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 Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:02 am
This is a thread where everyone is welcome to post their favorite artists, or at least artists they would like to recommend to guild members, so we'd get to know more jazz artists and about their styles. 3nodding
I'll be updating this thread from time to time with artists of my own choice and fancy. 3nodding Please direct any queries or suggestions to me via PM.
I'd love to see this take off... 3nodding
P.S. It would be great if anyone could recommend some relatively obscure artist or someone who's quite famous in your country/region but unheard of overseas. Take an example, I'm sure not everyone would know David Gomes or Marina Xavier, both of which are famous artists from Singapore. 3nodding Would be a learning experience for all of us I guess...
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:03 am
Recommended post structure (to be edited)
Name/Group name:
Instrument:
Style:
Short introduction:
General impression(if any):
Recommended recordings/famous works:
Pictures of the artist(s):
Links:
Sources of information provided:
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:04 am
List of Artists highlighted
1. Diana Krall (pg. 1)
2. Charlie "Bird" Parker (pg. 1) (contributed by kila-chan 4laugh )
3. Billie Holiday aka "Lady Day" (pg. 1)
4. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong (pg. 2)
5. Sadao Watanabe (pg. 2)
6. The Manhattan Transfer (pg. 2)
7. Tots Tolentino (pg. 2) (contributed by MHHornfreak 4laugh )
8. Ernestine Anderson (pg. 2) (contributed by MHHornfreak 4laugh )
9. Steve Gadd (pg. 2) (contributed by Frustrated 4laugh )
10. Martin Taylor (pg. 2) (thank you Seimono Yasamoto for additional info ^^)
11. Ella Fitzgerald (pg. 2)
12. Chick Corea (pg. 2)
13. Don Lanphere (pg. 2) (contributed by MHHornfreak 4laugh )
14. Louis Sclavis (pg. 2)
15. John Francis Pastorius III (pg. 3) (contributed by Areyoma 4laugh )
16. Serge Chaloff (pg. 3) (contributed by petermann55 4laugh )
17. Harry Carney (pg. 3) (contributed by petermann55 4laugh )
18. John Mclaughclin (pg. 3) (contributed by BitchesBrew 4laugh )
19. Dinah Washington (pg. 3)
20. Cassandra Wilson (pg. 3)
21. Cindy Blackman (pg. 3) (contributed by Frustrated 4laugh )
22. Herbie Hancock (pg. 3) (contributed by tinytim4 4laugh )
23. Tim Aucoin (pg. 3) (contributed by Alrigo_Luciano 4laugh )
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:06 am
List of Contributors
1. kila-chan 4laugh
2. MHHornfreak 4laugh
3. Frustrated 4laugh
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:07 am
Things to watch out in a post
1. Make sure the artiste you're presenting hasn't been taken yet.
2. Please try to fill in most of the details. It's alright for the intros to be in essay form, but please make it relevant.
3. Please include your comments, we'd like to know what you feel.
4. Pictures are encouraged, but please host your own picture.
5. Please ensure your information is accurate.
6. ABSOLUTELY NO SPAM!!! stressed (I will personally hunt down spammers and lock them into a room playing the Ketchup Song non-stop for a week... domokun However, discussion on the artists and their music are encouraged 3nodding )
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:12 am
Notice [17 Mar 2005 10:15pm (+8GMT)]
I'm back. The profile thread is back in business. 3nodding Hope more people would contribute and add to our existing thread. 4laugh I'll be around, but I think I might post less frequently than I'd like due to assignments, me working as a freelance science writer and being part of the exco for a club. sweatdrop
Have fun posting ^^
snow_lotus
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:13 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:21 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:32 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:34 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:59 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:07 pm
Name: Diana Krall  Instrument: Piano/Vocals Style: Smooth Jazz Short introduction: Acoustic pianist, jazz vocalist, platinum-selling, Grammy-winner/nominee, this silky-voiced chanteuse, who happens to be married to Elvis Costello sweatdrop , embodies all of these. She is one of the rare gems of jazz that has not sold out to popular tastes but yet remain commercially successful. Diana leads a cohesive, intuitive group that includes bassist John Clayton, drummer Jeff Hamilton, and guitarist Anthony Wilson. On some of the selections, she is also joined by John Pisano (who is heard on acoustic guitar) and Brazilian percussionist Paulinho Da Costa. It isn't every day that a jazz improviser becomes a major attraction at the Lilith Fair festival, which was founded by singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan and has tended to spotlight female pop-rock and pop artists. But in 1998, Krall had no problem winning over a young, predominantly female audience that was more likely to be into Sheryl Crow or Alanis Morissette than Abbey Lincoln or Chris Connor. When I Look in Your Eyes went platinum in the United States (where it sold over one million units), double platinum in Canada, platinum in Portugal, and gold in France. And in 2000, it won a Canadian Juno Award for Best Vocal Jazz Album. Although When I Look in Your Eyes was an extremely tough act to follow, Diana's next album, The Look of Love, has also been an impressive seller. When The Look of Love was released in September 2001, it entered the Billboard 200 at #9 and sold 95,000 copies in the U.S. alone its first week. In addition to going quadruple platinum in Canada and platinum in Australia, New Zealand, Poland, and Portugal, The Look of Love has gone gold in France, Singapore, and England. At Canada's Juno Awards, The Look of Love was a winner in three categories: Best Artist, Best Album, and Best Vocal Jazz Album. General impression(if any): Her music is smooth and comforting, ideal for a lazy afternoon nursing a cup of warm coffee or tea. Her improvisations are fairly complex works but yet never overpowering on the ears. The range of music she runs through is also fairly wide. Just listen to "Live in Paris" and you'll understand the diversity of Diana's repertoire. She not only has an extensive knowledge of the great Tin Pan Alley standards of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s - she is also well versed in songs