F* Yeah! Jazz

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Bill Evans > Cool Eddie
Composed by Bill Evans

Bill Evans (he played with Miles, but not that Bill Evans) is seven years younger than me, so it makes sense that he’d want to mash up funk and jazz. And it might not quite have that ‘strangeness’ Mike defined, but it would be pretty hard to imagine any one even a generation older (maybe Herbie) remixing the stuff this way.

Postmodern Soul Jazz Week #4

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Joey Baron > What
Composed by Joey Baron

My friend Mike’s into Joey Baron and has been trying to get me to listen for 10 years; this set with Arthur Blythe, Bill Frisell, and Ron Carter has finally hit me. And this postmodern soul tag has gotten under his skin. He writes:

“I like the concept. To me the soul part is a beat that makes you want to fuck; the jazz part is a sonic vocabulary hip enough to compensate for the missing singer; and the postmodern part is a willingness to tell a story that welcomes strangeness.”

Like he said.

Postmodern Soul Jazz Week #3