The Jazz Cat Blog

Jazz of the “Bail - 0ut Nation”

We use stress tests to decide if we are healthy enough to groove to the beat of the music in the streets.. no way daddy-o there ain’t no blood on these streets… the market keeps going up up, up, up baby-doll and I’m hip to the jive Bernacke is feeding me like a heroin addict just needing more of that sweet fix we call TARP baby... gimme another hit of Tarp mixed with TALF Ben.. come on my brother you know we goes way back and you be the drug dealer on H-Street in D.C….

Paulson got me hooked Daddy.. and my American Dream is looking soooo, sooo, sweet as the needle hits the vein and I start nodding off to the sound of Sarah Palin whispering in my ear..”DRILL Baby…. Just Drill”.. ooooh she sound so sweet and I just wanna go to sleep,but I gotta get to the welfare line since the line is soOOOO long nowadays with whats goin on as Marvin would say..makes me wanna holla!

And Huffington post is making me huff to the rythmn of the capitol improvement being sufficient to maintain the social structure of disorder…And my Chevy wont start and the government warranty from Detroit aint kicked in yet...

Print is dead Baby! Vinyl is coming back and the unions can’t stop intellectual property hemorrhaging cash as the media cries uncle to the internet, and the wall street journal is increasing the traffic on a subscription model while Bloomberg reports on the banks stress test be stressing me and stressing you and Time Warner is burning down the house on fire to a hip hop beat lost on the media drunk masses from  the overload of cnn, o’reilly…

And The New York times mis-information…

Wake up people and see this bear market rally as what it is.. a fake out of the american dream and Obama is bailing out the ship with a coffee can that has a Geithner hole in it and the water level is rising as Billie sings the blues and Coltrane wails in the background and I can feel nothing but Miles and Bitches brew coming my way… it’s cool baby.. can you dig it?

Jazz for Dummies...

It's a pop culture world we are living in and it is even more realized in today's economy. It seems now is not the time to get "deep" into music.I read that during the depression people wanted to be "happy"and not be reminded of the terrible times around them.

The people during the great depression were strong and realistic.The  materialism we are clinging to as we go down the tubes is even more unrealistic as we see what is happening around us.

Compare our times to the 1930's and it is  a sobering thought! The music meant survival to those people...the music today is just "white noise"... thankfully the "BLING BLING" culture seems to be on the outs!

It is a good time to take music to another level... it does not have to be revolutionary... it can be something that harkens back to the past.

I am thinking that

It is a great time to think of alternative ways to express love of music..particuraly jazz. Jazz is a music that has always struggled for acceptance n The USA and now is a risky time for the music.The economy is tough on music in the way we listen to it.The way we respect the music as well.Pop is the flavor  and easy listening habits are the norm.

We do not wish to be challenged by music in difficult times. I think this  is the exact time to be challenged by music and take it to another “level”! Imagine a jazz band. Lets say a quartet. They are playing straight up JAZZ, and they are really playing hot! You see the musicans really  getting into the music you are stimulated by the sounds you are listening to. The music is uplifiting but your visual senses are not being stimulated. It’s a common occurance in JAZZ. Jazz is a music to listen to… not really visually entertainging. Jazz needs visual direction at this point in music.

It is a great time to think of alternative ways to express love of music..particuraly jazz. Jazz is a music that has always struggled for acceptance n The USA and now is a risky time for the music.The economy is tough on music in the way we listen to it.

The way we respect the music as well.Pop is the flavor  and easy listening habits are the norm. We do not wish to be challenged by music in difficult times. I think this  is the exact time to be challenged by music and take it to another “level”! Imagine a jazz band. Lets say a quartet. They are playing straight up JAZZ, and they are really playing hot!

You see the musicians really  getting into the music you are stimulated by the sounds you are listening to. The music is uplifting but your visual senses are not being stimulated. It’s a common occurance in JAZZ. Jazz is a music to listen to… not really visually entertaining. Jazz needs visual direction at this point in music.

Now is the time to put visuals into JAZZ. The music is calling out to be utilized with visual cues. Dancers using jazz in a way to show self expression… jazz as a medium or “backdrop” to create artwork for the audience to enjoy. I am in the process of painting “Live” while jazz bands create music. It is a special thing to see how the musicans play off my creative expression as I use their music toinspire me to create art!

