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Keegiam, it makes my day that you shared my appreciation of Billy Bang's music he created that was inspired by his Vietnam experiences. Billy Bang explored his experience in Vietnam in two albums: Vietnam: The Aftermath (2001) and Vietnam: Reflections (2005), recorded with a band which included several other veterans of that war. The latter album also features two Vietnamese musicians based in the United States (voice and đàn tranh zither). Bang died on April 11, 2011. According to an associate, Bang had suffered from lung cancer. He had been scheduled to perform on the opening day of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival on June 10, 2011. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. I just discovered another album that I was unaware of; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGiej-o1pp8&list=PLZz6KJ6RIvgaiIH4vIWUHfEEXiOw-YMuE |
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Keegiam, I was at a New Year's Eve party bringing in 69, sitting across a coffee table from a guy sitting on a couch. He was a well dressed, soft spoken, good looking fellow of about 27.
This was early in the evening before most of the guests had arrived and any serious drinking had begun. It was certain that I would know most of the guests at the party, but I had never seen this guest before. He was talking and making the kind of small talk people make with people they don't know. I listened, and when I looked into his eyes my blood froze and I experienced extreme fear. (What the he--) He wasn't talking loud or mean; he was soft spoken, he wasn't rough looking, he was well dressed, I hadn't had hardly anything to drink, so let me look away and try this again.
I looked away momentarily, and then responded to the small talk. He had a soft smile that never changed, but when I looked into his eyes I experienced fear; that's when I found someone else to help make this new guest comfortable.
I discovered he was just back from Nam. That experience was so weird that I never figured it out or even talked to anyone else about it.
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Frogman, "lies" is a word best used for our politicians; fiction is the word best used for someone who claimed to observe another reality while under the influence of hallucinating mushrooms with an old man, who eventually reveals himself to be a Yaqui Indian.
The book was a New York Times best-seller, and it - along with its sequels - sold over 10 million copies in the United States.
Me and a few other people considered his books good entertainment.
When someone watching a dog drink water, claims the dog became like an X-Ray picture and he could see the water going out into the dogs hairs, while he was under the influence of hallucinating mushrooms; was that a lie, or was it fiction?
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It was Billy Bang's music that took us to Vietnam, and it was his music that took us to Carlos Casteneda, and "Another Reality", as he called it.
Music can take us many places, that's because music explores hidden caves in the mind, and the mind is that strange world where the word impossible does not exist.
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I must be a prognosticator of the future, because I knew you were going to say that.
Would you care to elaborate on your profound statement.
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Ayn Rand died in 1982, that was long before "capitalism" was replaced by "Corporatism", which is the present "World Order".
My house would be bigger, and my high end higher, had not they changed they game on me. Just when I caught on to one game, they went to one eyed jacks wild, and I didn't have any.
Just joking about the one eyed jacks to make a point. With this new "Corporatism" game, only the super rich win, but since there was no headline stating that fact, the multitudes are left believing the game is still being played by the old rules.
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Alex, worse than any and everything else is when far too many people began to accept too much BS from the government, that they know is BS.
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I'm not super rich, and I'm not a politician, so it ain't me.
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Inna, I don’t know how things work where you are, but here, the politicians who are supposed to work for the people, in reality work for the corporations.
Almost all of the people who are still working, including doctors, who were independent before, now come under some kind of corporate umbrella. Mr. Big orders the corporate head to order the doctor, and that’s how the whip is popped.(But that's another secret that's only used under special circumstances)
As anyone can see, if the corporate heads own the politicians, we the people are screwed. No one is allowed to know this.
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Rok, you're lost in a time warp.
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Chico Hamilton is a major player we haven't covered extensively. I always regarded Chico as a horse of a different color; that was certainly true when I got into jazz in 59. He was "West Coast", and that certainly made him different. I began with Chico because he was different, not because I was over smitten. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9E4t3VqL_MChico evolved in many interesting ways over the years; I'm just suggesting we check him out. |
Inna, that was a fantastic contribution with very moving music, and song. I would not want to live in that apartment, and I'm sure she doesn't either.
For the last 20 years the standard of living has been declining for the "middle class" here; that means it has been declining all over the world, because much of the world depends on our tourism dollars.
I watched the unveiling of a new "explorer yacht" that was designed for the worst weather possible: it had a big heli-pad, a gym, and a library. While the design prevented it from looking too stylish, it was luxurious on the inside beyond imagination; while most yachts are designed to go from here to there, this small ship was designed for "there", to be the middle of the ocean until the next need for provisions which would be delivered by helicopter. That is the super rich's solution to Covid-19.
