Butta Radio

  • Thread starter Thread starter jaybutta
  • Start date Start date
Hey @Uncle Jack thanks for bringing this genre up. I was a junkie for this stuff esp. in the 80's, it was my favorite music. I was fortunate to spend an entire month in NYC. During that time, I hung out at the Blue Note and took in numerous acts. I hung out in San Francisco and Seattle jazz clubs and festivals listening to Tyner, Blakey, Cherry, Clarke, Carter, Shorter, Hancock, Blakey, Hubbard, Turrentine, Rivers, Chick, Marsalis, Ernestine Anderson, Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Sonny Fortune and so many more. Many are no longer here. I regret not seeing Oscar Peterson, Miles but saw a lot of the dudes that played in their groups. Many nights coming home bleary eyed around 4am.
It all started in the late 70's working in a record store. All the demos would come in for store play. Every few months the employees would take turns picking albums in this huge stack of punched out LP's to take home. The employees grabbed all the R&R but nobody touched the classical or jazz. I brought home armfuls of LP's and my education and collection began. Thanks again for triggering the memories of this incredible music.


caught this act at Dimitriou's in Seattle in the early 80's:

mu
 
musashi said:
Hey @Uncle Jack thanks for bringing this genre up. I was a junkie for this stuff esp. in the 80's, it was my favorite music. I was fortunate to spend an entire month in NYC. During that time, I hung out at the Blue Note and took in numerous acts. I hung out in San Francisco and Seattle jazz clubs and festivals listening to Tyner, Blakey, Cherry, Clarke, Carter, Shorter, Hancock, Blakey, Hubbard, Turrentine, Rivers, Chick, Marsalis, Ernestine Anderson, Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Sonny Fortune and so many more. Many are no longer here. I regret not seeing Oscar Peterson, Miles but saw a lot of the dudes that played in their groups. Many nights coming home bleary eyed around 4am.
It all started in the late 70's working in a record store. All the demos would come in for store play. Every few months the employees would take turns picking albums in this huge stack of punched out LP's to take home. The employees grabbed all the R&R but nobody touched the classical or jazz. I brought home armfuls of LP's and my education and collection began. Thanks again for triggering the memories of this incredible music.


caught this act at Dimitriou's in Seattle in the early 80's:

mu
Click to expand...

Saw everyone on your list :love: Most more than a dozen times. One of the great things about New York. EVERYBODY plays New York. Can't forget Ol' Dizzy either,Tony Bennett, Dexter Gordon, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Roland Kirk, Jaco, Elvin Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Williams, Thelonius Monk, Stan Getz, the list is endless! Saw lots of shows at the Blue Note and the Village Vanguard. All the Big Bands came thru here too! Just had the 47th Annual Saratoga Jazz Festival here. Thought Jazz was not allowed on forum as I never saw a song posted in 5 years here. Ok to ban Smooth Jazz though. lol Besides seeing Wynton Marsalis, I saw his brother Branford playing with the Grateful Dead a few times.
 
Believe the Bass - it will never lie to you.

Freedom_Fighter said:
Epiphlioy

A very trippy live performance. Her base work is phenomenal, imho.
Click to expand...

Bassist Brandi Wynne graduated from the Berklee College of Music so yeah, she's really good. Another great bass player, the only bass player voted Bass Player of the Year 3 times, did not go to Berklee but does teach there. Victor Wooten co-leads the "Victor Wooten/Berklee Summer Bass Workshop" at Berklee College of Music in Boston. At Berklee and his own camps, he collaborates with Berklee Bass Department chair, Steve Bailey.The two bassists have been teaching together since the early 1990s. Victor is also a founding member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

Victor Wooten Bass solo - He can play faster than you can hear, so pay attention! lol



If you want to play bass like Victor, you need to start really young.

