Who here gets down with gentle stuff?
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I know some mainstay posters like crink, parsec, AP, latency etc get down with gentle stuff.But I see some new people on this board and I want to know if they can get behind gentle stuff.I want to know what is gentle in the jazz realm. I have Abdul Wadud "By Myself" and to me that is loner jazz.Latency sent me chewed up Kit Ream and it is rocking my world. Bruce Cockburn's first album is on hit.
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I wake up and eat Red River while listening to Roger Rodier pour out his soul. Bruce Cockburn's first record is a gentle masterpiece. You can post those stupid teddy bears and be sarcastic but gentle shit is the real. You can't handle the real because you're too busy hitting refresh on facebook and soulstrut waiting for PMs. I've been there. You need some gentle.
Oh snap. I was just kidding.
I can get into some Paul Ortiz "tender love". (Thank you Rey)
Calm down.
forest jazz!
sorry, i know youre looking for gentle Jazz. all my gentle flashes are currently singer songwriter, or smokey robinson.
I'm not a big fan of Lightfoot. Perhaps I should give him more of a chance. I never liked Bruce Cockburn until I found his first LP. This LP is on hit. It has swooshing nature sounds. It has gentle singing. Solo accoustic. Rep.
but this one song "Beautiful" kills me every time.
his album "humans" is unfuchwithable
"I Can Make It With You," by the Pozo-Seco Singers, is a lost folk-rock classic and I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in Turn! Turn! Turn!, Richie Unterberger's folk-rock history. (I'll let somebody else defend their "gentility!")
Eric Dolphy's "Glad to Be Unhappy" is as gentle as Arundhati Roy's great grandmother. The most beautiful of his flute pieces, in my opinion. Those long, lyrical notes he sustains and then breaks up with brisk scales makes me think the playing of this particular song was done from inside that lump on his head.
Last year's Sibylle Baier record stands as the embodiment of what everyone can agree on as gentle. I wish they wouldn't have pressed the record in the Czech Republic because all the peaks are crispy (see most everything on the ANTI- label). Bummer.
During this, the Decade of Dead Dynamics, I find subtle temperment in things that probably wouldn't be stamped Approved By The Gentle Department, but the remaining music that doesn't fall victim to Normalize Everything Syndrome (NES) is a welcome waft of soft severity. That is, to be able to be loud and quiet rather than being loudly quiet. Most of these Winehouse types want to get that Fuck Me Pumps point across so bad they forgo subtlety. "What if we keep this quiet part here, but just make it really loud?" It's called "spectrum" for a reason. To that end, give me an involuntary gyrating, hip swaying, mouth agaping, simulated grape stomping performance that has equal parts gentle and not so gentle, because it has more effect than something that's supposed to be quiet but really isn't. Plus, she doesn't just repeat the same performance the same way each time. I know it could be argued, but this is stored in my "Gentle" section.
File Under: Dare to Be Dynamic
Their music sounds very British, however, so that could be a turnoff.
I suppose you could start with a compilation.
But yeah, this right here on that real GENTLE shit.
I'[ve been listening to Fairport lately, but have been more into the solo Sandy Denny stuff, good call A****.
not in the mood....
thats my parents wedding song. Its a wonderful tune