Live Jazz

Maze Runner said:

Evans interview in Helsinki - 1970 - "Jazz is not ... an intellectual process."

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I really like what he was saying there (including the part not quoted, about forgetting-- in the way that you "forget" things that you know so well that you don't have to consciously think about it). I suck at improv, though.


Mostly I use music as a pick-me-up, so I tend to like big band/swing jazz-- Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, etc.

Love this cover of Swing, Swing, Swing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NOcW62tgBg

The reason it's "the most recorded song in swing history" is because it's just so darn fun to play. It was one of our go-to songs in band and I have never seen happier trombonists.

For blues jazz, there's M Ward's cover of Bowie's "Let's Dance" which is phenomenal, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ZAn6frG9o

Janis Joplin is pushing it more out of jazz'n'blues to rock'n'blues, but I really love her cover of Gershwin's Summertime, raspy-ness and all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn5TNqjuHiU

Maze Runner said:

You might like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2bigf337aU

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Oh, I do. I like pretty much every version of that song except the original. Not much of an opera fan, I guess.