 
musashi said:
Hey @Uncle Jack thanks for bringing this genre up. I was a junkie for this stuff esp. in the 80's, it was my favorite music. I was fortunate to spend an entire month in NYC. During that time, I hung out at the Blue Note and took in numerous acts. I hung out in San Francisco and Seattle jazz clubs and festivals listening to Tyner, Blakey, Cherry, Clarke, Carter, Shorter, Hancock, Blakey, Hubbard, Turrentine, Rivers, Chick, Marsalis, Ernestine Anderson, Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Sonny Fortune and so many more. Many are no longer here. I regret not seeing Oscar Peterson, Miles but saw a lot of the dudes that played in their groups. Many nights coming home bleary eyed around 4am.
It all started in the late 70's working in a record store. All the demos would come in for store play. Every few months the employees would take turns picking albums in this huge stack of punched out LP's to take home. The employees grabbed all the R&R but nobody touched the classical or jazz. I brought home armfuls of LP's and my education and collection began. Thanks again for triggering the memories of this incredible music.


caught this act at Dimitriou's in Seattle in the early 80's:

mu
Click to expand...
You have a wonderful music scene in America, a real melting pot of influences and of course all the big names in jazz.

I was lucky enough to see Miles Davis here in Australia but that is where the journey ended.

Would give my right eye to meet Art Pepper and listen to him play for a night.

But he is just one in a list of many.

I would soon run out of right eyes but my ears would be all I would really need.

When I rub the bottle and the genie gives me my three wishes one of them will be to be transported to a smoke filled jazz club in New York.

Smoking blunts and sipping Hennessy.

Oh shit that's three wishes already!

 
Last edited:
longball said:
Believe the Bass - it will never lie to you.

Bassist Brandi Wynne graduated from the Berklee College of Music so yeah, she's really good. Another great bass player, the only bass player voted Bass Player of the Year 3 times, did not go to Berklee but does teach there. Victor Wooten co-leads the "Victor Wooten/Berklee Summer Bass Workshop" at Berklee College of Music in Boston. At Berklee and his own camps, he collaborates with Berklee Bass Department chair, Steve Bailey.The two bassists have been teaching together since the early 1990s. Victor is also a founding member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
Click to expand...

Very cool background info, longball; thanks for sharing that as I had no idea; but knowing it does help me form a clearer picture of her skill level. She is highly accomplished and deserves high praise; but Victor Wooten is the GOAT, a living legend. The dude kills it; and that kid is epic. A genuine prodigy with a very bright future.
 
Freedom_Fighter said:
Very cool background info, longball; thanks for sharing that as I had no idea; but knowing it does help me form a clearer picture of her skill level. She is highly accomplished and deserves high praise; but Victor Wooten is the GOAT, a living legend. The dude kills it; and that kid is epic. A genuine prodigy with a very bright future.
Click to expand...

Quite a few of the Berklee students in the top 20% quit the school because they spend too much time teaching the teachers. Steve Vai is a classic example of that. He left the Berklee College of Music after one year thinking that he would learn much more by joining Frank Zappa's band. History proved him right. Steve Vai got the audition because he had transcribed note-for-note every Frank Zappa solo. Zappa heard of this and had him audition and hired him on the spot. Brandi Wynne got a degree from Berklee. I am very impressed with that! She's a player!

'Stevie's Spanking' - Steve Vai and Frank Zappa duet.


[EDIT] Teachers at Berklee are awesome, for that reason the school attracts great young musicians, many of them on a level beyond our understanding(or their teachers).
 
Last edited:
longball said:
Steve Vai got the audition because he had transcribed note-for-note every Frank Zappa solo. Zappa heard of this and had him audition and hired him on the spot.
Click to expand...

I've seen a cool video by Vai describing his long and grueling audition; and how Zappa asked him to do the impossible. I think Vai said that after 4 long hours of Frank testing him to his limit(s), he thanked him for his time, packed up his gear and began to leave, thinking he didn't get the job and was just wasting both their time. When he got to the door, Frank asked him where he was going, because he was now in the band. I love Vai's personal recollections of time with Zappa!

longball said:
Brandi Wynne got a degree from Berklee. I am very impressed with that! She's a player!
Click to expand...

She's definitely a bass heroine in my book!

longball said:
'Stevie's Spanking' - Steve Vai and Frank Zappa duet.

Click to expand...

AWESOME video!!
 
Last edited:
Freedom_Fighter said:
She's definitely a bass heroine in my book!
Click to expand...

