My stock of MP3s is getting stale, so it's time to buy some more CDs and start ripping. I'm getting bored with the meaningless electronic background music that provides the easily ignored noise to accompany my heavy-handed typing. This month, it's Jazz. I picked up some John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and such.
What I'm listening to most is a pair Django Reinheart CDs. It's incredible that music recorded around 70 years ago still sounds so lively and fresh. There must have been something incredibly magical and timeless about Paris in the 1930's...
Re:You probably need more Ella.
james on 2002-03-11T09:40:07
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday. Thats all you really need. Of course Django was pretty cool to, but you can make do. Oh, and Benny Goodman. Mmm.Re:You probably need more Ella.
pdcawley on 2002-03-11T10:12:50
But... but... how would you survive without a copy of Kind of Blue?Re:You probably need more Ella.
pudge on 2002-03-11T13:59:18
Indeed. Miles is the best, and Kind of Blue is his best.
I have some Louis Armstrong, though I can only take him in limited quantities. I need my jazz to be smooth. I am not too much into jazz vocals in general, though when I am, it's gotta be smooooooth, yo.Re:You probably need more Ella.
ziggy on 2002-03-11T14:26:07
Moot point. Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Miles Smiles and Live at Montreaux have been in the rotation for some time now. There's also some Joe Pass in there, Astral Weeks for those Charles Mingus moments, and I-forget-which Coltrane.I think it's time to put some more jazz clarinet into the mix before I go Klezmer.
:-)
Ella & "It Don't Mean a Thing" is awesome!
Jason
