I too started getting into Jazz in '72. I was in the Army and hung out with the older black NCOs who played nothing but jazz at their parties. The double LP "The Crusaders" was the first jazz album I bought and I went for more. I didn't care for the CTI records because Creed almost always mucked things up with the extemporaneous strings and schmaltz. Then I bought "California Concert" which was the live Double LP of the July '71 Hollywood Bowl gig that had ALL the CTI players in one place. (George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Stanley Turrentine, Hank Crawford, Johnny Hammond, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham and Airto.) I was gobsmacked! It is absolutely an amazing recording, and I recommend it highly! (The 2 CD set has 3 unreleased tunes on it).
great video...always love these vinyl junkie journeys...and of course love jazz as well...growing up in new york i was surrounded by clubs like birdland and the village vanguard...but sometimes you find a cool little dive or a baskethouse where someone unknown would be blowin' their heart out and it sent you into the surrounding smoke and sound...but one gentleman i have to mention (and clearly use the term 'gentleman'), was clark terry...i met him by chance on my way into birdland...we got to talk briefly before his rehearsal, but he was incredibly kind...great memories my friend...stay well...peace always...rocky
Mazzy, I was at that same Alice Coltrane show, and it did explore some way outer limits. I recall some wonderful live shows at Cal State LA college in 1969-70, including Herbie Hancock (Mwandishi era) and Don Ellis with Hari Har Rao. But I didn’t abandon rock for jazz until 1972 when I got bored with KSAN’s programming and flipped the dial over to KJAZZ. At that moment I stopped caring about rock until some 20 years ago when I dived back into ‘60s rock n roll. Thanks for the memories, Mazzy.
That Keith Jarrett concert is life changing good. Just picked that one up (pretty clean copy) for $14.00 when I was in Portland for a conference in October. Love it.
I first got into Jazz in 1967, I was seventeen, when I went to see the movie Alfie starring Michael Caine. The soundtrack was largely played by Sonny Rollins, I immediately brought the soundtrack and played it endlessly, I was hooked on Jazz and Sonny. I still have that vinyl and it still plays well. ✌Mazzy
Yo Mazzy, I like your videos. Aren't we all self-absorbed anyway? Hear this: I ignored/disliked Jazz for 30 adult years. Then I decided to force myself, as I had the opportunity to purchase a vintage lot of...Ornette Coleman....I spinned the records, and thought: 'heck, now I understand why I don't like this stuff'. In the lot was Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage. Voilà, that was the key to unlock the wonderful of Jazz (am still struggling with most free jazz).
Seeing Bill Evans must have been something. Ive been watching, and re-watching, 'Time Remembered', documentary about his life and music and really liking it , I'd like to get Live at the Village Vanguard, - he died relatively young but he left a lot of music behind.
Never dipped a toe in... Just plunged all the way into the deep end. They broke into my apartment and stole a lot of stuff including 100 or so CDs. I decided I was not going to buy the Eagles "Hotel California" for a third time (still had the LP)... So I went JAZZ. I got the Pinguin Jazz Bible and just bought all the titles with 5 stars. It wound up that most of them dated to the late 50s to the mid-1960s. It's like the Pop-Rock scene more or less cancelled out the Jazz from the mid-1960s on. Here are some of the standouts: for Miles-the Live at the Plugged Nickel sessions, recorded over Christmas at a gig in Chicago. They have become a Christmas standard for me ever since. 'Sunday Night at the Village Vanguard', Bill Evans Trio (including Waltz for Debbie) is another standout. I'll by in NYC at the start of March, and I will be sure to go the Village Vanguard on the Sunday night. Late show is best. I saw both Sunday shows for Seattle's Eric Alexander probably 20 years ago. Other stand outs: Lenox Avenue by Arthur Blue; Coltrain's Ascension; Herbie Hancock 'Complete Blue Note 60s Sessions' (Blue Note is a huge Jazz label from NYC); Lee Morgan's Sidewinder; Charlie Parker's Complete Dial Masters; Larry Young 'Unity'; Sonny Rollins 'Saxophone Colossus'; Max Roach 'Freedom Now Suite'; and Art Blakey 'Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Mon' and 'Night in Tunisia'. That's a dozen or so from the Jazz collection. It was around 2002 for me, and I too went CD because I thought the records would be too noisy.
Mazzy, you are showing all the stuff I love! We’ve got that similar Miles taste, bitches and silent way are my favorites. This is a perfect video. I love that return to forever stuff. Now on the Jeff Beck thing we kinda part there lol! I like the Dizzy story, Cheers my friend.
