JAZZ

[sunrah]

ceea ce nu`ti cade bine din prima nu are cum sa prinda un contur placut pe parcurs, asa e la mine cel putzin.. e ca si cum l`ai fortza pe Akro` sa asculte Jazz cand el e cu Apathy gen ..

[Chill Will]

Ma nu mai zi de Akro ca nu ma stie lumea asa...se mai intreaba astia "ce dreq de vedete e si ala?" Hai ca iti promit daca imi aduci un cd player ascult jazz cat timp bem un suc!

[sunrah]

Ma nu mai zi de Akro ca nu ma stie lumea asa...se mai intreaba astia "ce dreq de vedete e si ala?" Hai ca iti promit daca imi aduci un cd player ascult jazz cat timp bem un suc!

okappa.. vezi ca weekendu` care vine sunt la tm .. .. aduc Jazz...mergem la prett.. poate bei bere ca te tai.. bei suc cu mine ca te ia ...........

like someone says ...

" .. The music called jazz had the razzamatazz
It had the flavor, and a lot of pizazz
The big band beat was very neat and unique
The swing was king, it made you tap your feet
There was Benny and Duke and of course the Count Basie
The melody was smooth and yes, very taste
There was Hap, The Prez, and Lady Day and
Dizzy Bird and Miles, they were all playin
They brought it to the people of the foreign lands
Back across the oceans and the desert sands
Where it echoes in the distant sounds of drums
And it rises with the sun on days begun
This is the music, that we give tribute to
They gave it to us, that's why we give it to you
The jazz music... the jazz music

The jazz music... UH.. uh.. uh.. "

[Chill Will]

off-topic:beau bere si sting cu suc...e bine asa?

[demonic]

am gasit,in final,un topik interesant p forumu' asta.mah... jazzu' e jazz si atat.nu-i nici marfa,nici cool,nici hip,nici hop.... e JAZZ!!! kat despre preferinte imi place sa ma orientez spre "mosnegi" gen luis armstrong,ella fitzerald,sonny rollins si altii....contemporani lor.kat despre jazzu' d azi... parka nu mai e la fel de brut... nu suna la fel... e mai moale asa... nush kum sa-i zik.d mers undeva sa askult jazz e d domeniul fantastikului.asa k ma rezum la intimitatea apartamentului meu si la alea kateva piese p kare l am d p net sau de pe 1,2 cd-uri...

[Deena]

demonic--> esti fostul demonikk de pe AGHH?!?!. . . anyway...10X 4 ure post on this subj.!

din jazz'ul d azi (de care spuneai ca nu te impresioneaza) ai ascultat Dianne Reeves, Molly Johnson, Stacey Kent, Diana Krall, Jamie Cullum, Marcus Miller, Stephane Belmondo?!?! ii recomand !

Take care !

[demonic]

demonic ----> tha one and only al dreq... ) mai sunt p aghh(raposatul)
diana krall am askultat si kiar imi place... despre restu' din pakate... nu stiu mai nik.pe langa asta partea proasta e destul de greu sa fak rost de jazz,din anumite motive...

[Jah]

Aura Urziceanu a ascultat cineva? E senzational, incredibil ce face cu vocea...
In rest prefer Nu Jazz...Morphine, St. Germain...

[Deena]

demonic daca te intereseaza & vrei sa asculti din cei enumerati de mine mai sus trimite'mi msj privat sau mail)

Jah am ascultat Aura Urziceanu, e fenomenala(am fost la concertul ei d anu' trecut din toamna)

[Jah]

Io am vazut ceva emisiune pe Tvr Cultural despre ea...si am ramas O sa primesc un cd zilele astea, abia astept!

[Deena]

Bio: Billie Holiday

Legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan Cough in Baltimore, Md. in 1915 to an unwed 13-year-old mother; her father abandoned the family shortly after she was born. After being raped at age 10, Holiday was abandoned by her mother, left to live with uncaring relatives. To support herself she began running errands and scrubbing floors in a brothel - it was there that she first heard jazz, scratchy recordings of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith played on the house phonograph. At age 12 Holiday moved to New York, where she became a prostitute. By 1930 Holiday had convinced a club owner to let her sing on an open mic night, taking the stage name Billie Holiday from the name of film star Billie Dove. After being discovered by John Hammond, Holiday was introduced to Benny Goodman, who assisted her with her first recording session in 1933; over the next 11 years Holiday recorded over 200 cuts of jazz and swing music.
During the late '30s Holiday performed with Count Basie, Artie Shaw and others, but was never able to continue working with an orchestra for various reasons. Between 1939 and 1945 Holiday scored several hits, including "Fine and Mellow," "God Bless the Child," "Lover Man" and the anti-racist "Strange Fruit." However by the mid-'40s Holiday was addicted to heroin; somehow she continued to function well enough to perform constantly, becoming one of the best known jazz singers in North America. With trademark white gardenias in her hair, "Lady Day" built up a formidable reputation as a spirited vocalist, able to captivate audiences with her unusual phrasing despite her lack of formal training. Sadly, though Holiday was recognized as a brilliant performer, her personal life was a growing disaster. She married and divorced three times during the 1940s, often suffering spousal abuse. Though her concerts earned her a respectable income, Holiday was taken advantage of by her record companies, who never paid her any royalties.

