Night Train by Oscar Peterson. Seriously nothing has ever been more swingin’ since! If you want something more on the modern side, a lot of the young cats are listening to Chad Lefkowitz Browns album Standard Sessions. Great collection of jazz standards with a modern flavor to it!
"Magical Nerdery". Well now, that sounds like a prime candidate for a Dandy Wellington piece of merchandise. If so, at least we can be assured that it won't be another friggin' t-shirt!
I honestly can’t remember who I started listening to jazz has certainly become one of me favorite genres to listen to, particularly the 1920’s to the 50’s. I blame Captain America which is one of my favorite Marvel movies. Because it’s set in the 30’s-40’s I went on a binge of that era’s music for three months lol. Now when I teach my children (students) online I always have jazz playing in the background and many of them seem to enjoy it. Gotta start them young! 🥰
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and talent with the world! Billie Holiday is ultimate for me. She makes me feel every emotion to the bottom of my soul, which is true of jazz in general...but she takes it even further for me. Love, love, love her. ❤️
My dad taped a Cotton Club documentary off PBS in the mid-80s and played it over and over, that's my earliest exposure to Jazz that I can remember! But I could not have been more than seven or eight when we performed "Hold Tight" by Fats Waller in a school music program so that's a song I'll know forever too. :P
This is a most interesting video. I personally listen to classical during the day..... but come evening its jazz from 20s and 30s for me...... love the older jazz records
Hi! Actually, I heard jazz for the first time on Loony Tunes. I couldn't tell you who the composer was. I also remember hearing jazz in Betty Boop cartoons.
Ted Turner was responsible for my earliest memories of Jazz music through his Turner Broadcasting Station (TBS) playing MGM musicals as a regular part of its programming in the 1980s and 90s. I fell further in love with it during the Swing revival of the early 2000s. However, I purchased my first Jazz recording in 2005 while I was on an archaeological excavation in the Orkneys. I was loving it but was also a little homesick. Then I found a Dizzy Gillespie's Dejavu Retro Gold collection CDs at a store in Kirkwall! Listing to it reminded me of home at the time but now reminds me of Orkney too.
Ella and Frank are just so perfect - not sure how much big band and swing (which i reckon are my favourites) are classed as jazz (excuse my ignorance!), but Ella and Frank ‘The Lady is a Tramp’ is absolutely MAGNIFICENT
In 1968 when I was 6 I was enrolled in tap class and they taught us a dance to Louis Armstrong's Hello Dolly, and also one to In The Mood. I watched a lot of old musicals on my little black and white TV, my favorite 42nd Street gave me an interesting sense of time warp growing up in NYC when much of the city still looked like it did in the 1930's. My favorite jazz artist is Sydney Bechet.
My mom used to sing in a jazz choir, they would do Take 6 songs and some old French classics. Now that I think about it, it was quite unusual since we lived in northern Quebec, Canada. I would play my mom's cassette tape recording all the time. Then I discovered Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and it was a done deal. 25 years later I still hum and whistle the songs from that tape. :)
I spent the entire video trying to identify the first time I heard jazz - I couldn’t. My best guess is my mom playing rag time tunes on the piano. As you named artist and albums, they were ones I remember as a kid. Now, I have three jazz musicians in my house - trumpeter, trombonist and a pianist who is learning sax. Jazz is a primary sound in our house and the kids picked instruments based on jazz potential.
first exposure to jazz? Probably Benny Goodman and his sidemen, whose music was popular on a late-night radio show called THE SWINGIN' YEARS. We listened to it when I was a small boy and my folks took off for weekend camping trips, starting out from home and picking up my Dad at work after a late-night shift. Even over scratchy AM radio, it spoke to me. Still does.
