OMG. How has this NOT been sifted already!? Ya know, a while back I thought about posting a video for this very same piece, and then I got distracted by some other video and thought, "Oh well, it's probably been sifted already."

I'm glad you posted this one, girlfriend.

Nice post, but:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dave-Brubeck-Take-5-1961

The same song, but different performance, so I guess it's fair game...

^ I listened to both. Slightly different tempos, 5 years difference, if you love Dave Brubeck, listen to them both and hear the evolution.

that time signature is like.. totally ridiculous. and great

One of my all time favorite jazzy tracks. It was reminds me of early summer days in Montreal, the sun shining, the breeze coming down from Mont-Royal, smoking carefully rolled joints in the park under a canopy of blooming green trees, you can hear the drumming from Pan pan from a distance. Bliss.

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Can someone please explain Jazz to me? So much of it just sounds random and dissonant to me - like that entire stretch from 1:00 to 1:17 or 1:53 to approx 2:50. It just sounds so gross. I'm almost physically repulsed by the ugly sounds coming from that sax, and it is a startling constrast with the beautiful intro of this song. What is the merit and reasoning behind Jazz?

^buy a sax, go nuts, and find out?

I've only felt some sort of jazzy inspiration a couple of times, playing my sax, but it was awesome. now i live in a dorm though, and a sax-mute is an unwieldy, expensive thing, and stuffing it with a woolen sock doesn't cut it, and [insert a thousand other excuses]...

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Yeahh!!
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Can someone please explain Jazz to me? So much of it just sounds random and dissonant to me - like that entire stretch from 1:00 to 1:17 or 1:53 to approx 2:50. It just sounds so gross. I'm almost physically repulsed by the ugly sounds coming from that sax, and it is a startling constrast with the beautiful intro of this song. What is the merit and reasoning behind Jazz?


It's improvisation. Sometimes you have to really be in the musicians head, so to speak, to get it. Because it mostly depends on how they feel at that time. Listen to the one in Norsueleffanti's link, that one is a little more melodic.