Anyone growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area was fortunate to have jazz influences like Ralph J. Gleason and Al 'Jazzbo' Collins around for an education. Speaking of San Francisco jazz clubs, Jimbo's Bop City on Fillmore and Height Levels were two good ones for listening to top rate jazz.
Mazzy, I've been playing this while doing other things around the house, but I had to stop and rewind and listen again to the Vince Geraldie (sp?) mother story. Than was great. It's stories like that that make videos like this so valuable. Thanks for sharing that one!
Fabulous background to your journey, thanks for sharing I agree - that Cannonball album has to be a top five album in jazz. Need to get me some Chick Corea 👍
Grew up in a musical family, grandfather was a coronet player in Chicago, was close friends with Jack Teagarden, played with Louis Armstrong, Eddie Condon.....all dixieland, Bix Biderbeck stuff....my father was state chair baritone player, won a scholarship to UT playing baritone, he also played guitar and recorder....blah blah blah, so have grown up with an appreciation of most music, but none of that has had as much to do with my love of jazz, being a rock n' roll guy, was hearing NRBQ do Rocket Number Took off For the Planet Venus by Sun Ra, ground breaking, love NRBQ, then my first jazz purchase in 1980 of an old copy of Thelonius Monks Underground, then bought Time Out, Kind of Blue, any Chico Hamilton, one of my favorite guitarist is a guy named Johnny Pisano, played with Chico before Gabor Gzabo, Art Blakey Jazz Messengers, Stanely Turrantine/Astid Gilberto(with Denny Siewell on drums)..saw Miles Davis and Bill Evans play the New Orleans Jazz festival in "88, only time they played togather since Kind of Blue, on and on, so now I just watch your show to get great recommendations like Horace Silver and MJQ, Thanks again Mazzy, very entertaining...cheers, from the bleeding heart of Texas....oh also what do you hear regarding the re-rellease of Sometime In New York City, it seems to have vanished
Wow Mazzy. That’s amazing that you got to see so many jazz greats live. The Dizzy Gillespie story is fantastic. Would love to see another video where you go deeper into the Jazz concerts you attended. Love this. Thanks again for posting. Cahal NYC ✌🏼
Late 70’s and the one that did it for me was The Pat Metheny Group’s first album. Not really loving the fusion of the time but ECM opened it all up for me. A shout out to my Dad for exposing me to Brubeck and others when I was a little kid so I was primed and ready! Lots of things lead you up to the moment you’re ready, eg Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Traffic, etc.
Spot on ending the video with a shout out to Something Else. I was in Jr high, must've been '68 or '69. I was 13 or 14 yrs old. A Friday night football game in rural southwest Louisiana. The raggedy little halftime marching band plays a melody. I didn't know the song title, but the melody never left me. 15 years later I'm living in Los Angeles. In a music store, someone drops the needle on a record. I hear that melody, first time in all those years! It is 'Autumn Leaves', and the album is Cannonball Adderley's Something Else. This record could be...maybe, just maybe...my most played jazz album ever. A perfect album, as you would say, Mazzy.
Glad to see you bring this series back. Love all the stories. To be able to browse a record store in the 70s like that, trying out all the jazz piled up on the floors, would be a treasure to behold. Do you have memories of seeing some of the more avant-garde jazz (Black Jazz label you mentioned) sitting in the bins? And then later perhaps, the cut-out bin?
Your example should be one for all those who got into Jazz later in life, then get back and explore the earlier stuff. Its all about the music... good video Maz!
Excellent Mazzy. Annual Playboy Jazz Poll was my high school intro ‘67, ‘68… from that Cannonball Adderley Mercy, Mercy, Mercy was worn out; as was Charles Lloyd Forest Flower (started a long relationship), Wes Montgomery too… In college it was Bitches Brew 8-track; And Jimmy Smith Bluesmith as a later memorable college standout…
Hi Mazzy, I absolutely love these "Memories of a Vinyl Junkie" series ! My mother had some jazz 45's in the house,so I knew of Mingus,and Vince Giraldi. It wasn't till I was older that I really developed an appreciation for Jazz. It started with Dave Brubeck, and Getz/Gilberto. I love Jazz and prefer listening to Jazz, and Classical music these days. Love all your back stories with this series,please do more. Oh... I always wondered how "Jazz----Brooks" got his nick name ! Happiness, Cindy
First jazz l heard was "Take five" by Brubeck when l was a kid in the ,60,s but really got into it in the '70's after hearing "The Sidewinder "by Lee Morgan ( which is and remains my favourite Jazz album ) . After that could,nt get enough of the classic Blue Note label , L.P.'s by Hank Mobley , Stanley Turrentine and many others following close behlnd . Now retired and with a large collection Jazz (along with Prog /Rock ) is never far from my turntable . A good video as always Mazzy . Regards from the U.K.