After years of addiction Holiday was arrested and jailed on a drug charge in 1947, sidetracking her career. She began touring Europe, where she was more popular than ever, but by 1956 she was arrested a second time and entered rehab. Though she struggled to end her drug and alcohol abuse, Holiday died prematurely in July 1959. Despite her early death, she remains one of the most popular and acclaimed female jazz singers of all time. In 1972 Holiday's sordid life was chronicled in the movie Lady Sings the Blues, in which she is portrayed by Diana Ross.


putina informare nu strika pt cei care nu stiau nimik despre marea doamna a jazz'ului!
R.I.P. Lady!

[Deena]

Bio: Ella Fitzgerald

Born April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Va., jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest -- if not the greatest -- female jazz singers of all time. Born into a poor family, Fitzgerald was homeless for a time before launching her professional singing career in 1934 with a victory in an Apollo Theater amateur contest. Hired on by band leader/jazz drummer Chick Webb, Fitzgerald soon became the band's showpiece, bringing Webb's orchestra to prominence with stunning renditions of "A Tisket, A Tasket" and other jazz and pop standards. When Webb died in 1939 Fitzgerald took over leadership of his band, which she fronted for the next two years. In 1941 she began a solo career, becoming one of the most popular vocalists of the 1940s thanks to a string of hit singles on Decca Records.
By the late 1940s Fitzgerald began to shift away from swing and pop back toward her jazz roots, adopting the bop style popular at the time. She began to use scat singing, popularized by Louis Armstrong, which enhanced her credibility in the jazz scene. In the 1950s Fitzgerald began to return to pop, recording a series of albums dedicated to the songs of such artists as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Duke Ellington, among others.

Now on the Verve label, Fitzgerald entered what is considered her "classic" period, and soon was better known than ever. Toward the end of the decade she adopted more contemporary pop material, then followed Verve CEO Norman Granz to his new label, Pablo, where she returned once again to jazz material. By the 1980s Fitzgerald was suffering from health problems and a declining vocal range; she stopped recording in 1989 and passed away seven years later on June 14, 1996. Her countless recordings have been reissued numerous times, first on LP and later on compact disc, and most of her enormous catalogue remains in print to this day.

[Deena]

pt cei interesati:

*spuneti ce artist din zona jazzului va intereseaza (vreti sa aflati biografia, albume, colaborari, etc ) si gasesc!
* daca va intereseaza anumiti termeni folositi in jazz si nu stiti semnificatia Intrebati fratilor si va spun!
* orice nelamurire aveti sau va intereseaza ceva anume din zona jazz'ului intrebati, iar in masura in care stiu va spun/raspund!

[Jah]

Hey...ma intereseaza Boris Vian! Nush in ce masura gasesti ceva, dat fiind faptul ca omu a fost scriitor, dar a avut o perioada in care a cantat jazz. So..if u can help me...

[Deena]

French novelist and playwright, a jazz connoisseur and critic, Dixieland trumpeters, and author of more than 400 songs. As a writer Boris Vian is perhaps best remembered for his novels L'?©cume des jours (1947) and J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1946, I Shall Spit on Your Graves). Vian's collected works amount to more than 50 vols. He died in a Parisian cinema at the age of 39 while watching a preview of the film I'll Spit on Your Graves.

"What informs Vian's book, however, is not sexual fantasy, but rage and pain: that rage and pain which Vian (almost alone) was able to hear in the black American musicians, in the bars, dives, and cellars, of the Paris of those years... Vian would have known something of this from Faulkner, and from Richard Wright, and from Chester Himes, but he heard it in the music, and, indeed, he saw it in the streets." (James Baldwin in The Devil Finds Work, 1976)

Boris Vian was born at Ville d'Avray into a wealthy family. At the age of 12 Vian developed rheumatic fever and later he contracted typhoid which left him with an enlarged heart. However, it did not prevent him from pouring his energy into a number of artistic projects later in his life. Vian was first educated at home. At the age of 17 he learnt trumpet after seeing Duke Ellinton play. He studied philosophy at the Versailles lyc?©e, and excelled in mathematics at the Lyc?©e Condorcet, receiving a civil engineering diploma in 1942. During the 1940s he was employed for a time by the French Association for Standardization, a bureaucracy, which Vian satirized in his first novel, Vercoquin et le plancton. It was written in 1943, but published in 1946. After the war he played trumpet in the Left Bank caves, write several hundred songs, mader a reputation as a cabaret singer, and wrote reviews for the magazine Le Jazz-Hot. Among his most beautiful songs is the pacifist 'Le d?©serteur' (1955), about the Algerian war. It sold thousands of records, outraged the French patriots, and was banned. Vian also acted small parts in films and wrote film scenarios. In 1958, he and the director Louis Malle persuaded Miles Davis to play the music for Malle's film Lift to the Scaffold.

