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Simply Swingin'
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I don't think he's mentioned as much as he could be. I really, really enjoy him.
He's so easy to listen to. Very nice sound.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:52 am Post subject: |
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Thad's note choice reminds me of Dizzy sometimes.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:54 am Post subject: |
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| Do you mean his playing or his writing? I honestly haven't heard a whole lot of his playing, but have played many of his charts. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| I actually think that Thad may be the most under-rated trumpet player in the entire history of jazz. He is one of the 10 or 12 greatest jazz trumpet soloists of all time IMHO. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:47 am Post subject: |
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| Strawdoggy wrote: | | Do you mean his playing or his writing? I honestly haven't heard a whole lot of his playing, but have played many of his charts. |
I meant his playing.
| PH wrote: | | I actually think that Thad may be the most under-rated trumpet player in the entire history of jazz. He is one of the 10 or 12 greatest jazz trumpet soloists of all time IMHO. |
I can't argue with that. He certainly passes the identifiable-after-one-note test.
I recall from the liner notes of a SteepleChase album (Thad's quartet after he moved to Europe) I was listening to a couple of weeks ago that he didn't consider himself to be much of a soloist -- just someone who could get by without embarassing himself.
I've been meaning to revisit that Thad/Mel quartet recording (w/Harold Danko? Rufus Reid?) but haven't gotten around to it. The Basie "Kansas City 7" album he's on is also interesting.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject: re |
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I love Thad Jones charts. I haven't played many but the ones that I've played I love. I've played:
Kids Are Pretty People
A Child Is Born
Us
There is something about his style of writting and the way he uses the instruments that just seperates him from everyone else.
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Thad's chart "Don't Get Sassy" is an amazing tune to listen to. The voicings that he uses within the sections, the way he cuts across instrument divisions for his countermelodies, and just the sound of the soprano sax in those sax solis are just phenomenal. I can't think of anybody else who even comes close to writing the way Thad did.
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| I concur in the belief that Thad is one of the most underrated trumpet players of all time. I hear his sense of humor and sense of melody inundating his writing in much the same way that it does in his playing....ie. he plays like he writes... |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject: tj |
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The Mosaic record set of Thad is great stuff.
I like Jon McNeil's assessment of TJ as a player: someone you can't define as a pure swing or a pure bop player (I'm paraphrasing).
Mr. Harbison:
a Thad Jones Aebersold play-a-long would be fabulous! |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: tj |
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| Thad Jones was phenomenal. I heard him live once. He was every bit as good as any jazz soloist. Hearing Chet live was truly tremendous also |
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| A tremendous musician -- and what kind of family produced those brothers ?(I guess the same kind of family that prodiced Jimmy, Percy and Tootie.) This is probably unmentionable, but when soloing he tended to play a little sharp. Not the heads -- just this edge when he was improvising. Or am I nuts ? |
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