Ep19: Rich’s Jazz Journey pt2 [playlist included]

Recorded 1/21/2022

 

Part 2: 2003

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This playlist represents more exploration that occurred while learning/playing jazz in college. Compared to the first playlist this has more music that friends told me about. Things here tend much more toward the fusion side of things. It was interesting to see how some of this hit Robert. We also riff on performance vs composition, hip hop in jazz, cultural appropriation, how this music influenced my improv chops, and challenges in navigating big band charts. 

Preamble

00:00 Intro

00:52 Social Media affecting the creative process

17:31 Bill Hicks spiritual word salad, health & wellness peeps ruined Ram Das for me, nationalism sucks, and armageddon is pure propaganda

35:58 Critical thinking when consuming info and high school football is a misallocation of resources
54:28 post columbine high school environment, post 9/11 flights, and Corey Taylor’s antiracist speech at the Pledge of Allegiance tour

Topic

1:05:54 Jazz composition vs performance; cuong vu, herbie hancock, candiria, john zorn, and steve coleman

1:47:57 World music, cultural appropriation, leave Lil Wayne alone, and racist aspects of metal culture

2:08:53 more jazz: mccoy tyner, andre 3000, hip hop & jazz, roy hargrove, and max roach

2:42:30 How this music prepared me for extreme non-jazz improv situations in the yoga and ecstatic dance communities

2:51:48 what makes reading a big band drum chart so hard

3:05:15 frustration of finding jazz/classical music that you like, players vs composition, and wrap up. 

Playlist
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDy9MGihz1ehdPJqgyBbMn3gkqwT-Qp8q

spreadsheet

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1szoNRmO35WWOubjzK8Afl9I89zVgxk00/view?usp=sharing

 

Trio Da Paz - Manhattan Style

Manfredo Fest - Guararpes

Miles Davis - Orbits

McCoy Tyner - search for peace

Max Roach - Driva'man

Jeff Tain Watts - JC is the Man

Steve Coleman and the Metrics - Hyped

Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain, Eric Harland

Candiria - Constant Velocity Is As Natural As Being at Rest

Cuong Vu - Bound

Lake Trout - #2, Little Things

Herbie Hancock - kebero pt.1 (ends at 3:10 in video), essence, be still

John Zorn - You Will Be Shot, Latin Quarter

RH Factor - Hardgroove, I'll Stay (Ft. D'Angelo)