Hi Dandy, I've recently discovered a love for jazz. This video was a very well timed help to improve my understanding and enjoyment of the music. Thank you! 👌
I fell in love with jazz in my teens. Armstrong and his trumpet. 🔥 My recommendation is Sonny Clark "Softly as in a morning sunrise" He is brilliant and underrated. Question: what is the fundamental difference between ragtime and swing ?🦋
“Georgia on My Mind” was one of the first jazz songs I heard, and is one of the reasons why I love listening to and playing jazz music. Ray Charles really knew what he was doing with that one ♥️
Amen!!! Support the arts and artists! I don't remember the first Jazz song I ever heard, or the first time I heard Jazz music in general. That being said, the first Jazz song that had a deep impact on me and found a home in my soul was "Do Nothin' til You Hear From Me", which I sang in my high school Jazz band. ❤🎙🎺
the smithsonian jazz collection vinyls in my universities audio library was the first time i realized the huge variety and influence of the genre and where i first heard sarah vaughan’s amazing voice
Jazz music is THE hardest genre to play good. As you say, the solos follow the chord progression, so you need to know all the diatonic modes. Its hard. Fascinating video, Mr. W!
I’ve missed someone talking about jazz since I left my university! My first jazz song was Nat King Cole’s Fly Me to the Moon- my mom was obsessed with him, and it’s still my favorite version! This brought some life to my soul, thank you 💖
my high school had a strong music program, especially the jazz program. So I have high school to thank for a strong foundation and appreciation for classical music and jazz. Especially Duke Ellington. I remember going to Lincoln center and listening to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra playing Ellington standards. They played the mooch, feet bone, and lady of the lavender mist just to name a few.
Actually, being a Georgia girl, I *did* know the Ray Charles's version of "Georgia On My Mind" is a Jazz song, but the first Jazz song I ever *heard* I cannot forget. It was "I Can't Get Started" by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald. I ran that tape back over and over again listening to that song (it was on a compilation album of some kind, maybe a soundtrack, idk, and I believe that was the only Jazz song on there). I had been brought up on early 80's Country (never my jam) and Oldies, that is to say, pop music of the 50's and 60's, my mom's music. But I discovered Jazz in 9th grade, and my History teach exposed us to Big Band music, too. So even though I was an 80's pop music kid and loved it all, at the same time something about Jazz and Big Band stuff really SPOKE to me. It was like I had heard it before in another life and I was being reminded. That ONE song started me down the road to collecting Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald albums (I know it's cliche to go with the most popular artists, but they were the most popular because they were GREAT, after all), to search out albums of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman. I happened on Miss Lena Horne who is my idol and who is still one of my favorites (even though I know she's not considered to be a true Jazz artist, for some reason I can't figure out) and I looooove to sing along with her. And I have gone on too long, so I will shut up now. :)
I love jazz and played trombone all through school, including all county jazz band, sometimes as the only girl. I had an album of the Preservation Jazz Hall Band that I always tried to play along to (not very well though.) Chet Baker is one of my favorite smooth & quiet jazz artists from the 60s, but I ADORE 30s/40s swing with Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Cab Calloway...oh brother. There are too many!!
Dandy Wellington 😂 i wish! I lost my umburture at least 15 years ago. It all stopped when my only option in college was the cello parts for chamber orchestra.
I know you're all about Jazz, and I do enjoy Jazz, but my heart is really into Blues. I kind of think of them as sisters, as they are similar in many ways ! Would be interesting to hear you riff about that, sometime ! :)
My favorite jazz is Angelo Badalamenti's many surreal jazz pieces for David Lynch's films. Audrey's Dance, the Theme for Fire Walk With Me, and Dance of the Dream Man instrumentals.
Amen! My undergrad university just cut their performing arts programs (theater and music) because “there aren’t jobs in that field”.... and yet it’s the musicians and actors that have kept us sane the past few months.
Growing up in the early 1950s, probably the first jazz I ever heard was used in Looney Tunes & the Fleischer cartoons on TV, specifically Minnie the Moocher in a Betty Boop cartoon, and Powerhouse by Raymond Scott in what felt like at least half of all Warners cartoons.
