Ragtime

[Gilbert Y]

Anyone interested in ragtime moooosic? Like these.......

[aki]

Gilbert, thanks for a tip.

I must admit, that I always had a problem with piano music. It was too discrete and mechanical and thin sounding to me, there was lack of flow. It irritated my ears sometimes. Was I weird? Some people say that piano is a king of instruments, but I didn`t think so.

I quite liked some Chopin, so maybe there was hope I thought.

Now, since I have seen this thread, I put some effort into understanding ragtime and I think this particular music is not out of my reach. I see brain and heart and guts too involved in this surprisingly complex music. I see how somebody who likes Reich can like ragtime too, and I see why Stravinsky with his brain power was impressed by this music too.

I always liked dixieland and stuff like Hot Fives and Sevens with Louis Armstrong and now I am going to look into this music too.

[Gilbert Y]

aki

If you are new into ragtime, try to get the newer recording and enjoy the music with good sound. If you get those old recordings, most likely they will turn you off right away. If piano sound too thin to you try the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra stuff. I found any of their recordings are very good in term of music and sound. They sound full enough to be enjoyable but remain true to the time.

I like all kind of music with one or two exception. I put this thread up because I want to see if audiofools out there like ragtime. I have more weird and not to weird music in my collection. And like I said to Nikki in another post, I will try any kind of music once, at least once.

[aki]

I found out, that I can`t limit myself only to good sounding recordings, otherwise I will miss a lot of great music. I am ready to go straight into Hissing Monoland to get some juicy old stuff, even piano solo. When the music is engaging enough, sound quality doesn`t matter (that much)...So I will check out Paragon Ragtime Orchestra as todays represantation of old music, but I will get Jelly Roll Morton and Eubie Banks too. YouTube helps when one need to taste some music to see if yes or no.

Meanwhile, right now, I am listening to this:
http://www.amazon.com/Microphone-Music-Raymond-Scott/dp/B000086B8X

Raymond Scott composed some supercharged unstoppable swing and some pretty strange early electronic music too.

He was very interesting man:
http://raymondscott.com/

Here is another very interesting and this time very contemporary mutation of jazz I like:
http://www.amazon.com/Livingroom-Hush-Jaga-Jazzist/dp/B00009L545/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300920611&sr=1-2

What do you think?

[Gilbert Y]

I have heard of Raymond Scott but have not own any of this album. His stuff is interesting and I generally like what I have heard so far. The Livingroom Hush by Jaga is something I like to listen when I am working. I am going to listen some more of them.

If anyone listen to more than a few type of music, there is no excuse of running out of music to listen.

[BlueKnight]

[Gilbert Y]

[BlueKnight]

Mostly 40's/50s era. Glenn Miller/ Benny Goodman/ Woody Herman/ Artie Shaw / Les Brown/ Duke Ellington/ Tommy Dorsey and Count Basie.

Louis Armstrong is an entity all by himself.
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Mike

[aki]

BlueKnight,
thanks for welcome and sorry for occasional glitches in my english, it is not my native language.

I have this great sounding thing from Gilbert (similar a bit to your DAC PRE in its multifunctionality) :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17843311@N00/5142461525/in/set-72157625248743498/

and Gilbert just made 1,2Farad cap pack for me and I am waiting for FX2 and BC61 too.
Later I will post more about my gear in proper subforum.

Toay I listened to Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Mingus and it is really fascinating how he used traditional collective improvisation of Armstrong era to create this cutting edge rich music. It is so full of life and emotions. Great stuff. When I listened to it first time it was pretty intense. It was one of defining moments for my appreciation of jazz.

Gilbert,
I have some gypsy swing in my ipod and it is great energiser. When you hear something like that, you gotta move.
But I can`t listen to it all day. It demands attention too persistently. It is not background music, that is for sure, but at the same time, it doesn`t have that ability to keep me breathless for 40 minutes like Mingus with his organic flow of sounds. Sometimes too much virtuosity is not enough music, that is true.

[BlueKnight]

[BlueKnight]

Gil But and Aki,

What do you mean by 'Gypsy Swing'? Is it like New Flamenco? Give me an example.
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[aki]

Gypsy Swing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_jazz

I like this compilation for example - you can hear samples of it right there:

http://www.cdvdshop.ch/fr/search/gypsy-swing-154558.html


You can also try this funky gypsy brass attack with oriental elements:

http://www.amazon.com/LOrient-Est-Rouge-Kocani-Orkestar/dp/B000FDEU7G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301063832&sr=8-1

and

http://www.amazon.com/Baro-Biao-World-Wide-Wedding/dp/B00002DEG3/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1301064157&sr=1-3

[BlueKnight]

Aaah,,,Jazz Manouche. Bien sûr!
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[Gilbert Y]

Am listening to this tonight. Thought if someone want to get into ragtime. It's interesting and entertaining enough and doesn't have that honky sound that usually piano rag does. It's pretty good recording too.

[Don Leman]

I quite enjoy ragtime music and have a particular fondness for..


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