My top 12 sources of Music inspiration

To have an impact or effect on; influence;

Alter: to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify:

 

Inspiration:

1. Stimulation or arousal of the mind, feelings, etc, to special or unusual activity or creativity.

2. The state or quality of being so stimulated or aroused.

3. Someone or something that causes this state.

4. An idea or action resulting from such a state.

 

Music is a language of emotions, feelings and expressions.

Everyone has a special relation to the music he or she likes and dislikes.

Music can put your emotions, feelings and memories  to places you never before knew existed.

And someone once told me, if you have an openminded heart, you´ll always find something in music that will catch your moods or impressions.

It might be a good song/ melody or a composition/arrangement.

Or it could also be the performer/artist/artists singer or group.

There is also a great deal how you listen to your music.

That also depends on how your knowledge and curiosity in your love for music might be.

I am of that "school" that thinks: the more music (all kinds) you have encountered, the more you´ll train your musical knowlege it helps you to sort out things that´s not your "bag" in music. Instead you´ll find your own gemstones

If you are serious, amateur or beginner on a instrument or just a ordinary listener, some of the following music maybe, gives you a hint of my thougts of music that I like, and have liked. Some of these are still  in the source of Inspirations, and some are almost forgotten, but they are still in the good old banks of memories.

If it´s good or bad it´s not me to judge. It´s your opinion, that counts. It´s always nice to share music that you like with others.

For the coming few days I will give you My Top 12 list of Musicians/performers.

For you guys who have been followed my blogg Jazz Spectrum 55, probably already knows what is coming.... or maybe, there will be some surprises for you?

The reason I do this is that it´s now a year sice I started my Blogg Jazz Spectrum 55!

 

I can asure you that sorting and ranking to a list of just 12 was NOT easy at all!

These cats below are in my bank of good music/performer (s) but are not qualified for My Top 12.

Karlskrona Navyband, (Flottans Musikkår), Harold Jefta, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Stevie Wonder,  Spyro Gyra, Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Ella Fitzgerald, Masayoshi Takanaka, Steve Vai, The Shadows, Hank Marvin, The Ventures, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Tony Joe White, Carlos Santana, Al di Meola, Charlie Christian, John Mclaughlin, Dexter Gordon, Jimmy Smith, B.B King, Eric Clapton, Herbie Mann, W. A. Mozart, Stevie Ray Vaughan, P. Tjajkowski, F. Chopin, Maurice Ravel,  and Claude Debussy. Chic Corea and RTF, Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey and the Jazzmessengers, Weather Report, Miles Davies and Larry Coryell and many more.

No 12: The Beatles (John Lennon)

Do not need a closer presentation. This below is a rather intresting interview of

Paul McCartney:

No 11: Herbie Hancock

  Today a living icon in modern jazzmusic, he can do everything in jazz, from the most easiest song to the more "difficult" and makes it swing. An eternely source of inspiration. Herbie Hancock: "Jazz is fun because you´ll never get to be fully learned, you learn as long as you live".

Photo : R Jedemark

 

Herbie Hancock / Watermelon man

No 10: Count Basie Big Band.

Legendary Bigbandsleader that makes everything "swing"; unique sound arr and blues.

 

Count Basie Big Band / Jumpin at the Woodside

No 9: Quincy Jones.

Legendary arranger both in jazz and contemporary music.

There´s no one in his caliber, that does those genious arrangements like him , he makes the easiest and most banality tunes sounds amazing to your ears. There is just one "Q"

 

Quincy Jones/ Ai no corrida

  Please,  check out my blogg the next following days, until the 27:th August 2015 when I´ll present my No 1.