"edutational"? Screw it, it's very educational and entertaining.
― dow, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
RIP Jabo :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
working on my final exam study guidei can't believe i get paid to do this! what a blessing
this thread has been really helpful content-wise and as a place to gather my thoughts. thank you ilxor.com :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
it was a true pleasure
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
final exam today! i have also realized that this semester was like a rough outline of what the class should be; it's more than nothing, but it will get better. overall, i think my students learned a lot! it's a lot to learn in three hour weekly bursts.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
i brought the yamaha dtx drum pad i played in a show on friday to class and encouraged all of my students to try it out as they left class. it's always a joy to watch people pick up drum sticks and play for the first time, and i liked the way it marked the end of the semester. we had to keep it down because this is a school during finals week but everyone gave it a try. troopers!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link
new semester starts tomorrow!! i have already planned an outing for us to see a local teen mariachi troupe (who are getting sort of famous) for free on a saturday during the world music fest in september. i am exciiiiited to teach this class while the world music festival is going on!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 27 August 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6dRZk8QQYM
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 27 August 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Good luck. What age/grade are students (I forgot)? Different students this semester but similar curriculum?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
They are college students; it's a humanities course at a school without any humanities majors, so it's an elective for everyone. Different students, plan to keep the curriculum as much as I can since I worked so hard to develop it. I'll have to meet them and see what their musical backgrounds/interests are before I know anymore.
It is a huge relief to know I have the first few weeks pretty well figured out. Can't wait to have the "is this music?" discussion again!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 27 August 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
LL, curious if you talked about swing era jazz as dance music?
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
yeah last semester i did -- we haven't made it that far this semester yetalthough tonight we have guest speakers and over the weekend i took some students on an outing to see a giant cuban big bandwe're about a week behind where we were last semester
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
Cool! I ask because I used to be a swing dancer.
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
if you have favorite youtubes of musicians playing while people are swing dancing, share em up! (not revival but of the original era)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Do movie clips count or are you looking for live performances? Because this is iconic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahoJReiCaPk
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
i think i included that one last time! movie clips are fine if they aren't from "a song is born" (actually the musical parts were the only good part of that movie, the romance made me want to hurl and every character was annoying)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Balboa, which came up around the same time as Lindy Hop but on the West coast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehVZktW0BK4&list=PL1m2S0OSei-VkqsKw0qrxQ0IfgkxBL-vO&index=13
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1Fru-RttA
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Wow, didn't know about this thread or that you were teaching that, but sounds like a blast. A friend in a CUNY music PhD program once invited me to do a little guest thing on jazz for her freshman music appreciation class and I loved putting together the lesson and teaching it.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
it's really fun!! this is the second semester i've taught it, and it's much easier the second time now that i have some presentations prepared. it feels like a privilege and honor to go to work and talk about music for 3 hours!!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
tonight we are getting schooled on afro-colombian traditional music, dance, and drumming!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
omg so this is midterms and i just heard some very loud music coming from the headphones of one of my students. the songs i wanted them to listen to (both fairly quiet) are linked on our LMS as well as available offline (on CD) but apparently one student was determined to just google the song title and wound up listening to a version of "The Foggy Dew" by some group called Wenches and Rogues lolit sounded awful
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
I’m sure it possible to assemble an all-ukulele version of any listening syllabus
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
but why?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
masochism?
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
To teach the dangers of random YouTube searches
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
make wenches/rogues read benjamin's "work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" as penance
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
my cousin works with a community over 60's ukulele band project. He's always posting the results on youtube like as if this hateful twee shit is bringing some fucking light into the world.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
teaching as a profession isn't masochism enough? j/k i love teaching but grading sucks
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
Lolol wenches and rogues
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
next week i am expanding my international jazz diaspora content and i would like to see any recommendations y'all have for the following: (requesting googleable search terms and youtubes if you feel like it)
Caribbean/Cuban jazz (past or present)Brazilian jazz (I think this is actually the easiest one for me but bring it on if you have qreat ideas) Japanese jazz (i know nothing at all about this but i assume Japan has produced some jazz or jazz-esque artists?) African (I am aware of some Ethiopian jazz but not much beyond that)Other parts of the world that have produced jazz-like or jazz-influenced/saturated music?
