[Discussion] Jazz: History, Styles and Artists

Originally Posted by DOFTS

yay my personal favorite.

I love it too ... unfortunately it's one that's SO difficult to explain!

But SOO fun to play!

You forgot Charlie Byrd

Planning a chapter on ECM by any chance? That would be awesome (No idea when that would be chronologically though *heads to wiki*)

Originally Posted by Mark

You forgot Charlie Byrd

Planning a chapter on ECM by any chance? That would be awesome (No idea when that would be chronologically though *heads to wiki*)

I knew I'd forget someone.

YouTube Video

Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz - Samba Triste

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Along with Stan Getz, Byrd helped usher in the "lazy bossa nova" era. Cool

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Also, I've had to kind of abandon any semblance of chronology...as all this stuff is all happening at the same time...

How about, I do ECM next.

Sounds awesome

I love Samba Triste - anyone who likes Bossa should definitely get Jazz Samba (my second jazz album, after Kind of Blue).

Keep it up! *praises Robin*

I find myself really leaning towards a kind of jazz when I started listening to it. After checking Robin's Masterclass thread, I must say most of the videos there are good, but I do not enjoy them as much as Latin jazz. Thanks, Robin, for posting the Latin Jazz article. It is exactly what I am looking for! I never knew it was classified as Latin jazz before I read it.

Is Perez Prado considered latin jazz? I really love Girl from Ipanema. I recall hearing it once when I was a little kid, with a female singer with an airy voice singing it. Very catchy. Does anyone know which version is it?

Originally Posted by Nigel

Is Perez Prado considered latin jazz?

Not really - he was kind of exclusive to the traditional Mambo, right? I doubt he incorporated much jazz into his music. BUT, this is where we get the grey area where defining what designates something as one thing or another. And, I'm not familiar enough with Perez Prado's work to say for sure.

He would definitely have been a big influence on guys like Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente et al.

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Another question. Could the first piece in this short video clip be called Latin jazz? It sounds very very Latin. It's the first part of The Crave by Jelly Roll Morton, something I've been playing lately.

Oh, and if you're wondering, this is a short footage from the movie the Legend of 1900

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I would say....kind of.

There's the obvious tango thing going on, and the old Ragtime cats - like Jelly Roll - living in New Orleans around the turn-of-the-century would certainly have come in contact with Cuban and Central/South American musicians.

So...sure, it's in the early stages, but the Latin influence is definitely there.

[This is such a great movie, eh!]

Originally Posted by robinjessome

I would say....kind of.

There's the obvious tango thing going on, and the old Ragtime cats - like Jelly Roll - living in New Orleans around the turn-of-the-century would certainly have come in contact with Cuban and Central/South American musicians.

So...sure, it's in the early stages, but the Latin influence is definitely there.

[This is such a great movie, eh!]

Yep. Best piano movie I've watched. With The Pianist not far behind.