Fats Waller was the first jazz artist I heard. My Dad was a huge fan. I also got a chance to see the musical Ain’t Misbehaven. Jazz always reminds me of my Dad. He’s been gone 30 years now, but his love of Jazz will never die.👏🏻👏🏻
I've known about ragtime since a child (my father had two Scott Joplin LPs, played by Joshua Rifkin), but I was late coming to actual jazz, because I grew up in a classical music house... probably seeing films like High Society was my first, as a teenager.
Since my father is a Jazz musician, I have absolutely no idea what the first jazz song I ever heard was, but it was probably during a rehearsal in the living room. "If you're gonna appreciate it, you should be okay with paying us for it." AMEN!!!
Gershwin and Berlin! They make me happy! I grew up listening to and watching the greats and the old movies. Everything from the Gay Divorcee to American in Paris. Astaire, Crosby, Kelly, etc. It's so familiar and homey.
Artists are sooo important! Being a composer I know how frustrating it can be and it's the same for musicians. We have to get paid and people have to be okay with it!
Thanks for this video! I’m just starting to dip my toes into listening to Jazz music, even though I live around New Orleans. lol As a musician, I’m having difficulty understanding what I am listening to when listening to Jazz. I was getting frustrated listening to Jazz because I can’t hear the chord changes and melody that I am familiar with in the music I typically listen to and play on guitar. I’m really happy that I found your video because it will help me to appreciate the art and give me a better understanding of how to listen to Jazz.
I can't really say which Jazz song I heard first, my dad is a huge Jazz fan so there was always some around. I absolutely adored the technical explanation of the music!! So good and I've learned a lot! I always thought that there must be a structure to the solos but I'm quite tone deaf so it eluded me and it was always kind of magical to me how they know to play what when :D
I love how excited you are about jazz, it's infectious! I don't know for sure, but I think the 1st time I heard jazz was in an elementary school music class and it was Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. As far as favorite things to listen to I love me some 12-bar blues, and blues in general. A great modern artist that I LOVE is Brother Yusef. Blues Is My Story is a particular favorite :)
My favorite Christmas songs are jazz! So I'm not sure if my first exposure was through seasonal music or through the cassette of The Manhattan Transfer's Swing album that my momma would play in the car driving my sister and I to preschool.
I believe the first Jazz song I heard was one of Armstrong's, as my father used to listen a lot to him when I was a child. I didn't have much interest in it back then, but as I've grown older I've been getting more and more interested in getting into it and thanks to you it's been made very easy for me now. Thank you for enriching my life like this.
Thanks for this, Dandy! My first exposure to jazz was my parents LP albums--Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, and my all time favorite, The Firehouse 5+2. Love jazz so much! These days, I'm loving listening to Stephanie Trick playing stride piano, especially the videos of her work with Nicki Parrott and Hal Smith from 5 or 6 years ago. And always, always Billie Holliday. I love her voice so much, and the way she interprets a song. I so wish I was better at parsing Bebop. I have to listen to a Bebop song about 10 times before my brain finally clicks in and can actually hear the song properly. whew! (Also, that purple polka dot pocket square? It's *chef's kiss* perfect!)
Gah! These videos are so good! Thank you for educating the children on the fact that musicians don't just get up and perform 'whatever they're feeling'. I've had people even think I do this when I'm in scripted shows! haha. All artistry takes so much work and preparation! Thank you for spreading the good work!
I think that the vocals are THE MOST important instrument in jazz. Jazz truly is a vocal tradition. Until the abolishing of the slavery, black Americans in the south had no instruments of their own. None of their African culture and heritage survived across the Atlantic. The only instrument they carried with them on the harrowing journey was the voice. It became so ingrained in black American culture before the abolishing of slavery that the vocal tradition was simply transplanted into other instruments once slaves became affluent enough to acquire them. The vocal tradition of it is what makes jazz so human to me and why I love it so much.
