Yo Bro's that sweet young thing can give you a feeling way deep down inside it's called the Blues, if you where to feel the Blues today i guess that would be modern,
Ps guys i found this clip in Youtubland searching Gay Music,check her hands needs a good pedicure what you reckon,
You got the Modern Blues Now Bro's:)
Yo Adam the Music in the Clip yes that kind of Influence i like sort of got used to that watching all those Yanky movies from the 70's starsky and Hutch them sitcoms,
No need to be suprised i was being Naugtyolddog just giveing a stir Bro:)
and i will give the Sweets sweetback baadasssss song look, good onya Bro's:)
My favorite bluesman is Farrell Sanders, a tenor player from Little Rock, Arkansas. (A.k.a., Pharoah Sanders.) Incredible tone. If this ain't the big tone, shoot me now:
Yo the Old dog used to get real funky jingling some old bells with the sound tracks in SWEET SWEETBACKS BADASSSSSS SONG. Low Rider comes to mind what is this music scene or style called what part of town did it come from,who do i listen to to get some it's got solid Chompy Beat the only Band i familiar with is WAR,
the last clip is ass kicking i would listen to more,i would shit my pants if that was Harp and not sax How cool would that Be, you would Have to just Go Bang out the gate no holding back and be on the Money i need to hear it, who wants to make me foul my Pants:)
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Buddha: but many harp players would call this blues. Personally I think it sounds like shit with the poor intonation and sour harp. But if it has a harp in it then it must be blues.
That must be one of the few things you've ever written with which I agree. Shocking intonation that wouldn't be matched until later during the age of the OB aficionados.
Kidding. Kidding.
hvyj: No need to make things more complicated than they have to be, and labels can artificially limit one's thinking.
LOL. You mean like using phrases like "Little Walter clones"?
I agree the first clip was technically blues, however.
For blues by jazz cats, I'd rather listen to Petersen, Turrentine, Davis or Donaldson, not "Oscar Petersen clones".
So is this Modern Blues? NO it is a 12 bar may be they are Pro Muso's, but to my ear and what i see is far from a Pro performance,
Think Butterfield would played on this or would we have to wait for Howard?
I'm not familar with Butts or Howards Music i have heard of there rep though as Muso's and would be guessing, Uncle Barny Jazz Band the main topic wouldn't be able to touch this Butts and Howard dudes,
as i say how can we reconize Modern Blues what is it that makes it Modern as opossed to Trad Blues, when we do define Modern Blues will it be Modern,is there a new wave Happening now,
i can't put a Handle on the Term Modern Blues what is it that sets Mods apart from Trads, if we can put a Handle on it wouldn't we be restricting it by giveing a Label Oh Yes thats a modern Blues riff,
wouldn't this be a restriction, if somthing dosn't move with the Modern times it becomes Old and stale, so do todays modern Blues Players start Adding beatboxing in there music it confuses Me, i just don't think Modern Blues can be defined to a point were it is instanty reconizable:)
It is blues, but I wouldn't call it "modern" blues. Lots of great tunes posted here! I am really not trying to whore myself out here, but I think my band plays modern blues. We mix blues arrangements with more contemporary use of scales and take not-so-blues arrangements and add blues layers, etc.
See the MySpace link. We're currently transitioning from NiteRail to the Mike Fugazzi Band, but the line up and tunes will stay nearly the same.
Hey, you Nasty Old Dog, :) That ain't her! The original one had darker and bigger hands, firmer legs and she moved differently. There are several girls who are wearing those short dresses on You Tube. Now give me back the my original...But don't tell the police....
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Yo sorry Gene it back fired i was tugging your chains Bro's, baited you with a Buety show you a shocker,fact is i had to delet it,,it was scareing me now will someone move that singing serial killer manikan Dude after seeing that Im to scared to go out at Night:)
trolololo transcends all taste in music and is, in of itself, a fevered nightmare, the carnage of purgatory, a hellish diseased delirium, where lost souls cover their ears and eyes,crying out to a god who just don't listen, for christs sake.