Onya Mazzy! Blowin' with Dizzy Gillespie- that is legendary! It is amazing as now at a more mature age, I actually am really digging Jazz too. It is a wonderful time for this old man to develop his mind beyond rock - loving the blues and jazz and their historical players. Maybe that is the softening of brain tissue also...Keep them coming!
This was just thoroughly enjoyable,it’s a snowy rainy day here on the east coast of Canada , and this really hit home when I think about my own journey into jazz, just perfect for this afternoon. Thanks
Mas... It took Ken Burns and his epic JAZZ to introduce me to the music... But a person could go broke watching The Jazz Sheppard... He just has so much...
WOW. I love that you view this as a possible message to your son. As a dad of two young ones - I relate to that and that is cool. Great video. I feel like I have a very similar Jazz trajectory as you. I was introduced to Bitches Brew "before my time" but have come back to it and love it and agree that In a Silent Way is the best of that era for Miles. For me John Coltrane has always been an intimidation - even as I got more and more into jazz - I was still intimidated - it wasn't until last year that I really started to get into him....I waited too long!
Thanks Mazzy. One of my current systems is four AR speakers and a Dual 1219 driven by a Pioneer or a Sansui quad receiver depending on my mood. love the channel. I scored an OG of Something Else at a thrift store but it is in rough shape. Keep on Trucking.
Great video. I found this extremely interesting. I started to buy some jazz when CD's started coming out. I got a couple of box sets, Blue Note's Best and The Verve Story. I have also a lot of Miles and Coltrane and Billie Holiday and a mix of many others. I listen a lot to Real Jazz on satellite radio and especially love the fusion artists. Thanks for your personal touch to these great artists.
I blew through three different vinyl versions of my goals Beyond that's how many times I played that record to the point where the third copy I got was an import and that's the one I still have to this day that is in great shape one of the greatest John McLaughlin albums ever can listen to that thing over and over again
I must admit I didn’t get jazz when I was younger too. I really didn’t get serious into jazz or collecting in general till Covid started and watching TH-cam vinyl channels. You gave me the desire to look at jazz and recommend Miles Davis Kinda Blue. Which I did. I think I may need to follow this thread. Thanks for great videos.
I have become more interested in Jazz thanks to watching your videos. I was able to reach a higher level because of your knowledge. Because of this I came across albums that I would otherwise have discovered much later or maybe never.
Super good tiips of records and artist, I discovered Jazz in more detail while watching Bosch series, starting with Art Pepper and is growing from there. Thanks for your insite and knowledge
Well Norman I must say fantastic video as usual keep up the good work and do me a favor if possible start talking about more of those classic ECM records since I have the first 300 issues I'm pretty familiar with the initial starting of vcm half of those are usually going to be Imports in my collection love that label still love playing those records today nice job
Mazzy Mazzy Mazzy The STORYTELLER This latest video was awesome You meeting Dizzy AND Earl “Fatha” Hines would have been enough but Vince Gurapdi’s mom as well. This was just the BEST 100% MUSIC Really enjoyed how personal this was and historical Molto GRAZIE!
2:00 Nat King Cole album around mid-1980s: the first I remember buying with outtake tracks, just different takes really. Can't remember which album though I still have the vinyl here somewhere, propped up against one of the walls. The albums are fine but the walls are warped. Can't remember the track but inbetween you hear Nat calling out, wanting to get it down so he could finish: "I wanna see the PARADE! I wanna see the PARADE today!" Excited like a kid. That's the best line in a song that has no lyrics. I learned his exact cadence so I could say it the same way whenever I was in a hurry to get someplace: "I wanna see the PARADE! I wanna see the PARADE today!" You had to say "today" low key to let "PARADE" strut. That's how to say it, and I said it for years. Girlfriends found it adorable, until they didn't. "I wanna see the PARADE! I wanna see the PARADE today!" So now I'm propped up against one of the walls with my vinyl and no turntable. I think the whole album was instrumental, Nat on piano with a quartet maybe, trumpet prominent, no strings, rare by the time of recording around mid-50s. No shit about 'pre-flight,' just, "I wanna see the PARADE! I wanna see the PARADE today!"