from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Diana shows her love of Tin Pan Alley on swinging performances of Harold Arlen's "Let's Fall in Love," Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin," and George and Ira Gershwin's "'S'Wonderful," but she also brings her interpretive powers to singer Bob Dorough's 1950s bop classic "Devil May Care," Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" and the Burt Bacharach/Hal David favorite "The Look of Love." Krall picks two songs that are closely identified with Peggy Lee-"Deed I Do" and "I Love Being Here with You"-as well as Bart Howard's "Fly Me to the Moon," which was made famous by Frank Sinatra. However, one gripe about Diana is that she took a wrong step by releasing "The Girl in the Other Room" stressed Very unlike her previous works, it failed to let her personality shine through. Instead, it felt like Elvis Costello being puppet master all the way. Please girl, don't let marriage blind you... gonk Recommended recordings/famous works: Look of Love, East of the Sun, Maybe You'll Be There, Besame Mucho heart "Diana Krall - Live in Paris" Note: Excerpts were obtained from Diana Krall's Official WebsiteLinks with Samples: Diana Krall "Love Scenes"
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 4:54 pm
Charlie 'the Bird' Parker (We'll go for a classic, right?) I'm getting a lot of mixed information, but here goes. Charlie Christopher Parker was born/lived his childhood in Kansas City. He was first introduced to music through school, where he played the baritone, and then switched to the alto saxophone, which was to be his instrument for the rest of his life. During high school he played locally with bands such as Lawrence '88' Keys, Jay McShann, George E. Lee, and Harlan Leonard, but soon left school to pursue life as a professional musician elsewhere. First stop was New York, where he played in small clubs and with young musicians, developing the new jazz, 'bop', until reuniting with McShann for his first recording in 1940- completely developed bop, although not a completely developed Parker. Five years later he started recording with another founder of bebop- Dizzy Gillespie. The duo's series of recordings was influential in turning the jazz audience to the new style, bringing it out of the backwoods. These records also showed Parker's developed independent style; harder, more bittersweet than the established saxophonists of the era. To quote someone else, 'Parker found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes he could play what he had been "hearing."'After making the recordings, he traveled with Gillespie to the West Coast- but one could say that here, disaster struck. The audience was not quite as enthusiastic as they had been in New York, and Parker took refuge, unfortunately for us, in drugs and alcohol. In 1946, while recording for Dial, the Bird collapsed and had to spend 6 months in the Camarillo State Hospital. Parker's recordings for Verve, Dial and Savoy in the next several years included sessions with Miles Davis, Red Rodney, Kenny Dorham, and Gillespie. Verve also put him in unusual settings; vocal choruses, string orchestras, Latin or Cuban groups, and an all-star recording. However, during this years the musician extra ordinaire's health continued to deteriorate, and ten years after the Camarillo Hospital incident, Charlie Parker died in a friend's apartment, at the age of 35. Bird can be, and often is, argued to be the best jazz soloist, or even jazz musician of his time. Not only was his music astounding, but his influence on other musicians was enormous as well. And not just saxophonists- listen a bit to Milt Jackson and Bud Powell and you can see that his effect was huge. 'Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker.' -Miles Davis, summarising the history of jazz. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_parker_charlie.htmhttp://www.cmgww.com/music/parker/about/quotes.htmlargh!! Photobucket is being pure evil.
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:27 pm
yay.... *hugs kila-chan* Thanks for the input 4laugh you're the 1st contributor...
*opens bubbly and offers kila some*
Don't worry about the pictures... as long as you remember to add them it's alright 3nodding
I love Bird... bebop is teh cool... xd
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:40 pm
Name: Billie Holiday, i.e. Lady Day  Instrument: Vocal Style: Swing Short introduction: Billie Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. Her mother was only 13 when she was born. The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. She made her singing debut in obscure Harlem nightclubs (borrowing her professional name from screen star Billie Dove), then toured with Count Basie and Artie Shaw before going solo. Benny Goodman dragged the frightened singer to her first studio session. Between 1933 and 1944, she recorded over 200 "sides," but she never received royalties for any of them. Despite a lack of technical training, Holiday's unique diction, inimitable phrasing and acute dramatic intensity made her the outstanding jazz singer of her day. White gardenias, worn in her hair, became her trademark. "Singing songs like the 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck," she wrote in her autobiography. "I've lived songs like that." Her own compositions included "God Bless the Child," espousing the virtues of financial independence and "Don't Explain," lament on infidelity. Billie Holiday, a musical legend still popular today, died an untimely death at the age of 44. General impression(if any): All I can say is that when I first heard her voice over the radio, I didn't liked her at all. Her voice was raspy and hoarse, and her style just didn't impress me. In fact, I wondered why on earth she was touted as the most prominent jazz singer of the era. A year on and I finally understand her. Her music, her technicality, her pains. Her music was honest as one could get, and her gritty voice gave us access to the various hardships and pains she experienced and brought the reality of a hard life to the masses. All I can say now is that she's masterful and an icon, and song "Strange Fruit" helped change history and shape the world we know today. Recommended recordings/famous works: God Bless the Child, Body and Soul, Don't Explain, Strange Fruit, Lady Sings the Blues Links: Billie's Official WebsiteThe Unofficial Billie Holiday website
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