What are you listening to?

[mongers]

Pink Floyd. Live at Pompeii

Nice choice. 

DVD or Audio, directors original version or edited out?

[Josephus]

Pink Floyd. Live at Pompeii

Nice choice. 

DVD or Audio, directors original version or edited out?

Yeah it's an audio cd from the very expensive box set put out last year...just the music.

[Admiral Yi]

So no sexy shirtless David Gilmore. 

[Josephus]

So no sexy shirtless David Gilmore. 

Gilmour.

And no, but I do have that on blu-ray

[garbon]

Garbage - Shut Your Mouth
Rilo Kiley - Science Vs. Romance
Regina Spektor - The Call

In a 90s mood this year, I've tickets Garbage and also to see Alanis Morissette.

[Eddie Teach]

Theory of a Deadman- Rx

[The Minsky Moment]

Grant Green - Idle Moments (1963) - a pretty typical recording session pairing Green on guitar with the house rhythm section of Blue Note Records, Joe Henderson on tenor and Bobby Hutcherson on vibes took an unexpected turn when the musicians misread the charts on the title track and all took double length solos, resulting in a relaxed yet intense groove.  Widely regarded as a classic.  be sure to listen to the alternate takes of the other tracks - they are actually the originals but had to be re-recorded to fit on an LP.

[Admiral Yi]

Whiplash was the first time I had heard the word "chart" used in reference to music.

Is it just a snobby jazz way of saying sheet music, or is there more to it?

[The Minsky Moment]

My understanding as a non-musician: sheet music usually refers to a note by note recitation of what each musician is supposed to play.  But in jazz the expectation is that a lot of the playing is improvised - so the "chart" will usually set forth the basic chord structure and time, and maybe an opening theme but it won't specify what everyone plays note by note.

[The Minsky Moment]

BTW I liked Whiplash as a movie (great Simmons) but the musical aspects were a bit silly.

[frunk]

When I was performing I never heard the term chart, but I only had an entry level experience with jazz improv.  At that time (~25 years ago) I did hear the terms Head or Fake Book.

[The Minsky Moment]

A head arrangement I've seen usually refer to a piece built around a set of riffs, a repeating theme or vamp, as with the Count Basie band.
Never heard of a fake book.

[Admiral Yi]

Sorry to pick on you Joan, but going back to Whiplash, that super special Nazi jazz band was not an improv band, but they still called them charts.

[frunk]

It's probably referring to Chord Charts, which are usually but not strictly used for improv.

[The Minsky Moment]

Sorry to pick on you Joan, but going back to Whiplash, that super special Nazi jazz band was not an improv band, but they still called them charts.

I wouldn't necessarily rely on that film for musical information.  It's supposed to be a Julliard or Berklee kind of program but the writer/director's experiences came from being in a high school band and that is really the model of this.  I don't think Berklee teaches aspiring jazz drummers to do ostentatious Gene Krupa-style solos, that went out with the swing era.  Hank Levy (who wrote the real-life Whiplash composition) was university-affiliated, but it's kind of a gimmick song, using a weird time signature.  it doesn't get played a lot in clubs . . .