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Spike Lee Turned Me on To Jazz Yo before this I would only listen to hip hop and R&B. I use to ask my uncle to turn the station to hip hop when he picked me up from school. He kept the radio on Jazz 88.3 24/7. He told me "when you get my age you're gonna love jazz." He was so on point. He kept bad ass young bitches on some smooth shit.
It wasnt till I watched this movie back in the days, that I started feeling Jazz. I got hooked. Totally. I've watched this movie just as much as purple rain. Wow, it was a blessing growing up in the 80's and early 90's. I really appreciate when I was young. I really do. Peace org | |
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What is Mo' Better Blues?
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leeroysoupnutz said: Yo before this I would only listen to hip hop and R&B. I use to ask my uncle to turn the station to hip hop when he picked me up from school. He kept the radio on Jazz 88.3 24/7. He told me "when you get my age you're gonna love jazz." He was so on point. He kept bad ass young bitches on some smooth shit.
It wasnt till I watched this movie back in the days, that I started feeling Jazz. I got hooked. Totally. I've watched this movie just as much as purple rain. Wow, it was a blessing growing up in the 80's and early 90's. I really appreciate when I was young. I really do. Peace org So, what was the first jaz album you bought then? By the way, if you've got the Mo Better Blues OST you'll get a good pointer about who to check out from the Gangstarr title song ... "Charlie Mingus - Such nimble fingers". They were right, but then there was sooooo much more to Mingus Snr - check out his "auto-biography" (largely a work fiction, but the writing is sublime) Under the Underdog; the guy was a genius. Miles was ansolutely right when he called Mingus an "intellectual". They came from the same school of hardknocks, but Mingus ended up the Dean. [Edited 12/2/06 15:56pm] There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently | |
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CinisterCee said: What is Mo' Better Blues?
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My dad introduced me to jazz. | |
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Nobody ever introduced me to jazz. | |
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I introduced myself to it but am in no way well informed and versed | |
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heartbeatocean said: Nobody ever introduced me to jazz.
Then you need to ask some of us on the org. We will be happy to point you in the right direction | |
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My dad introduced me to Jazz. A Jazz appreciation class during my sophomore year of college got me hooked and turned me into a die hard. I've been jamming Coltrane's Newport '63 live album for the last two days. It contains arguably the greatest rendering of My Favorite Things I've ever heard. Coltrane's playing is otherworldly! [Edited 12/2/06 19:46pm] | |
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The truth is that the first time I heard A Love Supreme was during Mo' Better Blues. I knew of Miles of course and Herbie Hancock, and I've grown in my appreciation of the music since. Jeux Sans Frontiers | |
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Jeux Sans Frontiers | |
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CinisterCee said: What is Mo' Better Blues?
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UncleGrandpa said: The truth is that the first time I heard A Love Supreme was during Mo' Better Blues. I knew of Miles of course and Herbie Hancock, and I've grown in my appreciation of the music since.
A Love Supreme is not in Mo Better..... Coltrane is playing "Tunji" | |
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sdekm1 said: UncleGrandpa said: The truth is that the first time I heard A Love Supreme was during Mo' Better Blues. I knew of Miles of course and Herbie Hancock, and I've grown in my appreciation of the music since.
A Love Supreme is not in Mo Better..... Coltrane is playing "Tunji" | |
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I'll have to watch it again but I'm sure that it's in there, It's playing during the birth scene in the background near the end of the film. If I'm wrong, I'll take your word for it, peace. Jeux Sans Frontiers | |
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heartbeatocean said: Nobody ever introduced me to jazz.
No one introduce me to Jazz either. I always had the perception that JAZZ was always instrumental, until I watched "Lady sings the Blue" and it got me interested in Billie Holliday. However the way Diana interpretates those songs in the film is so very different from Billie's versions. But up to this day Diana version of "Good Morning heartache" is my favourite version. | |
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sdekm1 said: UncleGrandpa said: The truth is that the first time I heard A Love Supreme was during Mo' Better Blues. I knew of Miles of course and Herbie Hancock, and I've grown in my appreciation of the music since.
