I just don't understand why these videos aren't getting millions of views. The world is a perplexing place....high level jazz education on this channel. Keep going brother, the world needs this.
It puzzles me at times too,.... I see some of my competition talking out their ass, getting 1000s of views... ?? But mine aint click bait and gimmicky 7 minutes of fluff, its more substantive, which I think scares away many??? All the same it is still growing steady, and I would rather have a following of 5000 that watch and get it , than 100 000 that just tune in to tune out??
I’ve been listening to, collecting and reading about music actively for 35 years. It occupies my mind all the time. Unfortunately it’s not very often anymore I get really impressed or inspired by someone’s knowledge, but man you really know what you are talking about. Great job!
Essential viewing. You’re so on the money with the “ Blue Note Band “. Wynton Kelly is one guy I look out for in the personnel. Can honestly say I have never watched a less than excellent video/tutorial from you. Many thanks from the UK
I shared with my wife this evening that your channel far surpasses any learning I obtained in my jazz appreciation college course. Your commentary is intelligent, very well-articulated, and full of engaging insight. Job well done!
wow thnx very much I def appreciate that response, I certainly try to make coherent and passionate content, that reflects my feelings and insight into this great art form!! Happy to read such a comment!!
Too funny, my first jazz album was Monk's Genius of Modern Music, Vol 1. I used to ride my bike to a NY area store called Korvettes when I first started buying records using money I made on a paper route. There was an African American guy, probably in his mid to late 20s, who worked in the record dept. He saw me looking through stuff, came over, started asking me some questions about what I liked and we started talking. He seemed to know a lot and I was always interested in trying something new, so I asked him to pick something out for me. He gave me the Monk record. I loved it and went back for more. He turned me on to Jimmy Smith next, and so on and so and so on. Wish I could go back and thank him.
I can relate to your experience. I grew up in Levittown,Pa.,a suburb of Philly.Just the mention of Levittown for years became synonymous with the suburbs. But there were several places of jazz record treasures ,such as Korvettes,S.Klein,Two Guys,and even K-Mart,Woolco and Sears.(Yes,Sears used to have a record dept. where I found a Blue Note two-fer of Miles' great work of 52-54.Actually,I think I recall that by then it was issued on United Artists) Another powerful moment was finding Andrew Hill's "Smokestack " on Blue Note( which is still one of my personal favorites) and a George Russell on Riverside, each for 99cents.I was much younger then,and wasn't aware of how the musicians rarely (if ever) saw a dime from these re-issues ,or how badly they were ripped-off in general.I just found that these and other newly discovered gems at that time would lead me to a whole new wonderful world of sounds and feelings.Special memories!
Those horn 🎷 🎺 harmonies in BlueTrane sounds like 🧈! You talking BN never gets old 👍 👌 ✅ 😊 . You’re passion for this music is very inspiring and enjoyable to listen too!
Just had to watch this episode again Dan, you’re so far ahead of anyone else on YT when it comes to jazz and what it actually is, and means, I almost feel sorry for the rest! You’ve already built a great educational reference site for anyone with an interest in understanding more about this great art. Thanks and all the best from England
I’ve come back to watch this for the second time. My Blue Note collection has really grown since BN 80, Classic, and Tone Poet reissues have been released but still not got a significant slice of what you’re showing. A few years back when I started using RU-vid, I never expected to find anything that would provide good memories or that I would enjoy going over old ground again. The best channel out there by a long distance. P.S. 33 mins inspires a laugh lol😂 The rant over on spiritual jazz, next subject “Kenny Drew”
Love this, especially thinking about the spectrum of trumpet players. I enjoy all the different vinyl community people talking about the reissues, but haven't seen anyone else do as good a job talking about the music.
i very much appreciate that , and will tell u this was a part oif my design for this channel... too much talk about.... paper n ink n not enough about the book and its story on those pages!! Thnx for recognizing
I envy the way this guy can pull the words out to precisely express what he wants to say. Good communicator.... Not sure about the way he grabs those records though haha.
