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Kazuhiro 
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 Posted: 20 Aug 2012 at 7:41pm |
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Yes. I did not know all of musicians who appeared for the festival. Probably it does not consist of only the pure jazz musician. However, such a festival is carried out in Japan. And I thought that I could look for the name of the musician whom at least people knew by a list.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: 20 Aug 2012 at 7:29pm |
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Holy cow! A lot of big guns in that one. Also a lot of names I don't know. That's the best thing about these festivals is discovering artists you don't know.
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Kazuhiro
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Posted: 20 Aug 2012 at 6:46pm |
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By the way, such an event is going to be held next month in Japan. |
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Posted: 20 Aug 2012 at 6:27pm |
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Jazz Rock, of course, and free Jazz concerts in Piedmont Park in Atlanta.
Oh yeah, The Charlie Brown Christmas music when I was really young didn't hurt. Edited by Slartibartfast - 20 Aug 2012 at 7:27pm |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 5:31am |
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Friends who were older and had broader tastes than me. I think I had to be lent a few albums multiple times. I too was getting tired of metal and my favourite rock bands like Zeppelin & Floyd, though I still love them both
Miles was the one they started me with, not any of the fusion stuff, but some Hard Bop and KOB. Pretty sure I looked into Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters next. |
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HURBRET
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012 at 11:49pm |
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I was a classical musician before anything else, and what really started it was the classical pianist Earl Wild's interpretations of Gershwin tunes. Around that time, my brother got into prog rock and so did I, so I received a simultaneous upbringing in "classic" jazz and jazz fusion.
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Posted: 08 May 2011 at 9:53pm |
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I was still very much a "noob" to progressive rock when I was introduced to this album...
 ...and the rest is history |
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Posted: 08 May 2011 at 9:20pm |
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I got into jazz by first learning to read and play in an orchestral setting, then formed a rock group that listened to a lot of dead…not the proudest time in my life… but i was young and wanted to learn how they jammy jammed so well.
So i discovered Paul Desmond. My life changed forever! There will never be another person who can speak as paul desmond did. Heres a couple of my favorites that made me fall in love with jazz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkcRo7oUIro&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KwdZHDJi64 |
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EatThatPhonebook
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Posted: 24 Apr 2011 at 5:19am |
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I guess it's mostly thanks to my uncle that I listen to jazz.
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Krilons Resa
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Posted: 22 Apr 2011 at 11:48am |
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I was reading an interview of a friend/frontman of band that I am a fan of and he was going on about A Love Supreme so I checked it out, and the rest is history.
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That shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand, says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
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Posted: 22 Apr 2011 at 10:55am |
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Ello first post! What got into jazz is my bass teacher. First to blues, then to trad jazz, then to fusion, and then I discovered prog, and then stuff happened. I've been in many ensembles and bands and such, but me and traditional jazz have certainly been in a love-hate relationship. With that jazz has always been close. I've always liked it. I just like the weirder jazz more.
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Atavachron
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Posted: 21 Apr 2011 at 7:30pm |
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Me mum listened to the god-awful stuff all day, I had no bloody choice.
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Posted: 21 Apr 2011 at 6:16pm |
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Prog lead to fusion lead to jazz
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Posted: 21 Apr 2011 at 9:34am |
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My father used to LOVE watching the Lawrence Welk show.....but that umpa-lumpa, polka stuff drove me nuts! To this day when I hear it on re-runs its like a recurring nightmare for me....I usually fall down on the floor and assume the fetal position and start crying
But occasionally they would do some jazz stuff when the big band would be featured.....one of those childhood memories I guess.
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My jazz collection....a work in progress.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 7:56pm |
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I used to listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack when I was a pre-teen. Probably foreshadowed my interest in jazz
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 7:32pm |
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Charlie Brown may have been it for me, actually, now that you mention Vince Guaraldi. My parents have always loved watching the various Charlie Brown specials whenever they're on TV, and of course Guaraldi's soundtracks to those are a big part of the charm...I'd say Charlie Brown and the old Pink Panther cartoon series.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 7:29pm |
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My parents listening to Vince Guaraldi.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 5:34pm |
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Hard to say. Probably started sort of when I started listening to Zappa. Wanted to listen to music similar to his and stumbled upon some of his Jazz influences (which I found in the booklet from Freak Out!). Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Found The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Mingus and fell in love with it. Then I've just continued looking for new albums to listen to.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 2:45pm |
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I was close-minded and full of fail, until the likes of John McLaughlin, Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett finally put me straight.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 1:02pm |
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Yo,
first post on Jazzarchives : So in the house where I grew up were a family with 4 brothers and 1 sister which were all one way or another into music. When I was a kid in the early 60's the brothers had a postbob band and they played in the cellar a better part of the night which pissed off a better part of the familiis in the house, especillay the working part, but I quite liked to fall to sleep to the sound of the tenor sax, drums and bass leaking through and later on when I got my first guitar sometimes for house parties I used to jam with them. In a way ternary rhythmic comes quite natural to me even so once I had my first E-guitar I was more into Rock and my first records whre all on the heavy side, Led Zep, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple etc. My father is a horn player and he used to listen a lot to Big band music. My first jazz record was MJQ with Laurindo Almeida.
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