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What this music lacks is "Improvisation". Which is kind of important in Jazz. This sort of reminds me of the early 70's with Quincy Jones'. Killer Joe, The Dude, Walkin' in Space, and all that. Just funky instrumental music.
Herbie Mann was another, although he could, and did, play solos.
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Charles Lloyd:
'ALL MY RELATIONS'
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Can I get an evaluation on this one;
This pretty much sums it up. They would have to try hard to mess this up. Excellent. Producer: Bob Thiele Associated Performer, Tenor Saxophone: Charles Lloyd Associated Performer, Guitar: Gabor Szabo
Associated Performer, Upright Bass: Albert Stinson
Composer: Charles Lloyd
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I’ve seen good conductors literally put their arms down at certain points in the piece and let the orchestra play and only conduct necessary cues to signal entrances and changes in meter or tempo in the music. Barenboim did this at the 2012 Proms, where he conducted the complete Beethoven Cycle. Cheers |
I think that's what he meant. He contrasted the conductor's actions at rehearsal and the actual performance. Sort of easy going, almost disinterested at rehearsal, but quick to 'intervene' during the performance. Words to that effect.
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Jazz is just following the same trajectory as Baseball, Boxing, industrial manufacturing, and movies / Television. Most things are on the rise, or in decline. A few are currently at their peak.
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Btw, music in general, not just Jazz, is in trouble. Who is at fault, get a mirror. |
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Miles: Don’t call it jazz man, that’s some made up word. This is social music.
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Ain't that the same?
Well, it was towards the end. As Wynton said, "Miles has quit Jazz, and gone into Rock." Just typing it makes me laugh. Cheers |
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All this nonsensical noise is being posted, and yet, you complain about the lack of popularity of Jazz.
Just saying.
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Rok, that classical music you post sounds like chalk scraping across a black board to me SURELY you JEST!! Cheers |
Since the honorable Mr. Rok has objected to some of the music I’ve submitted, I decided to give him other options Doo Wop is great music. By, and for young lovers. Sad that today’s young don’t have anything comparable. I try a wide variety of very different music, yeah, including Mongolian rap and Vietnamese ballads,
hmmmmmmmmmmmm. I think it’s time to pull a Miles and leave "Jazz" for Classical. That’s where all my money is going nowadays. Much more relaxing. баяр хүргэе |
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Inna, thanks for the tip. I knew something was wrong.
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Btw, Rok will disagree, but Peter Aczel was a hack who obviously had no ears. Denier of anything that could not be “proven” with measurements instead of using one’s ears. Personally, I wouldn’t think twice about anything he had to say. This is a disgraceful thing to say about Peter. The guys at Stereo Review and the other early magazines created this"hobby." Back in the day it was for music lovers. They made their systems themselves. Including the speaker. Then they were destroyed professionally by people with more money than brains. I remember Julian being ’forced’ to ’admit’ that each amp had it’s own distinct sound. That was the beginning. Then the flood gates burst, as charlatans realized that all you have to do is establish the principle, that "if I say I can hear it, it’s true, and if you can’t, you just can’t hear." Remember the Emperor and his clothes? The whole thing was shameful, and will stain this ’hobby’ forever. Cheers |
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.
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In order to judge any amp we have to have a standard. A holy grail, so to speak. Any half ass good engineer can screw around with the Freq response and make an amp sound a certain way. But what is the Goal? The objective? The standard?
I think it’s, "the perfect amp is a straight piece of wire with gain." That statement itself says that the wire adds or takes away NOTHING.
Perfect amps don’t exist. So we get as close as possible. Which SHOULD show up in the measurements.
I’m sure the very wealthy boy geniuses in their garage workshops, would beg to disagree.
Ever notice how none of the charlatans ever claim any performance characteristics for their wire? What is it suppose to do? Describe the "improvement" you are suppose to hear. Do you have to try all 6 billion brands and models until you hit pay dirt? Just asking.
