1959: The Year that Changed Jazz

[Tig]

Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Dave Brubeck
Required watching, and there will be a test next week!



Or you can get a DVD copy
http://www.amazon.com/1959-year-that-changed-Jazz/dp/B00379PDS0

 

[sunvalleylaw]

That is very cool! I WILL be watching in full. For further listening, may I suggest again this series of free podcasts from Dr. Gordon Vernick, a professor at the University of Virginia, and a sax player: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/jazz-insights-media/id405935692

I found them a couple years ago when I had to do a lot of car travel for work. They are each around 20 min long and tend to go in series of 2 to 4 or 5 on a particular topic. I started with a series focusing on Kind Of Blue, discussed in this vid. The series also goes as deep as you want, back to origins of jazz near the turn of the century up through the 20s, and up all the way through modern work. But it is in little bites so you can check some out, and if you are not interested, move on to something else.

I learned quite a bit not only about jazz but about how approaches to rhythm developed (right on the beat vs. swung, etc.), note selection, etc.

Thanks for something else new to watch on the subject!

 

[NWBasser]

I love jazz.

Can't wait to watch it when I get home!

 

[R_of_G]

Thanks Tig. You more than anyone knows how frequently at least three of those albums appear in my Now Playing posts. They're each pivotal in so many ways.

 

[Tig]

Thanks Tig. You more than anyone knows how frequently at least three of those albums appear in my Now Playing posts. They're each pivotal in so many ways.

Yeah, I kinda noticed that!

I know you're not a big Brubeck fan, but I enjoy his quartet's music before Time Out much more than after it. Jazz Goes To College is a great live collection of impromptu jams while the band was jelling.

 

[R_of_G]

I know you're not a big Brubeck fan, but I enjoy his quartet's music before Time Out much more than after it. Jazz Goes To College is a great live collection of impromptu jams while the band was jelling.

Oh don't get me wrong, I quite enjoy Dave Brubeck. I just haven't personally found Time Out as influential on my own music as the other three. It's certainly an important jazz album and helped popularize that particular west coast strain of jazz. I also agree that Jazz Goes To College is a great album.

I'm also just glad to see Ornette being discussed here. You and SVL for sure are familiar with my belief that the "New Music/Free Jazz" movement was a crucial precursor for punk rock. There's a straight line from Ornette and Impulse Records era Coltrane to Pharoah Sanders and Albert Ayler to the MC5 and the Stooges. That's usually where most of the music press picks up the story.