Best Jazz Intro and Outro

[Guest]

Best Jazz Intro and/or Outro (a la Vivian Stanshall) recorded?

I would start with Charlie Parkers early Parker's Mood:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srMZYVW0T4c
always makes me tingle

[Serial_Apologist]

Dizzy's trumpet after 4 or so bars into the "Manteca" riff from the 1947 (?) big band recording floored me when I first met it at age 15, and wiped the floor with the Cliff Richard/Adam Faith stuff on the houseroom Dansette Major. Still has the same effect: timeless, is the greatest jazz.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Duke Jordan's piano intro to Bird's Scrapple from the Apple. Sublime. Jordan's finest minute(s).

And...Mingus's sarcasm at the 1965 UCLA concert when they repeatedly screw up the intro to "Holding Corporation"...."For God's sake, if WE cant play together, how are WHITE people ever going to play with us?" Cracks me up everytime.

BN.

And....the bass intro to Ray's original "What D'I Say" that still spins the room. Edgar Willis.

[Padraig]

Well, I thought 'Louis' and 'West End Blues', but how about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPo0OZYZbmk&list=PL9E5421EC338C6A13

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, I thought 'Louis' and 'West End Blues', but how about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPo0O...5421EC338C6A13

Is that the best you can do?

[Tenor Freak]

Mine is very simple: eight bars of bossa nova beat played by Joe Chambers at the start of "El Gaucho" on Wayne's Adam's Apple LP. (Been listening to it a lot recently)

ie this:

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

(Footprint note : Proper have a cheap 4cd Wayne SNorter box set out next month with the (excellent) Vee Jay dates avec Wynton Kelly and early Bnote Messengers sides with super hip Lee Organ....a good buy for Crazy Wayneiacs.)

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

any all or some of the following but not none ...

[burning dog]

Most intros featuring Red Garland or Hank Jones

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Tyner's intro figure to "Blues for Elvin" from the "Coltrane Plays the Blues" album on Atlantic. Ray Charles's double time intro to "Willow Weep" on the "Presenting Fathead Newman" album from 1959.

Outro...the end of ANY ECM record.

BN

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Pepper eh!

[grippie]

OH, DIDN'T HE RAMBLE - Jelly Roll Morton - Sidney Bechet - 1939

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEX2z-ZGMUw

[Ian Thumwood]

Always loved this track which has a hugely compelling introduction. Culled from the last truly great album that Gil Evans made, I love the way this track seems to be totally chaotic but has a wonderful groove underneath at the same time with the scurrying guitar motif. At all time favourite of mine:-

[Ian Thumwood]

(Footprint note : Proper have a cheap 4cd Wayne SNorter box set out next month with the (excellent) Vee Jay dates avec Wynton Kelly and early Bnote Messengers sides with super hip Lee Organ....a good buy for Crazy Wayneiacs.)


BN.

A mate of mine loaned me these recordings and I found them a real let down as the music is pretty much run-of-the-mill Hard Bop and miles away from where he would be in the early sixties when he started to find his voice. It was a bit strange to hear him in such a straight forward context - nothing particularly wrong with the music but nowhere near as compelling as his work with Miles, on Blue Note or indeed with the current quartet. I think you would have to chalk it down as an impressive debut but not sure if it is as interesting as something under-rated such as "Hi-life.) For me, Shorter's ability as a composer has been instrumental in dictating the current wealth of musicians who are equally deft with the pen. I suppose prior to Wayne Shorter, you would have to look towards someone like Herbie Nichols as "thinking the unthinkable" but the Veejay recordings, from recollection, very much reflect the jazz of the day. Maybe I should have listened with a little bit more attention but the music never grabbed me the way so much of his output usually does.

[burning dog]

An ECM record with a great intro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRgERvzZf74