{"id":635,"date":"2010-09-13T20:43:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T03:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/?p=635"},"modified":"2010-09-13T20:43:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T03:43:25","slug":"day-148-dizzy-gillespie-new-order-next-stop-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/archives\/635","title":{"rendered":"Day 148. Dizzy Gillespie, New Order, ‘Next Stop Wonderland’."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Again, I made the choices a couple night\u2019s ago and just finished them up today… I\u2019ll get back to letting the girl\u2019s pick things again tonight, but there were a few things I just really wanted to hear.<\/p>\n

First, I had \u2018Temptation\u2019 by New Order stuck in my head the other day and just had to hear it. I have a couple things by New Order on LP, but the only CD I have is \u2018Substance\u2019. \u2018Substance\u2019 really is a about one of the best greatest hits packages that a band AND fans could hope for. The hits are on there, as well as some notable B-sides from the heyday of the 12\u201d single, and they didn\u2019t throw radio edits onto the discs (instead opting for a two disc collection that really earns its keep). And as much as I love New Order, their albums rarely carried \u2018great album\u2019 status in my opinion, so this collection keeps me covered for the most part… and the way I know? When I put it on, even if I didn\u2019t think I was in the mood for New Order, it only takes a couple of seconds to get into the groove of things and I will play at least on of the discs from start to finish quite happily. What will be interesting to see (to me at least) is how I will treat these discs now that they exist together on the server. Will I play both discs back to back? Or start getting choosier about which tracks I hear off one or the other? Who know, but I do think it is time for the girls to start dancing to \u2018Perfect Kiss\u2019 and \u2018Bizarre Love Triangle\u2019 before they are quick enough to parse the lyrics.<\/p>\n

The other discs I ripped were what I would best categorize as mellow night time music. The \u2018Next Stop Wonderland\u2019 easily makes my top 10 soundtracks list, and is probably in the top 3 if I were to make a list (up there with \u2018Singles\u2019 and \u2018In The Mood For Love\u2019). Filled with Bossa Nova and Samba, the whole disc flows beautifully. It would also be THE disc I would give to someone who has never heard South American influenced jazz before. You get a nice mix of \u2018authentic\u2019 and \u2018influenced\u2019 with Astrud Gilberto, Marcos Valles, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Coleman Hawkins rounding out the disc. It is also one of mine and Tamiko\u2019s favorite movies (one that we need to get on DVD… we haven\u2019t seen it for some time). The quirkiness and mood of the movie goes wonderfully with the music, a wonderful example of the music enhancing the movie, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Finally, the last set I ripped last night is kind of a self-compiled one. Back when I was working at Tower, there was a week where a single disc titled \u2018Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon: Live at the Village Vanguard\u2019 and a live Dizzy Gillespie disc came out at the same time. The first one had a young Chick Corea on it and while 1970s Chick Corea (or worse, 1980s Chick Corea) never really hit it for me, I was curious to hear his early playing so I grabbed it. The Dizzy Gillespie disc (a live double disc) just looked good. So I took them home and discovered, while reading the liner notes, that these two discs came from concerts on the same day. The first was basically the opening act, and a few of the players stuck around to play with Dizzy Gillespie for his show. There were no marketing materials that linked these discs together, and I have no idea how many other people have all three of these discs and have brought them together, but what you get is about three hours of great jazz that represents a night at the Village Vanguard in the \u201860s. I pretty much kept these three discs together (fitting the opening group\u2019s disc into the Dizzy Gillespie case since it had open slots) and have usually been able to put them out and listen to all three straight through.<\/p>\n

I went ahead and labelled stored them under Dizzy Gillespie on the server so I could have them all grouped together. Once again, another instance where the new server based music system is going to work out better then the old CD based one (I never bought a CD changer since… they couldn\u2019t play five discs at once, so I never really saw the use). There is some fine, fine playing in the opening groups set, and I can honestly say that some of Chick Corea\u2019s playing gave me a huge appreciation of him. But what really stands out for me in this set is the instrumentation at the beginning of Dizzy Gillespie\u2019s set… in addition to his trumpet and a standard rhythm section, there is also baritone sax, violin and trombone. And the violin mostly plays in its lower register. The result almost feels like a jazz ensemble influenced by Morphine … lots of lows, lots of sliding around and lots of gritty playing. The version of \u2018Birk\u2019s Works\u2019 on here is amazing, and the concert ending \u2018Sweet Georgia Brown\u2019 closes out the whole night very nicely. Lots of energy with a bit of Dixieland influence, with an amazingly nimble baritone sax solo that gets things going after the head.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to seeing what the girls pick out tonight though… I\u2019m guessing Mira goes for more opera… we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Again, I made the choices a couple night\u2019s ago and just finished them up today… I\u2019ll get back to letting the girl\u2019s pick things again tonight, but there were a few things I just really wanted to hear. First, I had \u2018Temptation\u2019 by New Order stuck in my head the other day and just had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,1],"tags":[272,270,271],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz","category-rock-pop","category-tamiko","tag-next-stop-wonderland","tag-dizzy-gillespie","tag-new-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}