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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:06 pm    Post subject:

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And I can't forget about my godpops - Kenny Burrell.



No way! Seriously?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:27 pm    Post subject:

angrypuppy wrote:
LuxuryBrown wrote:
And I can't forget about my godpops - Kenny Burrell.



No way! Seriously?


Yeppers.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:46 pm    Post subject:

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angrypuppy wrote:
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And I can't forget about my godpops - Kenny Burrell.



No way! Seriously?


Yeppers.



Caught Kenny Burrell at Concerts by the Sea. Brilliant performer.

He must know some great stories.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:08 pm    Post subject:

angrypuppy wrote:
LuxuryBrown wrote:
angrypuppy wrote:
LuxuryBrown wrote:
And I can't forget about my godpops - Kenny Burrell.



No way! Seriously?


Yeppers.



Caught Kenny Burrell at Concerts by the Sea. Brilliant performer.

He must know some great stories.


When I was growing up, my step-pops, who was heavily into the jazz scene, used to take me to the concerts. To meet Ernie Andrews and Ella as a youngster was cool, but it never truly dawned on me until I got older, almost around my college freshman year. I took a Pan-African History class and the professor was a huge jazz fan and one day in class he referenced the term "blue notes" and the rest of the class was baffled...except one dude . I promply explained what a blue note was and he LIT UP! .

Needless to say he was cool as hell with me for the rest of the semester and we'd kick back and talk jazz shop. He was impressed that an 18-year-old knew so much and he REALLY got geeked once I mentioned KB to him because he loved him, and I would bring him some of KB's albums that he didn't have and he would just go nuts. Oh, and of course I got an "A" .

But of all of the concerts I was a tag-a-long on, I remember going to the Santa Barbara Jazz Fest and remembering KB ripping it up and me being backstage with my step-pops and Ernie...and just completely oblivious to what I was witnessing at the time.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:58 pm    Post subject:

LuxuryBrown wrote:
angrypuppy wrote:
LuxuryBrown wrote:
angrypuppy wrote:
LuxuryBrown wrote:
And I can't forget about my godpops - Kenny Burrell.



No way! Seriously?


Yeppers.



Caught Kenny Burrell at Concerts by the Sea. Brilliant performer.

He must know some great stories.


When I was growing up, my step-pops, who was heavily into the jazz scene, used to take me to the concerts. To meet Ernie Andrews and Ella as a youngster was cool, but it never truly dawned on me until I got older, almost around my college freshman year. I took a Pan-African History class and the professor was a huge jazz fan and one day in class he referenced the term "blue notes" and the rest of the class was baffled...except one dude . I promply explained what a blue note was and he LIT UP! .

Needless to say he was cool as hell with me for the rest of the semester and we'd kick back and talk jazz shop. He was impressed that an 18-year-old knew so much and he REALLY got geeked once I mentioned KB to him because he loved him, and I would bring him some of KB's albums that he didn't have and he would just go nuts. Oh, and of course I got an "A" .

But of all of the concerts I was a tag-a-long on, I remember going to the Santa Barbara Jazz Fest and remembering KB ripping it up and me being backstage with my step-pops and Ernie...and just completely oblivious to what I was witnessing at the time.



Wow, Luxury, cool story. Thanks for sharing. I apologize for saying you didn't know anything about jazz. Now I feel stupid!

Kenny Burrell, huh? Not bad at all.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:31 pm    Post subject:

Bballguru5000 wrote:
LuxuryBrown wrote:
angrypuppy wrote:
LuxuryBrown wrote:
angrypuppy wrote:
LuxuryBrown wrote:
And I can't forget about my godpops - Kenny Burrell.



No way! Seriously?


Yeppers.



Caught Kenny Burrell at Concerts by the Sea. Brilliant performer.

He must know some great stories.


When I was growing up, my step-pops, who was heavily into the jazz scene, used to take me to the concerts. To meet Ernie Andrews and Ella as a youngster was cool, but it never truly dawned on me until I got older, almost around my college freshman year. I took a Pan-African History class and the professor was a huge jazz fan and one day in class he referenced the term "blue notes" and the rest of the class was baffled...except one dude . I promply explained what a blue note was and he LIT UP! .

Needless to say he was cool as hell with me for the rest of the semester and we'd kick back and talk jazz shop. He was impressed that an 18-year-old knew so much and he REALLY got geeked once I mentioned KB to him because he loved him, and I would bring him some of KB's albums that he didn't have and he would just go nuts. Oh, and of course I got an "A" .

But of all of the concerts I was a tag-a-long on, I remember going to the Santa Barbara Jazz Fest and remembering KB ripping it up and me being backstage with my step-pops and Ernie...and just completely oblivious to what I was witnessing at the time.



Wow, Luxury, cool story. Thanks for sharing. I apologize for saying you didn't know anything about jazz. Now I feel stupid!

Kenny Burrell, huh? Not bad at all.


No problem, bro. And certainly no apologies needed, it's all to the good. We're both just some serious jazz headz - and last I checked, there ain't nothin' wrong with that .
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:26 pm    Post subject:

I'll add Ahmad Jamal, Charles Mingus, and Kenny Garrett to the discussion.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:12 am    Post subject:

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Wow, Luxury, cool story. Thanks for sharing. I apologize for saying you didn't know anything about jazz. Now I feel stupid!

