Jazz or Blues

Bob was Bing's younger brother. Bob-cats were ala "Manhatten Transfer" if I remember right. Doris sang with Jimmy Dorsey, maybe? Holiday may be more toward the Blues (as in Lady Sings The) but she had a lot of sophistication blended in with her painfulness.
 
butch said:
Bob was Bing's younger brother. Bob-cats were ala "Manhatten Transfer" if I remember right. Doris sang with Jimmy Dorsey, maybe? Holiday may be more toward the Blues (as in Lady Sings The) but she had a lot of sophistication blended in with her painfulness.
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I didn't know that, however the name Bob-cats is familiar. I just got an album by Manahtten Transfer of Christmas songs from a local thrift store. No chance to listen yet.
 
keithwms,
I am not a musician, but am a long term jazz music fan, and piano jazz is one of my favourite genres. Thinking about today's performers, if you listen to Ahmad Jamal, or Esbjorn Svensson Trio, or on another plane, Keith Jarret or Brad Mehldau, there's enough energy, inventve, as well as soul searching, to satisfy the most demanding ears. I may be a bit naive in my preferences, but my all time number one piano player is Bill Evans, and when he played, both you and your soul had to listen with utmost attention.
 
Actually, WMZQ is our local country station. WAMU is the American University radio station (http://www.wamu.org/). Rob still hosts "Hot Jazz Saturday Night" (http://www.wamu.org/programs/hjsn/).

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For those in the listening area, there used to be a saturday night rendention of the Bunk Johnson style of jazz on WMZQ, a public radio station sponsored by American University in Washington, DC. I don't know if that is still on or not. EDIT: Rob Bamberger (sp) was the host's name.
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furcafe said:
Actually, WMZQ is our local country station. WAMU is the American University radio station (http://www.wamu.org/). Rob still hosts "Hot Jazz Saturday Night" (http://www.wamu.org/programs/hjsn/).
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You are of course quite correct. I should have paid more attention to that electrical burning smell as I was typing. 😀 😀

I used to listen to both a lot. I have drifted to WTOP lately for the traffic. 95 is a drag. Of course WTOP is sort of a drag too. I really don't like their attempts to tantalize me into staying with them for that next story which may not show up for half an hour. I may go back to WAMU. They were liberal (public radio) but not to the point I couldn't stand them. And they did have good in depth stories. I actually enjoyed them a lot.

Glad Rob still hosts the show. He was an easy man to talk to and very savvy about jazz. I only talked to him a few times and don't remember ever asking him what his real job was. As I recall he just did that gig more out of love, and didn't really work in the radio field.

Do they still have the blue grass show? I grew up on that stuff but we didn't call it that then back in Missouri. If we gave it a name, it was just country. We didn't know there was a country and western. They were considered different. Of course there were all kinds of country. I perfectly remember whe On Top of Old Smokey came out and was popular. I think it was a cross over to the pop charts too. Hank Snow and Bob Wills were known too. So were Gene Autry and the Sons of the Pioneers. Now I'm starting to feel old. 😀
 
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mfogiel said:
keithwms,
I am not a musician, but am a long term jazz music fan, and piano jazz is one of my favourite genres. Thinking about today's performers, if you listen to Ahmad Jamal, or Esbjorn Svensson Trio, or on another plane, Keith Jarret or Brad Mehldau, there's enough energy, inventve, as well as soul searching, to satisfy the most demanding ears. I may be a bit naive in my preferences, but my all time number one piano player is Bill Evans, and when he played, both you and your soul had to listen with utmost attention.
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Thanks, you gave me some names to check out. I am already somewhat familiar with Jarrett in the context of Miles Davis- it's not for me, but it is interesting. Anyway, I will check out the others.

Incidentally I do admire Thelonious Monk for his percussive influence, so I am not quite as obtusely partisan as my post may have implied 😉
 
Depends on my mood

Jazz: I like most albums with Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Dave Brubeck... so bop jazz if you will

Also the standards, the female crooners, most notably Diana Krall, Madeline Peyroux

Blues: Love electric Blues, Buddy Guy, BB, Albert King, and alot of Hendrix's blue (especially his acoustic version of Here my Train A'comin)

but my absolute favorite blues is the old acoustic blues of Leadbelly, Tommy Johnson, Memphis Minnie, Son House, Skip James

On a night when I my mind doesn't want to listen to alot of notes or when I just need something organic ... i run to my old blues records (or when I don't want to deal with the record player, throw on a playlist)

But on topic:

Blues and Jazz are intermingled, going off in different directions early jazz especially swing were often very dependent on the same blues scales... eventually blues goes on to rock and roll, jazz goes off in the eventual direction of the abstract which ended up breaking down scales and chords to their basic forms.

BTW, jazz photography is probably one of my favorite collections... love Dennis Stock's jazz photographs, and I find Wlliam Claxton's Jazz book to be easily my favorite
 
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