tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post568985010324535572..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ by Leonard Feather (Horizon 1960)Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-51991736986828418952011-05-21T22:34:18.452-04:002011-05-21T22:34:18.452-04:00Clearly, Walker and Patti, you need to go to all t...Clearly, Walker and Patti, you need to go to all the same concerts. Not all early jazz followed its base tune, nor is all post-swing jazz free of melody, by any means...part of what led to free jazz, after all, was the re-integration of collective improvisation by the likes of Gerry Mulligan and Art Farmer in the pre-free recordings of the '50s...and the European free players and the likes of Air (not the briefly popular rock band) and Oregon helped establish the frequently very melodic "chamber jazz"...I came in mostly with the Third Streamers, so it was pretty easy to take on and accept the range of jazz, though I probably like the duller sorts of fusion, which sound to me like thinned-out versions of free jazz or like slightly less soporific bad jam-band music, the least. Even the best bands in the mode, such as Return to Forever and Weather Report, are good or better but don't move me as much as jazz in other modes.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-28419115520331176372011-05-21T11:33:23.590-04:002011-05-21T11:33:23.590-04:00Jazz has been my favorite music since the 1950'...Jazz has been my favorite music since the 1950's. For many years I loved bebop played by such muscians as Charlie Parker, Monk, Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon. I remember Leonard Feather liking this period alot also in his books and DOWNBEAT.<br /><br />Now, I would have to say I like avant garde jazz the best, as played by Cecil Taylor, the later John Coltrane, and the European avant movement. I had a friend who lived to 88 but he never could move beyond Dixieland and swing. Once bebop started in the late 40's, he was completely lost and had to have a tune to follow.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-63596703698129209312011-05-21T00:20:48.516-04:002011-05-21T00:20:48.516-04:00This would certainly come in handy for me. I truly...This would certainly come in handy for me. I truly don't understand jazz once it moved beyond its early roots. I really do need a recognizable tune to enjoy it.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-9058376212083977542011-05-20T15:36:08.245-04:002011-05-20T15:36:08.245-04:00I might, indeed! Thanks.I might, indeed! Thanks.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-49753637277300024042011-05-20T15:31:31.750-04:002011-05-20T15:31:31.750-04:00You might want to check out the IMPULSE retrospect...You might want to check out the IMPULSE retrospective, Todd: http://www.npr.org/2011/05/13/136274240/early-impulse-a-50-year-legacy-in-jazzGeorgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-70035874686827440822011-05-20T13:00:10.935-04:002011-05-20T13:00:10.935-04:00The Hughes album is pretty solid. Feather's &q...The Hughes album is pretty solid. Feather's "Blindfold Test" ran in DOWNBEAT with him conducting it for more than thirty years, and, as noted, continues even now (I think it's Dan Oullette setting up the blind listening booth these years).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-1381417357389236742011-05-20T11:24:33.446-04:002011-05-20T11:24:33.446-04:00I have this volume, or did at one time, I'm no...I have this volume, or did at one time, I'm not sure if it's still in a box somewhere or simply gone. I wish I had that Hughes album, but do not. I used to read Feather's column is whatever jazz monthly he wrote in and of course his blurbs were ubiquitous on jazz LPs for many years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com