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Welcome to the weekly /mu/ jazz Blindfold Test thread.
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THIS WEEK'S THEME: Christmas Jazz (selected by Jazzthreadguy)
NEXT WEEK: Piano Trios (selected by Tuesday Anon)
If you missed last week's thread, DON'T WORRY. It's not too late. Here are the links for the mystery tracklist. Download the tracks, record your thoughts/guesses/evaluations for each one, and then come back and post them in the thread. Remember, people will be posting guesses and thoughts in this thread so don't read the thread until you have listened to the music and collected your thoughts in order to avoid spoilers. Track info for this week's tracks will be posted at roughly 8:00 PM (EST)
http://www28.zippyshare.com/v/o9uUAfKH/file.html
https://mega.nz/#!99w3xJpR!OcyZ5C3yEgfMN-kDPEuTYom2VzUjZYLOMN8-5qz35uM
Posting with names and/or tripcodes is encouraged so that we can get to know each other. We also need more volunteers for people to compile our weekly tracklists. If you are interested, reply with your theme idea.
Yay! Finally the thread is here.
>Track 1
Tune is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. There is a neat, fast version of this on Don Byron's Bug Music from the mid 90's that I really like. That album is a tribute to the music of Raymond Scott Quintette, the John Kirby Sextet and Duke Ellington so would this then be the Ellington original?
I first thought that this would be something more modern than Ellington, but maybe it is - it is at least the best guess I have for what this is.
>Track 2
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Sounds like a pretty straightforward jazz take on this. A lot of American Christmas songs lend themselves pretty well to jazz treatments, I think.
Pretty enjoyable contemporary bop feel - I'd rather listen to this than your average Christmas music. Pretty modern stylings, I think. This century recording, I'd guess, but no idea who's playing here.
>Track 3
So this is Blue Xmas, Bob Dorough on vocals with the Miles Davis Sextet from the early 1960's. One of the few Christmas related jazz-recordings I recognize.
Of course Miles would be too cool for Christmas. I'm getting old enough to enjoy sappy Christmas songs and just relax, but I still like this cynical jab.
>Track 4
Santa Claus is Coming to Town in piano trio form. It's pretty neat how the piano player switches being playing it pretty straight and inserting these little vague, abstract moments. It's an easy listen, but not too sugary sweet thanks to the pianist keeping us on our toes a little bit.
>Track 5
Winter Wonderland with sleigh bells and everything. More traditional feel to this one - from the 50's maybe?
Its nice, but not really a stand out track for me - this is the kind of stuff you'd expect when you have jazz musicians record a Christmas album just to have a seasonal album to sell.
This track also reminded me that Clifford Brown's solo on Cherokee on Study in Brown really feels to me like it could nicely segue into Sleigh Ride.
>Track 6
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas - sounds like a pretty early recording from the late 40's naybe. Really nice bebop stylings for a recording this old - these must be some big name players. Did Charlie Parker record Christmas music? Really nice one.
>Track 7
I'm not even sure what this song is and the version wasn't very interesting to me. I have very little to say about this.
>Track 8
The Christmas Song - the violin has a slightly gypsy jazz-ish feel, Stephane Grappelli style to my ears. I can't think of who would play like this, though. If I said before that I'm old enough to enjoy sappy Christmas songs, this still feels too safe and boring to me. Inoffensive backgroung jazz.
>Track 9
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow in some restrained big band version. Sure, Christmas is the season for easy listening music.
>Track 10
Feels like pretty modern organ trio sound, guessing maybe Peter Bernstein and Larry Goldings are involved or someone like that?
Tune is Greensleeves or I guess What Child is This? since it's Christmas. Reminds me of the Coltrane version a lot at the beginning even though instrumentation is very different. Has that static modal two chord vamp part to it, too.
When the song comes to the organ solo, it doesn't actually sound as modern at all as I first thought - sounds like this is an authentic 60's jam. Is this Jimmy Smith?