QUESTION: Dandy, I am a huge fan of big band music and swing. However, I thought that was completely different than jazz. I thought jazz was considered more abstract. Could you possibly do a video going into a little more detail about these different styles of music? Also, my favorite rock group is Led Zeppelin and I know they drew their inspiration from jazz. Also, one of my favorite movies is Robin and the 7 hoods, can you do a review of the clothes in that movie? Thanks.
How do you feel about New Jazz and how does it stack up against old Jazz? Examples like Electro Swing or Techo-Jazz. Do you have modern Jazz artists/bands do you think have the same.... soul? Magic as older ones? Somehow these original artists just talk to our anger, our sadness, our joy, and our fears. My fiance argues there isn't newer bands who will stand the test of time like those older ones.
Let me also add and explain in musicians terms , the 1-4,5 chord progressions that is the bedrock of most music genres, rock , Jazz and countless others IS THE BLUES baby
Idk, I listen to a lot of more obscure artists, I’m not actually that familiar with most of the big nsmes in Jazz so I feel weird about that lol, but one of my favourite jazz singers is Annette Hanshaw, I think she’s pretty underrated. Idk if that music still counts as jazz though. That’s another good question, what music counts as jazz and what doesn’t ?
Oh ya, Ray Charles doing "Georgia" is the epitomy of singing a song with emotion. If aliens showed up and wanted to know what singing is, I'd play Mr Charles singing that song. It is perfection. Imho, he is the best singer that has ever lived.
Do you have any Jazz Music recommendations?
Don’t forget King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton. 💗 🎹 🎼
@@shawnayork8617 I wouldn't dare!
Night Train by Oscar Peterson. Seriously nothing has ever been more swingin’ since! If you want something more on the modern side, a lot of the young cats are listening to Chad Lefkowitz Browns album Standard Sessions. Great collection of jazz standards with a modern flavor to it!
The Ink Spots. They'll always have a place in my heart, fam.
Support your local jazz radio station. Listen & learn about your local jazz musicians
"If you're gonna appreciate it, you should be okay with paying us for it." HECK YES!! ONE MORE TIME, LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!!!
"Magical Nerdery". Well now, that sounds like a prime candidate for a Dandy Wellington piece of merchandise. If so, at least we can be assured that it won't be another friggin' t-shirt!
The jazz that got me into more jazz was the Cowboy Bebop theme lol. It definitely wasn't the earliest I heard, but it got me interested.
never before this video have I been so happy to see an ad in a video!
Amen! Pay your artists!
Yes Ma'am!
I honestly can’t remember who I started listening to jazz has certainly become one of me favorite genres to listen to, particularly the 1920’s to the 50’s. I blame Captain America which is one of my favorite Marvel movies. Because it’s set in the 30’s-40’s I went on a binge of that era’s music for three months lol. Now when I teach my children (students) online I always have jazz playing in the background and many of them seem to enjoy it. Gotta start them young! 🥰
Pass it on to the next generation! Yes!
“People who have tempted you to dream-are artists” -Dandy Wellington
Such a beautiful and true sentiment!!
The first LP I heard was dave brubeck take five
I could honestly listen to you talk about jazz for hours.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and talent with the world!
Billie Holiday is ultimate for me. She makes me feel every emotion to the bottom of my soul, which is true of jazz in general...but she takes it even further for me. Love, love, love her. ❤️
If you want to go on an emotional journey, listen to billie!
@@DandyWellington so true!
My dad taped a Cotton Club documentary off PBS in the mid-80s and played it over and over, that's my earliest exposure to Jazz that I can remember! But I could not have been more than seven or eight when we performed "Hold Tight" by Fats Waller in a school music program so that's a song I'll know forever too. :P
This is a most interesting video. I personally listen to classical during the day..... but come evening its jazz from 20s and 30s for me...... love the older jazz records
I love that! Thank for watching.