A Love Supreme is not in Mo Better..... Coltrane is playing "Tunji" Coltrane is credited with 3 tunes in that movie... A Love Supreme Tunji Mr. Knight ...so you're both correct. tA Tribal Disorder http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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theAudience said: sdekm1 said: A Love Supreme is not in Mo Better..... Coltrane is playing "Tunji" Coltrane is credited with 3 tunes in that movie... A Love Supreme Tunji Mr. Knight ...so you're both correct. tA Tribal Disorder Tunji is a Nigerian, boy name. What an interested music title. http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 | |
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The woman in my avatar is my 1st and most important introduction to Jazz.
It started from their, from the people she worked with to the people who influenced her to the people who were influenced by her. | |
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leeroysoupnutz said: Yo before this I would only listen to hip hop and R&B. I use to ask my uncle to turn the station to hip hop when he picked me up from school. He kept the radio on Jazz 88.3 24/7. He told me "when you get my age you're gonna love jazz." He was so on point. He kept bad ass young bitches on some smooth shit.
It wasnt till I watched this movie back in the days, that I started feeling Jazz. I got hooked. Totally. I've watched this movie just as much as purple rain. Wow, it was a blessing growing up in the 80's and early 90's. I really appreciate when I was young. I really do. Peace org Hey leroy....I know you from BGOL! | |
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CinisterCee said: sdekm1 said: A Love Supreme is not in Mo Better..... Coltrane is playing "Tunji" | |
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I always had a strong fascination with the "Harlem Renaissance" era ever since I was in middle school. I always said that if I ever could have been born during a time period of my choice, it would have been that era because besides the height of racism during that period, I thought the era was very cool...most nobly because of the music.
I saw Mo' Better Blues as a young child when it first came out, but of course I didn't fully understand the movie itself until I rented it from Blockbuster Video my senior year in high school. After that, I can say that this movie helped me appreciate Jazz, and even made me research jazz and the artists. I got turned onto Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Charlie "The Bird" Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and others. My peers thought I was nuts listening to what they called "old timers" music. But I said to hell with them, the music made me feel so classy, and it still does to this day. I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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missfee said: I always had a strong fascination with the "Harlem Renaissance" era ever since I was in middle school. I always said that if I ever could have been born during a time period of my choice, it would have been that era because besides the height of racism during that period, I thought the era was very cool...most nobly because of the music.
I saw Mo' Better Blues as a young child when it first came out, but of course I didn't fully understand the movie itself until I rented it from Blockbuster Video my senior year in high school. After that, I can say that this movie helped me appreciate Jazz, and even made me research jazz and the artists. I got turned onto Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Charlie "The Bird" Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and others. My peers thought I was nuts listening to what they called "old timers" music. But I said to hell with them, the music made me feel so classy, and it still does to this day. | |
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I only remembered Coltrane playing "Tunji"... I guess cause it was during that hot sex scene when Cynda Williams was showing her goodies | |
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I grew up with it thanks to my Dad.
He and his friends would try and out do each other keeping up with the lastest hippest Jazz records. Always will remember this LP... ... sitting in the front of his stack of records. And this one that I would sneak out (and eventually ruined )... ...to listen to the guitar genius of Johnny Smith. Didn't understand it initially but the sounds were always in my head so it never sounded strange. It simply fit in as another form of music along with the Gospel, Pop, R&B, R&R and Classical I heard. tA Tribal Disorder http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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DorothyParkerWasCool said: heartbeatocean said: Nobody ever introduced me to jazz.
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whatsgoingon said: heartbeatocean said: Nobody ever introduced me to jazz.
No one introduce me to Jazz either. I always had the perception that JAZZ was always instrumental, until I watched "Lady sings the Blue" and it got me interested in Billie Holliday. However the way Diana interpretates those songs in the film is so very different from Billie's versions. But up to this day Diana version of "Good Morning heartache" is my favourite version. Well, I'm a huge Billie Holiday fan. | |
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missfee said: I always had a strong fascination with the "Harlem Renaissance" era ever since I was in middle school. I always said that if I ever could have been born during a time period of my choice, it would have been that era because besides the height of racism during that period, I thought the era was very cool...most nobly because of the music.
I'm working for a film where I have to watch hours of archival footage from that era and it's GREAT. The music, the big bands, the dancing (lindy hop?), the tap dancing , the clothes!!! And then there were the poets... | |
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thelonious introduced me to jazz
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