jazz Brad Jazz guys like Duke Ellington or Miles Davis have always transformed the elements of the pop culture that surrounds us into something more sophisticated and hipper. It's their job." --Pat Metheny 000328 ... lokkust "To me, jazz is like part of living, like walking down the street and reacting to what you see and hear. And whatever I do react to, I can say immediately in my music."-- Eric Dolphy 000515 ... Brad "I really love this business... the bad goes with it. If it's all good, then it's no good." --Sarah Vaughan 000516 ... MollyGoLightly It sounds like Calculus. 000516 ... lotusflower ...and cocktails. 000516 ... fox It's worth so many points in scrabble. My theory on why words are successful as brands in a capitalist consumerist marketplace revolves around how many points they would score in scrabble. The more points, the cooler and more successful the word. 000530 ... moonshine JazzmakemethinkofNewOrleanstoo,andMimi FoxandDamon.ANdhowmuchiloveNew Orleans......ahhhandmagnolias.andhowi canttogoback..makesmethinkofberkeleyandwednesdays.andYOU.whereareyou? 000531 ... Alan Ginsberg who poverty and tatters and fantastic minds sat up all night in lofts contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated 000531 ... silentbob When i think of Tito Puente, also known as the fucking king of latino jazz, i think of the simpsons and how tito wanted to off Mr. Burns. he was a suspect, and personally, i think he really did it. not that maggie simpson bullshit. man o man. 000601 ... Pajaro Psicotico |Adios, Tito! y que sigue la musica en el otro mundo! alli te miremos. Goodbye, Tito and keep the music going in the next world . we'll see you there 000601 ... daxle when I fell in love with kerouac I really wanted to love jazz but I never could just as I could never be my idol 000822 ... splinken "the people don't come because you grandiose motherfuckers won't play shit that they like." ---Mo' Better Blues 000915 ... splinken you have a lot to say about paul chambers. you sound like you wear glasses. i think that you get nervous when you talk to girls. i did not recognize your voice, but maybe you evening jazz DJs are all the same guy. same guy, different pitch. yep. 001109 ... jesus paul chambers is with me now. so is eric dolphy and trane. we are havin' a hellacious jam. 001109 ... splinken yay! you know, that makes me happy. thanks for clearing that up. sometimes i have nightmares that coltrane is forced to play the kazoo in hitler's skiffle band. now i know that there is no reason to worry. 001109 ... jesus naw man. trane pretty much runs the show up here when miles is away. 001130 ... Rhin Jazz is soul-candy. I don't know where to start. I'll be back... 001201 ... jennifer makes me think of kate so do drummers 001201 ... unhinged bach was the father of jazz...maybe. i think that that could be true. he wrote some crazy stuff. the jazz program at my school is pretty damn hot...but i really prefer the blues. b.b. king has to be my favorite. i like it so much better when they play the old school stuff at jazz concerts. even though bryan connell can really play his baritone sax i can only listen to fusion for so long. if only they would start up jazz violin....i would so be there. Sean Jones 010107 ... Moe ...the crazy genius of screaming metal. 010320 ... velvet spasm live at the regal is my favorite. i saw bb, 3rd row center a year or so back. stephan grapelli is my fave violinist. i like ellington, miles, monk, trane sonny rollins, bud powell, bird, bill evans, stan getz, mingus etc. lightnln' hopkins, son house, muddy, earl king, albert king, freddie king, nappy brown, howlin' wolf, etc. 010320 ... the_wanna_be_mascara_snake jazz is jazz is jazz is jazz is jazz is jazz is jazz is jazz 010328 ... velvet spasm fast and bulbous; tight also 010329 ... Sol " the thing about improvised music about jazz music is that there's no end, the limit is you own imagination really" Courtney Pine 010421 ... Sol i hate this word, I love Jazz, but people hear this when you talk about it and think Kenny G and S**t like that, the people must be reeducated, bring Jazz back to the public eye- everyone who plays Jazz (as i do) play to crowds, in public, play from cd's, show them the real stuff, everything, dont let them blanket term 'Jazz'. 010421 ... frank zappa "jazz is the music of unemployment" 010522 ... *Ziima* Georgia on My Mind... I had the Soprano solo...*tear* I miss Concert Chorale 010721 ... Photophobe Cosby - "Meet Grandpa Murphy!" Kid - "But we have 3 grandpas already!" Cosby - "This ones a great JAZZ musician!" Kid - "Oh, the all are..." Cosby - "Oh.. Oh.. You see the KIDS, they listen to the RAP MUSIC, which gives them the BRAIN damage: with the HIPin' and the HOPin' and the BIPin' and the BOPin', so they don't know what the JAZZ is all ABOUT! YOu SEE, jazz is like a jello pudding pop, NO, actually, jazz is more like kodak FILM, no see, no, JAZZ is like NEW COKE; it'll be around FOREVER! heh, heh, heh..." Simpsons on cosby 010721 ... Photophobe "If Peeing you pants is COOL, then consider me MILES DAVIS!" Grandma in Billy Madison 010721 ... angie i would like to be a jazz singer when i grow up or a backup singer they are the coolest people ever my choir director told me that i would be a good lounge singer cuz i have a