This man is an absolute genius on the art of this and other musics, and as a collector as well, totally enjoy every one of his scholarly tomes, however, PLEASE refrain from letting the anti-Trump, Ted Nugent, etc. rhetoric creep in ... I certainly defend your right to say it, but just do the Jazz! ... BRAVO!
Appreciate the kind words, and I do try to limit the politics...but nothing is scripted, it all just flows and comes out .... so some times the train of thought rolls heavy... If it makes yo feel any better, I am not a poiltics fan of either side
Hi Dan Really enjoyed this video very educational and informative. I could listen to you all day. I agree about the obi strips they obscure the great covers. Take care
Thanks for that Dan, many recordings I'm unfamiliar with. Blue Note is my favourite, the recordings sound like proper pieces of music, rather than a group of guys queuing up to take solos. On Blue Note you would often have an intro ', a well executed theme, (often an original composition), good solos and an end. Think of Horace Silver, as on Song For My Father! I'm overstating my case here, but to me Prestige often has about 4 horns queuing up to blow on "rhythm" changes or a 12 bar head that sounded like it was written in the studio ( I've read Weinstock took copyright for originals, which would discourage musicians contributing their own), long solos followed by a long trading 4s sequence. But I guess some find this approach exciting.
Superb content once more Dan. I am trying to keep my Blue note collection grow little by little. As I live in a very small country in Europe is not so easy. I appreciate the fact you have mention to buy 8 reissues onstead of one original as some people forget this is about the music, the object whichay to learn more about jazz music. Cheers!
@@TheJazzShepherd I am Spanish, but I live in a really tiny state called Malta right in the middle of the Mediterranean.So most of the time it is a difficult place to find good jazz records.But funnily enough this week I found a copy of Mobley’s Roll Call 😁 Music should be the focus disregard of the obsession with pressings. Keep it up man, always 5 star content!
@@Tascam82 Thnx Brutha ! ! I Am a geography nut..So I know Malte well South of Sicily n North of Tunisia With great megalithic cart tracks and building sights, still quite unexplained... Cheers my friend!
At some point in my collecting music from blue note artists, I started buying everything Rudy Van Gelder was associated with. It's a deep rabbit hole. 👍😊✌️🎶🎶
We are well on top of the vaccination roll-out which is key. People are clamouring for foreign holidays but I think that would be a mistake right now. Pubs and restaurants will be open inside on 17th May. That will be interesting.
I love your channel, and your passion for the music. I love my Blue Note LPs, and wish I had your collection, but I'm more of an '11 Donald Byrd LPs on 6 CDs for $9' kind of guy these days. I can fill in a lot more gaps in my collection at those prices.
You've done it again: Great selection and good explanation! I've started with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock records on Blue Note to know more about the label.
Wow you showed some heat man!!! Anything and I mean anything that is designed to be marketed for the masses sucks!!! It's no longer real when it's marketed. Peace
Hi Dan - again great job and again you cost me some money.... I don't have a LP-player anymore, so I need to grab the CDs - but here in Austria that's also a bit difficult. On Amazon Germany most of the CDs are either not available or the ask ridiculous prices for imports (50 - 120 USD !!!). Now good news is that my wife is Japanese, has an account with amazon Japan - so I can get there some really good price (either through prime or different second hand dealers), have it sent to her friend - and then the package(s) will be collected and sent to Vienna. Well, I think packages as I ordered now 30+ CDs (Blue Note, Riverside...). Keep up the great work! Servus, Kurt
Hey, Dan. Great stuff. I saw Ma Rainey's Black Bottom last night. It so much reminded me of your discussions about empathizing with what these cats were going through at that time. Have you thought about doing a video about that movie? Cheers, - Chris
@@TheJazzShepherd I have Dan. Some of the. best TV I have ever seen; a great show in all aspects. It really does paint a story of desperation and sorrow. People are just driven into this life that they don't want just out of necessity and peer pressure and parental pressure and just this expectation that this is what you do because this is who you are. But that's true across the spectrum but when you are at the wrong end of the spectrum then the 'path' is pretty poor. I can hear a lot of people saying 'yeah, it's just Hollywood, just a story'. But yes one rooted in what it is like on the streets. Anybody who has gotten on the wrong subway, the wrong side of mid night and ended up in the wrong part of town and not your safe white middle class enclave will know. South Africa and the USA are the only two countries I have been to where the social divide is so stark. Yes every town has it's 'wrong side of the tracks' but rarely where the nightly death toll can be counted on the fingers of many hands. Every night, every week, every year. That environment is stressful! That stress comes out in the music. Dan when you say the jazz created by the black man has that extra edge that the white jazz doesn't have you are bang on the money. Just listen to Eminem vs NWA. Sorry Eminem you are just dancing on the coat tails of an art created elsewhere. Back on point.. great show Dan. SO hard to pick a BN short list and yes once you are past '61 or so that hard bop. peak has passed and the BN sound has moved away from the trunk as the tree branches out. Great branches with some fantastic colourful leaves though. I would have picked a different set but essentially the same themes. Hard to go wrong to be fair with BN. Digressing a little, I really enjoyed your OLD show on the vibes recently. I've been digging thru the archives and it seems I need some Lionel in my life.