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I never heard of Ivan Boogaloo Joe Jones. His music takes me back to better times, I could listen to it all night, it's got the just right mixture of a lot of different time periods and genres, but all in the "Boogaloo Joe Jones" style.
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Wake up Aficionados, it's a new day! I am so tired, it's like being in a mental lockdown just because I'm in a physical lockdown.
Every time I think of someplace to go, I instantly think of 10 reasons not to go; all associated with Covid-19. I got the Covid-19 Blues.
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Inna, what's called "Low level depression" is almost unavoidable under these present circumstances, and that's for people who are financially, and mentally secure.
Can you imagine what the least fortunate are going through?
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I thought she did well, and I have heard that song a time or two.
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Mary_jo, since childhood I have been captivated by Flamenco and Gypsy music in the movies; I find the thought of you in a tight Flamenco dress dancing until you feel the taste of sweat coming down your face and wet clothes sticking to your body quite scintillating; this picture causes my heart rate to increase.
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Rok, I've spent most of my life in our major cities, but never been to Harlem. Harlem has often been pictured as the ultimate personification of Africana America, and I'm sure it was, once upon a time. The arts, a combination of gospel and jazz probably made this so; Harlem blues is a combination of Gospel and Jazz.
Phineas was born in Tennessee (the south) and it's apparent he was influenced by Southern Gospel (it's impossible not to be influenced when you have heard it live, like he did, many times) From 1956, when he was a young man, he began to perform in Harlem, and these two influences are reflected in his music.
I thank you for a marvelous contribution.
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I am every bit as much audiophile as the most extreme; however, music trumps everything else, and I take what I get when it comes to Jazz in regard to "audiophilia".
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According to "Wicki"; The Tango is a partner dance, and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. It was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries, in neighborhoods which had predominantly African descendants. The tango is the result of a combination of Rioplatense Candombe celebrations, Spanish-Cuban Habanera, and Argentinean Milonga. The tango was frequently practiced in the brothels and bars of ports, where business owners employed bands to entertain their patrons with music. That's some hot stuff, maybe too hot for some Aficionados; never the less, moving right along to the music, let us listen to Jesse Cook; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2SJf1J-LHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrVm9wKXi38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrVm9wKXi38 |
Acman, I thank you for your lists; I'll get back to you in a week or so.
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Inna, since you seem to be an expert on "Argentinian Tango" maybe you could elucidate, expand, expound, enlighten me on the finer points of the "Tango", and point out what's going wrong on the links posted.
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Keegiam, that's a nice album, I'll get a copy if it's still available.
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I decided, or at least my ears decided that it was "modern jazz" or nothing, early in the game. I heard of Mary Lou Williams early in the game, but decided she was before my time frame without even hearing her music. Recently, somehow I decided to listen to her music; was I in for a surprise, she's current, she was able to change with the times. (BTW Monk was one of her biggest fans) Now she's on my "play-list", I listen to her every day and marvel at how unique she is; her interpretation of standards sound better than anyone else's because they're so different; the have the "Mary Louise sound". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20kDIh3q928 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8AOox_prE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X4r5ZioIBw |
There are two "Wes Montgomery's"; the one who was struggling to make a living in Indianapolis, and the one who became famous and successful. By a horses hair, I like the one who was struggling to make a living better, and that's the one I'm going to focus on. Here is his complete discography; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Montgomery_discographyOut of the many versions of "Round Midnight" that I like a lot, this one is my favorite; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Xozvcf0FAMaybe memories of the first time I heard it has something to do with it being my favorite; those memories are as beautiful as this tune, but since everyone is bored with my memories, I wont share them; however, that tune can stand on it's own without my memories; it's so "Sublime". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFkQ0By8N1gI bought that album in 62; there is a beautiful simplicity to his early works that can not be duplicated; now I have to replace all the records I once owned, but I will enjoy them even more now. I just thought I would share this with you. |
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Keegiam, anytime someone posts something as boss as what you posted, it deserves a comment from an otherwise retired OP; "The Isle of Celia" is in another zone.
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I'm an old man who has been listening to jazz for all of his life; that's a long time and a lot of jazz. I've never liked big bands very much, and when jazz sounds too much like "jazz" I can live without it. By that I mean it sounds too much like music that I've heard many many times before; the same old riffs. Any music that I like has to stand repeated listens. Unfortunately, I have some kind of time cutoff, meaning that at some point in time, new jazz began to sound redundant, or I just do not like it. I spent a lot of money on "new jazz" before I discovered this, and discovered at the same time that money was a waste because those records could be used as frisbees. Of course there are exceptions to my disdain for the big band, and Gerry Mulligan is one of them; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2nbtYg8YGA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0oh_8AE1eA |
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