Slip's lounge - what's your poison

Pull up a seat at the bar and I'll pour you a double to help you drown your miseries... Name your poison gents... if it's Jazz, Blues or Soul then feel free to lay it down for us.

I'll start it out...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRxS7Q64xUQ&feature=related"]Ella Fitzgerald - Black Coffee - YouTube[/ame]

 

music to think by -
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwlrMxapIQE&feature=related"]Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Sandu - YouTube[/ame]

 

on that note R.I.P. Etta James (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012)

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YApNirMC9gM"]etta james I'd Rather Go Blind - YouTube[/ame]

 

Nice one Simon! I'm a huge Louis Jordan fan and he had big influence on one of my favorite all time jazz singers... a master of vocalese

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBcNviWV5cM"]Eddie Jefferson-See if you can get to that.wmv - YouTube[/ame]

 

and the song that is in my top 10 of all time... I grew up on the version that had no words (Joe Zawinul/Cannonball Adderley)... but when Eddie Jefferson put words to it always had a special spot in my head:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-4QaEMKV0M&feature=related"]eddie jefferson - mercy, mercy, mercy - YouTube[/ame]

 

The up tempo beats of much of the Eddie Jefferson's stuff always made me reach for Jimmy McGriff albums when I was a kid. There just weren't that many cats playing a Hammond B-3 Organ for jazz. Which is where McGriff came in... It has a sound all it's own that later on really was woven into pop culture of the times via blaxploitation movies... but it's roots are far deeper and sound more sophisticated.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajgus2NlRYM&feature=related"]Jimmy McGriff - Black Pearl - YouTube[/ame]

so forgive me for rolling my eyes when the Beastie Boys knock out new track and all the new school falls all over themselves talking about how revolutionary it is. Far from Jimmy McGriff was knockin' this stuff out to a much higher level way back in the day.

 

This party is depressing, insert Stevie Wonder here:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE"]Stevie Wonder ~ Superstition - YouTube[/ame]

 

At 36, I am probably the world's youngest Billy Joel fan...


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLbVQYt4_M&feature=player_detailpage]All About Soul[/ame]

 

Nothing depressing about it. It pays to be able to understand the time and place that much of the music I've posted comes from. It's certainly not where I grew up at... but reading liner notes on the old albums as a kid gave me a lot of insight into a lot of America's history and social issues. Much that couldn't get out of a history book... and of course it helps that musically many of the guys writing jazz/blues/soul are some of the finest musicians mankind has ever produced. Stevie Wonder himself is a product of that whole entire realm of musical thought... and he himself has had a massive influence on todays music... take a look at anything that Jamiroquai has ever done and you're looking directly at somone who latched onto Stevie Wonder in a big way.

 

Most definitely! Jamiroquai is essentially a Stevie Wonder tribute act in a silly hat.

Anyhoo... Louis Armstrong

[ame="www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwEBp3cKfM"]Bare Necessities -- LOUIS ARMSTRONG - YouTube[/ame]

 

hmm... I like Billy Joel to an extent. He's no doubt been hugely influenced jazz and blues... he's generally a bit more pop rock than I'm usually keen to go. His music has aged well and he himself always came across as a class act. I was a huge fan of his song Allentown and the story that it told. (IMHO the instrumentation in that video to me is terrible... overproduced and overdone and totally misses the point. It's the type of thing slick producers put together to make music for television audiences. )

and with that I'm gonna drop Darn That Dream on you... the cascading notes of the Ahmad Jamal Trio from 1959. His sound was really distinct on the jazz landscape. Even as a kid that really didn't quite get the bigger picture I could tell how amazing his playing was.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qc3VaXtW5M"]Ahmad Jamal Trio - Darn That Dream 1959 - YouTube[/ame]

 

I remember one of my flatmates and I trying to do Louis Armstrong impersonations (as you do) - it doesn't take long before your throat packs up!

 

You read way to much into stuff. I was referring to this:

God forbid I should use humour :/

 

this is my type of thread!

right first off:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liX7zPV095Q"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liX7zPV095Q[/ame]

 

and my modern contribution
VIVA CUBA!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5LfjsFBRsU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5LfjsFBRsU[/ame]

insane trumpet at the end!
(the trumpet bit is about 3 minutes in)