#modern jazz

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Various Artists - Gut Level One: A Compilation (1983)

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40s jazz noir: noir detective

60s mod noir: espionage noir

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Grant Green Trio (LIVE VIDEO 1969)

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Modern Jazz Quartet - Walking Stomp - Nice Jazz Festival, France 1972 Milt Jackson,vib John Lewis,p Percy Heath,b Connie Kay,dr

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Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train (1963) Jimmy Forrest / Lewis P. Simpkins / Oscar Washington from: "Night Train: The Oscar Peterson Trio" (LP) (1997 CD Reissue)

Jazz | Swing | Jazz-Blues | Modern Jazz

M4A File Stereo @Archive (left click = play) Size: 11.4MB)

Personnel: Oscar Peterson: Piano Ray Brown: Double Bass Ed Thigpen: Drums

Arranged by The Oscar Peterson Trio Produced by Norman Granz

Recorded: @ Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California USA on December 16, 1962

Album Released August, 1963 Verve Records

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Album Of The Week💿

―୨୧⋆ ˚ One Album per Week for a whole year

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―୨୧⋆ ˚ rating: 10/10

-> Back To Black by Amy Winehouse

As in most forms of art, there's a structure in which one consumes it. Whether that be conscious or not, the strategy is in the back of your head every time you consume are. It can be your eyes noticing the people in the back before the one in the front or hearing a certain instrument very prominent in a song, most things apply a structure to be understood.

For me, there's a structure to listening to albums. Replaying it three times.

The first is for getting an idea of what sound the album is capturing and where it wants to go, noting down prominent elements and images I see while listening to it for the first time. Holding the first draft of an idea in my head.

The second one is for picking up details. Hearing basslines, going through lyrics and topics of the songs. Trying to identify the drum patterns, backing vocals, ad-lips.

The third one is for my own enjoyment.

Most albums need that 3-listen structure in order to be enjoyed fully by me. Though not when it comes to Amy Winehouse.

'Back To Black' talks about self-deconstructing behavior following a break-up. Winehouse addresses that topic in the first song, 'Rehab'. Recalling how people told her that, with her bad habits of drug consumption, she should be in rehab though she herself argues that she's fine, telling them 'No, no, no'.

As the title-track of the album 'Back To Black' sounds as dark as one might imagine. Even when you only know that one song and think that your view won't be changed through listening to it within the full album, let me tell you with my whole heart: it will. Listening to records as they were intended to brings a new light to every track on the album. No other disturbances in between, just you and the music. It will change your view on even your favourite song.

As one of three albums that she released throughout her career, Amy Winehouse's 'Back To Black' remains one of the most influential and important albums of the early 2000s. Not just because of her mind-numbing performance but also on how she brought back Jazz and Soul to the front of a whole generation's mind. Paving the way for acts of today like Olivia Dean, Florence Welch or Raye.

Legends will stay legends even when time grows over their footprints.

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PERSONNELGabriel Vicéns – guitarRoman Filiú – alto saxophoneGlenn Zaleski – pianoRick Rosato – bassE. J. Strickland – drumsVictor Pablo – percussion

Listen/purchase: The Upcoming by Gabriel Vicéns

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That's 30 minutes and counting......