Breezin george benson freeform or fusion jazz

Breezin george benson freeform or fusion jazz free#

It was your parents and grand parents music. When your favorite rock band is the Yardbirds it was hard to like 'old fashioned' big band jazz.

Often the A-sides of the BG singles were still not to my tastes, but some of the B-sides which were more 'jazzy'. They also had some Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw which I liked a bit better. They had 95% music by sweet bands like the Dorseys and Glenn Miller. My parents had lots of Bluebird, Decca and Columbia 78's of big band era jazz. From that point on I become really mostly a jazz listener. Then, one day, a couple of years after I was out of college, I found a box of library-discarded LPs on the street in Greenwich Village including a copy of Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come, which really opened me up. Started listening to some of the contemporary jazz of the period - especially some of the performers of the day who where on the edge of the rock and funk scene too, like James Blood Ulmer. Started spending time at places like the Village Vanguard. In college in my late teens and early 20s I became much more deeply engaged with jazz, driven at first by the death of Thelonious Monk and the college radio station playing a week of Monk music seeing Ra's Arkestra. A little Armstrong here, a little Charlie Parker there, a little Miles Davis somewhere else, maybe a little Sun Ra. Jazz was always in the mix.Д«ut I was a marginal creeping jazz listener in my early years, in the '60s and '70s, as a grade schooler and high schooler. I had copies of, like Heavy Weather and Bitches Brew, because those were albums you had back then. Fusion was big, lots of kids played in the high school jazz band, cats like George Benson and Maynard Ferguson were having crossover hits with jazzy instrumental tracks.

Breezin george benson freeform or fusion jazz free#

All kinds - my dad had the Charlie Parker 7' on 'Star Eyes' and 'Au Privave' that I would listen to, my high school girlfriend's dad has a copy of Free Jazz that we spun, Goodman's version of 'Sing Sing Sing' was popularly known from parents' record collections. People's parents had jazz records that we heard. I saw him 2 additional times in QuГ©bec City during the 80s (I even chat with him briefly), once in MontrГ©al in the early 90s, and one last time in Vienna in 1997 at the Musikverein, no less!.Д¬lick to expand.Jazz was always part of the musical world I grew up in. My taste has expanded since and I have seen hundreds of jazz concerts but I still have a special place for Grappelli in my heart. I then started to get my first jazz lps: Grappelli of course, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Django, and listened to my dad's few jazz lps: Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue', 'Someday My Prince Will Come' and 'Jazz Tracks' (which included the soundtrack to 'Ascenseur pour l'Г©chafaud') and a couple of Dave Brubeck. In september, that same year, I saw my first jazz concert: StГ©phane Grappelli en personne, in my native and far away QuГ©bec City. That summer, I started to buy 2 magazines, one in French: Jazz Magazine and one in English: Down Beat and I listened to the daily jazz show on Radio-Canada FM. It swang, it was 'happy music' without being cheezy, it was technically brilliant.