bevinahally

Jacob is such a gift to the world. I am so glad that I got to see him perform at a tiny dingy room at 3:30 AM the night before he won his first two Grammy's.

To get a sense for his creativity and technical nous I recommend his IHarmU series [1]. He crowdfunded an album that he recorded entirely by himself. Donors could send him a 20-30 second audio clip and he would overdub those tracks with his magic and upload it to YouTube as linked. I recommend the clip sent in by Herbie Hancock!

[1] https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=iharmu

P.S. if any HNers are attending GroundUp this year, hit me up!

I'd say that busyness is a pretty strong characteristic of modern jazz, but there's still a lot out there that you could listen to passively.

Brad Mehldau - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omF16-qbmeM Bill Laurance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXiixI6a2o Harold Lopez-Nussa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2R1TmutBA

I really enjoy the golden age of jazz. At the same time there's so much good music around these days and I can't help but appreciate the richness around us today. I'd love to chat about music (my email's on my profile).

Any GroundUp folks reading this, I'll see you in Miami in a few weeks :)

This was addressed perfectly by Robert Glasper at a workshop that I attended. To paraphrase, he was talking about current day jazz school students talking about jazz like it's a work of Mozart or Beethoven, to be reproduced perfectly. "Hip-hop musicians are more jazz than jazz musicians today"

I wouldn't write off modern jazz though. I truly think that we're experiencing something phenomenal these days. I highly recommend anything by Snarky Puppy. Case in point - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XJ_s5IsQc

This is a very sad day for me. I have never expressed this to anyone before. Anthony Bourdain was one of my heroes.

Anthony changed the way that I view the world and inspired me to explore the world's rich tapestry of life. We have lost someone who truly was a world citizen who built the culture that "different" could be good.

The man's struggles through addiction and journey to peak physical fitness in his late 50s is nothing short of inspiring. I hope that he is immortalized through his work.