2020 Jazz with Mr. RAS

I like Jazz. I've listened to it for 65+ years and never stop loving all the music I hear on recordings along with live performances and YouTube Music and Sirius Radio.

I once had a massive collection of LPs, CD, Tapes, etc. Now much of what I like is on my Google Play account and some on YouTube. Upload, download, share, stream it's all fantastic. I have to tell you that I first did a Jazz series in 1985 on tape just before CDs hit the market. I still have the tape and it plays well on my ancient Marantz Tape player. I tape recorded music live and canned. I played drums in bands some good, some bad over the years. I had a great time playing. I then wrote a story about Jazz in 2001. Now it's 2020 and time for my final jazz series.

I going to cover many artists, bands soloists, etc. Some new, some old and some I just like the particular song and arrangement.

I choose to start “2020 Jazz by RAS” with this rendering of “Hello Central Give Me Dr. Jazz” played by and sung by Jelly Roll Morton with his band in 1926. Now you ask what has this got to do with 2020? My answer is that if we don’t listen to the voices of the past, we lose the opportunity to properly plan and improvise for the future. The musicians in the band are playing their best. Quite a bit of innovation in the solos. It makes you tap your feet and wish you were there digging the sound. It’s all part of our roots in appreciating music and the Jazz genre. As you go through my selections in this series think often how often it goes back to the roots of what we learned as the evolution took place over the 94 years ago and as a guide to the future.

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  Click on the link to go YouTube. When the song is finished close YouTube and it returns to this blog. If you leave YouTube on it plays other Jelly Roll Morton selections