I loved hearing all of your stories in this one, Mazzy. Dizzy Gillespie story was great.🍃 Do you have many ECM records in your collection now? I'm planning an ECM video at some point.
While watching and listening to this video, I picked up on ebay, a 1st pressing stereo of The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. I think I got it for a steal, but I suppose that will depend on its true condition. I have been evaluating my collecting habits lately. I started off trying to accumulate records that meant something to me as a child, nostalgia. I am not a genre snob. I like many kinds of music equally. I am a songwriter and my songs span many genres as well. Now, I am finding the records that I want to listen to over and over, are Jazz. There is just something so incredible about putting on a good jazz record, closing my eyes and almost believing a trio, quartet or quintet is actually playing live, just for me.
Like so many who grew up listening mainly to rock, my first exposure to jazz influenced music was with albums like the second BS&T ('68) and the Chicago Transit Authority ('69), but more than any other single record it was 'Streetnoise' ('69) by Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger & The Trinity that tweaked my imagination. They did a nice vocal tan on 'All Blues' (Miles Davis) that made me curious enough to get into 'Kind of Blue' some years later. By '75 I was so tired of what was going on in rock that I got heavily into fusion (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Return to Forever), and in exploring that stuff I got into ECM in about '78. In roughly '80 I had finally taken the plunge into the big names - Miles, Coltrane, Mingus, Monk, Coleman, etc. It wasn't until I'd explored that music for a few years that I made that connection back to 'Streetnoise'. That was the seed, I guess...
1972 ! No chance, there was Bowie, Stones, T Rex, Pie, Big Star, The Dead “ Europe 72” and girls, and beer ! . I eventually “ got” Jazz in my Sixties . Don’t think I really appreciated it previously, nowadays I rarely buy anything else. It was Ben Webster who did it for me .These days the words “ Tone Poet “ get my pulse racing.
I really enjoyed that Mazzy, such great memories for you - thanks for sharing. I have the Gene Russell record, what other Black Jazz releases would you recommend?
Love jazz and especially your 'Vinyl Junkie' series. Have you ever considered doing a collaboration with either Dan VanEijl (Jazz Shepherd) or Ken Micaleff?
Sometime ago I had a dream It was happy it was lasting it was free And now in life O can't you see How we can make that dream Into reality O the music it was playing O the firelight it was dancing All the children they were singing All the people they were loving
1) ECM was import only for years years, I have that same Corea LP), but eventually ME signed a deal with US Polydor, which was disastrous, the pressings were awful. Eventually ME did a deal with Warners, while still not as good as the German LPs, they were excellent by US standards, but as the CD pushed LP sales out, ECM, too, went CD only. Until recently. 2) Those Prestige/Riverside/Savoy/Impluse/Blue Note two-fers are generally very good, some stellar. I picked up all I could at $6 a pop.
ECM is probably the best Jazz label, makes Blue Note look amateur, but you showed one of the worst ones in their catalogue. Although one can argue this is the case for any Chick- diddly widdly, nothing here- Corea's muzak! What was Eicher thinking?
I too started getting into Jazz in '72. I was in the Army and hung out with the older black NCOs who played nothing but jazz at their parties. The double LP "The Crusaders" was the first jazz album I bought and I went for more. I didn't care for the CTI records because Creed almost always mucked things up with the extemporaneous strings and schmaltz. Then I bought "California Concert" which was the live Double LP of the July '71 Hollywood Bowl gig that had ALL the CTI players in one place. (George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Stanley Turrentine, Hank Crawford, Johnny Hammond, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham and Airto.) I was gobsmacked! It is absolutely an amazing recording, and I recommend it highly! (The 2 CD set has 3 unreleased tunes on it).
great video...always love these vinyl junkie journeys...and of course love jazz as well...growing up in new york i was surrounded by clubs like birdland and the village vanguard...but sometimes you find a cool little dive or a baskethouse where someone unknown would be blowin' their heart out and it sent you into the surrounding smoke and sound...but one gentleman i have to mention (and clearly use the term 'gentleman'), was clark terry...i met him by chance on my way into birdland...we got to talk briefly before his rehearsal, but he was incredibly kind...great memories my friend...stay well...peace always...rocky
Mazzy, I was at that same Alice Coltrane show, and it did explore some way outer limits. I recall some wonderful live shows at Cal State LA college in 1969-70, including Herbie Hancock (Mwandishi era) and Don Ellis with Hari Har Rao. But I didn’t abandon rock for jazz until 1972 when I got bored with KSAN’s programming and flipped the dial over to KJAZZ. At that moment I stopped caring about rock until some 20 years ago when I dived back into ‘60s rock n roll. Thanks for the memories, Mazzy.