Hi! Actually, I heard jazz for the first time on Loony Tunes. I couldn't tell you who the composer was. I also remember hearing jazz in Betty Boop cartoons.
The Betty Boop one was "St. James Infirmary", if I remember correctly?
Ted Turner was responsible for my earliest memories of Jazz music through his Turner Broadcasting Station (TBS) playing MGM musicals as a regular part of its programming in the 1980s and 90s. I fell further in love with it during the Swing revival of the early 2000s. However, I purchased my first Jazz recording in 2005 while I was on an archaeological excavation in the Orkneys. I was loving it but was also a little homesick. Then I found a Dizzy Gillespie's Dejavu Retro Gold collection CDs at a store in Kirkwall! Listing to it reminded me of home at the time but now reminds me of Orkney too.
I enjoy watching old cartoons and through Betty Boop I met Cab Calloway; and through Cab Calloway I met jazz music...and FELL IN LOVE.
This video has changed the way I'm gonna listen to Jazz. Must find The Form!
Pay Your Artist ppl!
Ella and Frank are just so perfect - not sure how much big band and swing (which i reckon are my favourites) are classed as jazz (excuse my ignorance!), but Ella and Frank ‘The Lady is a Tramp’ is absolutely MAGNIFICENT
I don't normally comment on YT videos but damn, Dandy Wellington had me welling up with his words on artistry. Here's your Amen!
In 1968 when I was 6 I was enrolled in tap class and they taught us a dance to Louis Armstrong's Hello Dolly, and also one to In The Mood. I watched a lot of old musicals on my little black and white TV, my favorite 42nd Street gave me an interesting sense of time warp growing up in NYC when much of the city still looked like it did in the 1930's. My favorite jazz artist is Sydney Bechet.
My mom used to sing in a jazz choir, they would do Take 6 songs and some old French classics. Now that I think about it, it was quite unusual since we lived in northern Quebec, Canada. I would play my mom's cassette tape recording all the time. Then I discovered Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and it was a done deal. 25 years later I still hum and whistle the songs from that tape. :)
I spent the entire video trying to identify the first time I heard jazz - I couldn’t. My best guess is my mom playing rag time tunes on the piano. As you named artist and albums, they were ones I remember as a kid. Now, I have three jazz musicians in my house - trumpeter, trombonist and a pianist who is learning sax. Jazz is a primary sound in our house and the kids picked instruments based on jazz potential.
I grew up in The Big Easy" New Orleans and jazz was all over the place. Louie, The Marsalis family..so many
first exposure to jazz? Probably Benny Goodman and his sidemen, whose music was popular on a late-night radio show called THE SWINGIN' YEARS. We listened to it when I was a small boy and my folks took off for weekend camping trips, starting out from home and picking up my Dad at work after a late-night shift. Even over scratchy AM radio, it spoke to me. Still does.
Hi Dandy, I've recently discovered a love for jazz. This video was a very well timed help to improve my understanding and enjoyment of the music. Thank you! 👌
I fell in love with jazz in my teens. Armstrong and his trumpet. 🔥 My recommendation is Sonny Clark "Softly as in a morning sunrise" He is brilliant and underrated. Question: what is the fundamental difference between ragtime and swing ?🦋
Amen!
i don't remember my first jazz song but i do remember that listening to ella fitzgerald is what got me to really love the genre.
“Georgia on My Mind” was one of the first jazz songs I heard, and is one of the reasons why I love listening to and playing jazz music. Ray Charles really knew what he was doing with that one ♥️
Amen!!! Support the arts and artists!
I don't remember the first Jazz song I ever heard, or the first time I heard Jazz music in general. That being said, the first Jazz song that had a deep impact on me and found a home in my soul was "Do Nothin' til You Hear From Me", which I sang in my high school Jazz band. ❤🎙🎺
the smithsonian jazz collection vinyls in my universities audio library was the first time i realized the huge variety and influence of the genre and where i first heard sarah vaughan’s amazing voice
Jazz music is THE hardest genre to play good. As you say, the solos follow the chord progression, so you need to know all the diatonic modes. Its hard. Fascinating video, Mr. W!
