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Is the song "Softly As In a Morning Sunrise" lewd and lascivious, or is it your perception of the song? Or my discussing the song?
Maybe you should point out what it was that offended you? Maybe it also offended Rok.
Everything depends on one's point of view.
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Is it OK to discuss the way Delilah seduced Sampson in the Bible in public?
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You have a vivid imagination and I have an excellent memory; we can travel many years into the past when we were both quite young and visit one of my old haunts with the most sophisticated atmosphere and the best live music; we might even be serenaded by Trane and Johnny Hartman, who knows?
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I listen to beautiful music all day every day; all night every night; it keeps me blissfully ensconced in the past. I have 3 rigs; one in the main listening room, one in the basement, and one in the bedroom; they are all fed from the computer in the basement; consequently, the music is the same all over the house. While there is a separate preamp and amp in each case, the line level signal is the same on all three. Up to 60 feet of line transmission can be accomplished by using ethernet cable with baluns on each end. https://www.amazon.com/ethernet-cable/s?k=ethernet+cableThere are other ways of running line level signals long distances that give the same result as running a line level signal 3 feet. They cost about the same and give the same good results. When I go from the basement (work projects) to the listening room, and finally to the bedroom, the same music is playing. This music enables me to live in the past, decades into the past, and relive my most glorious times; thank God for the past; can I get an amen on that brother, or sister. "Tammy's Breeze"; this takes me back to 1960, and my cousin had just bought a brand new 88 Oldsmobile, which I knew I could borrow to impress beautiful young ladies; what a wonderful past time; much fun was had by all. Erlene was her name and I shall remember her always. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v--G29uMrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JSAq-gspJk |
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I'm not sure we're talking about the same book, but when it comes to Hugh Masekela we're on the same page; I like that.
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69 was a very good year; as a matter of fact it was the best Summer of my life, although I didn't know it at that time; one can never assess the present until it's past. Some of the very best musicians I've ever heard aren't famous, and that was the case with Eddie Fisher, guitarist. He played at a place called "Mothers", that I frequented every night he was there. It was a stylish place with good food (Best steaks in town) and jazzy people, and to top it all off, it had Eddie Fisher; he was the only musician I've ever heard who could play one tune so many different ways that I never got tired of it; I listened to it all Summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5FVMt0FVwWe liked Eddie so much that we told him to go on the road and become famous, but he knew better; he declined the road. Later on, I discovered fame does not always mean fortune; case in point, "Grant Green". http://www.stlamerican.com/news/obituaries/guitarist-eddie-fisher-passes-at/article_022d92a2-4584-5b... |
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Lot of great musicians out of St. Louis that I can't even find recordings for, and the recording quality is low for those that I can. Just because the band sounded good, they seemed to think that the recording would sound good also; ain't necessarily so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkux11dCjYUThe last time I saw Oliver Sain was in the hot tube at the Y, and we talked over years of good times at all the clubs he played in St. Louis; he even told me about the times when he was in the big money and lived on "The Bluff", where the rich folks lived; that's when he was with Fontella Bass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ2Il3blv_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7BeGDZewHsHe invited me to his next club date, but I didn't make it; something I regret because not long after that, he joined that big band in the sky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wEsTHTGLS0 |
"As with all stories of the First World War, the take away is the appalling indifference to the lost of human life. Mankind has changed in this regard."
You have got to be kidding. Rok, I'm beginning to see how you paint that picture book of yours any way you want it with total disregard for truth.
Nothing was more inhumane than the atrocities that occurred in Vietnam.
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Mary_jo, going back in time to when I was young makes me feel good; if Rok and Schubert were born old and have no memories of when they were young; tuff stuff, I say don't spoil mine.
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Since I saw her live on the weekends, I thought she sounded like Fontella Bass.
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I would like for us to choose a decade for jazz and popular music as well, and focus on that decade for the subject matter.
Does anyone care to choose a decade? I nominate the 70's.
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Many years ago, there was a man who stated the problems and attempted to solve them, but they assassinated him; no one wants the problems to be solved.
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Mary_jo, I know little of Mississippi euphemisms; a pod of pepper goes in chili. I'm going to disregard Schuberts interpretation of love as meaning raw sex as in "Love for sale", which is a song that is not really about love for sale, but Schubert wouldn't understand that. "Softly as in a morning sunrise" is a very important "love song", which is why so many artists record it. "Softly As In a Morning Sunrise" graphically depicts the 3 stages of love; first you fall in love, next you go to heaven on earth, and last you go to hell after it's over because after being in heaven, normal hum drum life is hard to take. When I hear the instrumental versions I still hear the words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkN4fm7E0cw |
Alex, I like them both so much i can't pick one; I think I'll get them both.
