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anyone here into Jazz 'n Blues?

blues is quite good but i hate jazz! it has no beat!

dubpolo wrote:...jazz! it has no beat!

riiiiiiiiiiight... Anyone else?

I'll listen to anything.

Present me with a good tune, and I'll happily enjoy it.

I have to say, I can't name any Jazz or Blues artists though :S

Yeah...... from time to time. Couldn't be too much of an expert though. I can recognise Ray Charles and maybe some Miles Davis / a couple other really, really big names, and that would be about it. It's easy going garnish on my not-as-alternative-as-i'd-like-to-pretend main course of rock, pop, and dance.

Mini sized threadjack!
Right now* though I AM just rocking back and forth through a massive slab of M J Hibbett and the Validators that I bought last week. Turns out what I thought was their "new" album actually came out in 2003.... ouch

It is utterly superb, however, and so - mostly - is the deleted 7"s collection that followed (and the pair of EPs i also nabbed ... all 4 from the website, for thirty quid, delivered two days later in a well padded jiffy bag with a hand written address and personalised compliments slip - a touch of class).

I'd highly reccommend you check him / them out
Waiting on my Spray and Jims Big Ego CDs too, also fantastic, yet undeservedly small-time bands. I think it may well be the passing-over of the spotlight that gives them the extra drive to be brill. Cult favourites that get a fair bit of TV / indie film tracklisting but never quite make it onto radio further than Peel-esque and student programmes as they're not quite cookie-cutter commercial enough.


* right now, as in, an MP3 disc containing ripped copies of the tunes off those discs (plus a few other recent purchases / borrows / steals) was burning as i wrote that and is about to.... is... has just ejected from the CDRW drive..... whilst Winamp played Fat Was A Feminist Issue, Good Cooking and Easily Impressed.
/jack

that's pretty cool, gunna have to go find some of their stuff then by the looks of it (unless you can hook me up with a copy? )

er, mkay, well its not exactly blues and jazz stuff though i suppose there is some influence ....... maybe?

i can certainly drop you some websites where you can download and/or splash out to buy one or two, depends on how flush you are to randomly experiment (suppose i'd better put my flak jacket on if you try that & hate it all )

or...... *casts eye over a couple largely forgotten packs of TDK FE-90s* there's always the oldskool mix tape, which is maybe a better way to put together a hollywood trailer style introduction (i.e. spoil it for you by giving away all the best bits)...
while im at it i could include BeatCivilian, a local outfit i've followed on and off since they were The Retards - and in my class. Still haven't got any worse... still haven't moved very far (they're bunking in a house next to the local station) but the style has changed a lot from punk to ... well, i dont know what it is, but it's a lot more chilled though there's some remnant of ska in there somewhere

damn, it's been ages since i did a good mixjumble tape. the odd cdr, yeah, but no tapage. it's a forgotten art... juggling the stuff so it neatly fits each side (FEs are usually 46m 40secs, factfans!) but still holds together as a tasty segue.

hmmm.. *casts eye over keyboard* i don't remember staring at any light bulbs, why have my keys got a pinkish tinge? *spots red splodges on fingers* .... oh, i knew that CD pen was crap, but this is.... argh! (well, thats definately any cdr business quashed until i can clean up and get replacements). ew. i hope it's easy to get red "permanent" marker out of eighteen year old plastic.

cheers,

ruddy CR-R marker pens! Had black fingers the other day from a cheep set of pens . I'll probably ask a mate about people he's heard.


Then again there's the "Blue's 'n Jazz" bar back in my home town . I'll probably spend the spare days over the summer in there

lol heres where i make a tape, send it, and get a response online four days later to the tune of "what's this crap you've sent me? i thought it was going to be something totally different"

(the beauty of it is of course....... they're easily "recyclable")

Tahrey1043 wrote:lol heres where i make a tape, send it, and get a response online four days later to the tune of "what's this crap you've sent me? i thought it was going to be something totally different"

(the beauty of it is of course....... they're easily "recyclable")

oh on that note, don't worry about making a tape.... Only reason being I haven't got a tape player on my house at home or at uni

but thanks anyway

lol in that case...... i could do a cd

kind of in the swing of it now. been ages since i made a mix disc for anyone but myself, too. no one i know has had a birthday with a party recently

though im sure you'd understand if i dont label it at all and just include a cd case insert or something..

... i think i'm going to have to crack open the vodka to get this stuff out. One shot for the keyboard and my fingers, three shots for my head.

jazz musicians are having far more fun than anyone listening to it.


having said that, jazz musicians are often very talented.


a thread like "music tastes?" is dangerous though: people get very protective over their taste in music


even though music itself doesnt judge
it does seem fit to judge people by it

i pretty much like everything when the mood is right, but dislike hard rock cos it just does my head in
prefer rap, hip-hop (underground & unreleased) basically stuff that people dont listen too!
-Ben-

you mean stuff that you can't listen to, because all you can do is feel it after your ears shut down with the volume?

i tell you what has been a surprise - country music these days is actually very enjoyable. its not all the old don't steal my man / i'm driving a truck nonsense of days gone by any more. and it's pretty cool. (been exposed to a lot of it my mum's radio 2 habit..... still can't hack the godawful showtunes that come on afterwards though)