So many incredible female bass players out there nowadays, like Mohini Dey. If you don't have time for the whole song pick it up at 3:45. You will see why Victor doesn't sleep easy and can't rest on his laurels. lol


A bit of sad news if you hadn't heard: In 2018–2019 Wooten was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition called focal dystonia in his hands and upper body, which had been limiting his ability to play in previous years, but has since abated somewhat. There is no cure for focal dystonia. Victor Wooten Speaks Up on His Rare Neurological Condition: It's Called Focal Dystonia. "The easiest explanation and most accurate explanation I've ever heard of it is that the brain sends a jumble of information to the hands, and the hands don't respond," the bassist says. :(
 
longball said:
So many incredible female bass players out there nowadays, like Mohini Dey. If you don't have time for the whole song pick it up at 3:45. You will see why Victor doesn't sleep easy and can't rest on his laurels. lol


A bit of sad news if you hadn't heard: In 2018–2019 Wooten was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition called focal dystonia in his hands and upper body, which had been limiting his ability to play in previous years, but has since abated somewhat. There is no cure for focal dystonia.
Click to expand...

Yes, I can see what you mean. Dey is definitely outstanding! Never heard of her, though, tbh, 'til you mentioned her, but she definitely sizzles.

Wooten, poor guy! No, I hadn't heard about his tragic diagnosis. Absolutely shocking news! Never heard of that rare condition 'til now; but sure glad to hear its progression has slowed up.
 
Probably seen every 'smooth' Jazz artist you care to name. Some many times. Bob James attended the University of Michigan but during his second year transferred to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. At Berklee his roommate was saxophonist Nick Brignola. Nick was one of those who left Berklee early to become internationally famous on his own. Nick lived very close to me and we hung in the same clubs. Must have heard him play in the 100's of times. No smooth jazz, often avant garde Jazz, my personal favorite style of Jazz. Grover Washington Jr., considered the father of smooth jazz, Anita Baker, Dave Koz, Chris Botti, Chuck Mangione, Al Jarreau and Norah Jones, Kenny G, saw 'em all many times. Will admit to going out of my way many times to see Anita Baker, such a beautiful voice. Everybody plays New York.


A good thing about smooth jazz shows - many females there. A bad thing about 'real' jazz shows - not so many females there. So much music, so little time.....🎼🎤🎹🥁🎷🎺


Smooth Jazz may be thought of as commercially-oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 1980s, displacing the more venturesome jazz fusion from which it emerged. It avoids the improvisational "risk-taking" of jazz fusion, emphasizing melodic form, and much of the music was initially "a combination of jazz with easy-listening pop music and lightweight R&B." The popularity of smooth jazz as a radio format gradually declined in the early 2000s.Digby Fairweather, before the start of UK jazz station theJazz, denounced the change to a smooth jazz format on defunct radio station 102.2 Jazz FM; he stated that the owners GMG Radio were responsible for the "attempted rape and (fortunately abortive) re-definition of the music — is one that no true jazz lover within the boundaries of the M25 will ever find it possible to forget or forgive."


The most feared song in Jazz.


 
In the first set, recorded on March 28, 1960 in Dusseldorf, Germany, Coltrane was unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight when Miles Davis was unable play that day. It’s basically a performance of the Miles Davis Quintet without Davis. The lineup includes Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums.The film was made during a European tour billed as “Norman Granz’s Jazz at the Philharmonic Presents Jazz Winners of 1960.” Two of the other “Jazz Winners” were Stan Getz and Oscar Peterson, both of whom join Coltrane and the band near the end of the Dusseldorf set. Getz plays on the last few songs. It’s a historic session–the only known recording of the two great saxophone players performing together. At the beginning of the final song, Thelonious Monk’s “Hackensack,” Peterson taps Kelly on the shoulder and takes over on the piano. (Mark Springer/Openculture)

As I recall, in the 60's while the British rock scene was hitting America, many of the jazz greats were hanging out in Europe.
 
Guitarist Roger McGuinn, whose guitar solo on the Byrds' Eight Miles High was an attempt to evoke Coltrane's sound, recalled first hearing Coltrane as an utterly visceral experience. "I felt an actual pain in my chest," he told author Ashley Karn. "It wasn't a heart attack or gas pain, it was like some emotional pain, like it was opening up a new emotional area. "It hurt at first, and then I liked it."
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top