Ever require a "break" from jazz?

[ghost of miles]

Aimee Mann, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds, Audioslave, and Counting Crows

Some great rock there!

I've just been recently getting into Aimee Mann (Bachelor No.2)! I've also lately been listening alot to The Postal Service, Colplay's first album, Hope Sandoval, and Jon Brion's soundtrack of Punch Drunk Love.

If you like Hope Sandoval, be sure to check out her early 90's group, Mazzy Star (my apologies if you're already familiar with them!).

[Jazz]

Wow, someone who remembers Mazzy! They were probably the band most usually found in my cd player before I discovered Jazz. Great pop, IMO. You wouldn't by chance have heard of either HUM or Grant Lee Buffalo would you?

[chris]

I remember Mazzy Star-- had no idea who the band members were to know if they were still recording.

Isn't Jon Brion the guitarist/co-writer on a lot of Aimee Mann CDs/songs? I have pretty much everything of hers and really dig it all... but I must confess I pay a lot less attention to sidemen and composers when it comes to non-jazz music.

[Jazz]

Isn't Jon Brion the guitarist/co-writer on a lot of Aimee Mann CDs/songs? I have pretty much everything of hers and really dig it all... but I must confess I pay a lot less attention to sidemen and composers when it comes to non-jazz music.

Yeah that's him! I have the same attitude about rock sidemen, but I stumbled onto this guy somehow.

If you'd like to hear a streaming version of his PDL song "Here We Go", go to this website:

Largo

It requires a flash player. Click on the "Audio - Video" button in the left column menu and you'll get a selection of live recordings of artists who have played there.

[kenny weir]

I enjoyed a week's leave last week so I took the opportunity to "suspend normal programming" on may radio show. I filled it up with heaps of Allman Brothers (the "new" Atlanta Pop festival stuff), Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Gene Clark, John Stewart, Silas Hogan, Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, Johnny Rivers and more. It was a hoot and a half. I got quite a few phone calls and even a couple of letters, some of them from people who had been listening to my show more than a decade ago when all the above artists and many more were what I "did". That is, many years before I "went" jazz.

I find a brief foray into non-jazz stuff enjoyable and essential, for I find that the jazz fire burns even brighter when I return to it - usually within a few days.

My only regret is the several thousand vinyl albums I let go for financial reasons. My CD collection doesn't have much depth in the non-jaz department, but it suffices.

And odd thing, though - on the (very) odd occasion when I have the time, space and inclination to get good and drunk with just me and my music (and perhaps a toke or two, too), I invariably quickly seegway from the likes of Rollins and Silver to Garcia and Duane.

[kenny weir]

Hey - I just made veteran groover!

Edited December 4, 2003 by kenny weir

[Daniel A]

In my early teens I was more into classical music than jazz, allthough I was exposed to jazz at home since a very young age, and probably started buying an occasional jazz record as soon as I'd left the 'Abba' phase. However, about the age of 18 I got more and more into jazz, espescially since I was starting to play jazz on piano myself (my classical piano teacher had given up by then).

I've always had periods revisiting classical music, buying a bunch of CDs now and then, but they have seemed to get less intense... until last week!

I found a good deal on a Thorens turntable two weeks ago - it was sold in a record shop nearby, which at the same time happened to have a good price on a couple of 10 000s classical LPs as well! (Apparently classical LPs are slow movers these days) Everything was 1.50 Euro a piece, except if a lower price was given! So a few days later, after I'd revisited my Jazz LP collection, I went back to the shop. I returned home with some 70-80 classical LPs, all in Near Mint or Mint condition. As a result, my listening for the last week has been LP only, and classical only (except for the album 'Bernstein plays Brubeck plays Bernstein', which is... well, both jazz and classical).