From: cs123057@cs.brown.edu (Michael Wong)
Subject:  Classical & Jazz (Re: * * M U S I C * *)
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:22:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.105037.20594@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, wing@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Mr. Raymond Chan) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct8.225149.2245@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> g25@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
|> >
|> >Nowadays, as I noticed, jazz is penetrating over time.  You people might
|> >not know that there are jazz music all around you.  For example, the
|> >title music of the cartoon "pink panther", old movies of Charlie Chaplin
|> >such as "the entertainer", some Cantonese songs by Kenny B (I'm sure he
|> >is a fan of Kenny G.), Jacky Cheung, more and more saxophone sound 
|> >appears in Chinese songs, movies and commercials.

|> >I don't believe that any of you have never heard of the piece "The maple
|> >leaf rag", a ragtime jazz classic!  But the point is, not many people
|> >realise its name and its musical type.

|> >See, what I'm trying to say is that jazz is not that "out of touch",
|> >it's friendly like pop music.

I wouldn't say all pop music are friendly.

|> >If any of you are interested, we can discuss some more about this, and
|> >of course, about any other kinds of music.  I wanted to say something
|> >on rap talk too, but to what I knew, not many Hong Kong people like it,
|> >so I kind of dropped this.
|> >
|> >"Be coooooool and open minded."
|> >
|> >Michelle
|> 
|> You are right. I like Jazz but the problem is that I don't know where to
|> start!

Try listening to some really old classical ones:-
	1) Count Basie
	2) Duke Ellington
	3) Louis Armstrong (you might not like his voice at first)
	4) Glenn Miller
	5) Henry James
	6) Piano stuff by Roger Williams, Stanley Black, Carmen Carvalaro etc.

Or for vocals:-
	1) Ella Fitzgerald (boy, can she sing!)
	2) Billie Holiday
	3) Nancy Wilson (buy her earlier stuff)

Or modern stuff:-
	1) music by the Marsiles (can't spell this) brothers.
	2) Kenny G
	3) Basia (sort of jazzy...)

Finally ofcourse the BEST:- Dave Brubeck!!! (flames welcome here!)

|> 	Sometimes, we heard beatiful jazz music in movies and
|> advertisment. However, we never know the performer or the title. So,
|> never have chance to hear that again.
|> 	For a beginner, like me, knowing what to listen is the main
|> problem I encounter. There are thousands of jazz music, old and new,
|> which one is good is difficult to determine by just seeing the title.

Try subscribing to a jazz music newsgroup, you will learn a lot of stuff!

|> 	I am a classical music fan. I have no problem to know which
|> piece is good and which composer is good in my style of listening.
|> Since, many books are about classical music and looking for a chance
|> to hear classical music is not difficult, enjoying that will be easy.

Good, I need some help from you then.  Have you seen the commercial for
the MONEY magazine, can you tell me the name of that classical piece.
The music was for string orchestra only.

|> 	Would anybody give me some advice on how to start and
|> determine which jazz performer is good or which piece is good?

Try the list above and ask in the Jazz section of record stores, the older
managers-type are general really helpful.

|> So long, farewell......

Have fun with jazz! I'm sure you would like it.

|> Raymond
|> 9-10-92.
|> 
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|> Mr. Raymond Chan, Dept. Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL.
|> wing@dcs.warwick.ac.uk   csuau@csv.warwick.ac.uk
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