Jazz for aficionados

Here we go again......

Ok I will try my best to help out with this ongoing trivial distraction which only takes away from the mostly positive experience of JFA.

First and foremost since when are jazz aficionados not allowed to have a difference of opinions. This is not 1938 Nazi Germany is it?????

That said I will attempt a resolution and address our OP first. I know you are a big Lee Morgan fan and aficionado of his talented trumpet playing. I agree that on the studio album Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers A Night In Tunisia here:   Acoustic Sounds Lee Morgan hits the high registers quite often and sounds great doing it. However it is highly possible that on the live version Morgan could have been  doped up, a little drunk, maybe a combination of both, maybe hungover or in need of a "fix" or maybe he was just plain exhausted that particular night. Any of the reasons I have stated could have effected his playing on his solo - THAT PARTICULAR RENDITION RECORDED LIVE THAT NIGHT.

frogman the studio solos on a lot of jazz albums are improvised just as in a live setting. Also live recording equipment in those days was sub par and may effect the end result. The reasons I gave O10 above certainly could have an effect on a musician. So yes your opinion that Morgan was unusually playing in the high register on that live recording and on THAT PARTICULAR RECORDING THAT NIGHT sounded "off" is not without merit.

YOU BOTH HAVE GOOD POINTS AND I RESPECT BOTH OPINIONS

Can we get back to posting JFA???????????

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pjw, I appreciate your effort at peace and equanimity, but I think the issue is not the differences of opinion and their relative merit, but the inability to have and express an opinion without the retort being abrasive and condescending.  Expressing the details of why one holds a particular opinion should be an opportunity to, if not learn, understand a different point of view.  Blanket dismissal of an opinion without offering any specific reasons why won’t hold water and is an opportunity lost because there is so much going on in this music.  For instance, you wrote:

**** frogman the studio solos on a lot of jazz albums are improvised just as in a live setting. ****

Of course.  I hope I didn’t write anything that caused you to think that I thought differently.  I said nothing of the sort.  So, wouldn’t it be best to be able to have a dialogue about the reasons why the disconnect may exist?  It does all go directly to the music.  I think so. 

I know you know that about improvised solos frogman. I was just playing Captain Obvious 

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