Togley said:
Listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out album and I can really understand the appeal, albeit its fairly mainstream as far as jazz goes. I haven't heard any jazz since leaving the parental home 20 years ago but I have to say I am enjoying this one. Cool
Any other hep cats out there?
I've just been playing some Miles Davis and learning 'Round Midnight' on my Sax... on a good day I can just play 'Take 5'!
There was a great programme a while back, '1959 - The year that changed Jazz' It featured: Time Out, 'Ah Um' - Charlie Mingus, 'Kind of Blue' - Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman's 'the shape of Jazz to Come'.
If you like Time Out then Ah Um and Kind of Blue will be instantly accessible to you and I would recommend you get hold of both. Ornette Coleman's more an aquired taste. Thankfully You-tube is a great help to sift through stuff.
I can't say I'm knowledgable, but I'm learning! Grew-up with Trad. and still enjoy to this day, getting into Be-Bop with John Coltrane slowly too. Charlie Parker's cool as is Dizzy Gillespie, Bill
Evans, Jelly Roll Morton. There's sooo much, but as I age I get tired with 4 to the bar and the simple scales and timing of rock and pop. Jazz is somehow refreshing and the better for the effort to get to know it. The same can be said for Classical too mind.
Enjoy!