That Keith Jarrett concert is life changing good. Just picked that one up (pretty clean copy) for $14.00 when I was in Portland for a conference in October. Love it.
I first got into Jazz in 1967, I was seventeen, when I went to see the movie Alfie starring Michael Caine. The soundtrack was largely played by Sonny Rollins, I immediately brought the soundtrack and played it endlessly, I was hooked on Jazz and Sonny. I still have that vinyl and it still plays well. ✌Mazzy
That Alfie record is fantastic ✌🏼
Yo Mazzy, I like your videos. Aren't we all self-absorbed anyway? Hear this: I ignored/disliked Jazz for 30 adult years. Then I decided to force myself, as I had the opportunity to purchase a vintage lot of...Ornette Coleman....I spinned the records, and thought: 'heck, now I understand why I don't like this stuff'. In the lot was Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage. Voilà, that was the key to unlock the wonderful of Jazz (am still struggling with most free jazz).
I agree, Mazzy. “In A Silent Way” worked for me immediately. Thanks for sharing your journey. I enjoy the stories.
Seeing Bill Evans must have been something. Ive been watching, and re-watching, 'Time Remembered', documentary about his life and music and really liking it , I'd like to get Live at the Village Vanguard, - he died relatively young but he left a lot of music behind.
Never dipped a toe in... Just plunged all the way into the deep end. They broke into my apartment and stole a lot of stuff including 100 or so CDs. I decided I was not going to buy the Eagles "Hotel California" for a third time (still had the LP)... So I went JAZZ. I got the Pinguin Jazz Bible and just bought all the titles with 5 stars. It wound up that most of them dated to the late 50s to the mid-1960s. It's like the Pop-Rock scene more or less cancelled out the Jazz from the mid-1960s on. Here are some of the standouts: for Miles-the Live at the Plugged Nickel sessions, recorded over Christmas at a gig in Chicago. They have become a Christmas standard for me ever since. 'Sunday Night at the Village Vanguard', Bill Evans Trio (including Waltz for Debbie) is another standout. I'll by in NYC at the start of March, and I will be sure to go the Village Vanguard on the Sunday night. Late show is best. I saw both Sunday shows for Seattle's Eric Alexander probably 20 years ago. Other stand outs: Lenox Avenue by Arthur Blue; Coltrain's Ascension; Herbie Hancock 'Complete Blue Note 60s Sessions' (Blue Note is a huge Jazz label from NYC); Lee Morgan's Sidewinder; Charlie Parker's Complete Dial Masters; Larry Young 'Unity'; Sonny Rollins 'Saxophone Colossus'; Max Roach 'Freedom Now Suite'; and Art Blakey 'Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Mon' and 'Night in Tunisia'. That's a dozen or so from the Jazz collection. It was around 2002 for me, and I too went CD because I thought the records would be too noisy.
Mazzy, you are showing all the stuff I love! We’ve got that similar Miles taste, bitches and silent way are my favorites. This is a perfect video. I love that return to forever stuff. Now on the Jeff Beck thing we kinda part there lol! I like the Dizzy story, Cheers my friend.
Anyone growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area was fortunate to have jazz influences like Ralph J. Gleason and Al 'Jazzbo' Collins around for an education. Speaking of San Francisco jazz clubs, Jimbo's Bop City on Fillmore and Height Levels were two good ones for listening to top rate jazz.
Mazzy, I've been playing this while doing other things around the house, but I had to stop and rewind and listen again to the Vince Geraldie (sp?) mother story. Than was great. It's stories like that that make videos like this so valuable. Thanks for sharing that one!
Geraldi fyi, if you wanna look him up.