I'm familiar with some big names but i am wondering what i'm missinghelp if you can! thank you
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
Cuban piano maestro Chucho Valdes (son of Bebo) is someone I like a lot, his 90's Blue Note albums are all brilliant, his solo Pianissimo alb is a good showcase for his piano genius and feel for some Cuban standards. There is probably loads more good stuff, but that is far as I've got.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
Just been listening to his Solo Piano alb from '91, it's wonderful!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
almost Cecil Taylor wonderful in parts!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
I've been digging the by-way-of-Sweden African jazz of Bengt Berger & Don Cherry's Bitter Funeral Beer Band. The 80s fashion disasters can dissuade, but the music is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4hKAS_tQ9w&index=5&list=PL9E8643186918FD23
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
Also, Soviet-era Vagif Mustafazade explorations connecting jazz to Azerbaijan's folk and classical traditions. His straight up 1970s jazz is great, but stuff like this is particularly intriguing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BId54VzErTU&index=23&list=PLB290E8FF6C96C1D6
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
ok this is going to get messy and isn't necessarily going to be straight jazz
eastern bloc jazz - lost of it. really great polish jazz, of course, well-known enough that i figure you won't need me to recommend you for instance zbigniew seifert or tomasz stanko. but also the soviet union itself had some sweet jazz musos, i'm gonna break these links so they don't clog up the thread
melodiya ensemble's labyrinth: fgwNtnGYBAgyuri morozov from "jazz night": 4a_PbwuuO_Emarimba plus: sE-Ya6rL66c
japanese jazz - a couple of great comps out this year, "j-jazz" it gets called. here's a random comp off the youtube: kNRIFhkYONc - for more modern stuff i really like "soil & 'pimp' sessions", here's a video of them AQMgXPFzdg8 - oh and of course i LOVE LOVE LOVE shibusashirazu orchestra, goddamn you cannot go wrong with these people UfW2j5tFVGI
african jazz - aside from ethio-jazz the biggest jazz scene i know is the south african jazz scene, a lot of these folks came to england and are well-known, chris mcgregor etc, also abdullah ibrahim (FXfWLrLwW_4). the guy known as the south african charlie parker was kippie moeketsi, he didn't record much but here's one of his songs: (k3mMEr5UnRI). like a lot of jazz music jazz in africa mutated into forms we might not necessarily recognize as "jazz" - kwela and suchlike, and of course there's stuff like the famous "skokiaan" by the cold storage band from zimbabwe in the "tsaba-tsaba" style (and the b-side of which is a charming take on "in the mood" with vocals, see: https://soulsafari.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/african-dance-band-of-the-cold-storage-commission-of-s-rhodesia-in-the-mood.mp3) which i'm not going to cover here but much of which is damn good. for more modern south african stuff you want to hear Nduduzo Makhathini: sTr5a93n4fw
cuban jazz - you're talking after the "afro-cuban" heyday, i'm assuming, you don't need to know about machito. jazz in cuba post this of course developed into the well-known "boogaloo" style but also into something called "descargas", one of the best albums in this genre is cachao y su ritmo caliente - "cuban jam sessions in miniature 'descargas'", here: B6KenosUuJ8. some good trombone here, also in this vein worth hearing el trombon majadero by generoso jimenez, ub_l9M3GVWo. for more modern stuff i like yosvany terry's "contrapuntisco", it is definitely very complex and academic, apologies for that, that's just how i tend to like my jazz QCbkJbQLku8
i'd also recommend jan johansson's "jazz pa svenska", this is european jazz but it uses traditional swesish melodies as its basis, see t2D5HlKLh34&list=PLKUyqLlH6brkzzJgD6Gdriga4mdtCAMBJ
you probably got more on brazilian jazz than me, i'd be remiss if i didn't recommend the quarteto novo album tho y374WwqZtOI
a good australian jazz record is yaarandoo by rob thomsett 5ym3rzdx-Bc
anyway. lots of good jazz.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
that's ok! thank you!! i am trying to show students how the concept/basic idea of jazz spread all over the world and cross-pollinated with other cultures. they are really interested in cross-cultural stuff.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
well, let me give you another swedish song, "be-bop accordeon": vwzVWxyyp7Ei also like stuff like rufus harley's jazz bagpiping, but rufus harley was all-american as they come
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_(music)
apparently the "Afro" of Afro-Cuban jazz is mostly derived from the music of Mozambique.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
oh, hell, let's take this from another direction. this isn't jazz, but the saxophone is way more associated with jazz than it is from carnatic music:
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― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
ok wait sorry check this out this is some some great shit i just stumbled into, the title track of masahiko togashi's "spiritual nature" album from 1975, seriously goddamn wow, just this great pile of basses and flutes and percussion
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― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 29 October 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
https://i2.wp.com/latinjazznet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Carlos-Averhoff-Jr.-Jazz-Meets-Cuban-Timba-CD-Cover-August-2018.jpg?w=500&ssl=1
this a more current Cuban release I've been liking recently, another bandleader who is the son a Cuban legend, which might suggest nepotism rules over there!
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
No idea why youtube urls pull from the address bar aren't working, so here's a attempt at pasting in my links through the share buttons
https://youtu.be/ALp9N_lS_b8
https://youtu.be/BId54VzErTU
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Monday, 29 October 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
I can't find any excerpts on YT, but as far as Russian/Central Asian free improv goes, I strongly recommend Astreja (or Astrea depending on the transliteration)'s Music from Davos. It features Sofia Gubaidulina (still one of the greatest living composers) and Viktor Suslin playing a variety of traditional instruments from the Caucasus region, alongside percussionist Mark Pekarsky and singer Valentina Ponomareva. It may not count as jazz if we go by a stricter definition, but that can make for an interesting discussion in its own right.
― pomenitul, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3461509042_10.jpg
good noisy Russian Free Jazz group here!
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:18 (five years ago) link
on the cross-cultural/jazz-influenced end I'd be tempted to include some african big band stuff like congolese soukous a la Franco Luambo & OK Jazz, Fela Kuti & more recent afrobeat disciples like Lagbaja, or Salah Ragab's egyptian jazz. you could also have some 50s jamaican ska but I don't enough to recommend.
otherwise surely a bit of Django Reinhardt/gypsy jazz, perhaps L Subramaniam's indo jazz/fusion, or John Zorn/Masada-style klezmer-jazz
baku in azerbaijan is supposed to have a strong jazz history, idk anything about it tho
― ogmor, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
Hungarian avante garde Jazz meister Szilard Mezei is another interesting player, sort of surreal Marching Music, Bartok and Jazz influences. His last album was a concept album about postwar genocide in the East. Perhaps a bit much for some!
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
there is one tune he did which was a homage to Mal Waldron, and it was one of the most moving pieces of music I'd heard in years!
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVkXT3xQr0Q
this type of stuff
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link