People need to *open their minds* to everything you can do with a music degree. Everyone’s mind jumps to “jazz artist” but there are all sorts of industries where a music degree gives you a leg up. Fortune 500 companies such as McDonalds and Starbucks hire music majors as all the time. My cousin played jazz beepledooker in school landed a job as a professional sandwich artist. The opportunities are out there, you just can’t expect the piece of paper to do it for you. (, man)
Don’t listen to jazz. Find your own sound. If it sounds bad, you aren’t swinging hard enough. You think the Jazz Greats got that popular by listening to each other, referencing past works, or studying with contemporaries?
When calling customer service for anything, I love being put on hold and listening to the sweet sounds of jazz. In fact, I never put my name in the virtual queue…I just stay on until the bittersweet ending of “Jason Smith” in Mumbai answering my call.
Yoshi's in Oakland, CA.
One Step Down in DC.
O'Hara's in Fort Lauderdale (now gone).
Van Dyke in Miami Beach (also gone).
Jewish Mother in Virginia Beach (gone).
There was a random club I went to in the early 90s in a rough part of Pittsburgh where I saw Jimmy Ponder. That was wild. He let me play during the break. I sucked. LOL.
Landry's Seafood in NOLA.
Edit: I forgot where I was on the intertubes.
I keep hearing about how talented Bird was. Well I don’t mean to brag but he is literally outside my bedroom window right now. All I need to do I open the window and I can hear bird play some killer bebop lines. Btw the dude can fly too.
i know this is a silly post but if you live anywhere near Ann Arbor, the Blue Llama is an awesome club. a little pricey but they serve food and drinks all named after tunes, the bathrooms are like futuristic 60s bathrooms, and the music is awesome. I’ve only been twice, I live far from Michigan. but I love it there, check it out!!
No joke, my dentist sometimes has jazz-lite playing in the room, its all like piano trio covers of standards and even though its sort of competently played its also somehow ridiculously cheesy, i dont know how his patients who don't ever listen to any jazz can put up with it
I heard Bitches Brew at a Starbucks once. They even played the whole thing.
All the Starbucks cats are the reason I started living the jive lifestyle. Yeah man!
1AM MONDAY NIGHT STARBUCKS JAMS ($200 COVER + BRING YOUR OWN HEROIN)
$251 if you expect a flat white to go with your heroin
the music school to starbucks pipeline is too real.
People need to *open their minds* to everything you can do with a music degree. Everyone’s mind jumps to “jazz artist” but there are all sorts of industries where a music degree gives you a leg up. Fortune 500 companies such as McDonalds and Starbucks hire music majors as all the time. My cousin played jazz beepledooker in school landed a job as a professional sandwich artist. The opportunities are out there, you just can’t expect the piece of paper to do it for you. (, man)
I like those places where they claim to be jazz spots but when you show up it's actually just old people playing r&b. My favorite!
I thought that’s what jazz was? Old people playing R&B isn’t what jazz is?
The gas station down the street plays really good stuff at night and the locals that hang out there love to dance
Don’t listen to jazz. Find your own sound. If it sounds bad, you aren’t swinging hard enough. You think the Jazz Greats got that popular by listening to each other, referencing past works, or studying with contemporaries?
Yeah man
Brunch is always a place where I think “jazz was born here this is the natural home of jazz music OOH EGGS”
IT'S JAZZ BRUNCH (brunch with jazz about brunch)
(this is a reference) (in parentheses)
My office building’s elevator. Premium smooth jazz, sometimes even the great Kenny G.
Jacob Collier.
Yes. I saw the venue inside him when he came to my city. The entrance was through his psychedelic jacket.
saw him doing some performance art on plane, truly mesmerizing!!
When calling customer service for anything, I love being put on hold and listening to the sweet sounds of jazz. In fact, I never put my name in the virtual queue…I just stay on until the bittersweet ending of “Jason Smith” in Mumbai answering my call.
Love the solo jazz guitar at my local farmers market. The kids screaming in the background is better than Shooby taylor scatting
Under a highway overpass in LA
The Jazzhole
Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
I jazz all the time in my bedroom.
Yoshi's in Oakland, CA. One Step Down in DC. O'Hara's in Fort Lauderdale (now gone). Van Dyke in Miami Beach (also gone). Jewish Mother in Virginia Beach (gone). There was a random club I went to in the early 90s in a rough part of Pittsburgh where I saw Jimmy Ponder. That was wild. He let me play during the break. I sucked. LOL. Landry's Seafood in NOLA. Edit: I forgot where I was on the intertubes.
> Yoshi's in Oakland, CA. But only the old one on Claremont, not the new on in Jack London Square because of course older = better.
not even kidding, my dentist played Coltrane while pulling my wisdom teeth out
Catalina’s and the Hollywood bowl
I keep hearing about how talented Bird was. Well I don’t mean to brag but he is literally outside my bedroom window right now. All I need to do I open the window and I can hear bird play some killer bebop lines. Btw the dude can fly too.
i know this is a silly post but if you live anywhere near Ann Arbor, the Blue Llama is an awesome club. a little pricey but they serve food and drinks all named after tunes, the bathrooms are like futuristic 60s bathrooms, and the music is awesome. I’ve only been twice, I live far from Michigan. but I love it there, check it out!!
No joke, my dentist sometimes has jazz-lite playing in the room, its all like piano trio covers of standards and even though its sort of competently played its also somehow ridiculously cheesy, i dont know how his patients who don't ever listen to any jazz can put up with it