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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by Ed McCullough on January 22, 2025, 06:04:48 PM »
I heard Thelonious Monk when I was about 18 years old at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island. I didn't know anything about jazz, but the Newport Jazz Festival was famous, so I went there. Thelonious Monk played. I did not know a darn thing about his style of music, but I knew he had a plan. In this piece by Chet Baker, I only hear mumbling. Mumbling. Whether he is singing or using the trumpet, I only hear mumbling. I hear no Melody, no tune. Jasonic said there was a Melody there. Well, maybe there are some tiny references to a melody that somebody else already knows, but there's no Melody there that I can hear.
-. I do not know anything about record labels or names of music that Chet Baker played early in his career. Please tell me names of tunes that Chet Baker played early in his career, so that I can find them in YouTube. I know Chet Baker's name is one of the major names among instrumentalists, but I know nothing about him yet.
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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by servus on January 22, 2025, 05:01:14 PM »
It kind of reminds me of the allegro section of the Bach flute sonata (no. 5) I've been practicing these days: i.e. pure music.
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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by Gnarly He Man on January 22, 2025, 04:34:26 PM »
Last call for posts on this forum--
Here is a blues by Sun Ra, modern enough but not outlandishly so.
https://youtu.be/MAl_YpxDylY?si=uzmHtULolOrDDL4d
We are used to these sounds now.
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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by Gnarly He Man on January 22, 2025, 02:21:45 PM »
At 1:25 leader Viv takes a trumpet solo, which turns the beat around in short order--
Time gets saved around 1:51 thanks to the strong left hand of smart guy Neil Innes on piano.
Is it art? It IS hilarious!
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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by servus on January 22, 2025, 01:14:54 PM »
I wish I could play the instruments I know how to play like that.
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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by SlideMeister on January 22, 2025, 01:07:25 PM »
That was fargan hilarious!!🤣
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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by Gnarly He Man on January 22, 2025, 11:30:31 AM »

An old favorite.
From Songfacts:
"This Gorilla cut found the Bonzos savagely parodying their early "trad" jazz roots. Founder member Neil Innes recalled the story of the song to Uncut magazine: "It was decided to do this as a dada track, one take, and whatever happened that was it. Viv (Stanshall) picked up the trumpet, which he'd never played before. Rodney (Slater) took up the trombone, which he'd never played before. Roger (Ruskin Spear) moved over to clarinet. And we steamed into this 32 bar sequence, as you hear it on the record. It makes me laugh every time I hear it."
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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by jasonic on January 22, 2025, 11:27:27 AM »
Also the tune at that section is “Just Friends”, which has a couple of unusual chord modulations, which bends the ear a little until you get used to it.
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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by jasonic on January 22, 2025, 11:21:57 AM »
well, as a pretty big Chet Baker fan I’d say it was a pretty subdued performance, there were technical difficulties with his mic, and they were just doing fours during that section but Chet looked distracted and more high than usual. Late Chet can range from stellar to pretty awful depending on the night. He was decades in to his heroin and/or methadone addiction by that time. I didn’t hear anything too radical music wise, using alt scales was popular by then, but frequently got overused, and still does. The best Chet Baker is Late 50’s, early 60’s on the Pacific Jazz label. His band with Gerry Mulligan is legendary.
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BanterMeister / Re: I do not understand the point of this jazz music
« Last post by smojoe on January 17, 2025, 08:02:51 PM »
Slim sead: I prolly had never played the tune before and didn't want to embarass myself.
Har dee har har, that's so funny I forgot to laugh. :)
Good word Gnarley...Graciously. That fits.

joey
p.s. The tune was either Little Sunflower or Song for my father. I really needed to hear YOUR rendition. Oh well, I loose, mooned again. lolol.
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