Jazz for aficionados

Sounds like music for the movie...

Thanks for asking. My area is ok, but there are 20,000 other people in this city without power. Still iced in.

I blew the punchline. Nothing worse! It’s that second language thing 🤔. Otra vez:

MJ, if you have time, would you please hunt down a YT clip or two of the way you love to hear Texans talk. Just so we're on the same page - it's tough to spell it out!

Where are my manners. It's Saturday Night in Croatia, and no blues posted yet!!

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...

What would you have to do to make a jazz musician feel bad about their playing?

Za Kraljicu Jazza

It is Saturday night.

Was this Miles or Sinbad?

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Pjw, if I was talking to your best friend, and he sounded a little hoarse, I would think that was the natural way he sounded, and think that he sounded just fine. But you on the other hand would say, "No, he sounded a little hoarse".

What is she saying ? We better ask Frog, he might know.

First time I’ve ever seen him use a capo - I’m sure he did it often, but it’s a novelty for me.

A wonderful performance, beautifully filmed. 

Paco:

Are we suppose to laugh or cry?? A lot of notes, saying absolutely nothing.

I’ll take that blind test any day of the week.  Actually, I have on a couple of occasions and have proven the point.  

Out of curiosity, have you ever heard a great, intelligently assembled audio system?

One day I was playing a Sonny Rollins album at realistic volume with the windows open, and my neighbor later asked if I played sax (which he does).

Human Hearing:

Compared to the other species of Class Mammalia, Humans can’t hear Jack!!!

They can’t ’hear’ Lions and other big cats moving towards them in the grass. Can’t see or smell them either. When it comes to the senses, we are pathetic!!

If it weren’t for other mammals that CAN hear, see and smell, we probably wouldn’t be here today. When they alerted, at least we had the good sense to run when they ran.

Enter, ’Audiophiles.’ Now we can ’hear’ the difference between a tone at 12000 hertz, and one at 12001 hertz. Wow, must be that evolution thingy.

A Joke, sort of:
An "audiophile" is on an African Safari. During a break, he falls asleep in the grass while soaking up some sun. He is awaken by the sound "Mee-ow, Mee-ow." He thinks "kitty cat." He is an "audiophile," so he knows his sounds. So he raises up and SEES a full grown male Lion coming his way. Every few steps, the cat stops and goes, Mee-ow, Mee-ow.

Whatcha gon do?  Believe your lying eyes, or your "audiophile trained ears?"

A music lover, or any other normal person will say. "holy s**t, followed by "footes don’t fail me now"

An "audiophile" will clap his hands and say very loudly, "Here Kitty, kitty, Here Kitty kitty.

That’s why there are so few of them today.

Cheers

I found some time to listen to this Woody Shaw album last night. Live at Basel

Disc 1

(5) In Your Own Sweet Way (Live) - YouTube

BTW Marija what do you think of the late pianist Lyle Mays?

Do you like his large catalog of composing and recording collaborations with guitarist Pat Metheny or the more straight ahead jazz music that, IMHO, he did not make enough of the latter sessions?

’Sweet and Lowdown’ directed by Woody Allen from 1999.

Obviously, we all have different tastes, but seriously, there is a huge difference between saying one doesn’t like a style of playing and saying “he can’t play”. I think it’s important to separate the two things before making grand statements like that which can easily be disputed by objective (yes, objective) criteria which define a music.