Kenny Burrell, huh? Not bad at all.


No problem, bro. And certainly no apologies needed, it's all to the good. We're both just some serious jazz headz - and last I checked, there ain't nothin' wrong with that .



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:51 am    Post subject:

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Wow, Luxury, cool story. Thanks for sharing. I apologize for saying you didn't know anything about jazz. Now I feel stupid!

Kenny Burrell, huh? Not bad at all.


No problem, bro. And certainly no apologies needed, it's all to the good. We're both just some serious jazz headz - and last I checked, there ain't nothin' wrong with that .









No absolutes in jazz. The music itself says everything is relative... and beat Einstein to the punch at that.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:01 am    Post subject:

Having a favorites list is too hard to come up with for me. I like all of it.
The 50's to 70's era , more so.


Dizzy gillispie -


Chico Hamilton -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuVKDBLcs0o&feature=related

Yusef Lateef-
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:50 am    Post subject:

Since the thread is about your own personal favorites, and certainly with no disrespect to any of the great jazz legends mentioned, i like the sounds of the following:

The Rippingtons

Hiroshima

Acoustic Alchemy

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:14 pm    Post subject:

F.N.G. wrote:
Since the thread is about your own personal favorites, and certainly with no disrespect to any of the great jazz legends mentioned, i like the sounds of the following:

The Rippingtons

Hiroshima

Acoustic Alchemy



Used to be a big Rippingtons fan around the time Jeff Kashiwa was playing with them.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:48 pm    Post subject:

I never gave my 10, and I gotta do a top 20; in no order:

Miles
Trane
T. Monk
Kenny Burrell
Parker
Satchmo
Duke
Cab
Goodman
Brubeck
Mingus
Basie
Blakey
Hampton
Rollins
Wes Montgomery
Billie
Dizzy
Hancock
Gershwin
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:02 pm    Post subject:

And since I started off as a jazz percussionist as a kid, here are my top 10 favorite jazz percussionists:

Art Blakey
Tito Puente
Buddy Rich
Max Roach
Chick Webb
Jeff 'Tain' Watts
Poncho Sanchez
T.S. Monk
Narada Michael Walden
Lionel Hampton (was a bad mutha on the skins before he switched to vibes)
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:09 pm    Post subject:

My fave top 10 jazz vox:

Billie
Vaughan
Ella
Nat
Ernie Andrews
Nina Simone
Etta James
Dinah Washington
Lena Horne
Sinatra
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:02 pm    Post subject:

LuxuryBrown wrote:
And since I started off as a jazz percussionist as a kid, here are my top 10 favorite jazz percussionists:

Art Blakey
Tito Puente
Buddy Rich
Max Roach
Chick Webb
Jeff 'Tain' Watts
Poncho Sanchez
T.S. Monk
Narada Michael Walden
Lionel Hampton (was a bad mutha on the skins before he switched to vibes)


Gene Krupa doesn't crack your top 10?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:41 pm    Post subject:

LarryCoon wrote:
LuxuryBrown wrote:
And since I started off as a jazz percussionist as a kid, here are my top 10 favorite jazz percussionists:

Art Blakey
Tito Puente
Buddy Rich
Max Roach
Chick Webb
Jeff 'Tain' Watts
Poncho Sanchez
T.S. Monk
Narada Michael Walden
Lionel Hampton (was a bad mutha on the skins before he switched to vibes)


Gene Krupa doesn't crack your top 10?


I wouldn't put him down as one of my "faves" but I would most definitely put him down as 1 of the top 5 most influential drummers, regardless of music genres. And I think Krupa came up with the rimshot, but I could be wrong though. But it was between him and Chick Webb, and Webb was one of his main influences, so Chick hits my fave list before Krupa.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:47 am    Post subject:

No argument about Webb. That he did it with a deformed spine is even more amazing.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:55 am    Post subject:

Ron Burgundy..Jazz Flute...nuff' said.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:42 am    Post subject:

LarryCoon wrote:
No argument about Webb. That he did it with a deformed spine is even more amazing.


Way out, ain't it?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:43 am    Post subject:

IposterizedMbenga wrote:
Ron Burgundy..Jazz Flute...nuff' said.


LMAO! Love that flick! Love that scene! "Hey Aqua Lung!"
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:59 am    Post subject:

I dig more of the contemporary stuff...A few of my all time favorites are:

Joe Sample
Herb Alpert
George Benson

Honorable mention:

Kenny G.
Wayman Tisdale
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:17 pm    Post subject:

cinimod wrote:
I dig more of the contemporary stuff...A few of my all time favorites are:

Joe Sample
Herb Alpert
George Benson

Honorable mention:

Kenny G.
Wayman Tisdale
Oooo, I forgot about Joe Sample... nice....
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:47 am    Post subject:

Coltrane
Gillespie
Brubeck
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:00 am    Post subject:

Some new (to me) stuff I recent picked up (not exact 'jazz'... more of jazz hiphop fusion)...

Greyboy - 15 Years of West Coast Cool
The Extremities - The New Tonic
DJ Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz
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