Jazz for aficionados
@orpheus10 about 12-13 years ago i saw dianne reeves at the san fran herbst theatre, sat in 6 th row... at the end of the concert, she came back on for a second encore, with only acoustic guitarist, sang two songs without microphone, just natural sound in a moderate concert hall space i will NEVER forget the sound of her voice and the guitar, what it sounded like when she sang soft, then loud, what the growth of the sound wave sounds like, what sounds of 'fff' 'sss' 'ttt' sound like when sung... when i listen to any equipment/hifi now. this is one of the moments/sounds i refer to... to evaluate if something has the correct tonality, pitch, overall conveyance of the music |
speaking of creed taylor, tonight i listened again to george benson’s weekend in la -- on it there is one track from his cti days -- ’ode to kudu’ i invite you to listen to that one on ’weekend in la’, then go back to hear the original track of that song (and a beautiful alternate take) on the early cti release of george benson’s ’beyond the blue horizon’ 1971 some of the best benson, and best jazz you will ever hear, imho just brilliant, and utterly beautiful... |
at sfjazz center, where i recently attended a couple of shows, they no longer check for vax status, nor are masks required that said. masks are offered at every entrance for those that want them to wear during the performance performers on stage do not mask (they never did, even earlier in the pandemic when audience vax status was being checked)... the venue is very large, recently built, has an excellent hvac system with presumably modern levels of air filtration |
a warm hearted suggestion for jazz music lovers the new joey alexander release, called ’origin’ is fantastic... chris potter on sax and wonderful israeli guitarist gilad hekselman etc etc https://joeyalexandermusic.net/ lovely lovely mature sophisticated beautiful music from a quickly maturing prodigy... very high quality recording too enjoy! |