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Rok, you don't get it.
I get it. I am not speaking of Audiophiles and their objectives, I am speaking of the people who dupe, swindle, cheat and defraud them. Cheers |
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Final two words on wire:
BLUE JEANS
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I just cannot be critical of WAR. What a band! I hear them, I think. El Paso.
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Wynton and Monk:
Great playing all around. Who is the other "chick"? Is she permanent? There is a lot of talent in that group. It's amazing that they have managed to stay together all these years.
Glad to see you have finally seen / heard the light, on Wynton's playing.
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I guess Chick, Corea, didn't get the memo on the attire for the evening. |
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Where is the Jazz Queen? I guess that "let'em eat cake" remark didn't go over too well with her subjects.
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No thoughts on Charlie Christian? I was just listening to music from his era, 1939, earlier tonight. Will post it tomorrow. He is not on the CD, but it’s his kind of music. I have the "Genius of the Electric Guitar" album, but nothing else. He does not seem to be the leader on it either. Cheers |
I ask again, where the heck is everyone? Everyone is here, except the folks from Croatia and the OP. It’s not a large group during the best of times. The Frogman is a working musician, so sometimes I assume that affects his presence. The OP is probably just pouting. He shall return. Tomorrow I’ll slam Grant Green and Bobby Timmons. That should get him back. If that fails, I can always post some Saudi Arabian Hard Bop. If only they allowed music. Dang! Cheers |
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@pjw81563,
All my wire is Blues Jeans. LC-1 and 10 white. I got my locking bananas separate and attached them myself.
Is it worth the money to get the welded bananas?
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Last month when I learned my CD player had been shipped, I needed another LC-1 interconnect, so I called Blue Jeans Cables to see if they could tell me the length of the other interconnects I had ordered from them.
The phone rang, a guy picked up and said "Blue Jeans Cable", I had to LOL. Imagine hearing a real person on the first ring. He had all my info right at his station. That's another reason I like this company.
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I don't remember if I posted this before, if I did, so what, we need to see / hear it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJKHWxa2ba4Every time these babes put moves on my man Wynton, he starts to forget his nuts & bolts. Cheers |
I may have told this story before, seems to bear repeating.
Man buys a 5 million dollar European Super Car. As he is writing the 5 Million Dollar check and getting the key Fobs to his long lusted after treasure, the salesman says, "the first thing you need to do, is to go buy some decent tires for this car, so it will perform at it's best." ---
What's P.T. Barnum got to do with it??
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Tires and Audiophiles:
My local Ford dealer treats all his customers as if they are audiophiles. He charges about 300 dollars extra for filling the tires of his NEW cars with pure Nitrogen. Me, being sort of slow asked, Why? They said the nitrogen molecules were larger, and therefore could not 'seep' out thru the tire over time.
I wanted to ask, what if I have a flat, do you refill it with Nitrogen?
I wanted to ask, how do you drain all the air out of your new inventory?
I wanted to ask, isn't the air 70% Nitrogen?
Instead, struggling to keep a straight face, I asked, do you want to sell this car, or not. They did, so I got the Nitrogen 'Free'. :) Car dealers and their sales people always assume their customers are audiophiles.
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Nice Golson: I watch and listen to birds and squirrels most days. We have several bird baths in our yard. We have a large group of Blue Jays and a sizable number of Cardinals and many many pigeons. At dusk, the pigeons start cooing. They can keep it up for hours. Of course nature must have balance, so we also have our share of cats. They hang out under the bird baths. Everyone has to eat. Birdland -- Quincy Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uQMASvl3ACheers |
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rok I have been gradually collecting all of Dexter Gordon's releases on the Steeple Chase label which he recorded while living in Copenhagen and Paris for 14 years.
His output on the Black Lion label and Blue Note is very good also. "Biting the Apple" is the only SteepleChase I have. Cheers |
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