The man singing is Edward Hill, also known as Eduard Khil’, or, better yet, [Cyrillic redacted -- ed.]. According to his Russian Wikipedia page, Hill was born in Smolensk in 1934, and finished his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1960. By 1974 he had been named a People’s Artist of the USSR, and in 1981 he was awarded the Order of the Friendship of Peoples. He is best known for his interpretations of the songs of the Soviet composer, Arkadii Ostrovskii. As for the peculiar name, I could find no information, but imagine that he is descended from the English elite that had established itself in western Russian cities by the 17th century. He is not a defector of the Lee Harvey Oswald generation. He is entirely Russian.
The song he is interpreting, “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home,” is an Ostrovskii composition, and it is meant to be sung in the vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words. I have seen a number of comments online, ever since a flurry of interest in Hill began just a few days ago, to the effect that this routine must have been meant as a critique of Soviet censorship, but in fact vokaliz was a well established genre, one that seems close in certain respects to pantomime.
i had no idea! nasty actually speaks english! check it out- punctuation,spelling,sentence structure,paragraphs, etc..doesn't even end his sentences with prepositions! i've been had!!!
Yes, there are very accomplished musicians, including some jazz musicians, who don't play blues well. Besides certain technical things musically required to play in the blues idiom, there is an element of "feel'' involved with doing it that may elude certain otherwise musically competent players.
Then, of course, there are players who play blues sort of competently but don't play anything else very well.
Really good musicians can play effectively in various styles.
Being truly versatile is not as easy as it looks and no matter how truly versatile one is, there will always be certain genres one is always going to be better at than others. It's much easier to become the so called "jack of all trades, master of none" types where you just skim the surfaces of a wide variety of genres, but the sacrifice is that you truly DON'T learn any genre fully and often may still sound completely like a duck out of water AKA sounding totally out of place.
Hvyj's first paragraph of his last posting is something I would agree with 100%, and that same thing could apply to musicians totally out of the blues genre and that's anything from classical, rock, you name it.
I'd expand upon what he says as feel as, to be more complete, GROOVE AND FEEL, because even tho technically, in terms of the chord changes and progression being played in the video is a blues, however, it still comes out jazz by the groove and feel, and I haven't seen anyone post anything in that regard on this thread at all and this is a very important, but far too widely ignored factor.
Since the introduction of bebop in jazz, groove has become something more based on the changes where groove is more or less implied rather than actually played, plus the danceability factor no longer exists here. With the big band/swing/dixieland jazz, groove is clearly played in a much more prominent role and is more well setup for dancing.
Good musicians can definitely find their way around various styles, but they will be better at certain things than others.
I enjoyed the opening video, but those licks in a different groove and feel, which works fine here, in a different scenerio, can very well lay a big fat egg and sound totally out of place. Am I dissing it?? Hell, no!!
Too often groove and feel is something far too widely ignored and/or misunderstood. Here in Boston, I see by the truckload guys from Berklee College of Music, probably the best known jazz music college around, and too many of them tend to snub their noses at anything that ain't jazz, as how THEY define it, and when put in different genres, they often get their heads handed to them because they take the arrogant notion that everything they do is gonna fit no matter what, and that is totally NOT true at all.
Again, in the context that was in, it was great, but put those same licks in a different context, it mixes like oil and water. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Bob hit on a great point about being a jack of all trades and master of none. The guys with their own sound, that millions have copied, often were not at all versitle. Lightning hopkins playing jazz/rock/fusion??? Muddy, wolf, etc, were all very limited in their technical abilities, but hey all had their own sound. What if Wolf studied jazz technique? It is not a must thing to be versitle to be a great musician because defining what is great musician is pure opinion.
IMO a great one has a reconizable and unique sound no matter how simple it may be, and that sound grabs me. What the world deems great doesn't influence my listening. If it makes me groove, it is great. Generic players that cover the spectrum are churned out of music schools by the thousands every year. They will never even make it as a footnote in the book of greats. Follow your dreams. They will guide you to your own sound. Listen to the masses and you will forever be confused and searching. Walter
---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
Muddy, Wolf and Hopkins were limited because the were limited of information, not because they were ignorant.
Genres, scales, technique are just like different paints in pallete. Genius painter can pain smth genial by simple pencil, great assortment of paint will not make him worse.
Ignorance will not make any musician better. Knowledge can make anyone better or not.
Blues is a style of music and a form. This is NOT blues in the sense people think, but it's a blues formed song. Plus, ever heard the song St. Louis Blues? That sounds more like this than Little Walter...
