View Poll Results: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore? (pick four)
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Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
07-26-14, 06:54 PM
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Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
The Miles Davis thread got me wondering about this: Which four jazz artists would you immortalize on Mount Rushmore?
The first three are easy for me: Satchmo, Duke, and Miles. After that I was going to pick Bird, but realized I'd be skipping Coltrane, Dizzy, Monk...
The first three are easy for me: Satchmo, Duke, and Miles. After that I was going to pick Bird, but realized I'd be skipping Coltrane, Dizzy, Monk...
07-26-14, 07:07 PM
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Damn, I'm the first one who voted! That's never happened to me before here.
It was tough not voting for Fitzgerald or Holliday, but I had to honor the pioneers: Morton, Basie, Ellington, Armstrong.
Good list, Dave.
I think Morton and Holliday are the only ones on the list who were not alive and active when I first started listening to jazz as a child. (My parents had a bunch of albums.) Heck, Picasso was still active when I was a child.
It was tough not voting for Fitzgerald or Holliday, but I had to honor the pioneers: Morton, Basie, Ellington, Armstrong.
Good list, Dave.
I think Morton and Holliday are the only ones on the list who were not alive and active when I first started listening to jazz as a child. (My parents had a bunch of albums.) Heck, Picasso was still active when I was a child.
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07-27-14, 01:14 PM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
Satchmo, Davis, and the Duke were obvious picks. I ended up going with Holiday for the fourth spot because of her pervasive influence.
07-27-14, 07:53 PM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
I don't know jazz that well, but I like:
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07-27-14, 09:09 PM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
Other:
Brian Auger (Oblivion Express)
Stanley Clarke
Billy Cobham
Klaus Doldinger (Passport)
Jerry Goodman
John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Jean-Luc Ponty
Tom Scott (L.A. Express)
...to name a few.
Brian Auger (Oblivion Express)
Stanley Clarke
Billy Cobham
Klaus Doldinger (Passport)
Jerry Goodman
John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Jean-Luc Ponty
Tom Scott (L.A. Express)
...to name a few.
07-27-14, 09:53 PM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
Along with Steve Kahn, Pat Methany...... Brecker Bros.... Lee Scofield... Lee Ritenour...
07-28-14, 06:16 AM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
@ JANK:
Yeah, I thought about them too (along with Larry Carlton, Chick Corea, Jan Hammer, Terje Rypdal, and Wayne Shorter/Joseph Zawinul of Weather Report, and so on and so forth), but my list was already 8 long, didn't want to get too crazy with it, Mount Rushmore was already getting ridiculously long...
Yeah, I thought about them too (along with Larry Carlton, Chick Corea, Jan Hammer, Terje Rypdal, and Wayne Shorter/Joseph Zawinul of Weather Report, and so on and so forth), but my list was already 8 long, didn't want to get too crazy with it, Mount Rushmore was already getting ridiculously long...
07-28-14, 07:20 AM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Davis
07-29-14, 09:09 AM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
A case could be made for either Blakey or Roach, but, IMO, to qualify for this hypothetical Mt Rushmore, a person would have to be more than "just" a musician - they would need to be an innovator, a great bandleader, and a composer as well.
Look, a guy like Buddy Rich or John Scofield might have been (or still is) a great musician, but think about where jazz would be if neither had been born. I would argue, exactly where it is currently. Now, think where jazz would be if Duke Ellington or Miles Davis had never been born.
Look, a guy like Buddy Rich or John Scofield might have been (or still is) a great musician, but think about where jazz would be if neither had been born. I would argue, exactly where it is currently. Now, think where jazz would be if Duke Ellington or Miles Davis had never been born.
07-29-14, 09:25 AM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
Other:
Brian Auger (Oblivion Express)
Stanley Clarke
Billy Cobham
Klaus Doldinger (Passport)
Jerry Goodman
John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Jean-Luc Ponty
Tom Scott (L.A. Express)
...to name a few.
Brian Auger (Oblivion Express)
Stanley Clarke
Billy Cobham
Klaus Doldinger (Passport)
Jerry Goodman
John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Jean-Luc Ponty
Tom Scott (L.A. Express)
...to name a few.
07-29-14, 02:51 PM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
Monk, Miles, Trane, Dolphy
?? I'm never one for the pioneers. Screw Elvis and Chuck Berry too!
(I voted Mingus because Dolphy isn't on the list.)
?? I'm never one for the pioneers. Screw Elvis and Chuck Berry too!
(I voted Mingus because Dolphy isn't on the list.)
07-29-14, 09:45 PM
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Bird, Trane, Miles, and Mingus, maybe? There're lots of choices. Damn, I'd hate to do it without Satchmo Louis though... While I love Brubeck, don't know if he'd be one of my picks.
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07-30-14, 07:12 AM
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Re: Who would be on your jazz Mount Rushmore?
A case could be made for either Blakey or Roach, but, IMO, to qualify for this hypothetical Mt Rushmore, a person would have to be more than "just" a musician - they would need to be an innovator, a great bandleader, and a composer as well.
Look, a guy like Buddy Rich or John Scofield might have been (or still is) a great musician, but think about where jazz would be if neither had been born. I would argue, exactly where it is currently. Now, think where jazz would be if Duke Ellington or Miles Davis had never been born.
Look, a guy like Buddy Rich or John Scofield might have been (or still is) a great musician, but think about where jazz would be if neither had been born. I would argue, exactly where it is currently. Now, think where jazz would be if Duke Ellington or Miles Davis had never been born.
