Jazz for aficionados
Mary_jo, this is the first time I've heard Julia Lee; I really enjoyed her songs, will order some. Her use of the "double entendre" is most interesting.I am glad you like her singing 0-10. With the cheerful voice and phrases that are often subject to various interpretations, she surely brings smile on the face of the appreciative listener. Interesting to know is that she was known as "dirty blues" musician. :o |
Hi guys! Love to read you, as always. But can't participate that often, I have a lot on my mind at this moment. One is a need for a better guitar that haunts me for quite a while and I am in crusade for buying new one. Checked most of the respective music stores in my country but among some strong brands, only one captured my attention so wanna go further in the search. Currently abroad in Slovenia, sittin' on the dock of the bay (meanin' in a small coffe shop, heavy rain outside), somebody here has a good taste in music 'cause currently is playing https://youtu.be/vJJONpQiQZ4 Same song but check the instrument https://youtu.be/lY7sXKGZl2w I just wonder how far will I go... Deus vult. Regards to all. p.s. Donno where Alex is. Probably hiding somewhere ha ha...but he is probably following the thread and will pop out eventually, when least expected. :--)) ;--) |
****I might have to go to a psychiatrist to get this curse removed.**** :--))) This could be good time to visit Marie Laveau’s ancestors. I am sure that some of them inherited some useful powers... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLRfDLJLjxc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtdQiOPRDfA |
I am waitin' for the secular Christmas songs...lol In the meantime, it's not Once upon the time in the West but...Go West... Did you know that apple can play the piano? https://youtu.be/bfIVnzpj1vM |
Descendants not ancestors...mary jo... *** ~ What I will tell to my heart? David Sanborn https://youtu.be/UIHw-rs5BiY Ella... https://youtu.be/mKlyTw_KIAQ ~ Gloomy Sunday Mel Torme https://youtu.be/379hN4TmGEY |
I understand italian but not that good and from some reason I need not to undrestand all words in this song. Does that mean that words could be surplus here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPrf-svWUAQ But how would I react on this song if I haven’t heard it with lyrics before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xixFY8v4Nmg Does right question ever has firm answer? Right question raises another question... |
So many of your good thoughts, I could contemplate on each of them. About the closings. Imo, closings are good, healthy but also dead. Healthy dead - meaning that’s easier way of dealing with things (sometimes highly appreciated but that is not the point here). You finish with it and walk away for good. The harder way: A seed of life planted in closing - to give the chance for a new type of closing sometime in the future. Desirably an improved one. ’Cause things change. We change. What they told you about the wolf, his coat and his disposition concerns only the animal world. Like to think we are more than an animal. Well, mostly. On lyrics. I used to liked songs with lyrics. Actually, those were the only one I liked. Words were far important to me than any melody. Now I rarely listen the songs with lyrics. It is not because I do not like the lyrics but it’s because that in this case I find singer failed in performance in some way. If the job is done right, lyrics and music should be melted - You hardly notice when the singer started singing or when the singing ended. If the job is not done right, either one or another stands in front of other, jumping out from the railway, preventing me from enjoying the song in full. I also think that somewhere the lyrics in song are surplus. The same as sometimes the spoken words are surplus - there is simply no need for them. |
Do you need words in the song like this, my all time favourite... I envy no rock guitarist as much as I envy the ones in classic. The purity of each note made on the guitar and high discipline is never so required as in classic guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzEFQW9CXGc No words required... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD6k2E61ABY But this song I can’t imagine without Billie’s voice. All melts perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuRsRz8syM |
"We are on the third straight page of a lyrics or no lyrics debate quickly headed for a fourth." Oh, this means that it is time for commercials... https://youtu.be/cMIUFHY7Wp8 |
"By definition, a “song” is a musical composition intended to be sung; it has lyrics. A wordless composition is a ”tune”, “instrumental”, or “piece”; which doesn’t become a “song” until lyrics have been added." You’re right. I thought noone would notice it. It was too late to correct. Thank you for the warning. "Forgive me if I am mistaken and I don’t mean to take liberties, but I suspect that your feeling about lyrics being unnecessary, for Aranjuez in particular, became stronger as you became a stronger guitarist yourself." This is interesting point of view. Never thought about it before. "Many of the great and popular songs played as Jazz instrumentals were written first as wordless tunes and lyrics were added after the fact; or the reverse is true. Any tune is a candidate for lyrics." True. The links you posted, that is such a beautiful voice. Still...do I need it here? Miles knew how to express himself. The quotation says a lot about him. |
