Ep18: Rich’s Jazz Journey pt.1 [playlist included]

Recorded 1/14/2022

Part 1: 2002

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This is mostly a reflection of how I immersed myself in Jazz when I started taking formal drum lessons in college. My drum instructor made me join the big band so I had a lot to learn fast. This is not a history of jazz or what I think the most important jazz songs are. This is an attempt at identifying the songs that I came across that greatly affected me in one way or another. Some of these songs are very emotional for me, some are just influential to me as a musician or drummer, and some I just like. I also talk a bit about the difference between subgenres of jazz, the history of the drumset, flaws in the perception of music history, and the nature of striving during a performance. 

 

Preamble

00:00 Intro

01:24 Old School recording with Roland Vs1680 and some NFT talk

25:46 Frank Turner lyrics and why I respect KISS’s political stances

Topic

39:12: my first drum lessons with jazz drummer Joel Fulgham 

47:56 Playlist riffage begins. 

 

*Note* Big screw up, around the 2 hr 26 min mark, I forgot that Ella Fitzgerald did Solitude not Billie Holiday. Both are amazing but different, listen 

 

Spreadsheet

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12PXQ5Fz4Q3hIPYgU_H_0HnWpjmcYs69_/view?usp=sharing

 

Playlist

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDy9MGihz1ehcxkRXE4UaBijlEo55mdxe

 

Buddy Rich - Mercy, Mercy

Miles Davis (trumpet) - So What, Milestones, Seven Steps to Heaven

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - The Opener

Max Roach - For Big Sid

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - Heebie Jeebies

Duke Ellington - Black Beauty

Count Basie - Jumpin At The Woodside

Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas

Weather report  - Birdland 

Gordon Goodwin - Count Bubba

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

John Coltrane (tenor) - Pt. 1 Acknowledgement 

Roy Hargrove (trumpet) - O My Seh Yeh