Fabulous background to your journey, thanks for sharing
I agree - that Cannonball album has to be a top five album in jazz. Need to get me some Chick Corea 👍
Grew up in a musical family, grandfather was a coronet player in Chicago, was close friends with Jack Teagarden, played with Louis Armstrong, Eddie Condon.....all dixieland, Bix Biderbeck stuff....my father was state chair baritone player, won a scholarship to UT playing baritone, he also played guitar and recorder....blah blah blah, so have grown up with an appreciation of most music, but none of that has had as much to do with my love of jazz, being a rock n' roll guy, was hearing NRBQ do Rocket Number Took off For the Planet Venus by Sun Ra, ground breaking, love NRBQ, then my first jazz purchase in 1980 of an old copy of Thelonius Monks Underground, then bought Time Out, Kind of Blue, any Chico Hamilton, one of my favorite guitarist is a guy named Johnny Pisano, played with Chico before Gabor Gzabo, Art Blakey Jazz Messengers, Stanely Turrantine/Astid Gilberto(with Denny Siewell on drums)..saw Miles Davis and Bill Evans play the New Orleans Jazz festival in "88, only time they played togather since Kind of Blue, on and on, so now I just watch your show to get great recommendations like Horace Silver and MJQ, Thanks again Mazzy, very entertaining...cheers, from the bleeding heart of Texas....oh also what do you hear regarding the re-rellease of Sometime In New York City, it seems to have vanished
Wow Mazzy. That’s amazing that you got to see so many jazz greats live.
The Dizzy Gillespie story is fantastic. Would love to see another video where you go deeper into the Jazz concerts you attended. Love this. Thanks again for posting.
Cahal
NYC ✌🏼
Very cool Mazzy 👍
Late 70’s and the one that did it for me was The Pat Metheny Group’s first album. Not really loving the fusion of the time but ECM opened it all up for me. A shout out to my Dad for exposing me to Brubeck and others when I was a little kid so I was primed and ready! Lots of things lead you up to the moment you’re ready, eg Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Traffic, etc.
Spot on ending the video with a shout out to Something Else. I was in Jr high, must've been '68 or '69. I was 13 or 14 yrs old. A Friday night football game in rural southwest Louisiana. The raggedy little halftime marching band plays a melody. I didn't know the song title, but the melody never left me. 15 years later I'm living in Los Angeles. In a music store, someone drops the needle on a record. I hear that melody, first time in all those years! It is 'Autumn Leaves', and the album is Cannonball Adderley's Something Else. This record could be...maybe, just maybe...my most played jazz album ever. A perfect album, as you would say, Mazzy.
Glad to see you bring this series back. Love all the stories. To be able to browse a record store in the 70s like that, trying out all the jazz piled up on the floors, would be a treasure to behold. Do you have memories of seeing some of the more avant-garde jazz (Black Jazz label you mentioned) sitting in the bins? And then later perhaps, the cut-out bin?
I do remember seeing those cut outs from Black. But never jumped in back then.
Great video 🙌🏼 Thank you for sharing.
That is a great and interesting video. Dankeschön! I wish you a good year 2023 and me many Videos like this from you. Take care. 🎶🇩🇪🎶
Your example should be one for all those who got into Jazz later in life, then get back and explore the earlier stuff. Its all about the music... good video Maz!
Excellent Mazzy. Annual Playboy Jazz Poll was my high school intro ‘67, ‘68… from that Cannonball Adderley Mercy, Mercy, Mercy was worn out; as was Charles Lloyd Forest Flower (started a long relationship), Wes Montgomery too… In college it was Bitches Brew 8-track; And Jimmy Smith Bluesmith as a later memorable college standout…
I'm 49 and getting into jazz for the first time. Thank you for your stories and information.
Hi Mazzy, I absolutely love these "Memories of a Vinyl Junkie" series ! My mother had some jazz 45's in the house,so I knew of Mingus,and Vince Giraldi. It wasn't till I was older that I really developed an appreciation for Jazz. It started with Dave Brubeck, and Getz/Gilberto. I love Jazz and prefer listening to Jazz, and Classical music these days. Love all your back stories with this series,please do more. Oh... I always wondered how "Jazz----Brooks" got his nick name ! Happiness, Cindy
Finally picked up a copy of My Goal's Beyond.
Extrapolation is an early jewel too.
Fantastic Video. Great stories
First jazz l heard was "Take five" by Brubeck when l was a kid in the ,60,s but really got into it in the '70's after hearing "The Sidewinder "by Lee Morgan ( which is and remains my favourite Jazz album ) . After that could,nt get enough of the classic Blue Note label , L.P.'s by Hank Mobley , Stanley Turrentine and many others following close behlnd . Now retired and with a large collection Jazz (along with Prog /Rock ) is never far from my turntable . A good video as always Mazzy . Regards from the U.K.
