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esl_prof
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 Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:58 pm Post subject: Jazz Chants |
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Can anyone recommend a favorite online jazz instrumental that works well for doing jazz chants with your own lyrics (as opposed to the many videos out there that include published lyrics)?
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water rat
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:48 am Post subject: Re: Jazz Chants |
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| esl_prof wrote: |
Can anyone recommend a favorite online jazz instrumental that works well for doing jazz chants with your own lyrics (as opposed to the many videos out there that include published lyrics)?
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Listen to some of Duke Ellington's stuff. It's all good and still appeals to the modern ear. The Duke is the bona fide grandaddy of both rock and roll.
I often listen to this online station:
http://www.jazzradio.com/
Tune in for some inspiration. |
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VinnyG.
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Sashadroogie
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Jazz chants? With real jazz? |
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esl_prof
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks guys! Very helpful suggestions. |
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esl_prof
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Sashadroogie wrote: |
| Jazz chants? With real jazz? |
Absolutely! Why not celebrate and honor the tradition of Afrocentric cultural resistance against American imperialism? |
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johnslat
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Dear esl_prof,
You mean the cultural resistance that was long ago co-opted by corporate record companies and iTunes? 
Regards,
John |
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Sashadroogie
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| esl_prof wrote: |
| Sashadroogie wrote: |
| Jazz chants? With real jazz? |
Absolutely! Why not celebrate and honor the tradition of Afrocentric cultural resistance against American imperialism? |
Because jazz chants are the most unmusical way imaginable of honouring anything... |
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grahamb
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:38 pm Post subject: Jazz chants... |
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| ... are a complete waste of valuable teaching time. |
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johnslat
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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Thank heavens - it's NOT just I who think Jazz Chants suck. Now, Beethoven Chants - well, that would be different.
Regards,
John |
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grahamb
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:24 pm Post subject: Let's all chant! |
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Da da da daaa.... Da da da daaaaa!
Yes, sir, but what does it mean? |
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Mushkilla
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Sashadroogie wrote: |
| esl_prof wrote: |
| Sashadroogie wrote: |
| Jazz chants? With real jazz? |
Absolutely! Why not celebrate and honor the tradition of Afrocentric cultural resistance against American imperialism? |
Because jazz chants are the most unmusical way imaginable of honouring anything... |
Of course Comrade Sasha, like his Comrades in collective farms of the Kremlin, consider the jazz saxophone as an enemy of Russia (and ex-Soviet) society! 
During the Soviet era, the Comrades considered jazz music as the "wrong music" and as alien to the people. Under the communist regime, and because of repression, the best ex-Soviet jazz musicians emigrated to the West.
Фрагмент из фильма "Эдди Рознер. Джазмен из Гулага
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxV37XTdZmw#t=22 |
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johnslat
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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Dear grahamb,
Why, sir, it means Fate Knocking on your Door.
"Apparently Beethoven described the famous opening notes as "Fate knocking on your door."
Regards,
John |
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Sashadroogie
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| Mushkilla wrote: |
| Sashadroogie wrote: |
| esl_prof wrote: |
| Sashadroogie wrote: |
| Jazz chants? With real jazz? |
Absolutely! Why not celebrate and honor the tradition of Afrocentric cultural resistance against American imperialism? |
Because jazz chants are the most unmusical way imaginable of honouring anything... |
Of course Comrade Sasha, like his Comrades in collective farms of the Kremlin, consider the jazz saxophone as an enemy of Russia (and ex-Soviet) society!
During the Soviet era, the Comrades considered jazz music as the "wrong music" and as alien to the people. Under the communist regime, and because of repression, the best ex-Soviet jazz musicians emigrated to the West.
Фрагмент из фильма "Эдди Рознер. Джазмен из Гулага
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxV37XTdZmw#t=22 |
A complicated relationship. Yet, what was the reason for many talented American jazz musicians and singers leaving the US and emigrating to the Motherland? Ah, yes, it was the racialist system of repression so prevalent in many US states. At least, that is what the great Paul Robeson said... |
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Mushkilla
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I am not an American, so I let Obama and John defend their country against the allegation of 'racialist system' in the USA!
As far as I know, the American jazz musicians were/are not oppressed, and were free to perform everywhere and anytime without constraint from anybody.
As one jazz musician said: "American jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz
BTW, I am a fun of the African-American jazz, they are the best in the world. |
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