Thunderbird Club

[TBird1958]

My wind quintet is beans, beer, bratwurst, and sauerkraut.

 

[BklynKen]

My wind quintet is beans, beer, bratwurst, and sauerkraut.

Use fava beans if you want bassoon-like wind.

 

[fasterpussycat]

Use fava beans if you want bassoon-like wind.

Stay away from naked flames...

 

[fasterpussycat]

I presume you meant to type "trying" music, not "tiring" music.

Brubeck? Don't listen a lot, but I liked the 'classic' quartet with Paul Desmond, polyrhythms, and Brubeck's modernist 'blocky' chording -- it may be more 'classical' music than 'jazz' but I can live with that.

 

[RedVee]

I never got Kenny G. I didn’t bother to analyze why, But nothing I heard of his ever excited me. Neither his playing nor his tone offered anything I cared to hear.
He’s hardly the only popular musician I feel that way about.

For me it was just pleasant background music. I noticed who it was but it did nothing for me.
I couldn’t tell one song from another (I did know one or two by title) maybe the playlist didn’t get to them yet.

I couldn’t say I actively disliked it either. It was just “there”.

I think the elderly gent @fasterpussycat referenced would like “pleasant” music.

 

[JIO]

Brubeck? Don't listen a lot, but I liked the 'classic' quartet with Paul Desmond, polyrhythms, and Brubeck's modernist 'blocky' chording -- it may be more 'classical' music than 'jazz' but I can live with that.

Here's a favorite Wayne Shorter playing soprano with Weather Report on a Miroslov Vitos song called "Will"- when I think of soprano sax I think of songs like this one.

 

[fasterpussycat]

Here's a favorite Wayne Shorter playing soprano with Weather Report on a Miroslov Vitos song called "Will"- when I think of soprano sax I think of songs like this one.

Thanks. I really should revisit Weather Report. Blame it on my prejudice against jazz played on electric instruments. I'll take any amount of multi- micro- mono- tonality you care to dish up, just make sure it's acoustic. It's probably time to get over that.

 

[JIO]

Thanks. I really should revisit Weather Report. Blame it on my prejudice against jazz played on electric instruments. I'll take any amount of multi- micro- mono- tonality you care to dish up, just make sure it's acoustic. It's probably time to get over that.

The opening song on WR's 1st album "Milky Way" is all acoustic and very multi-micro-mono-tonality. I would recommend the early releases; Weather Report (1st untitled album)-'71, I Sing The Body Electric-'72, Sweetnighter-'73, Mysterious Traveler-'74, Tailspinning-'75, Black Market-'76, and Heavy Weather-'77. There are others after HW but it starts to get spotty. Later 70's is when they finally called that music "fusion" and it started to get generic & excessive. WR started with Miloslav Vitos, then Alfonso Johnson and then Jaco (and Victor Bailey later) - Zawinul was originally a bass player so he always had killer bass players.

 

[GBassNorth]

.....and now for something completely different...

 

[dagrev]

.....and now for something completely different...
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Thanks! I'm thinking minimal reed instruments here.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Don’t leave us hanging! A whole week of what?

something along the lines of Castaneda’s writings? Oh and mezcal and fish tacos.....

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

The opening song on WR's 1st album "Milky Way" is all acoustic and very multi-micro-mono-tonality. I would recommend the early releases; Weather Report (1st untitled album)-'71, I Sing The Body Electric-'72, Sweetnighter-'73, Mysterious Traveler-'74, Tailspinning-'75, Black Market-'76, and Heavy Weather-'77. There are others after HW but it starts to get spotty. Later 70's is when they finally called that music "fusion" and it started to get generic & excessive. WR started with Miloslav Vitos, then Alfonso Johnson and then Jaco (and Victor Bailey later) - Zawinul was originally a bass player so he always had killer bass players.

really dug Alex Acuna in the lineup..

 

[GonePlaid]

Brubeck? Don't listen a lot, but I liked the 'classic' quartet with Paul Desmond, polyrhythms, and Brubeck's modernist 'blocky' chording -- it may be more 'classical' music than 'jazz' but I can live with that.

Saw the Brubeck Quartet in '63 in Miami. Security was, basically, non-existent, so we walked up the side stairs onto the stage and chatted with Eugene Wright and Joe Morello. Brubeck and Desmond were surrounded by critics and other writers, so we didn't even try.

 

[JIO]

really dug Alex Acuna in the lineup..

He's on the DVD of WR from 1976 - from the first tour with Jaco. You know, lots of players slag and dis Jaco but any bass player worth his salt should watch this DVD and absolutely revel in his playing. Insane sense of timing. All the rest, the Jaco TM uberflashfunk... but he always, always nails the one. I was fortunate enough to attend a WR show during that tour. (midwest) and witnessed Jaco in his WR debut. Think about that - he was playing with legendary jazz cats; Joe and Wayne - and he said "make way" (!) That's part of why Joe Zawinul liked him - he had guts to say "yah MF, I'm here to bring it". (not in those words - but in his attitude "worlds greatest bass player") And he brought it - in spades! Long live John Francis Anthony (Jaco) Pastorius III

 

[JIO]

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I stumbled on this yesterday - a very good editing job here folks. The music is the studio version (which is on their first record) The live images were matched really well - it's almost like they are lip-synching it. My favorite LZ album - when I first heard it I was absolutely blown away and played the grooves off of it. It still sends chills.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I stumbled on this yesterday - a very good editing job here folks. The music is the studio version (which is on their first record) The live images were matched really well - it's almost like they are lip-synching it. My favorite LZ album - when I first heard it I was absolutely blown away and played the grooves off of it. It still sends chills.

Love this song. That one chord progression always reminds me of 25 or 6 to 4, which also came out in 1969. As far as I know, neither band sued the other over it. If you want a killer live video, look for Chicago’s 1970 Tanglewood video.

 

[GonePlaid]

Love this song. That one chord progression always reminds me of 25 or 6 to 4, which also came out in 1969. As far as I know, neither band sued the other over it. If you want a killer live video, look for Chicago’s 1970 Tanglewood video.

Terry Kath-my all time favorite guitarist. One pedal:wah-wah.

 

[Count Bassie]

Given your legs, why would you?

Right?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Terry Kath-my all time favorite guitarist. One pedal:wah-wah.

And the type of overdriven amp distortion people have spent millions trying to get from tiny boxes.
Kath, Ceteral, Pankow, Lamm- some of my all-time musical faves.

 

[JIO]

Love this song. That one chord progression always reminds me of 25 or 6 to 4, which also came out in 1969. As far as I know, neither band sued the other over it. If you want a killer live video, look for Chicago’s 1970 Tanglewood video.

I've seen it and yes I have a feeling that progression was simultaneously awesome!