Looking to get into jazz... where should I start?

[horselesspaul]

That's cool. You worked with anyone we might of heard?

Maybe..
Brand X's Robin Lumley, Graeme Edge (Moody Blues), Gary Brooker (Procul Harum), Zodiac Mindwarp (hehe), saxophonist Iain Ballamy, Peter Davison (yes, Dr Who), Andrew Shulman, Twiggy, film and TV for Chris Stone (Walker Texas Ranger..) Clive Craske. Amongst others.

But the likes of Jaco are of course legends to aspire to. Have you seen his instructional video on youtube? He's skills were crazy, even when he was all but washed up on drugs.

Yes, thanks, I've seen the video.
Saw him play many times. Total cnut by all accounts but some talent. The drugs just made him 'overplay' for me.
Unlike:

the true bass master, James Jamerson.

A low frequency god.

 

[vijay]

Are you taking the piss? There are much better jazz musicians who play regularly at Matt n Phreds in Manchester than that floppy haired pillock you just posted the link to. He looks and sounds like a mongy Indian ripoff of Pat Metheny. I suggest you get some taste.

How do you rate a jazz musician?

Have you visited any his concerts .

Basically in that concert he tries a fusion piece between the traditional Dharmavathi raag a very tough note to be played in a guitar with Alibama that runs on a different scale...It takes some doing to appreciate good music.
and better listen to some of the compositions.

As for your comparision with Jazz Musicians in Matt n Phreds....

Just read his profile and some of the great guitarists he has worked along and given training to.


http://www.guitarprasanna.com/World/Works/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Prasanna

 

[vijay]

joepub knows more about music than footie..

Sure he would grasp good music.

 

[Jopub]

Been a musician all my life and played all kinds of music so I know some stuff

Have to say you're the first person I've ever heard that thinks Miles Davis is "middling"

........mmmm

 

[vijay]

Never meant his music was middling but it failed to inspire me after I moved over to the fugue of jazz with Carnitic and Hindustani that offers better notations...some thing you might have never had a chance to hear about.

Try some works of Shakti to start with....John Mclaughlin along with Indian instrumentalists, Dr Hariprasad Chaurasia, Dr Zakir Hussian, Dr L Shankar and others...start with their OldHam concert to their "Evening in Mumbai" and then move over to their jazz pieces.

 

[samabachan]

How do you rate a jazz musician?

Have you visited any his concerts .

Basically in that concert he tries a fusion piece between the traditional Dharmavathi raaga a very tough note to be played in a guitar with Alibama that runs on a different scale...It takes some doing to appreciate good music.
and better listen to some of the compositions.

As for your comparision with Jazz Musicians in Matt n Phreds....

Just read his profile and some of the great guitarists he has worked along and given training to.


http://www.guitarprasanna.com/World/Works/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Prasanna

Stop talking shit. Takes a lot more doing to think Miles Davis is middling compared to that plank.

Mighty Mike WIlson>>>>>>>>>>any drummer you've ever heard.

 

[Tumbling-Dice]

James Jamerson is a legend.

 

[vijay]

:lol: Stop talking shit. Takes a lot more doing to think Miles Davis is middling compared to that plank.

Mighty Mike WIlson>>>>>>>>>>any drummer you've ever heard.

Spare me from your condescending crap.

Who said Prasanna was better than Miles?..

Bookmark the quote again

When I posted the link a classical crossover piece performed by an artist with an instrument thats alien to scales in both genre, you educated reply was “The boys next door can play better” along with a :giggle: whilst the person mentioned conducts workshops for leading Jazz guitarists and works with Grammy winners.

I am sure the leading Jazz guitarists from your close are playing in restaurants unlike the floppy haired pillock Prasanna has to settle with conducting workshops and colloboration albums and with likes of Wooten, McLaughlin, Pat Metheny Group, David Sanborn etc

But still for a musical genius like Samabachan "Prasana is a plank"

Getting back to the topic of Miles and "my middling argument" twisted out of context by some retards....Modern jazz fusion is more advanced as the musical elements in a fusion part can be interpreted in different ways like say the Carnatic Musicians, sticking on to a melody in a predefined raag whilst the Jazz part predicate the chord progressions that may not be in synch with the base raag defined in Carnatic Music. It takes a lot of doing to attain consonance. Not that any one is trying to take anything away from Amstrong, Miles Davis or Coltrane, but the Jazz from Indian artists I hear these days has progressed a lot more from where they had left.

 

[samabachan]

Spare me from your condescending crap.

Who said Prasanna was better than Miles?..

Bookmark the quote again

When I posted the link a classical crossover piece performed by an artist with an instrument thats alien to scales in both genre, you educated reply was “The boys next door can play better” along with a :giggle: whilst the person mentioned conducts workshops for leading Jazz guitarists and works with Grammy winners.

I am sure the leading Jazz guitarists from your close are playing in restaurants unlike the floppy haired pillock Prasanna has to settle with conducting workshops and colloboration albums and with likes of Wooten, McLaughlin, Pat Metheny Group, David Sanborn etc

But still for a musical genius like Samabachan "Prasana is a plank"

Getting back to the topic of Miles and "my middling argument" twisted out of context by some retards....Modern jazz fusion is more advanced as the musical elements in a fusion part can be interpreted in different ways like say the Carnatic Musicians, sticking on to a melody in a predefined raag whilst the Jazz part predicate the chord progressions that may not be in synch with the base raag defined in Carnatic Music. It takes a lot of doing to attain consonance. Not that any one is trying to take anything away from Amstrong, Miles Davis or Coltrane, but the Jazz from Indian artists I hear these days has progressed a lot more from where they had left.

Oh sorry you're right. Being complicated>>>>>>>>>>>being good. I bet you do film studies.

 

[vijay]

Oh sorry you're right. Being complicated>>>>>>>>>>>being good. I bet you do film studies.

If its no good and offers zero improvisation over the contemporary forms why should leading musicans bother cracking their heads over that?

I dont do film studies.