Jazz dhe më shumë..

[forever]

Kena fol per shume zhanre,flasim dhe per jazzin meqe takova nje tiop shume interesant dje

Ju lutem shprehni preferencat tuaja, foto, pjese te vecanta...gjithcka per xhaz and its spirit

une po degjoj Goldberg..dhe "winter clouds" pa te them qe eshte e mrekullueshme

[D&G Feminine]

Ka pas qene nje film "Legjenda e Biks Baiderbek" e kam pare te Tirana para ca vitesh. Aty me ka pelqyer muzika jazz me te vertete dhe ky Biksi qeka trompetisti me i mire i jazz'it ne bote. Duhet te shkoj ta kerkoj kete filmin se ka pasur me te vertete muzike fantastike.

[forever]

kocidence e kendshme..Per Biksin po flisja just dje ..ne te vertete eshte cilesuar si me i miri trompetist i te gjitha koherave..dicka shkurt mbi te:

Bix Beiderbecke was one of the great jazz musicians of the 1920's; he was also a child of the Jazz Age who drank himself to an early grave with illegal Prohibition liquor. His hard drinking and beautiful tone on the cornet made him a legend among musicians during his life. The legend of Bix grew even larger after he died. Bix never learned to read music very well, but he had an amazing ear even as a child. His parents disapproved of his playing music and sent him to a military school outside of Chicago in 1921. He was soon expelled for skipping class and became a full-time musician. In 1923 Beiderbecke joined the Wolverine Orchestra and recorded with them the following year. Bix was influenced a great deal by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, but soon surpassed their playing. In late 1924 Bix left the Wolverines to join Jean Goldkette's Orchestra, but his inability to read music eventually resulted in him losing the job. In 1926 he spent some time with Frankie Trumbauer's Orchestra where he recorded his solo piano masterpiece "In a Mist". He also recorded some of his best work with Trumbauer and guitarist, Eddie Lang, under the name of Tram, Bix, and Eddie. Bix was able to bone up on his sight-reading enough to re-join Jean Goldkette's Orchestra briefly, before signing up as a soloist with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. Whiteman's Orchestra was the most popular band of the 1920's and Bix enjoyed the prestige and money of playing with such a successful outfit, but it didn't stop his drinking. In 1929 Bix's drinking began to catch up with him. He suffered from delirium tremens and he had a nervous breakdown while playing with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, and was eventually sent back to his parents in Davenport, Iowa to recover. It should be noted that Paul Whiteman was very good to Bix during his struggles. He kept Bix on full pay long after his breakdown, and promised him that his chair was always open in the Whiteman Orchestra, but, Bix was never the same again, and never rejoined the band. He returned to New York in 1930 and made a few more records with his friend Hoagy Carmichael and under the name of Bix Beiderbecke and his Orchestra. But mainly, he holed himself up in a rooming house in Queens, New York where he drank a lot and worked on his beautiful solo piano pieces "Candlelight", "Flashes", and "In The Dark" (played here by Ralph Sutton; Bix never recorded them). He died at age 28 in 1931 during an alcoholic seizure. The official cause of death was lobar pneumonia and edema of the brain.
ja dhe i perfoluri me siper:

[forever]

Sipas PBS-jazz program:

....The history of jazz is deeply intertwined with the history of America....

armstrong....nje tjeter star ne kete parade:

[forever]

Artie Show..a big one not only in his time, not just for the good music, but for the money and the Ladies:

Shaw was a leading jazz clarinetist and big band leader of the mid-20th century. His 1938 recording of Begin the Beguine made him a popular rival to superstar clarinetist Benny Goodman. Shaw developed a reputation as a reluctant and somewhat grouchy genius; his big bands were roaring successes but he frequently broke them up, only to form new bands months or years later. He also dabbled in symphonic music and avant-garde jazz combos and led a U.S. Navy big band during World War II. Later Shaw wrote books, including the semi-autobiographical The Trouble With Cinderella (1952). A famous ladies' man in his day, he was married eight times, including marriages to Hollywood beauties Lana Turner and Ava Gardner. Always unpredictable, Shaw quit the music business in 1954, though a big band bearing his name was reformed in 1983 and continued to tour. ............