I do believe the pertinent facts have been established; consequently, I’m declaring a truce and suggest that we get back to the music.Nope, wait, I have something to say! :--)) I have a close friend, a walking encyclopedia as schubert pointed. The monster knows so much, I mean really knows, ask him whatever you need to know, it’s faster and easier to ask him than Google. You name any field you like, any. Music, literature, philosophy, physics, logic... Bottom line is that I would like him not to be so perfect all the time. Little bit of weakness, little bit of craziness or even immaturity at some point, would be highly appreciated. :--) To cut the long story short, fro, you are too perfect. We need you to show us your dark side. Bring it on. ;--) |
Somebody mentioned Ornette Coleman? :--) The Love Revolution Ornette Coleman, Buddha Blues and >>Suona<< https://youtu.be/BJePdnU_bwc |
That is very nice Ahmad Jamal's clip schubert. This is for you: Comedian George Carlin on aging
ALWAYS REMEMBER
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One more for the road... Paul Desmond Quartet - Theme From Black Orpheus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUNxV5dVXvk |
https://www.google.com/search?q=thanksgiving+jokes+for+adults&client=ms-android-hms-vf-hr&pr... Be reasonable...Happy Thanksgiving folks... |
Thank you pjw, right back at you, one of my favorite of this singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sRJ-eOHnc |
Just before I pressed "x", he looked to me and I thought I heard: What about this one? Lonnie Smith - It's Changed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsZb93rY8E |
"Mary_Jo, I realize you are one Aficionado that I have neglected; I have an offering for you, I hope that you like it." O10, thank you. I once told you that you had similar taste to my Alex, so you can’t be (that) wrong when sending me a song. ;--) Since you are hard to please (your words), I’ll play safe and send you what we both like. One of my favorite (of her). Can’t feel this one more deeply than I already do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmCbEbMmeU |
Fro, that Taj Mahal - Senor Blues is absolutely bluesy - jazzy great... For you: Ali Farka Touré & Taj Mahal-Roucky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBt8MJ6wrQM This is where I love the sound of guitar... |
For some of us who skipped history class...:p "The German economist and philosopher Karl Marx is sometimes mistakenly characterized as an egalitarian and a proponent of equality of outcome and the economic systems of socialism and communism are sometimes misconstrued as being based on equality of outcome. "Equality" in a communist society is thus not about total equality or equality of outcome, but about equal and free access to the articles of consumption. Marx argued that free access to consumption would enable individuals to overcome alienation." |
***** but about equal and free access to the articles of consumption***** "What does that mean? And why does it take a communist system to achieve it. I’ll be as short as possible. And I have no desire to continue discussing this theme. This should be sufficient as the answer: Definition of Communism. “Communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is a philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.” In short: classless, moneyless, stateless. Fact: It never existed. Important: Communism is not about people living like in a tribe, going up and down all dressed up the same, smiling the same, sharing the same food, living in the same tents, holding each other with hands, singing age of aquarius and stuff like that. It is about the most modern society you can think of, highly advanced society in modern technologies – it’s the society so advanced and productive (only in societies like this, this can be achievable) that setting up the prices for the goods and paying for them would make no sense. What’s is the point in a price battle or in buying stuff if everyone has all? Example: I am sure that few shoes factories in China for instance (being so damn productive), would already now satisfy the need for all kinds of shoes here in my entire country. They can produce so many shoes that we could easily enjoy in all kinds of them. But nobody will give them to us for free. In fact, if the factory has the production surplus, it will rather destroy the goods than place it on the market with low price or God forbid, give it away for free. Reason is simple, no profit out of that. There is your answer. It is in the earning of the profit and preserving the private interest. A profit earner obviously does not want that equality in consumption. Thanks to profit, he will be rich as hell, you stay poor and work in the stinky factory, ‘cause somebody has to work for it. You will be brainwashed with all kinds of bullshits, just to be kept away from using your head by thinking of the freedom and better society. And the only freedom that you will have - will be to choose who will exploit and use you. But you will be surely exploited and used. (In a more cheerful way of saying, you will be surely fuc***.). In the former Yugoslavia, we had the beginnings of this system of equality. We had ideas that where foundations for a system like that. Like nowhere in the world. Of course, that had to be stopped. And it stopped. In a bloody war. We were too greedy and too stupid to preserve what we had and too weak to prevent what was about to happen. You see, my dear, these ideas of equality are far dangerous than any terrorism. You may kill, rob, destroy, torture other human being, but that’s no biggie in comparison to the existence of the ideas of equality in a modern slave mind.
Now back to turkey theme. :--)) |
