A
jazz fan and I were having a conversation. I said "Frank Zappa once
said 'jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny.' Zappa's one of my "gods",
he said. I lifted my eyebrows as he sure wasn't one of mine.
That wasn't much of a conversation but that's what happens when
two people listen to Jazz. People just mellow out and almost slide
off their chairs.
This is not so cool for party conversation but it's great for romance.
Jazz is the best music for a dinner for two as it has an eerie ability
to get you
in the Zone, stoned, Alphawaved.
I didn't think to do it that night but later I emailed my pal to ask
him to
send me a list of the great ones. I am bringing this up as I
think you should play jazz next time you have a man over. Ever play
jazz
for a date? No?Then don't knock it. It makes a very peculiar aura come
into
the room. Relaxed, sincere, no BS.
The great ones very simply are: Charles Mingus? Miles Davis, Hank Mobley,
Herbie Hancock,
Keith Jarrett, etc.
The best record ever is an old Miles Davis record which you can buy
online, and one of the ten songs is "it never entered my mind" is the
best jazz ever recorded; totally relaxed, maybe you could call it
heroined out. Fabulous music. transcendent, poppy and music. you buy
that record you don't need sleeping pills; any other composers who
could
do that feat on poppy? ancient times? Ya think? Listen to it at
Miles & Gil Evans turned out a LOT of good sleepy-bye sides, so
did Gabor
Szabo, Bill Evans, the MJQ, etc. Recently,The Necks put out a very
righteous
"long adagio", called *Sex*. Vangelis (progrocker) turned out *L'Apocalypse
Des Animaux*, which is a bunch of VERY Ravel / Satie-esque slow songs.
Beautiful! I have a LOT of dream music, intelligent mood music."
"One of my all-time fave Miles gigs is the *Milestones* LP. but the
one
above all is WORKIN' with the lead tune, "It never entered my mind."
Buy
it; Listen to it right now:
http://www.songtrellis.com/sounds/viewer$1303
Read: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4930231
which
is the coltrane monk 5- year old missing tape they just found. i wonder
what it sounds like. rare doesn't make it good.
Coltrane and Monk were so abstract that I still have LOTS of trouble
*really* understanding their work. I hope, in later years, I can get
properly into it...which will give me new fields to explore in music.
But MILES you will understand! No wonder CECILY TYSON
married him.
Cut a CD with these guys on it. Then invite someone in for a very
relaxed dinner. That guy will get so stoned off you, he'll propose
right away!
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