"J'irai cracher sur vos tombes" was written in ten days in 1946 under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan. Vian had made a wager that he can compose a best-seller novel, and when a copy of the book was found in the hotel room of a murder victim, it gained a success beyond anyone's expectations. "Vian's book has a certain weary, mysogynistic humor - the chicks fuck like rabbits, or minks, and our hero gets a certain charge, or arrives at the mercy of a nearly unbearable ecstasy, out of his private knowledge that they are being fucked by a nigger: he is committing the crime for which his brother was murdered, he is fucking these cunts with his brother's prick. And he comes three times, so to speak, each time he comes, once for his brother, and once for the "little death" of the orgasms to which he always brings the ladies, and uncontrollably, for the real death to which he is determined to bring them." (James Baldwin in The Devil Finds Work) The book sold 100,000 copies before it was banned - Vian was fined 100,000 francs. American hard-boiled fiction was familiar for Via - he translated from Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain. Other writers included Nelson Algren, Strindberg, Pirandello, and Brendan Behan, and from the field of science fiction A.E. van Vogt, William Tenn, Henry Kuttner, and Ray Bradbury. New Sullivans followed in 1947 and 1948. At the same time Vian produced more or less serious novels, plays and poems. A short opera, Fiesta, written for Darius Milhaud, was performed in Berlin in 1948.

In the preface of L'?©cume des jours (1947) Vian wrote - echoing in his uncompromising tone Voltaire: "There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans ot Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go because everything else is ugly." In America its 1968 translation, Mood Indigo, referred to Duke Ellington's famous composition. The tale of amour fou ('mad love') was set in the world where all material is organic, an eel sucks pineapple flavored toothpaste through the cold water tap, and elephants walk on the streets. Vian used deliberately na??ve style with surrealistic images. The protagonist, Colin, is a rich young man, who is surrounded by his intellectual friends, one of whom is obsessed with the philosopher Jean Pulse Hearthe. Colin meets a pretty girl, Chlo?©. A strange illness is eating her away. "The corridor door would not open. All that was left was a narrow space leading to Chlo?©'s bedroom from the entrance. Isis went first, and Nicholas followed her. He seemed stunned. Something bulged inside his jacked and from time to time he put his hand on his chest. Isis looked at the bed before she went into the room. Chlo?© was still surrounded by flowers. Her hands, stretched out on the blankets, were hardly able to hold the big white orchid that was in them. It looked grey by the side of her diaphanous skin." A mysterious water-lily grows inside Chlo?©'s chest, Colin gives her more flowers, and she dies. Chlo?© is buried in a pauper's grave, and the verger and pallbearers dance away.

Vian's avant-garde plays had much connections to the theater of absurd. L'?©quarissage pour tous, written in 1946, was a "paramilitary vaudeville in one long act." It was set in a Normandy knacker's yard, and depicted farcical marriage problems of a family on D-Day. The place is destroyed by wartime allies, the Free French, and other military personel. Les B??tisseurs d'Empire ou le Schmurz (1959) was about a bourgeois family whose new apartment is invaded by a terrifying noise. The play was staged in England in 1962 and in New York in 1968. The General's Teatime was first presented in France seven years after Vian's death. It portrayed war as a "nursery tea-party," and mocked military leaders, church and the government. The play was inspired by General Omar Bradley's A Soldier's Story which Vian translated into French.

Several of Vian's books reflected his interest in science fiction, although sf made up only a small part of his activities. In Vercoquin et le plancton joys of life are threatened by standardization, represented by the Association Fran?§aise de Normalisation. L'Automne ? P?©kin (1947) was a desert utopia, set in the imaginary land of Exopotamia, where a pointless railway is constructed. L'herbe rouge (1950) was a time-machine story, in which one character is haunted by a double.

Vian's first marriage, to Mich?¨le L?©glise, ended in 1952 in divorce, and two years later he married Ursula K??bler, a Swiss dancer. Although Vian was not taken seriously as a writer during his life time, he was a famous personality among the existentialist and post-surrealistic circles of Paris. In 1952 he was inducted as a Transcendent Satrap of the Coll?¨ge de 'Pataphysique, an unconventional literary association founded to perpetuate the memory of Alfred Jarry. On June 23, 1959, the poorly made film version of I'll Spit on Your Graves finished Vian accrording to Louis Malle: "I've always thought that Boris died of shame from having seen what they'd done to his book. Like anything else, the cinema can kill