My Girlfriend Left me! What Music is Good For A Broken Heart?

The "Broken Heart Club" blues is here. I was feeling down in the dumps and needed some music to pick me up... so I asked people on Yahoo answers and other websites to help a brother out...

The music recommendations were all over the charts but it gives me a good idea to just stick with something "uplifting".

I asked the question:
My girlfriend just left me... For another dude. What should I listen to that will make me feel better? I love her, but I hate her for dumping me!

The following are the results:

it depends on how old you are.
if you OLD. like 70 listen to blues.
if you a teen listen to emo/up beat music

lonely day by system of a down
or adam sandler- secret
or rodney carrington

Nirvana
Maylene and the sons of disaster if you have the lyrics
Lil Wayne will inspire you and make you feel way better off listen to 3peat its one of his songs

it's not over-daughtry

anything by taylor swift

heartles--kanye west


My chemical romance - i'm not okay
new found glory - hit or miss
angie martinez - go mothaf*cka
jinks - hope you die
anti-flag - ever fallen in love (with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with)
lil wayne - something you forgot
korn - cry for you
baby ranks & notch - verme

all those songs are really good...cover a lot of different genres too lol. i think that listening to songs about breaking up makes people feel better, it's a way to vent. plus, ive read some scientific studies about psychology that say that listening to songs that remind you of your ex a ton of times will sensitize you to them to the point that they will not remind you of her anymore, as apposed to avoiding those songs.


i got better option, manage a way to see her again without making her notice anything as its piece of luck not planned to, and when u see her begin talking to her as she is still your gf after that in few seconds dump her. that will make you feel better and will take revenge

You should listen to music that doesn't make you feel down about it.

CHHEEERRRRRRRRRFULL MUSIC

dance around (( dicretly-- mayve shut ur bedroom door lol ))

BEE HAPPY

Dont let girls hold ya back have fun !! =)=)

emo music and a razorblade

try not to listen to anything you guys listened to together, or while you were together cuz you will be sad and think about what your relationship was.

try not to think about her!!!
be strong man
o and i would try to find a kind of music that you have never llistened to b4.TRI SOMETHIN NEW!?!?

I dont know if it will make you feel better but try :
boyz II Men - Doin just fine
Dave Hollister - Can't Stay
Uncle Same - I dont ever want to see you again
Kumbia Kings - You dont love me
112- Lve you like I did
Jagged Edge - He Can't Love You

I personally think, you shouldnt listen to sad music, because it will just get you down. Listen to up beat music, to set your mood. Trust me listening to sad music does not help.

Dude what kind of music you lesson too is slow songs. Like dude when a broke up with me like dude i forgot about her. Like i stoped talking or thinking about her dude. Like its going to be in your mind all the time if you keep on thinking about her and everything. But dude you cant be emo and set in a coner and like lesson to sad music and stuff all the time. Like go party and everything and go find a different girl and go mess around with her and everythinhg. Like go find someone else dude.

Listen Jazz, she was no good for you anyway. This is what you've got to do. Go to Costco and buy alot of Kleenex and then listen to Billie Holiday or the Smiths. They'll help you tap into the sadness of it all. When you run out of Kleenex, then your done and over her. You can't believe you wasted all that time. Your mom was right about her. Now that you're pissed, go listen to Pink cause that girl is always mad. Running out on you? She better ask somebody! She doesn't know what she's missing. Now that you've got your swagger back, get you some Lil Wayne and chill while you scout out your next hottie. You've got 99 problems but a ***** ain't one. By then, she will have dumped that chump but its all too late cause you have moved on. When she's begging you to take her back, turn down Beyonce on your stereo (to the left to the left...) tell her sorry honey, but I'm all about ex girl to the next girl. Yeah, serves her right for dumping you.

Listen to REM's "Everybody Hurts."

And for heaven's sake, don't go all fenke.

Best Music for SEX?

I took this Poll and these are the answers... it tells me that we as a society has lost the romance... well I told you so!

Here are the results from YAHOO ANSWERS as I asked the question What is the Best Music For Sexual Relations regardless of male or female?


One word - ERYKAH!
Oh, wait, and the SAINT LOUIS BLUES!

