What Are You Listening to Now? - Page 3368

angelface · 01-22-2016, 03:55 AM

angelface · 01-22-2016, 04:22 AM

Lecheloco · 01-22-2016, 07:03 AM

Lecheloco · 01-22-2016, 07:10 AM

Fancy · 01-22-2016, 08:12 AM

Orema · 01-22-2016, 08:30 AM

From allmusic.com
Long considered one of, if not the classic album from the Modern Jazz Quartet, European Concert defines them simultaneously as a recording entity as well as a working band. MJQ presented jazz in the context of a formally structured environment, much like a chamber group in the classical context. Within the band, the groove of Milt "Bags" Jackson's vibes met the solid swing of Connie Kay's drums, the funky strut of Percy Heath's bass, and the elegant classicism of John Lewis's piano. The MJQ were able, in a context that pushed at jazz's boundaries from the outside, to create a music that swung without edges or fragmented harmonic structures. Instead - as this album perhaps more than any of their studio recordings exemplifies - they used concepts of time, space, meter, rhythm, and changes to weave together a seamless whole, where melody grounded the improvisation but never really restricted it. The kind of graceful counterpoint that exists between Lewis and Jackson here is instinctual at this time in 1960. The show included the finest moments of their early recording career in a live setting. One listen to "Django" will make your head swim, with its sparse rhythmic texture that is still driving and Lewis' rag melody line when it encounters the pure stretch of the polytonal rhythms Jackson is laying down. If it weren't for Heath the entire thing would become unglued, because he was the hinge on this set. Elsewhere on "I Should Care," Lewis brings his solo down to a rudimentary three-finger patter-without chords that takes the line apart harmonically while never straying from anything in the architecture of the tune. Much later, on the encore "Round Midnight," MJQ take Monk's masterwork and turns it into a near rondo as time changes are constant in the first 16 bars. The front line melody blurs between Jackson and Lewis, as do harmonic counterpoint changes. While it's true this was a tune nobody should have had to change, almost everyone who covered it did. Lewis, whose playing style couldn't have been more antithetical to Monk's, quotes Monk's own solo in his and turns it into a piece of the melody near the end where Jackson is vibing chord changes and intervallic spaces. It leaves both audience and listeners breathless at the end of its all too brief three minutes and forty seconds.

Tracks
1. Django................(00:00)
2. Bluesology.........(05:33)
3. I Should Care... (10:26)
4. La Ronde..............(16:22)
5. I Remember Clifford...(19:42)
6. Festival Sketch...(25:13)
7. Vendome..............(30:15)
8. Odds Against Tomorrow...(33:01)
9. Pyramid (Blues For Junior)...(40:14)
10. It Don't Mean A Thing.....(49:01)
11. Skating In Central Park...(54:50)
12. The Cylinder........(01:01:10)
13. 'Round Midnight..(01:07:56)
14. Bags' Groove.......(01:11:47)
15. I'll Remember April...(01:16:52).

Personnel
Milt Jackson - vibraphone
John Lewis - piano
Percy Heath - bass
Connie Kay - drums

angelface · 01-22-2016, 08:44 AM

angelface · 01-22-2016, 10:38 AM

angelface · 01-22-2016, 10:43 AM

angelface · 01-22-2016, 10:48 AM

angelface · 01-22-2016, 02:15 PM

Genesis · 01-22-2016, 03:35 PM

Genesis · 01-22-2016, 03:53 PM

kittygrrl · 01-22-2016, 04:14 PM

kittygrrl · 01-22-2016, 04:30 PM

Genesis · 01-22-2016, 05:39 PM

J... Thank You... I'll never forget You... Always with me...

cricket26 · 01-22-2016, 06:39 PM

JDeere · 01-22-2016, 10:18 PM

Genesis · 01-22-2016, 10:18 PM

JDeere · 01-22-2016, 10:22 PM

01-22-2016, 03:55 AM	#67341
angelface Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Butch Lesbian Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Europe Posts: 179 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 199 Thanked 596 Times in 150 Posts Rep Power: 0	SORRY..but I couldn't resist! Happy Friday everyone :D