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Rok, maybe you and Schubert think I should discuss the COVID 19-Lock-down?
For years I went through Frogman's censorship, now I'm going through you and Shuberts censorship. I wish you guys would tell me all the rules, I want to be correct you know.
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You are so right Mary_Jo, and it's even harder now.
That's a very funny joke, thanks for the laugh.
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Rok, as much as I like Gene Harris, I can live without that one, but at the same time, I can understand that a fellow has to earn a living.
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Has anyone told the COVID 19 virus about this; maybe it will behave and quit killing people. Why don't you just put a knee on it's neck, that works every time.
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A nice attractive young lady introduced me to fusion (boring isn't it). She suggested "Sextant", "Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy" and "I Sing The Body Electric". There is absolutely no way to compare what this same music sounded like then, and what it sounds like now. I've already presented "Sextant"; let's try something from "The Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy", followed by "I Sing The Body Electric". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqYXt6IV_nc&list=PLdywAdbqFISsoPbzYPeb0K8LPw6aVWMxZ&index=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eng3NsrAt7Q&list=PL8a8cutYP7fpVzOlBYtpU6oXBv3NCx8tMI must admit in all sincerity, the way this music sounded depended on whether or not I had engaged my pipe filled with exotic blends of Turkish Tobacco or not. Quite often after a hard days work, I lit the pipe. (I like exact reconstruction) No matter how hard I try, I can't hear it the same way now, as I heard it then; all I can say is that it was really fantastic at that time, but it still sounds good now. |
Eunice Kathleen Waymon was born in Tryon, North Carolina on February 21st, 1933. There is no birth certificate for Nina Simone; she was born when Eunice Kathleen Waymon became Nina Simone by taking the nickname “Nina” meaning “little one” in Spanish and “Simone” after the actress Simone Signoret.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon was a classical pianist, she applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied admission despite a well-received audition. In 2003, just days before her death, the Curtis Institute of Music bestowed on Eunice Kathleen Waymon an honorary degree.
"This was to correct a grave injustice." That was my point.
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If only we could get a rope around that COVID-19’S neck and hang it high, our problems would be solved.
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Mary_jo, express yourself, why shouldn't you enjoy looking at handsome men, I never tire of looking at beautiful women; just a little while ago, I wanted to pursue all women named "Ursula". (must have been that look of love thing)
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" Truth is that you tend to use this thread as a vehicle for personal story telling (not all real, by your own admission); sometimes even more so than simply for sharing and discussing the music. When you don’t score points you often act like a mean spirited old man. Interesting how truth always has a way of revealing itself."
If any one wants to know the reason for my last post, ask Frogman?
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Thank you Acman; that was most informative.
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You can take the boy out of Mississippi, but you can not take Mississippi out of the boy. When Albert King was performing in the St. Louis area, he lived in "Eagle Park Acres". That's a suburb of Lovejoy Illinois; you will think you are back in Mississippi if you go to Eagle Park Acres at night, it's so dark, that when you're driving down a road there, you'll wonder if you're headlights are still working. He lived in a good size white house, not too big not too small, but what was striking about the place was the big front yard and the big back yard. He had planted some kind of crops in the back yard, it looked like a miniature farm. Folks from Mississippi have got to have their gardens; ask Rok, I bet he got a garden. Albert King was my favorite Blues singer, that's because I saw him every weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SP5JHLqXM8&list=PLl9_0E72fu9uTqRmzSRenHb-7gd6svwXG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_IOv6jldDA |
Looking at Rachelle Ferrell sing Autumn Leaves is a sight to behold; I'm trying to decide whether I want to look and not listen or listen and not look; both together are quite an adventure, but there is no denying, the gal can sing even if she is a drama queen to boot.
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Rok, I'm not fond of jazz from the 40's, but if you take the very same musicians and put them in the 50's, I can dig them and the music. (don't feel like analyzing that at the moment) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DmtPvFa_W8 |
Trying to get this bunch on one subject is like "herding cats". I think I'll try herding cats; "Git along you little doggies"; or I mean you little pussies. (that didn't come out right). Anyway, you get the idea.
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