OT: Music

[LISTEN2JAZZ]

If anybody is sitting at their computer killing time right now, my favorite current band (Terence Blanchard) is doing a concert webcast by NPR.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2 ... chard.html

Feel free to fill the thread up with your own musical tastes, but I thought I'd throw that out there.

[jerrod]

still going on adam or did i miss it?

[LISTEN2JAZZ]

No, it only started a half hour ago - check it out.

Terence has been my favorite trumpet player for a long long time, but it's been even more fun to watch his band lately because I went to school with all the other guys. Terence is one of those guys who, like Miles Davis, likes to fill his band up with the best young musicians. Keeps the style evolving over the years.

This new album is all music that accompanies recordings of Cornel West speaking. It's a cool mix.

[jerrod]

nice, i forgot that the clock on realgm for me is an hour slow

[jerrod]

i like this adam, has some really nice sans trumpet parts.

as for other music, i just saw the fresh cut collective for the first time. good band.
www.myspace.com/freshcutcollective they're opening for rhymefest in wisconsin's 2nd best city pretty soon

the crest just came out with a new cd which i'm really liking except for a few things. they got some reasonably high profile guest verses on this one. one be lo and a couple with pigeon john most notably.
www.myspace.com/thecrest i don't know for sure what songs are on there though.

[LISTEN2JAZZ]

I'm not completely sure that I'm a fan of this singer - never heard him before. It's almost as if phrase to phrase, he sounds really awesome or whiny and annoying. I bet he sounds great on records if they can get rid of those occasional weird phrases.

I'm wondering if the band will close the set the same way they did when I saw them in DC a couple weeks ago. If Terence turns his sound effects (guitar pedals and stuff) on and lets loose over a nice backbeat, he can just kill it. He has just crazy strength and endurance in addition to being a very tasteful player. I definitely get jealous when he gets to the point where I know I'd be getting tired up there, and he just keeps turning it up a notch.

I'll have to check out those two myspace pages after this is done.

[BobbyLight]

I keep meaning to check out the Crest, but forget. Where should I start?

There really hasn't been a ton of new stuff that I've enjoyed lately. I'm not an Alexisonefire fan but their new cd is great as is the new dredg.

Some good stuff coming soon though. New Thrice (I know it leaked, but I am going to wait, I want to be surprised and purchase it), Katatonia, Chevelle, AFI, Brand New, dead prez, Deftones, Imogen Heap, Massive Attack, Pearl Jam and Queens of the Stone Age. All stuff I am looking forward to.

[BobbyLight]

adam, I know you are a Jazz musician. Have you ever heard dredg? They are somewhat progressive and one of my favorite songs by them has some very nice trumpet parts, at least from the ears of someone who is not totally familiar with Jazz. Check it out, I have no idea if you will like it, but I think it's pretty great.

http://www.last.fm/music/dredg/_/Whoa+Is+Me?autostart

Also, anyone here use Last.fm? (www.last.fm) It's a great musical discovery tool and stat tracker. It's like Pandora on steroids. I have a profile and always love to add other people. Click me sig for my profile and add me if you are a member.

[jerrod]

If Terence turns his sound effects (guitar pedals and stuff) on and lets loose over a nice backbeat, he can just kill it. He has just crazy strength and endurance in addition to being a very tasteful player. I definitely get jealous when he gets to the point where I know I'd be getting tired up there, and he just keeps turning it up a notch.

I'll have to check out those two myspace pages after this is done.

that sounds pretty cool. i had a brief internet problem, i didn't miss that did i?

[LISTEN2JAZZ]

If Terence turns his sound effects (guitar pedals and stuff) on and lets loose over a nice backbeat, he can just kill it. He has just crazy strength and endurance in addition to being a very tasteful player. I definitely get jealous when he gets to the point where I know I'd be getting tired up there, and he just keeps turning it up a notch.

I'll have to check out those two myspace pages after this is done.

that sounds pretty cool. i had a brief internet problem, i didn't miss that did i?

No, I think it's this song that they're playing right now that I'm referring to - though that doesn't guarantee they'll play it the same way tonight.

[RamonSessions]

I plan on looking into Terrence after watching.

