Comments on: Fast Jazz? The 10 Speediest Songs EVER!

By: RickM

RickM — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:25:05 +0000

Oscar Peterson’s “Swamp Fire” is smokin’ fast. And Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen stay right there with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnAa3hqct4M

By: Samuel Chell

Samuel Chell — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:39:08 +0000

I have no problem with fast tempos. What concerns me are all the later editions of jazz masterworks that speed up the original tempo. As heard on these recordings, the players lose their “bite” and tonal voice. Most recent example: “Sonny Side Up,” a Verve Recording under Dizzy Gillespie’s name that features the tenors of Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins. The first track, “Sunny Side of the Street,” sounds like a throwaway compared to the sheer exhilaration of the original. And one of the best duels on record–Stitt vs. Rollins on “The Eternal Triangle”–is an anticlimax, with the two Sonny’s firing blanks at each other

It’s now easy for producers to increase the speed of tracks without raising the pitch of the original. But don’t be fooled. The later, faster version that’s streamed or downloaded from Apple or Amazon or Spotify is bound to be a shorter track (compare playing times) at the expense of the music and its storied players. They deserve better, and certainly you do as a consumer-listener.

By: Matt Fripp

Matt Fripp — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:36:49 +0000

In reply to Aníbal Morillo. oh cool - please send photos after!

By: Matt Fripp

Matt Fripp — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:36:16 +0000

In reply to Gary. Haha - keep going Gary!

By: Matt Fripp

Matt Fripp — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:35:50 +0000

In reply to Lyn Scrimger. Good point Lyn, plenty of fast and furious gypsy jazz out there!

By: Lyn Scrimger

Lyn Scrimger — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:09:17 +0000

Revealing some of my own bias, but I’d have to include something by Django Reinhardt or the more contemporary Rosenberg Trio or Bireli Lagrene. Jimmy Rosenberg, Bireli Lagrene, and Angelo DeBarre also covered Donna Lee nice.

By: Gregory Ellison

Gregory Ellison — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:13:28 +0000

“All At Once You Loved Her” is a song that wasn’t on Lee Morgan’s original Candy album but was added later to the CD version. It is a fantastic piece of trumpet artistry. If you haven’t heard it, it’ll make you appreciate Lee Morgan even more.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:17:13 +0000

Still within my first year of saxophone playing. (baritone, king of the sound pyramid) I can say without any doubt that my rendition of Bluesette is not on anyone’s list.

By: Aníbal Morillo

Aníbal Morillo — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:58:55 +0000

Hi, Matt. My daughters gave me the best father’s day gift, the jazz quartet by Lego. I’m still working on it, 1600 pieces of very inventive imagination to create a beautiful 3D puzzle. I have been working on it whilst listenin to jazz. Almost there !