01-22-2016, 08:30 AM	#67346
Orema Superlative Soul Sister How Do You Identify?: Lesbian stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Moving in a single file Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Cottage of Content Posts: 13,566 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 41,430 Thanked 34,700 Times in 8,926 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	The Modern Jazz Quartet European Concert (1960) From allmusic.com Long considered one of, if not the classic album from the Modern Jazz Quartet, European Concert defines them simultaneously as a recording entity as well as a working band. MJQ presented jazz in the context of a formally structured environment, much like a chamber group in the classical context. Within the band, the groove of Milt "Bags" Jackson's vibes met the solid swing of Connie Kay's drums, the funky strut of Percy Heath's bass, and the elegant classicism of John Lewis's piano. The MJQ were able, in a context that pushed at jazz's boundaries from the outside, to create a music that swung without edges or fragmented harmonic structures. Instead - as this album perhaps more than any of their studio recordings exemplifies - they used concepts of time, space, meter, rhythm, and changes to weave together a seamless whole, where melody grounded the improvisation but never really restricted it. The kind of graceful counterpoint that exists between Lewis and Jackson here is instinctual at this time in 1960. The show included the finest moments of their early recording career in a live setting. One listen to "Django" will make your head swim, with its sparse rhythmic texture that is still driving and Lewis' rag melody line when it encounters the pure stretch of the polytonal rhythms Jackson is laying down. If it weren't for Heath the entire thing would become unglued, because he was the hinge on this set. Elsewhere on "I Should Care," Lewis brings his solo down to a rudimentary three-finger patter-without chords that takes the line apart harmonically while never straying from anything in the architecture of the tune. Much later, on the encore "Round Midnight," MJQ take Monk's masterwork and turns it into a near rondo as time changes are constant in the first 16 bars. The front line melody blurs between Jackson and Lewis, as do harmonic counterpoint changes. While it's true this was a tune nobody should have had to change, almost everyone who covered it did. Lewis, whose playing style couldn't have been more antithetical to Monk's, quotes Monk's own solo in his and turns it into a piece of the melody near the end where Jackson is vibing chord changes and intervallic spaces. It leaves both audience and listeners breathless at the end of its all too brief three minutes and forty seconds. Tracks 1. Django................(00:00) 2. Bluesology.........(05:33) 3. I Should Care... (10:26) 4. La Ronde..............(16:22) 5. I Remember Clifford...(19:42) 6. Festival Sketch...(25:13) 7. Vendome..............(30:15) 8. Odds Against Tomorrow...(33:01) 9. Pyramid (Blues For Junior)...(40:14) 10. It Don't Mean A Thing.....(49:01) 11. Skating In Central Park...(54:50) 12. The Cylinder........(01:01:10) 13. 'Round Midnight..(01:07:56) 14. Bags' Groove.......(01:11:47) 15. I'll Remember April...(01:16:52). Personnel Milt Jackson - vibraphone John Lewis - piano Percy Heath - bass Connie Kay - drums

01-22-2016, 03:35 PM	#67352
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,668 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Journey - Anyway You Want It

01-22-2016, 03:53 PM	#67353
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,668 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Richard Galliano Septet -- Piazzolla Forever -- En Concert.

01-22-2016, 04:14 PM	#67354
kittygrrl Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: witchy Relationship Status: just for fun Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: near the wild mushrooms Posts: 9,356 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,565 Thanked 21,948 Times in 7,074 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	__________________ "MAKE AMERICA THINK AGAIN"

01-22-2016, 04:22 AM	#67342
angelface Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Butch Lesbian Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Europe Posts: 179 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 199 Thanked 596 Times in 150 Posts Rep Power: 0

01-22-2016, 07:03 AM	#67343
Lecheloco Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Masculine preferred Relationship Status: Happy as is, but a date would be nice Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Neverland Posts: 717 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,650 Thanked 1,975 Times in 633 Posts Rep Power: 21474848

01-22-2016, 07:10 AM	#67344
Lecheloco Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Masculine preferred Relationship Status: Happy as is, but a date would be nice Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Neverland Posts: 717 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,650 Thanked 1,975 Times in 633 Posts Rep Power: 21474848

01-22-2016, 08:12 AM	#67345
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854

01-22-2016, 08:44 AM	#67347
angelface Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Butch Lesbian Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Europe Posts: 179 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 199 Thanked 596 Times in 150 Posts Rep Power: 0

01-22-2016, 10:38 AM	#67348
angelface Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Butch Lesbian Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Europe Posts: 179 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 199 Thanked 596 Times in 150 Posts Rep Power: 0

01-22-2016, 10:43 AM	#67349
angelface Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Butch Lesbian Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Europe Posts: 179 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 199 Thanked 596 Times in 150 Posts Rep Power: 0

01-22-2016, 10:48 AM	#67350
angelface Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Butch Lesbian Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Europe Posts: 179 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 199 Thanked 596 Times in 150 Posts Rep Power: 0

01-22-2016, 02:15 PM	#67351
angelface Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Butch Lesbian Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Europe Posts: 179 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 199 Thanked 596 Times in 150 Posts Rep Power: 0

01-22-2016, 04:30 PM	#67355
kittygrrl Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: witchy Relationship Status: just for fun Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: near the wild mushrooms Posts: 9,356 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,565 Thanked 21,948 Times in 7,074 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	__________________ "MAKE AMERICA THINK AGAIN"

01-22-2016, 05:39 PM	#67356
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,668 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Brandi Carlile - The Story (Austin City Limits) *J... Thank You... I'll never forget You... Always with me...*

01-22-2016, 06:39 PM	#67357
cricket26 Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she/her Relationship Status: must be love on the brain Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 1,586 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 976 Thanked 4,240 Times in 1,301 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	__________________ Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie

01-22-2016, 10:18 PM	#67358
JDeere Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Transgender Preferred Pronoun?: He/him/his Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 17,752 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 31,018 Thanked 28,836 Times in 9,708 Posts Rep Power: 21474864

01-22-2016, 10:18 PM	#67359
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,668 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	The Weeknd - Earned It

01-22-2016, 10:22 PM	#67360
JDeere Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Transgender Preferred Pronoun?: He/him/his Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 17,752 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 31,018 Thanked 28,836 Times in 9,708 Posts Rep Power: 21474864