I've been majorly into Toby Driver headed projects: maudlin of the Well & Kayo Dot as of late.

(Its all very progressive, atmospheric music labeled by others in the realms of metal & jazz, it stretches beyond average genrefication which is always a plus as far as I'm concerned.)

Recommended Kayo Dot albums: Choirs of the Eye(2003) , Blue Lambency Downward(2008)

Recommended maudlin: Bath(2001) / Leaving Your Body Map(2002)

[RamonSessions]

Adam, what would you recommend a huge Coltrane/ Dolphy / Ornette / Miles enthusiast on a broad scale?

I'd like to expand my horizons in jazz, not for the sake of doing so but out of pure musical interest.

[jerrod]

I keep meaning to check out the Crest, but forget. Where should I start?

i would say definitely don't start with any of the solo cds. i'd say get skeptik or cheerful robots, i might lean toward cheerful robots. most of it is just really good hip hop. no live bands, no girls on every hook, just cool beats and good flows and lyrics

[LISTEN2JAZZ]

RS, you're already listening to my favorite players, so I may not be able to tell you about anything any better than what you've already got your hands on. Have you checked out much from the guys who come more from the composing side? Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus? Those are basically the guys I keep coming back to; Miles, Trane, Ornette, Duke, Mingus, Monk. Sounds cliche I know, like naming Jordan/Bird/Magic as your favorite basketball players but... well, you wouldn't want to pattern your game after Greg Ostertag instead of Kareem and Hakeem right?

Of the currently active bands, my favorites are Miguel Zenon (try the album Jibaro), Branford Marsalis (try Requiem), Terence Blanchard (Flow or the new album coming out next week), Brian Blade Fellowship (Season of Changes). I also like the Mark Turner/Kurt Rosenwinkle collaborations in general - they play on a lot of each other's records.

[andonewheel]

Brandon Jenning's BFF's group's (Slaughterhouse) album just leaked.

[jerrod]

Brandon Jenning's BFF's group's (Slaughterhouse) album just leaked.

i'm gonna hold off and buy it

[ReasonablySober]

I keep meaning to check out the Crest, but forget. Where should I start?

There really hasn't been a ton of new stuff that I've enjoyed lately. I'm not an Alexisonefire fan but their new cd is great as is the new dredg.

Some good stuff coming soon though. New Thrice (I know it leaked, but I am going to wait, I want to be surprised and purchase it), Katatonia, Chevelle, AFI, Brand New, dead prez, Deftones, Imogen Heap, Massive Attack, Pearl Jam and Queens of the Stone Age. All stuff I am looking forward to.

Lot of music on there I'm guessing I'd like. I haven't really dug anything by AFI in the last four or five years but just because they were one of my favs in high school ten years ago I'll give them a good listen. Same with the Deftones and PJ. Chevelle is still around? Awesome.

I listened to the leaked Thrice album (couldn't help it) but I'll be buying it in a couple months. I think you'll be disappointed. It's not up to their previous works but it's good enough that you'll probably listen to it dozens of times.

For the last month or two I've been listening to the same list on random. I sorted my iTunes by listens, copied the first 400 and dumped that onto the iPhone/iPod.

Songs I'm not likely to skip over in recent weeks:

Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife
Nirvana - You Know You're Right
Breaking Benjamin - Away
anything by The Dead Kennedys
anything by Def Leppard
Bobby Brown - Humpin Around
New Edition - Mr. Telephone Man
George Michael - Freedom (god damn I love this song)
Guttermouth - Sexual Abuse (mostly because it offends the two girls next to me at work)
Mary J. Blige - Be Without You
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - Goodbye Earl
anything by Ne-yo
anything by Prince
R. Kelly - I can't sleep baby
anything by Puddle of Mudd
T.I. - I'm a King
anything by Taylor Swift (I know...)
Thrice - Anything off of Water or Earth

[jerrod]

since we're being honest, i've been listening to a fall out boy playlist on imeem while i'm at work.

[skidjuret]

I'm in awe of Rodrigo y Gabriela.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-qgum7h ... re=related

[jerrod]

I'm in awe of Rodrigo y Gabriela.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-qgum7h ... re=related

that was cool, and more entertaining than most of the acoustic guitar virtuosos