@@andrewmacdonald9382 really well said my man. The Wire left a mark on me.... Imagine now the black experience 5 decades earlier? Its very hard to pick a BN list, I figured i better at least cover all the great artists at least once! Lionel is a must have!!
This is off topic but have you heard about Sam Records in France and the albums they've been reissuing? A lot of them are out of stock right now but they will be in stock again. Some interesting titles - www.samrecords.fr/home/?doing_wp_cron=1595604304.7470870018005371093750
I have 30 ish blue note records in my collection, but only one original pressing pre-sale (The Sermon) and I have a 1966 Liberty press of Out To Lunch. Would you still buy liberty pressings rather than New York pressings for economics?
Thanks for including Dexter, he alone got me going back in 81 “Gotham City”. So lyrical and expressive and nominated for best actor in Other Side of Round Midnight who does that? He’s up there in my listening favorites with Duke, Oliver, Booker E, Clif B and G. Benson. RUMBLE
My man I'm trying to catch up on all your videos..lol. You make some really good points man discussing the music! I've only got like 15 maybe 20 of the Blue Note albums I would love to learn about the series of albums like the 1500s is there a book out there I can buy? Thank you and I saw where you subscribed to my channel I really appreciate that man thanks a lot!
Do you have a PayPal account for fans to send $ to support you ? I don't do the Patreon monthly payment. Lastly, I like your merchandise, but I'm more of a small logo person. You've got a small logo hoodie for sale, but nothing similar listed in t-shirts. I also didn't see any long sleeve t-shirts. Did I miss anything? 🤔🤔
well , I have only 3 blue note so far !! but 20+ M.Davis and 10+ Coltrane . So yes , I eard ya and to build and put Blue note in a special shelf will be cool :)
I could see if they were YOUR records... I have made a lving off my vinyl for 20 years collected them for over 30... you needn't worry about them, they are fine n cherished and are not nearly as fragile as you might t hink!! GEEESHHH
@@TheJazzShepherd In the so called “audiophile community” it would probably cause less upset if you made an hour long video of the public beating of your children. Apparently your credibility depends on how you handle plastic disks. … Where do people get the energy to get upset over such nonsense? Anyway, really just wanted to check in and say thank you for yet another great video. You, Sir, are an encyclopedia and a machine. The only thing missing apparently is a pair of white gloves for your records…
Hahahaha. Exactly... Some people are really deceived on the subject of vinyl n just how vulnerable it is... Its kinda nutz... Been a dj for 20 years...my club vinyl gets waaaay more abuse than my jazz... No one has ever said to me..gee ur vinyl sounds dirty..lol. Its just so dumb..
@@TheJazzShepherd And anyhow,you love the music way too much to treat them in any manner short of properly and with the greatest respect.The comments of that nitwit makes me wonder how he gets along with people and life in general.
@@thomass.9167 Your comment was right on the 💰 The fool who sent that comment probably pays far less attention to the music than the records.So well said,Thomas.👍👍👍