I've heard that too about marvin gaye's "let's get it on" another good one would be Boyz II Men "I'll make love to you" i'm sure alot of babies were and are still being made to that song! Oh and Shai "If I Ever" LOVE that song, although generally i think "SEX MUSIC" is pretty corny

That depends entirely on the people. I can't imagine two metal-heads using a Marvin Gaye album to set the mood. And I can't imagine two Marvin Gaye fans using Cannibal Corpse to set the mood either.
People who try to use "mood music" are people who try too hard.

If I was in a guy's apartment/house and he put on "Let's get it on" I would either burst out laughing or get up and leave.
Anything by Dean Martin makes me melt.
My personal LOVE album is Willie Nelson's "Stardust" album. Also, anything by Mozart.

Musiq soulchild
listen to
"Who Knows"....
Or just listen to his whole Album. Everything he writes is beautiful

Meatloaf, what an experience that would be.
Depends if you mean love making or sex. Rap music at drunken parties makes a good atmosphere for pleasure sex but some smooth charles mingus can give it a lot more meaning. ;)

isley brothers-between the sheets
r. kelly- his 12 play album
pretty ricky- their bluestars album
Jodeci

R. Kelly's album "12 Play"

Apocalyptica's (4 Cello) version of Metallica's Unforgiven

Barry White - The icon is love
It has always been a good one.

Nine Inch Nails...whether or not you like the music itself. The "sexual energy" it creates. Oh Baby.....

What about smooth jazz, preferably instrumental.

Andrea Bocceli

Most songs by Luther Vandross

frank sinatra.....bhaahhahahh

Was R. Kelly, but i want to have kids someday so i cant make that suggestion

Pink Floyd-Dark Side of The Moon

Kidz Bop 3..

r kelly greatest hits

What is the best music for sex?

Best Jazz Album to make love to? I can tell you later...

 

I wanted to just pick one album and think about how it made me feel in the ways it brought me to orgasmic relief. I must say this is a personal feeling and some people may be turned off to read my descriptions…

I don’t mean to make you jealous, but I have been lucky to encounter women who let  me leave the music on… I don’t think these women realized the music brought a nice horniness to my lovemaking.

I don’t think these “lucky” women realized this music turned me on enough to the moment even though it was a one night stand, or just a “booty call”. These girls were sometimes fat,  and missing a tooth or two… but hey, college is not always so easy to get laid.. and freshman year 80% of the boys are walking around with hardons… sex and getting it was not so easy as it is today.. this is pre-internet if you dig what I’m saying…

These were girls who had hair and lips and eyes, so they were considered “female”in  our book..and sometimes not very good looking… but at the end of a beer soaked night, and only one girl left in the room in a college dorm.. the saying we guys had was “the party ain’t over until somebody leaves with the last fat girl”.

Is it my fault that sometimes we college guys would tell wonderful lies to get into a girls pants, just so we could put on Jethro Tull, David Bowie or whatever us “young-lads” would be into at the moment?

I wonder if it was just me or was everyone else on the dorm room floor  doing the same thing.. some of them had to play Peter Frampton or XTC just to get an erection or as we liked to say our “ya-yas” after The Who album.. “GET YOUR YA-YA’S OUT”… some of the goth chicks wanted Siosuxee and  the Banshees on as you went down on them… their pubic bush dyed black as your tongue circled their  nether regions..

I remember a goth chick having me take off miles davis Sketches of spain (a truly romantic album) to  put on Echo and the Bunnymen as she writhed  on my sweat soaked mattress.. so instead I  put  on the cure and watched as she played with herself.. she wouldn’t let me kiss her since she said my breath stank after all the bong hits we did  but she let me watch her play with herself in the  blue glow of my Sony Trinitron as the video ended. The blue glow….

I remember going to a party and in the wee hours barging into a bedroom and seeing 2 goth chicks making out on the bed…it always seemed that the goth chicks had all the sexual  fun.. so the next week I shaved my head and sported  a Mohawk like Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver.. the next day I had 2 dates lined up and I started buying the 12 pack condom box.. before that I was lucky if I got through the year with the condom 3 pack!

I ditched all my jazz albums that week and started buying Human League, Adam and the Ants, and Simple Minds albums. It was the start of the “new wave sexual revolution”.. Jazz just didn’t fit in at that time…

Is Jazz Going to Thrive in the USA with OBAMA as President?

