Jazz for aficionados

That’s pretty funny.  Btw, as hard as you may try, you sir are NOT part of the great unwashed 😊

Fabulous Schubert/Schiff!  Thank you.  
 

What do you think of this? :

Of course you did, was being a top musician not part of how you  feel ?

Oh , going to Oprea ,  what I would fight for there  is Bjorling and Victoria de los Angles in Butterfly . They moved me more than anything in music I ever heard!

Two Greats, Bjorling sang in perfection of her voice , impossible but he did it, He did it, sure effected in other parts of my life .

perfection 

Well, Frogman--to start the Schiff clip was the best I’ve seen on You Tube .

Big deal when you see fingers like that and eyes are come into the game .

I mus have 30 Perahia CD’s of Schubert , great Schubert man for sure .

BUT , I don’t know if that clip is before or after the heroic fight with his illness.

BUT , just what I hear is not making the super highlights  of Schiff either up or down,LIKE A STREAM, !!         

Still Perahia is better than most.

WithSchiff. When I thought what is he doing,in a mili-second I found out OMG style!

BUT , again Perahia would have to get the same clip. I have nothing but respect for him, Ears and Heart .

We may, but Jazz doesn’t like boxes.

Frogman you are very right about Jazz.... There is no best...Only our favorite for a specific musical jazz "idiom"...The more i learned about jazz the more my preference have evolved too...

It is also true about classical interpretations, here too our "best" is less an expression of "the" best there is than a reflection about ourself...

But when all that is said, in a written musical idiom like classical language , some creators emerge out of the crowd...

For me my favorite is Bach( the best 😁😊) and in a less evident way for the rest of the people, i favor Scriabin i put on par with all others geniuses i loved too ....

I was very moved when i learned that one of the greatest and purest interpreter of classical Indian music on the sarod, Ali Akbar Khan, own a Bach portrait and admire him dearly...

There is no best, save Bach, even Chopin thought so and he borrow a lot from Bach in his music.... 😁😊

I apologize for my Bach cult bordering on completely subjective preference, but i am not alone by far....

In jazz i have to many favorite now to enumerate them...

For example i like Bill Evans very dearly but what About the great Oscar Peterson and many others ?

I think i am able to love all jazz musicians for what they are: pure musician in a quest for their own freedom....

Jazz is not inferior to classical neither to Indian music neither to any musical style....

Jazz is spiritual freedom too....

It liberate me from my prejudices and ignorance about music....

Music cannot be superior to his musicians... This is a jazz lesson....

In a way Bach is not superior to Bill Evans...Why?

Because Evans will teach something to Bach himself....

Bach learned from all great composers of his time, he admired Vivaldi and Corelli or Buxtehude and copy them by hand with devotion....

He was humble, even if he know his own trade to the minute, like great mathematicians and craftsman are because they worked all day without rest...Like are jazzman like Sun Ra who played 7 /7 almost 24/24 all his life...I admire him too... But his albums collections is too vast to be listened to for me right now (100 albums officially).... 😁😊