My first Jazz song was Duke Elligntion-In a sentimental Mood
I’ve missed someone talking about jazz since I left my university! My first jazz song was Nat King Cole’s Fly Me to the Moon- my mom was obsessed with him, and it’s still my favorite version! This brought some life to my soul, thank you 💖
my high school had a strong music program, especially the jazz program. So I have high school to thank for a strong foundation and appreciation for classical music and jazz. Especially Duke Ellington. I remember going to Lincoln center and listening to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra playing Ellington standards. They played the mooch, feet bone, and lady of the lavender mist just to name a few.
Ella Fitzgerald 'Live in Berlin' and Judy Garland live at Carnegy Hall. Two of my favorite albums.
Actually, being a Georgia girl, I *did* know the Ray Charles's version of "Georgia On My Mind" is a Jazz song, but the first Jazz song I ever *heard* I cannot forget. It was "I Can't Get Started" by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald. I ran that tape back over and over again listening to that song (it was on a compilation album of some kind, maybe a soundtrack, idk, and I believe that was the only Jazz song on there). I had been brought up on early 80's Country (never my jam) and Oldies, that is to say, pop music of the 50's and 60's, my mom's music. But I discovered Jazz in 9th grade, and my History teach exposed us to Big Band music, too. So even though I was an 80's pop music kid and loved it all, at the same time something about Jazz and Big Band stuff really SPOKE to me. It was like I had heard it before in another life and I was being reminded. That ONE song started me down the road to collecting Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald albums (I know it's cliche to go with the most popular artists, but they were the most popular because they were GREAT, after all), to search out albums of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman. I happened on Miss Lena Horne who is my idol and who is still one of my favorites (even though I know she's not considered to be a true Jazz artist, for some reason I can't figure out) and I looooove to sing along with her.
And I have gone on too long, so I will shut up now. :)
I love jazz and played trombone all through school, including all county jazz band, sometimes as the only girl. I had an album of the Preservation Jazz Hall Band that I always tried to play along to (not very well though.) Chet Baker is one of my favorite smooth & quiet jazz artists from the 60s, but I ADORE 30s/40s swing with Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Cab Calloway...oh brother. There are too many!!
When are we gonna see you play that trombone?
Dandy Wellington 😂 i wish! I lost my umburture at least 15 years ago. It all stopped when my only option in college was the cello parts for chamber orchestra.
I know you're all about Jazz, and I do enjoy Jazz, but my heart is really into Blues. I kind of think of them as sisters, as they are similar in many ways !
Would be interesting to hear you riff about that, sometime ! :)
My favorite jazz is Angelo Badalamenti's many surreal jazz pieces for David Lynch's films. Audrey's Dance, the Theme for Fire Walk With Me, and Dance of the Dream Man instrumentals.
Amen! My undergrad university just cut their performing arts programs (theater and music) because “there aren’t jobs in that field”.... and yet it’s the musicians and actors that have kept us sane the past few months.
Growing up in the early 1950s, probably the first jazz I ever heard was used in Looney Tunes & the Fleischer cartoons on TV, specifically Minnie the Moocher in a Betty Boop cartoon, and Powerhouse by Raymond Scott in what felt like at least half of all Warners cartoons.
Fats Waller was the first jazz artist I heard. My Dad was a huge fan. I also got a chance to see the musical Ain’t Misbehaven. Jazz always reminds me of my Dad. He’s been gone 30 years now, but his love of Jazz will never die.👏🏻👏🏻
Love jazz! My dad plays drums and his favorite genre 100% to play is jazz.
Amazing!! there is nothing like a great drummer! Thanks for watching!
I've known about ragtime since a child (my father had two Scott Joplin LPs, played by Joshua Rifkin), but I was late coming to actual jazz, because I grew up in a classical music house... probably seeing films like High Society was my first, as a teenager.
