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Vompatti ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Location: Atlantis Status: Offline Points: 40 |
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I went to a second hand record shop today and noticed how little I know about jazz before the bop era. So, which would be the essential artists and recordings to look into if I choose to expand my collection to the pre-50's stuff?
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js ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 34714 |
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Some very essential artirts of pre-bop would be:
Fletcher Henderson Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins Beautiful music from an era that is never coming back, enjoy!
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js ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 34714 |
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Whoops, I forgot Lester Young, pure magic.
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Vompatti ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Location: Atlantis Status: Offline Points: 40 |
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Thanks, I will check those out.
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funkyrhodes ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 20 May 2011 Location: Massachusetts Status: Offline Points: 3 |
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In addition Jelly Roll Morten, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Count Basie also deserve a listen, along with many others
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triceratopsoil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 488 |
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Jelly Roll Morton is awesome
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Sean Trane ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Location: Brussels Status: Offline Points: 789 |
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This is a sensible list, but I'm thinking that Glen Miller and the Benny Goodman-Lionel Hampton-Charlie Christian connection should get a mention in your list.
I was often subjected to this kind of jazz when a kid , because my father had a bunch of albums of the times and even brought me to two concerts when I was 5 or 8 . I saw Roland Kirk and Lionel Hampton in clubs in Brussels
However, I find it difficult to listen to pre-50's jazz nowadays... it's just so dated.... really sounds like oldtimer's music.
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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harmonium.ro ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Location: Kobaia Status: Offline Points: 478 |
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Glenn Miller is awesome, and essential indeed.
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js ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 34714 |
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^ I'd probably go with the more rockin Count Basie. I have a couple Basie reviews up on here about how some of his music pre-dated early rock and RnB.
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chuckyspell ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() Joined: 04 Jul 2011 Status: Offline Points: 76 |
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Art Tatum!
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js ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 34714 |
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Jazz Pianist ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: 13 Jun 2011 Location: Birmingham, UK Status: Offline Points: 118 |
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Don't forget Gershwin
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Slartibartfast ![]() JMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Joined: 14 Jun 2011 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 625 |
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No one's mentioned Stephane Grappelli yet...
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Dick Heath ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Jul 2011 Location: Loughborough UK Status: Offline Points: 98 |
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That man lasted a long time, especially when you consider the partner guitarists that book end Grapelli's career, Django Reinhart and John Etheridge.
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Sean Trane ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Location: Brussels Status: Offline Points: 789 |
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Yes, Grapelli and Reinhardt are one of rare examples of Europeans being able to break the US jazz-hegemony before WWII.
Edited by Sean Trane - 13 Jul 2011 at 3:58am |
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Dick Heath ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Jul 2011 Location: Loughborough UK Status: Offline Points: 98 |
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How about naming some landmark albums of early jazz recordings (yes I know albums didn't exist until the invention of the LP around 1950) that should be in jazz fan's collection, e.g.
Bennie Goodman: Legendary Carnegie Hall Recordings 1938
and If these still exist, the Robert Armstrong remastered series, issued by the BBC in the 80's - the Bix Beiderbeck one comes to mind.
I'm trying to nail the more important /essential Jazz At The Philaharmonic recordings (I have Nat King Cole/Les Paul brilliantly jamming, pity about a less than perfect transcription) - which seem to have been made through most of the 40's. This is the problem listening to BBC Radio 3's Jazz Records Requests - forgetting to write down tunes/musicians that appeal for those brief moments on Saturday afternoons. Edited by Dick Heath - 13 Jul 2011 at 4:01am |
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