Jazz Anyone?

MJQ - Modern Jazz Quartet

good straight ahead jazz (they did not do the out, atonal, avant garde stuff)

 

Sun Ra Arkestra Face the Music Space is the Place Live on Night Music

Sun Ra does include out, atonal, free jazz, avant garde things. We used to go see him in Greenwich Village in the 70s. We knew one of his bass players, Jushi...

Just too much fun...just too much fun...and, of course, super talented musicians...

plus, that whole Space thing...​



 
Late night, headphones on and a string of artists queued up, starting with Charlie 'Bird' Parker.

Seems the artists I enjoy 'burned the candle at both ends'; a drive that led to addictions and sometimes destroyed them.
Happened too often in Jazz. So very sad.

Chet Baker, Ray Charles, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Bird, etc.

Would they produce the same music without the addictions?
I leave that answer to others and just enjoy the music they created.



 
Feelslikefar said:
Late night, headphones on and a string of artists queued up, starting with Charlie 'Bird' Parker.

Seems the artists I enjoy 'burned the candle at both ends'; a drive that led to addictions and sometimes destroyed them.
Happened too often in Jazz. So very sad.

Chet Baker, Ray Charles, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Bird, etc.

Would they produce the same music without the addictions?
I leave that answer to others and just enjoy the music they created.



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I used to perform on stage...on the Spoken Word scene and as a stand-up comedian. Lost 5 friends to ODs. Pervasive problem. Greg Giraldo and Mitch Hedberg both died from ODs (not that I was friends with them).

I don't think it is performance, per se, which is the cause. I think some people are driven to perform, based on abuses that occurred in life...and that is the source of the depression and heroin use.


I did an intervention for two gals on heroin. It worked. Both of them got off heroin within a year. Bit of torture (for me) going through that process...and they hated my guts (and still do). But, it worked and they got clean.
 
Say Glenn Miller to most people and they will think of Big Band, "Moonlight Serenade," or "In The Mood." But go back to when Miller's band was smaller, much smaller, you could dance your socks off to his music.
 
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