Funny thing, there was a Larry Young track on an earlier week that I first thought was a more modern recording until it came to the solo. Nice hammond track in any case, I dig it.
hosting a party tonight, heres some of my playlist, anything else i should add?
normie
Good music
young thug and travis scott
The Year In Memes is here
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9775-the-year-in-memes-2015/
>>61183124
Literally a buzzfeed article
It's bad
bad
bad
bad
>Pitchfork's Social Media Director Charlotte Zoller (@cz77) is like the Internet in a person. She ranks 2015's musical memes, all in 140 characters or less.
that is comfortably up there with the top 10 most disgusting things i've read all year
literally ruined my entire day thanks a lot asshole
I trust you know what to do. Recs and discussion preferred.
tapmusic.net
>>61183055
+portishead, massive attack, MBV
have you ever heard this
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Q2Zjfyy3A
>>61183055
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOjE4AeF8k
HI
>>61183126
have you ever watched beyond the black rainbow? based on your music tastes I think you may like it.
What is the best Carpenters album?
Close To You, or the Christmas Album.
RIP Karen
>>61183072
aren't there two christmas albums?
Feed Me
I Could Die For a Sandwich About Now Mama Cass
tapmusic.net
post your thing. chit chat. rec music. shoot hoops. psychoanalprolapse. have at it chicos.
first ten charts posted get a free rec
>>61183008
I PAY FOR MY REC
I don't need no charity
Happy Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas
So A$AP Ferg just said he's got a song on his new album featuring Grimes & Skrillex.. And i'm actually hype, the only one who can fuck that up is skrillex.
>btw grimey thread
A talented producer is going to screw it up? Pfft
Skrillex >> Ferg
>>61182938
No
>>61182833
I hope it turns out okay though.
thoughts on him?
also, do you have a killswitch on your guitar? How fun are those?
what does a killswitch do on a guitar? just turn off the feed to the amp?
He was finally becoming great when he dove headfirst into the pikes. I've only heard 3 pikes, 2 of which were pretty good, so I still think he's pretty good.
Colma is pretty fucking good
ITT: Bands/artists that serve as red flags to you so you know you have to stay away from the person who likes them.
I'll start with the obvious.
>>61182527
great banter
None, what kind of twat would do that?
But there are bands that tell me "this person and I will never see eye to eye in our music tastes". Namely any grunge band.
Twenty-One Pilots
Post your favorite experimental rock album
>>61182485
great banter
I'm trying to unmeme this thread
>almost 2016
>still reading pitchfork
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>61182483
i looked at the article and holy shit it's one of the worst things i've ever seen on that site.
they're a sinking ship and they know it. nobody can take them seriously anymore.
>>61182483
Are they officially Kotaku-tier now?
>>61182678
i don't even know what that is
I had a look at Pitchfork's top 50 as I usually do this time of year, being a
>seething fucking casual
They basically follow 4 genres: flimsy solo folky shit like Sufjan Stevens (stale leftovers of the last few years), flimsy ethereal womens shit like Julia Holter and Grimes, muh quirky electronic and the rest is black.
IT'S GETTING WORSE EVERY YEAR WHERE ARE THE FUCKING GUITAR BANDS
ftfy
>>61182473
>black is a genre
/v/ misses you anon.
pic related: I'm not as mad as it may seem, trying to learn photoshop. Still a bit mad though.
>>61182494
/thread
Got any more like this? Inb4 joy division that's not even real
>>61182232
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPw7nlluRdc
>>61182232
Listen to The Agent Intellect by Protomartyr. Not as noisy as Iceage but equally straight-forward and interesting.
check out Diät
>>61182442
Protomartyr is like the quintessential generic "overdrive-pedal-and-Fender-DeVille-core" indeh rawk band from 2010 but with a sweaty fatass at the front instead of some fey hip motherfucker from Williamsburg
it's absolutely hilarious to me that in a genre so diverse and active as post-punk p4k/npr/etc have managed to convince their readers that this flaccid crap is the cutting edge of TRVE DIY music
good afternoon
let's have a rym thread
https://rateyourmusic.com/~Hesjz
listen to anything cool lately? are you excited for sonemic? what are you doing for the holidays this year?
>>61182065
https://rateyourmusic.com/~Abelian
Been listening to some more ambient and classical recently
Sonemic looks cool. Not doing anything for the holidays
https://rateyourmusic.com/~BurstingFlares
I am enjoying Poland so far
yes
https://rateyourmusic.com/~DeBatata
>>61182111
hi
Why do plebs seem to always love the beatles for some reason?
>>61182006
They don't know anything about real pop music like The Kinks, Small Faces and The Zombies.
>>61182006
they did something slightly ahead of it's time disguised as pop rock
their later sound remains, at least, remotely interesting
they'll always be a really likeable band, even nowadays
Because they don't like them. They only pretend to like them because they are "the best band ever".