Onya Mazzy! Blowin' with Dizzy Gillespie- that is legendary! It is amazing as now at a more mature age, I actually am really digging Jazz too. It is a wonderful time for this old man to develop his mind beyond rock - loving the blues and jazz and their historical players. Maybe that is the softening of brain tissue also...Keep them coming!
This was just thoroughly enjoyable,it’s a snowy rainy day here on the east coast of Canada , and this really hit home when I think about my own journey into jazz, just perfect for this afternoon. Thanks
I love this series of videos and wasn't sure we would ever get another one. Your videos always elevate my mood... and I sincerely thank you for that.
Could never get into the "old time" jazz. Loved the 80's progressive jazz. Looking for those Chick Correa records.
Mas... It took Ken Burns and his epic JAZZ to introduce me to the music... But a person could go broke watching The Jazz Sheppard... He just has so much...
WOW. I love that you view this as a possible message to your son. As a dad of two young ones - I relate to that and that is cool. Great video. I feel like I have a very similar Jazz trajectory as you. I was introduced to Bitches Brew "before my time" but have come back to it and love it and agree that In a Silent Way is the best of that era for Miles. For me John Coltrane has always been an intimidation - even as I got more and more into jazz - I was still intimidated - it wasn't until last year that I really started to get into him....I waited too long!
Cornel West said you don't listen to Coltrane to enjoy, but to learn. I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds cool.
It’s easy. Just start with Ballads. Very accessible and get to know his tone and style.
Dear Mr Maslov you have a new fan
You are such a pleasure to watch and listen to. Absolutely the best moderator in the VC.
Thanks Mazzy. One of my current systems is four AR speakers and a Dual 1219 driven by a Pioneer or a Sansui quad receiver depending on my mood. love the channel. I scored an OG of Something Else at a thrift store but it is in rough shape.
Keep on Trucking.
Great video, Mazzy. I like the stories especially helping Vince's mom.
You might just get me listening to some jazz.
Great video. I found this extremely interesting. I started to buy some jazz when CD's started coming out. I got a couple of box sets, Blue Note's Best and The Verve Story. I have also a lot of Miles and Coltrane and Billie Holiday and a mix of many others. I listen a lot to Real Jazz on satellite radio and especially love the fusion artists. Thanks for your personal touch to these great artists.
Great video, Mazzy. I am now off to look at all my CDs and find the specific albums that led me on my jazz journey.
I blew through three different vinyl versions of my goals Beyond that's how many times I played that record to the point where the third copy I got was an import and that's the one I still have to this day that is in great shape one of the greatest John McLaughlin albums ever can listen to that thing over and over again
I must admit I didn’t get jazz when I was younger too. I really didn’t get serious into jazz or collecting in general till Covid started and watching TH-cam vinyl channels. You gave me the desire to look at jazz and recommend Miles Davis Kinda Blue. Which I did. I think I may need to follow this thread. Thanks for great videos.
I have become more interested in Jazz thanks to watching your videos. I was able to reach a higher level because of your knowledge. Because of this I came across albums that I would otherwise have discovered much later or maybe never.
Super good tiips of records and artist, I discovered Jazz in more detail while watching Bosch series, starting with Art Pepper and is growing from there. Thanks for your insite and knowledge
in a silent way is a beauty,but my all time favourite miles album in the funky on the corner, jpj ps great video mazzy,happy new year.jpj
Well Norman I must say fantastic video as usual keep up the good work and do me a favor if possible start talking about more of those classic ECM records since I have the first 300 issues I'm pretty familiar with the initial starting of vcm half of those are usually going to be Imports in my collection love that label still love playing those records today nice job
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The STORYTELLER This latest video was awesome You meeting Dizzy AND Earl “Fatha” Hines would have been enough but Vince Gurapdi’s mom as well. This was just the BEST
100% MUSIC Really enjoyed how personal this was and historical
Molto GRAZIE!
2:00 Nat King Cole album around mid-1980s: the first I remember buying with outtake tracks, just different takes really. Can't remember which album though I still have the vinyl here somewhere, propped up against one of the walls. The albums are fine but the walls are warped. Can't remember the track but inbetween you hear Nat calling out, wanting to get it down so he could finish: "I wanna see the PARADE! I wanna see the PARADE today!" Excited like a kid. That's the best line in a song that has no lyrics. I learned his exact cadence so I could say it the same way whenever I was in a hurry to get someplace: "I wanna see the PARADE! I wanna see the PARADE today!" You had to say "today" low key to let "PARADE" strut. That's how to say it, and I said it for years. Girlfriends found it adorable, until they didn't. "I wanna see the PARADE! I wanna see the PARADE today!" So now I'm propped up against one of the walls with my vinyl and no turntable. I think the whole album was instrumental, Nat on piano with a quartet maybe, trumpet prominent, no strings, rare by the time of recording around mid-50s. No shit about 'pre-flight,' just, "I wanna see the PARADE! I wanna see the PARADE today!"
