Music Thread

[iamjs]

Looks like the Pittsburgh show will be at the Roxian.

I'm not sure if I'm more surprised that Skinny Puppy is touring or that Paul Barker is touring again as Lead Into Gold.

[Morkle]

New Linkin Park song takes me right back to 10th grade.

[Ad@m]

[Gaucho]

[iamjs]

Looks like the Pittsburgh show will be at the Roxian.

I'm not sure if I'm more surprised that Skinny Puppy is touring or that Paul Barker is touring again as Lead Into Gold.

Never thought I'd be looking at paying $80 to see two industrial bands from the 80s, but I guess it looks like I have a decision to make. With it looking like the final tour for both bands, I have a feeling I'm going to buckle.

Might have to see if they've started touring yet and if there are any setlists available.

[faftorial]

[shafnutz05]

[DigitalGypsy66]

[Gaucho]

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[tifosi77]

UND ICH HAB NICHTS GESAGT!

*flute solo*

[Gaucho]

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

one of my favorite classes I took in college was a history of jazz elective. I never really listened to jazz before that but it genuinely gave me a ton of appreciation of jazz. I legitimately love jazz now


I’m watching the Ken Burns doc (we saw pieces in the class but not full episode) and it’s sad to realize how many of the people who were in the doc have passed away or getting old and jazz is in the same category as classical music (great archive but effectively no new huge hits)

Also I realized that hyper famous instrumentalists aren’t really a thing anymore. Are there any under 40 musicians today - not singers but pure instrumentalists - that are as famous as Miles Davis was?


Maybe it’s just cyclically and will come back to instrumentals soon but I feel like pop music is discouraging moving away from not using the formula

[tifosi77]

The Burns jazz documentary is tremendous. Top drawer stuff from a catalog of almost nothing but top drawer stuff.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

The Burns jazz documentary is tremendous. Top drawer stuff from a catalog of almost nothing but top drawer stuff.

yep


oh man, just watched the episode with this song

the song is…a force. I admit I was never huge on Billie Holiday but man she’s perfect in this.


Also in the episode they talk about how Holiday and Lester Young, the second sax soloist in this, we’re great friends but both in bad spots. They didn’t interact at all with one another until this song. It was the final time they saw one another and died four months apart two years later

[faftorial]

one of my favorite classes I took in college was a history of jazz elective. I never really listened to jazz before that but it genuinely gave me a ton of appreciation of jazz. I legitimately love jazz now


I’m watching the Ken Burns doc (we saw pieces in the class but not full episode) and it’s sad to realize how many of the people who were in the doc have passed away or getting old and jazz is in the same category as classical music (great archive but effectively no new huge hits)

Also I realized that hyper famous instrumentalists aren’t really a thing anymore. Are there any under 40 musicians today - not singers but pure instrumentalists - that are as famous as Miles Davis was?


Maybe it’s just cyclically and will come back to instrumentals soon but I feel like pop music is discouraging moving away from not using the formula

I had that at PSU. Was a cool enjoyable easy class.

[DigitalGypsy66]

I took the same class in 1993, and the professor basically said jazz, as a record-selling genre, died in the early 1960s. The crooners were fading, Dave Brubeck made the cover of Time magazine in 1959 or 60 for his Time Out record (multiplatinum sales with next to no radioplay), but after the Beatles and Stones did their thing, pop music took over sales.

But I feel the same way about that Intro to Jazz class - one of the best college classes I took, and one that I think about (and listen to) a lot of the artists I learned in that class some 30 years later.

I don't think I watched the jazz doc for some reason. Need to rectify that. I've watched nearly every other Burns joint.

I think Trombone Shorty is probably the closest we have to a big named youngish instrumentalist. And he's 37. Speaking of which, @MalkinIsMyHomeboy you should probably watch Treme. Great show, but exceptional music - lots of jazz.

[Shyster]

Back in college when I worked for the student union at Pitt, I had the pleasure of working with Nathan Davis and running sound for the annual student jazz concerts and the seminars that led up to the annual Pitt Jazz Concert over at the Oakland Carnegie Music Hall. I can't say that jazz is exactly my cup of tea; I think my borderline-aspie brain is put off my all of the improvisation. I can say I like the more-structed big band type of jazz more than the really improvisational stuff. But I was always as impressed as heck at the talent and professionalism of Dr. Davis and the musicians he brought in to speak and play.

To pull up my old man pants to my neck and tie an onion to my belt, I'd say the reason that instrumentalists aren’t really a thing anymore because most popular music these days is a vast wasteland of utter crap. The music is simplistic formulaic crap, the lyrics are crap, the singers are crap—it's all crap. There's plenty of good music out there, but you have to seek it out.

[crusherstasiak]

There's plenty of good music out there, but you have to seek it out.

here you go shysdaddy

charlie sizemore is an attorney

[RonnieFranchise]

Everybody wang chung tonight.

[Viva la Ben]

[tifosi77]

There's a moment in the Burns thing, I think they're talking about Miles Davis. Wynton Marsalis picks up his trumpet and plays a line from this or that recording, and its otherworldly quality floors Marsalis so much all he can say is "I mean, what is that."

I love it when genius wows genius.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Miles Davis might be my favorite jazz artist just because of the sheer number of great tunes he’s made but Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite artist in terms of if you give me one or a couple songs only to choose from

The harmony he plays in the first couple minutes in this is the equivalent of Jackie Chan’s drunken boxing style. It seems goofy and almost like he makes mistakes but it’s actually so incredibly entertaining to listen to and observe. It honestly feels like a child is playing at times but you know that he knows exactly what he’s doing and its so…interesting

[Gaucho]

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