Jazz?

Post by **cemthinae** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:36 am

Sorry, I didn't think there would be any issues since both Jonny and I own the songs we shared. Oops.

Post by **Jnyusa** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:38 am

It's okay, cem. We had to take a moment ourselves to figure out what's OK
and what's not. The problem, from the board's point of view, is that this is an open forum and anyone passing through, even non-members, can click on the link and download the song. It's not that you personally intend to distribute free copies of your recording to the whole world, but that once a link gets posted here, that's essentially what happens.

It's not illegal to give a copy to one person, like Jonny or tinwë (there's some upper limit on how many copies you can give away ... I think it might be seven ... but Voronwë or nel would know better than I do, and really, if you made more than that in your own home and gave them away to friends, who would know?). The reason we want to avoid having public discussions in which people offer to share their MP3s is because this can start to look like a large magnitude of free sharing, basically all of our 140+ members could ask for songs and receive them and that would be enough to get us shut down if it came to the attention of TPTB.

Jn

Post by **tinwë** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:42 am

baby tuckoo wrote:tinwë, thanks for the thought but I've never up- or down-loaded any music either and haven't a clue how it's done. We'll just have to give CD recommendations by name.

Yes, Nickle Creek appears to have cashed in its quarters, and the final message adopts the usual veiled verbiage regarding exactly why.

Fortunately, they came through this part of the woods several times, including quite recently.

The CD is called Into The Cauldron. It’s just the two of them, Thile and Marshall, two mandolins and nothing else, the entire thing. It is something of an, er, acquired taste! Not your everyday casual listening music. Now seeing them perform, that’s another story. I kept having to pick my jaw up off the floor all night long. Just astonishing. They have a live disc out now too.

I hope you had chance to catch NC on one of their stops. I saw them in my town’s performing arts center, a very swanky formal opera hall. Bluegrass in a formal opera hall - what a hoot!

Sorry, some of the people here have heard these stories about a dozen times now. The good ones never get old though.

Jonny There are a couple of Thile’s projects I haven’t heard, and I’d be interested in your opinion of them if you have heard them. His solo album “Deceiver” is one. I listened to the samples and they just didn’t jump out at me the way his bluegrass stuff did. The Mutual Admiration Society album was the same way. But I haven’t heard either in its entirety, so I may be totally wrong about them. Any thoughts?

Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:03 am

Jnyusa wrote:It's not illegal to give a copy to one person, like Jonny or tinwë

Unfortunately, even that is not true under U.S. law, Jn. I will be posting as clear guidelines as possible in a new thread in the Grubb forum soon.

Post by **Jnyusa** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:55 am

Thanks, V!

Jn

Post by **PrinceAlarming** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:24 am

I love Jazz in all of its forms. There is bad Jazz, yes, as with anything. And like most good music, it's awesome-er live...

But the beauty Jazz hold for me is the fact that it can sometimes almost be like a musical science experiment. Embracing dissonance and off-tempo everything... I like experiencing 'different' Jazz for the same reason I would enjoy oserving an alien creature. I want to see how it moves, how it sounds, where is it going, it interesting.

I do like Miles, Brubeck, Coltrane, Grant Green (check him out, specifically "idle moments")

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:24 am

I just wanted to mention that thanks to cem's samples, I bought Eva Cassidy's "Songbird" CD and love it.

Post by **baby tuckoo** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:00 am

Caught Eva's show at the Palms in Winters last weeks.

Oooops. That was in my dreams.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:13 am

Post by **cemthinae** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:30 pm

Eva left an incredible gift here on earth... the ability to mend hearts with her songs.

Last night I purchased the latest Josh Groban album (he is not a jazz singer, rather a neo-classical tenor) however the last track on the disc was a compliation with jazz pianist Herbie Hancock! Totally awesome. I think I might have "squee-d" even.

There are also two tracks he did with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Very cool too.

Post by **PrinceAlarming** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:47 am

I absolutely love Herbie Hancock...

Funky.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:11 am

I will definitely check out the Josh Groban album, cem.

"You Raise Me Up" has lifted me over a lot of what I can only describe as . . . well, I can't really describe it. Here.

Post by **cemthinae** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:25 am

It's not jazz, Prim, but his newest inspirational song "Don't Give Up (You Are Loved)" is also very good.

As to Herbie, yes, PA has it right. Very funky.

I first heard him on a compliation disc a friend "lent" me. The man can play!

Post by **Rowanberry** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:25 pm

All you jazz lovers here, if you've never heard anything by the Finnish composer Heikki Sarmanto, go and try to find some of his music. He's probably my favourite jazz composer, and is also internationally known - not by the great audience, but certainly in the jazz circles.

Post by **PrinceAlarming** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:17 am

Ah, a jazz muscian's jazz muscian.

I will definately check him out.

Post by **The_Hutter** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:44 am

I Love jazz, it is awesome, but i dont pay attention still who does it, i just like it if it is good, and dont if it is not good,

But i love Jazz for the most part

Post by **PrinceAlarming** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:32 am

I have to be in the mood for Jazz.

Brubeck and other more upbeat jazz is good for driving.

Post by **JewelSong** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:11 am

I think that jazz is one genre of music that almost HAS to be heard live in order to fully appreciate it.

The form is organic - ever-changing and very personal. Sure, there are plenty of excellent jazz recordings out there. But even the jazz that is actually recorded "live" loses something.

I hear the Dave Brubeck quartet live a number of years ago at a smallish theatre in Cambridge. It was just him (on a lovely 9 foot Steinway grand) a bass player, a drum kit and a guy who played flute and sax. Magic. Absolutely magic.

Brubeck played a solo version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" that would break your heart.

Post by **PrinceAlarming** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:06 am

I heard him play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in D.C. It was amazing... But I can't keep Brubeck in the truck. A good recording will suffice.

Post by **cemthinae** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:04 am

*bump*

I have a new dog... and he needs a "jazz" name.

Any suggestions?

*click for a picture of the nameless one*