Recently got that MoFi In a Silent way and it's such a beautiful record. Good to hear your jazz odyssey.
I loved hearing all of your stories in this one, Mazzy. Dizzy Gillespie story was great.🍃 Do you have many ECM records in your collection now? I'm planning an ECM video at some point.
I think this is my favourite of the Memories videos. A journey through time via vinyl records. What's not to like?
While watching and listening to this video, I picked up on ebay, a 1st pressing stereo of The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. I think I got it for a steal, but I suppose that will depend on its true condition. I have been evaluating my collecting habits lately. I started off trying to accumulate records that meant something to me as a child, nostalgia. I am not a genre snob. I like many kinds of music equally. I am a songwriter and my songs span many genres as well. Now, I am finding the records that I want to listen to over and over, are Jazz. There is just something so incredible about putting on a good jazz record, closing my eyes and almost believing a trio, quartet or quintet is actually playing live, just for me.
Like so many who grew up listening mainly to rock, my first exposure to jazz influenced music was with albums like the second BS&T ('68) and the Chicago Transit Authority ('69), but more than any other single record it was 'Streetnoise' ('69) by Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger & The Trinity that tweaked my imagination. They did a nice vocal tan on 'All Blues' (Miles Davis) that made me curious enough to get into 'Kind of Blue' some years later. By '75 I was so tired of what was going on in rock that I got heavily into fusion (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Return to Forever), and in exploring that stuff I got into ECM in about '78. In roughly '80 I had finally taken the plunge into the big names - Miles, Coltrane, Mingus, Monk, Coleman, etc. It wasn't until I'd explored that music for a few years that I made that connection back to 'Streetnoise'. That was the seed, I guess...
1972 ! No chance, there was Bowie, Stones, T Rex, Pie, Big Star, The Dead “ Europe 72” and girls, and beer ! . I eventually “ got” Jazz in my Sixties . Don’t think I really appreciated it previously, nowadays I rarely buy anything else. It was Ben Webster who did it for me .These days the words “ Tone Poet “ get my pulse racing.
great video,mazzy,i have four RTF albums but not the early ones you showed,.
Gabor Szabo and Cal Tjader really good stuff just purchased Szabos Dream album
wow, did not know that about the Horace silver and steely dan
I really enjoyed that Mazzy, such great memories for you - thanks for sharing. I have the Gene Russell record, what other Black Jazz releases would you recommend?
Love jazz and especially your 'Vinyl Junkie' series. Have you ever considered doing a collaboration with either Dan VanEijl (Jazz Shepherd) or Ken Micaleff?
Sometime ago I had a dream
It was happy it was lasting
it was free
And now in life O can't you see
How we can make that dream
Into reality
O the music it was playing
O the firelight it was dancing
All the children they were singing
All the people they were loving
Great video. Loved it. I would add that I make videos for similar reasons. One day, I hope, my daughters will appreciate them.
1) ECM was import only for years years, I have that same Corea LP), but eventually ME signed a deal with US Polydor, which was disastrous, the pressings were awful. Eventually ME did a deal with Warners, while still not as good as the German LPs, they were excellent by US standards, but as the CD pushed LP sales out, ECM, too, went CD only. Until recently. 2) Those Prestige/Riverside/Savoy/Impluse/Blue Note two-fers are generally very good, some stellar. I picked up all I could at $6 a pop.
good ella album,i have it.
Earl Hines has your hat! 😂
THANKS AGAIN…!!!
Jazz is fine but free jazz without a melody gives me a headache It has to have a melody
"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker." [W. Wonka, 1971]
I noticed your Chick Corea Return to Forever cover has flawed over time on the edge. Mine has done the same. A shame
because it's a beautiful cover.
Video request… The Best of 1973 by Mazzy, 50th anniversary edition
Been think about it ✌🏼
Weirdly, before you put the first one up I knew it would be Bitches Brew - very strange
A true jazz bum
ECM is probably the best Jazz label, makes Blue Note look amateur, but you showed one of the worst ones in their catalogue. Although one can argue this is the case for any Chick- diddly widdly, nothing here- Corea's muzak! What was Eicher thinking?