Since my father is a Jazz musician, I have absolutely no idea what the first jazz song I ever heard was, but it was probably during a rehearsal in the living room.
"If you're gonna appreciate it, you should be okay with paying us for it." AMEN!!!
Gershwin and Berlin! They make me happy! I grew up listening to and watching the greats and the old movies. Everything from the Gay Divorcee to American in Paris. Astaire, Crosby, Kelly, etc. It's so familiar and homey.
Artists are sooo important! Being a composer I know how frustrating it can be and it's the same for musicians. We have to get paid and people have to be okay with it!
Thanks for this video! I’m just starting to dip my toes into listening to Jazz music, even though I live around New Orleans. lol
As a musician, I’m having difficulty understanding what I am listening to when listening to Jazz. I was getting frustrated listening to Jazz because I can’t hear the chord changes and melody that I am familiar with in the music I typically listen to and play on guitar. I’m really happy that I found your video because it will help me to appreciate the art and give me a better understanding of how to listen to Jazz.
Pay artists! Amen!
I honestly don't even know the first jazz song I ever listened to because I've been listening to it for my whole life.
I can't really say which Jazz song I heard first, my dad is a huge Jazz fan so there was always some around.
I absolutely adored the technical explanation of the music!! So good and I've learned a lot! I always thought that there must be a structure to the solos but I'm quite tone deaf so it eluded me and it was always kind of magical to me how they know to play what when :D
I love how excited you are about jazz, it's infectious! I don't know for sure, but I think the 1st time I heard jazz was in an elementary school music class and it was Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. As far as favorite things to listen to I love me some 12-bar blues, and blues in general. A great modern artist that I LOVE is Brother Yusef. Blues Is My Story is a particular favorite :)
My favorite Christmas songs are jazz! So I'm not sure if my first exposure was through seasonal music or through the cassette of The Manhattan Transfer's Swing album that my momma would play in the car driving my sister and I to preschool.
Jazz is one of the reasons I love Christmas music so much! That plus carols.
I believe the first Jazz song I heard was one of Armstrong's, as my father used to listen a lot to him when I was a child. I didn't have much interest in it back then, but as I've grown older I've been getting more and more interested in getting into it and thanks to you it's been made very easy for me now. Thank you for enriching my life like this.
Thanks for this video! We've linked it on our website so our swing dance students who are new to jazz can benefit from your expertise.
Freaking awesome intro to jazz for all of us little beginners!
You look straight from 1920's new Orleans I love your outfit
Herbie Hancock Rock it. From there I grew tolove Jazz from the 20's to swing.
Spot on thanks :D
12:22 AMEN!
Enjoyed listening to this very much. Very informative. I am new to Jazz.
Ahmad Jamal......classic album ....but not for me.....1958....still have that album at home.....brilliant work of art....
Amen!!
Amen
*AMEN!!!!*
What was the first Jazz I ever heard? Well that would be Vince Guaraldi's Linus and Lucy!
Thanks for this, Dandy! My first exposure to jazz was my parents LP albums--Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, and my all time favorite, The Firehouse 5+2. Love jazz so much! These days, I'm loving listening to Stephanie Trick playing stride piano, especially the videos of her work with Nicki Parrott and Hal Smith from 5 or 6 years ago. And always, always Billie Holliday. I love her voice so much, and the way she interprets a song. I so wish I was better at parsing Bebop. I have to listen to a Bebop song about 10 times before my brain finally clicks in and can actually hear the song properly. whew! (Also, that purple polka dot pocket square? It's *chef's kiss* perfect!)
This is great! I'm a total newbie in this area and really appreciate this.
Gah! These videos are so good! Thank you for educating the children on the fact that musicians don't just get up and perform 'whatever they're feeling'. I've had people even think I do this when I'm in scripted shows! haha. All artistry takes so much work and preparation! Thank you for spreading the good work!
