"Jazz" thread

[DB Roy]

Sorry, the photos of the bow won't upload for some reason.

[youkrst]

good, i can't keep my eyes off your bass ATM

[geo]

geo, wow! lemme take this in for a second

we both love Hedges and Tull, we both love Thompson and Knopfler, we love Hackett, both love Bela Fleck, both love Metheny, both love Zappa Evans Duke Miles...

awesome, guess that makes us brothers

Okay, it's going to take me some time to really catch up to all the cool stuff in this thread. DB Roy, that is one beautiful bass. How many other musicians do we have lurking around here? DB, do you play in a band? Do you need a hand truck to haul that thing around?

But yeah, damn, youkrst and me are on some of the same wavelengths. Did I mention Joe Jackson? I would rate his Blaze of Glory album as one of the all-time greatest art rock albums ever. His live Summer in the City is fantastic as well. But since this is supposed to be about jazz, I have to mention his Jumpin' Jive, which is Joe Jackson doing a bunch of swing jazz standards. If you ain't dancin' when you listen to that album, Jack, you dead!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6GbmrYud58

But we simply have to talk Tull. Since you mentioned it, I recently bought the 40th anniversary edition of A Minstrel in the Gallery. And it is simply astounding. Ian Anderson did something amazing with that album as well as Heavy Horses and especially Songs From The Wood, setting progressive rock music to pastoral and medieval themes. (Steeleye Span did similar kinds of stuff. In fact, Ian Anderson produced one of that band's albums—Now we Are Six). The title track to Songs From The Wood is one of my favorite songs of all time, as well as the naughty Hunting Girl. Broadsword touches on some of these pastoral themes as well.

Some of Ian's acoustic songs are truly ethereal, especially Life's A Long Song and Wond'ring Again from that sort-of compilation album, Living In The Past. Obviously I could go on and on about Tull. Life's A Long Song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfIlyj0KUJI

[geo]

DB, do you have any recordings of that bass? I want to hear it.

[youkrst]

@geo, the link to that vid?

the history of drums one you mentioned.

[geo]

@geo, the link to that vid?

yeah, I fixed that. But here it is again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFcp_NQ8oHE

[youkrst]

Did I mention Joe Jackson?

i've loved Joe Jackson for ages

it's funny because practically everything you're writing is like looking back into my own life

[geo]

Did I mention Joe Jackson?

i've loved Joe Jackson for ages

it's funny because practically everything you're writing is like looking back into my own life

Eerie, man. Are you also very intelligent and handsome?

[youkrst]

it depends who you ask, me or someone else

Joe Jackson's book was killer, really enjoyed it, "a cure for gravity"

Obviously I could go on and on about Tull. Life's A Long Song.

it's hard to know where to start, i have spent so many hours listening to Tull that it is part of my psyche, like Joe Campbell and Bireli Lagrene, Jaco etc

i suppose when you live in a desert you develop a deep appreciation for water.

all my life i was lied to severely and it was people like Anderson etc that rescued me from the pit prepared for me by my brothers so to speak.

in the shuffling madness as it were

[geo]

it depends who you ask, me or someone else

Joe Jackson's book was killer, really enjoyed it, "a cure for gravity"

Obviously I could go on and on about Tull. Life's A Long Song.

it's hard to know where to start, i have spent so many hours listening to Tull that it is part of my psyche, like Joe Campbell and Bireli Lagrene, Jaco etc

i suppose when you live in a desert you develop a deep appreciation for water.

all my life i was lied to severely and it was people like Anderson etc that rescued me from the pit prepared for me by my brothers so to speak.

in the shuffling madness as it were

Sorry to hear that. Glad you found Mr. Anderson. He's always been an inspiration for me.

I'm looking up that Joe Jackson book right now. Thanks for mentioning it.