worst jazz song of all time

[Guest ariceffron]

this dude was scatting (and rhyming) the names of every bass player in jazz. he was all: theres gary peacock and ron carter, wilbur ware and isreal crosby etc but it all rhymed. it made me sick

[JSngry]

Who was it by?

I usually hate that "I'm so hip I know all the names" type stuff myself. Almost always it's done by the lamest mfs out there.

BLECH!

Edited January 16, 2005 by JSngry

[brownie]

Ben Sidran did a song like that! 'Piano Players' that included the names of a lot of the great piano players. That was on his Antilles album 'Old Songs for the New Depression'!

[JSngry]

Ben Sidran?

I rest my case!

[AllenLowe]

I don't know - to me the worst jazz song is anything written by Leonard Feather - if you don't believe me ask Chris Albertson -

[Jazz Kat]

How can any real jazz song be bad? Unless it's some lame dude crossing over from pop, o rlike you said, hip hop. I hate it when these pop singers try and scat jazz. It's like, obby dooby, scooby do bop. I'm like what the hell? What's that supposed to mean.

[Larry Kart]

Of jazz songs that anybody actually played, I've always been unable to take "Lullaby of Birdland." I know it's just a variant on "Love Me or Leave Me," but the line is so naggingly insistent and jingle-like that I can't imagine how hard it would be as a player to get it out of the way and keep it there.

[Dennis_M]

How can any real jazz song be bad?

I would imagine that there are plenty of people capable of writing bad music in any genre you can think of.

[Jim Alfredson]

How can any real jazz song be bad?

What constitutes "real" jazz?

[Jazz Kat]

Well I meant that statement to be a part of my whole post, but since you are taking it out of my post, well I meant, that, if a jazz musician wrote a song, and it swung and it grooved, it's all right. I might like other songs better thatn that one, but I mean I can take it. But if some pop or R&B musician does a song and calls it, "jazz" I probaly will not be too fond of it.

[GregK]

I hate it when these pop singers try and scat jazz. It's like, obby dooby, scooby do bop. I'm like what the hell? What's that supposed to mean.

didn't david lee roth do that in every one of his songs?

[SGUD missile]

Actually, Nashville bassist/ jazz singer Jim Ferguson wrote a tune called " Not just another pretty Bass" that was quite clever in a Dave Frishbergish way ..

( also heard on KPLU )

[Sundog]

But if some pop or R&B musician does a song and calls it, "jazz" I probaly will not be too fond of it.

Then you probably won't. But have you ever heard Maceo Parker do Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul?

[SGUD missile]

Hey YO ..back off!!

now yous gone to meddlin' ..messin wit my MAN , Maceo!!!

Maceo ..Fred Wesley ..respeck, mon ..

keep it real ..

[Sundog]

Hey YO ..back off!!

now yous gone to meddlin' ..messin wit my MAN , Maceo!!!

Maceo ..Fred Wesley ..respeck, mon ..

keep it real ..      

Maceo and Fred can do no wrong in my book! Big ups!!!!!

[P.D.]

As far as Jazz ( i. e. REAL Jazz) goes

Haint it It Taint Watcha Do It's the Way that You Do It....

That being said.. I still hate, Cute, Rosetta and Blue Lou

for no logical reason, I just cringe at those three tunes.

Edited January 16, 2005 by P.D.

[mmilovan]

Of jazz songs that anybody actually played, I've always been unable to take "Lullaby of Birdland." I know it's just a variant on "Love Me or Leave Me," but the line is so naggingly insistent and jingle-like that I can't imagine how hard it would be as a player to get it out of the way and keep it there.

On the contrary I like the song so much (and I don't like "Love Me Or Leave Me" that much) as well as I like its author, George Shearing!

But, speaking of tastes... not wise thing to do

[DrJ]

Somewhat on topic - I've always thought he song "Too Close for Comfort" was incredibly banal, taken on its own terms. It's remarkable any jazz artist can do much with it, yet you get someone like Art Pepper and he turns it into magic. A gift.

[Jazz Kat]

Well, if I hear an instrumental version of a song say, Makin' Whoopie, I'll love it. Then when I hear the lyrics, I just dont like the lyrics at all.

[JSngry]

You should hear Ray Charles sing it.

[Jazz Kat]

That bad?

[Brownian Motion]

I don't know - to me the worst jazz song is anything written by Leonard Feather - if you don't believe me ask Chris Albertson -

Leonard and his ersatz blues lyrics--very annoying. But not as annoying as his piano playing--how many sessions Leonard organized did he ruin with his clunky, inert approach to the keyboard?

[JSngry]

That bad?

Noooooooooooo...........

That GOOD.

[Jazz Kat]

o I guess I took it the wrong way. My bad.

[Ron S]

Well, if I hear an instrumental version of a song say, Makin' Whoopie, I'll love it. Then when I hear the lyrics, I just dont like the lyrics at all.

You should hear them on this:

B-)