I think that the vocals are THE MOST important instrument in jazz. Jazz truly is a vocal tradition. Until the abolishing of the slavery, black Americans in the south had no instruments of their own. None of their African culture and heritage survived across the Atlantic. The only instrument they carried with them on the harrowing journey was the voice. It became so ingrained in black American culture before the abolishing of slavery that the vocal tradition was simply transplanted into other instruments once slaves became affluent enough to acquire them. The vocal tradition of it is what makes jazz so human to me and why I love it so much.
Amen!!! Thank you for your wonderful content!!💗💗💗
Dandy: It’s a job.
Me: *SLOW CLAP* Preach!!!!!
QUESTION: Dandy, I am a huge fan of big band music and swing. However, I thought that was completely different than jazz. I thought jazz was considered more abstract. Could you possibly do a video going into a little more detail about these different styles of music? Also, my favorite rock group is Led Zeppelin and I know they drew their inspiration from jazz. Also, one of my favorite movies is Robin and the 7 hoods, can you do a review of the clothes in that movie? Thanks.
I never clicked so fast! Hello Mr. Dandy!!
Glad you did!!
Hello Sr. I hope you are doing well on your merry New York 💗. Thank you for the lesson on Jazz.
amen
the first jazz song I can remember hearing was nat king cole’s love thanks to the parent trap movie 🍿
"A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane
My first glimpse of Jazz is "In the Mood" by Glenn Miller. Fantastic tune, wonderful genre, but really, I'm more of a metalhead.
Have you ever been to the Jazz Museum in Kansas City? If you have how well curated and setup do you think it is?
Everything is built on the Blues, including Jazz.
How do you feel about New Jazz and how does it stack up against old Jazz? Examples like Electro Swing or Techo-Jazz.
Do you have modern Jazz artists/bands do you think have the same.... soul? Magic as older ones? Somehow these original artists just talk to our anger, our sadness, our joy, and our fears. My fiance argues there isn't newer bands who will stand the test of time like those older ones.
I'm a weirdo who loves experimental jazz, but I wouldn't restrict my listening to only that. And I'm trying to learn some jazz tunes on the piano 😄
Aaaaaaameeeeennnn !
Fly me to the Moon. Still makes me swoon
Let me also add and explain in musicians terms , the 1-4,5 chord progressions that is the bedrock of most music genres, rock , Jazz and countless others IS THE BLUES baby
Idk, I listen to a lot of more obscure artists, I’m not actually that familiar with most of the big nsmes in Jazz so I feel weird about that lol, but one of my favourite jazz singers is Annette Hanshaw, I think she’s pretty underrated. Idk if that music still counts as jazz though. That’s another good question, what music counts as jazz and what doesn’t ?
AMENNNNNNN
If you use an iPad, which apps do you use? ForScore, iRealPro, iGigBook, or something else?
It was Dean Martin for me
I joined jazz band a couple years ago in school and really tried but I couldn’t keep up (also I play the flute and it sounded horrid 😔✌️)
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Oh ya, Ray Charles doing "Georgia" is the epitomy of singing a song with emotion. If aliens showed up and wanted to know what singing is, I'd play Mr Charles singing that song. It is perfection. Imho, he is the best singer that has ever lived.
He has such an incredible way of conveying emotion and truth and narrative in all the songs he did. He is unbelievable!
@@DandyWellington Amen to that!
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Is nat king Cole swing and/or jazz?
Whiplash was a hard movie to watch. Is any of it accurate to the study and performance of jazz?
Not really. Adam Neely did good video on it.
Good movie despite being wildly inaccurate.
I can’t remember a time where Jazz wasn’t around.
The first fully American art form? Minstrels, Spirituals, and Ragtime came before.
Frank Sinatra was probably the first I knew was jazz, but the first jazz ever... I have no idea. Makes me sad to realize I have no idea.
I feel safe to say african Americans in some way started almost every popular music form in the US I'm very proud to be a black american