very soothing voice my guy friends call porno jazz theyre like...hey angie do you wanan watch a great jazz festival on tv? haha he likes jazz...for real tho... well...both kinds i guess "jazz" and jazz st. germain is this cool jazz group with a beat...i suggest u look them up they are very modern i like miles davis this is my kinda website that is funny... sometimes joanan falls for it.. its crazy shit... pauls grandma called porno PRONO he had to correct her... that was a funny story paul is a funny guy we went skiing it was really fun hes fun to be with 020110 ... angie wow...my last thing got all fucked up and dislexic... wow... nm 020110 ... Reverend Lough "Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains." - John Phillip Souza 021228 ... Reverend Lough personally, i'm partial to trditional....like trane, mingus, brubek, davis......but there is a "new jazz" trio from sweden; E.S.T. - the Esbjorn Svensson Trio. phenomenal group. keys, bass and drums. they create a beautiful sound. good painting music. 021228 ... lunabuddhess its fingers embrace my neck as i shoot up all those honeydew melodies braided through the scarlet wine of beating drums pounding brains waiting for Coltrane. 030510 ... no reason i never knew hands and feet could multitask so much until i started jazz drumming. it's a test of concentration, that's for sure. one that i want to pass, with flying colours. 030612 ... birdmad circa 1991 mixtape of Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Mingus and various members of the Marsalis family as well as a track apiece by Hiroshima, Sanborn and Steps Ahead Music for rooms filled with varying kinds of smoke, rooms filled with stoned poets and ice queens music for slow bleary eyed rides through fast lanes, smooth sounds for rough trade 030612 ... trixie check out ottmar liebert... 030613 ... no reason chick corea with gary burton and miroslav vitous and roy haynes and yum yum yum yummmmmm. *swoons* 031025 ... oldephebe yeah..i don't have the words to express the apotheosis of the mingling of the african and european streams/traditions which whelped this protean chimera we call jazz..well..it seems i have a few words..more later paul desmond, yeah gary burton's intricate excursions into harmony and soliloquey..brilliant dizzy gillespie..billie holiday..sinatra..and jerry lewis in the nutty professor..he had great timing even if his timbre sounded like roughage being grated.. jazz..brings a wry smile to the Sullen the frenetic extemporanaeity of charles parker..coltrane must always be accompanied by pot..or so i thought all those frazzled years ago..but there is an exacting, brutal toll jazz exacts..if one is to abandon all else to It..the wantoness of consecration..steep in those cauldron waters awhile... see what it shapes..see what shape your toll takes...see it's incendiary imprimature..glowing like a garish red cycloptic eye..heh heh..the Rueful heh. .. 031025 ... notme jazz frazz kibiddible braz 031025 ... pipedream the reason why music should exist. aahh. 031026 ... Ruby my dear Thelonious Monk saved me from giving up on music. That's because I was still clinging to the red, sore, over-masturbated cock that is any and all modern rock n roll. And then I gave it up for real music, ala Monk and Dexter Gordon, mostly. 031027 ... oldephebe yeah monk was a misunderstood and yet truculent genious..dexter gordon..so smooth on the tenor..elegant ... i listen to just about all kinds of music..it all depends on the mood..even some country..and 70's soft rock..hard rock yeah..but jazz requires an intellectual as well as well as emotional investment..well the same thing could be said of classical and other types..but jazz because of its improvisatory element really demands that you have an original harmonic and improvisatory vision.. ... 031027 ... Doar soft rainy jazz 031028 ... notme bid da la bee bop diddy diddy cazow 031028 ... oE nice! 031028 ... lunabuddhess cool rhythm 031103 ... no reason i think i like samba and bossa and fusion the best. 031129 ... Bitter at 21 Death to all your fucked-up 7ths. 3-chord rock and roll lives. Be sedated with me now... 040622 ... Alfred reductive much? While your antipathy was ambitious; I'd have to grade your accuracy and or ability to capture adequately the zietgeist of jazz in ALL it's permutations somewhere around pre-primer Where's my damned mint tea? Oh cabin boy! 040622 ... Lila Pause What can I say? Becoming a Jazz musician is an effective way to kill (a lot of) time. "So you can play it in C, now play it in C#!..." 040622 ... Borealis nothing wrong with being an effective musician. lets all pick up instruments we've never touched, and jam!! it works. but only for so long... 040731 ... no reason that is more free/improv jazz. someone just said to me that all jazz sounds the same. i would have smacked them if they weren't only virtual. 050831 ... stork daddy all music is just sound. 050831 ... me mmmmm 050831 ... JdAwG Jazz took my baby away 050901 ... no reason i just got back from seeing gary burton and pat metheny live and... holy fucking shit. 090629 ... no reason i was thrown into an unexpected drum solo tonight it was pretty cool but some people were annoying today i'm not in the mood for some jazz people 121213 what's it to you? who go blather from