated. The resulting recordings were very popular and bands began to integrate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4vlmYd9KYY
This is from the 30s but, man, Ray Bauduc and Bob Haggart on drums and bass--you cannot beat that.

thanks a felt 'n meltin million DB Roy

i would not have wanted to die without seeing "The Ingenues"

Roy Smeck was awesome

and Ray Bauduc and Bob Haggart just killing

mind = blown and i haven't even got to the others there yet

hah! small world, i remember a couple of aussie players referencing

diga diga doo, that's where i picked up the phrase "thanks a felt 'n meltin million"

ahhh memories stayin' up late with a vhs figuring out "out of nowhere"