[forever]

ndoshta nje nga me te njohurit Miles Davis:

it should be mentioned that Miles Davis is also considered a great artistic painter. In 1988 he created a series of abstract paintings. He was inspired by a Milan -based design movement known as "Memphis" founded by Ettore Sottsass. Known for "hot colors" and "clashing shapes" Memphis mixed and matched a variety of historical motifs and closely resembled a "postmodernism" style. Miles found this style appealing and created a large quantity of paintings. Most of the time Miles appeared on-stage in bright colored clothing that matched his painting style. He always seemed to dazzled his audiences with the color of sound that emanated from his horn and from his clothing. His paintings in New York City (1990) received enthusiastic reviews, as they did in Spain, West Germany and Japan.

Davis had a great artistic gift for painting and creating music. He is one of the very few jazz musicians of our time who had the ability to improvise and swing at a constant tempo. When Miles played a tune it became part of his soul and it never lost character. He passed away September 28, 1991

[forever]

Nje nga me interesantet, si ne muzike edhe per jeten personale....


Jean "Django" Reinhardt (1910 - 1953), who was born in a gypsy camp in Belgium, was truly a 'self-taught' musician. He started out on the violin and guitar playing gypsy music and at an early age performed in dance halls as part of the gypsy troupe. When Django was 18 or 19 years old he was severely burned when his trailer was consumed by fire. He lost the use of his left hand, especially the fourth and fifth fingers. Unable to finger the violin he turned all his attention to the guitar and worked out a system for reaching the frets with the remaining fingers on his left hand. When he heard a Louis Armstrong recording of Dallas Blues he took up jazz and was soon playing with local jazz groups.

[forever]

Do te ishte e padrejte te mos permendej Benny Goodman, nga me klasiket te quajtur ndryshe "King of Swing", Goodman became the first famous jazz musician to achieve success performing classical repertory....As a jazz clarinetist, Goodman had no peer. His flawless solo improvisations set standards of excellence for jazz performance. He founded and directed the most important musical organization of the swing era and helped to open a new epoch in American popular music. He was the first white bandleader to adopt and popularize an uncompromising jazz style. He was also among the first to feature black jazz players, an action that might have compromised his own career at a time when racial integration was not a popular concept. His concerts brought a new audience and a new level of recognition to jazz

[Larsus]

chet baker--------1988
Music: John McLaughlin
Lyrics: Jim Hillman

Stardust on your sleeve.......
On a night to believe
A sense of something right,
Something magic in the weave.

Wind dust across the sky,
You could see, if you tried,
A pair of northern lights
Burning brightly - you and I.......

Standing on stairs by the shore,
We kissed once more, but the timing was wrong.
Such a moment could only belong to the night -
In their passion, the stars sang along - what a sight !
As the moonbeams mixed with sand kissed your hand,
I felt sundrops on your lips,
Softly mixed with the taste of the stardust.

- solos -

Moondust in your eyes....
Should have been a surprise
To find our souls were mixed
With the magic in the skies.

Waiting for dawn to arrive
The world came alive, slowly stirring with sound.
Hints of morning appeared all around - drops of dew,
Were they teardrops of love on the
ground ? - I never knew.....
As the stardust on your sleeve
took its leave,
I took one last skyward glance,
one last chance
To be kissed by the stars.

[Brari]

Sdi si dallohen xhaz e Bluz etj.

As qe me behet vone qe sdi ti dalloj por cka eshte e bukur eshte e bukur.

Psh luis armstrong e qan ate....ja harrova emrin..

Pershendes me summer timme kenduar nga mahalia xhakson.. Korazonin, Mancisten e forevrin e ju tjeret natyrlight.

Po dita ,shpirti fsheht etj ku jan.