Jazz seems to be always be on the downward spiral in USA. Where it was Born... Do You think there be a Jazz Music "rebirth" with Obama in the "Black House"?  I asked this question on a Newsgroup and received some interesting and troubling answers!

Here are some of the results:

1.

"Probably not. It's an acquired taste and most people don't care for it."

2.

"This is a interesting question, but yes."

3.

"This issue should be put at the top of the political agenda? The first answer is correct. It is an acquired taste."

4.
"Jazz is ok..it is not that popular but someday hip hop will be the same thing as Rock and Roll and then it was just Rock...times change and the younger generation will eventually laugh at RAP."

5.

no... he will have very little influence on anything except the larger wellfare rolls.""

6.
"Yeah, we're looking at hard times ahead, but I think the next couple of years will also bring exciting changes. What better atmosphere for Jazz?"

Bombs in Gaza and thoughts of Ornette Coleman & Dali

Ending the year with confusion and confused signs. Watching video of smoke filled skies in Gaza and the carnage of buildings…This is a perfect time to think like Jazz legend Ornette Coleman. Ornette played the horn like it was an instrument he just tripped over and decided to make music.

Ornette is the “Pied Piper” taking us on a trip through a false wonderland. It is a dream with twists and turns like the stock market on a bender. Listening to Ornette is like looking at the painting of the Mona Lisa melting in bubbles.

It is a surreal time we are living in… a time for a painter like Salvador Dali who turned the world upside down and made us question the world and what is “ART”. This is a time for sound and vision to take hold and make us question the current world we are in.

The time for peace and confusion… heading into the new year I think it is time for us to create the soundtrack of our lives. I am planning to listen to a lot more Louis Armstrong. Louis always has a way of putting a smile on my face, and when the times look tough it’s good to listen to happy music.

I remember the 80’s and that confused time also had some “lite” music. I think 2008 was a time of confusion and the music reflects it. There was no real theme or style that seemed to take over… it was not a time of a fashion trend either. The jazz music I listened to seemed to reach towards a lot more Miles, and Coltrane… Sounds of rage, contemplation and swagger.

But now the swagger is gone. Now is a time for healing and I think that will be a big trend in 2009. With a new president and challenges all over the world. This will be a good time to look within and bring forth a healing way of seeing things. I plan on painting happier pictures. I plan on listening to happy music. My son will be there doing the same thing since I will impose it in the house!

OBAMA AND MILES DAVIS!

OBAMA AND MILES DAVIS

HEY you JAZZ CATS!
JUST READ AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON YAHOO: Obama bristles as the bubble closes in on him , about Obama and the press and media. Obama is getting REALLY IRRITATED by the constant media attention of his every move!

It seems the brother can't get any private time to himself or his family. The article talks about OBAMA GETTING VISIBLY ANGRY AND "testy" at the press. I always felt Obama had to control his anger when he was running for president. I remember how Hillary Clinton was trying to emasculate him on the campaign trail...

Obama could not show how upset he was because then the press would be on him as the "angry black man" which so many black people have to live with that stereotype. I was waiting for the explosion of Obama... tt's just so hard containing your emotions as a Black man in America! I new OBAMA HAD SOME MILES DAVIS IN HIM. Now we are starting to see the MILES come out in OBAMA!

I think it is a good thing. We need a Miles Davis "TYPE" IIN THE WHITE HOUSE. We need to see some "Black Rage" every now and then as AMERICA looks so soft now... It's good that OBAMA is not afraid anymore to let the "Bad Boy" OUT!  It is nice to see the parallels to how Miles had disdain for the public after awhile and "did what ever he wanted t". Miles Davis and JAZZ music is the sound of creative anger... I always thought ANGER IS HOLY!

With Miles you never knew when he would "flip his wig"... he could be rageful in a second. Barack will take his "slow burn" and lash out at the media and the congress... thats a good thinking.

As the months go forward America will regain its "COCKINESS" in a  way and the frustrated angry President will be a good example of the times we live in.. Its good to show how you feel even if it is not the right place or time. I think Miles Davis would do fine in the Whit e House. Miles is not with us but we have OBAMA i there... it will be a creative explosion in a great way.

I look forward to following Obama and how his actions relate to Jazz music! Te history of the Blues and Jazz are in his blood, and when you look at it closely His presidency will be a reflection of that. The good and the not so good... but that is what America is and Jazz is the same!