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LMD Wrote:I don't know a whole lot about jazz, but I always used jazz-rock and fusion interchangeably. How do you distinguish the two?
Exactly the question and it can be one of those "angels dancing on the head of a pin" definitional thingies. For me it cuts this way: if the group or its members came mostly from a rock tradition, it's jazz-rock; if it/they came mostly from the jazz tradition, it's fusion. Nothing hard-and-fast about this, and absent knowing the players, how would you make a judgment call? It can get even crazier--what would you call this? Funk-jazz?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIoCSkjz8aA << Mr. Hancock doesn't dabble--he's full-tilt in whatever he does. Then you get to hip-hop elements in the more-modern jazz of Skerik. This lad and his crew throw everything in the hopper and what comes out is...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJVOx6FZPXI More on this:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/skeriks-sy...0000035123 << this album is a decade old and Skerik has only gotten better.
BTW, I'm ADD and OCD--I forget to wash my hands 50 times a day.
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Nice clips Jazz! Here's an example of some jazz fusion and then some jazz rock!!!!
[video=youtube;E49hO1fZBRw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E49hO1fZBRw[/video]
the jazz rock link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK62tfoCmuQ
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maestro Wrote:Lionel Hampton - Stardust Pt. 1 i always sleep with this song , it gives me good dreams and deep sleep , i just love it
Not sure why the link was removed (3rd party notification that a copyright had been violated ?) but here is the whole 1947 perf of it.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5ShftxgSQ
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and I can easily see why!!! Nice when you can get lost in music!!! All star band here...Dizzy, Wes Montgomery and Charles Mingus...!!!!
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(This post was last modified: 12-05-2014, 23:07 by R_burke.)
Summertime from Porgy & Bess
George Gershwin
Miles Davis
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Janis Joplin
Aaron Neville
Nina Simone
Billie Holiday
Sarah Vaughn
Nora Jones
and so many others, hell even the Doors did a version
[video=youtube;JKbHxmkmvGg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKbHxmkmvGg[/video]
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More summertime video
[video=youtube;hn6nuqC6cFA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn6nuqC6cFA[/video]
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and last, but not least
[video=youtube;XWxYx9mmr7U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxYx9mmr7U[/video]
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R_burke thanks so much for sharing--I hadn't heard that version in years, and seen that quasi-cowboy clip (with his pants cinched at his ribcage) never. A mere glimpse into the magic of Billy Stewart--worth a further look into. You did say "...but CERTAINLY not least"? Maybe I misread...
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
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Lionel Hampton - Stardust IS THE BEST JAZZ SONG
