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| Jazz for aficionados Tyray, thanks for the Brazilian site. I'll check it out. I bought the Black Orpheus album when I was in high school in the early sixties. The film blew me away and then I went out and bought the album. I took it to college and played it all the ti... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, I think it's true for everybody that as we age our tastes tend to get frozen in time. I also try to resist this by going to concerts and hearing new things. I live in L.A., so there's plenty of music around. I also have granddaughters (tw... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman, I meant no disrespect to Wynton Marsalis. I have recordings of him playing both jazz and classical music. And I was very impressed with his knowledge of jazz when he was interviewed in Ken Burns' great series on Jazz. I'm an old guy and I... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Roots of jazz: for those discussing the roots of jazz, I think the U.S. and Brazil are two countries where jazz and pop emerged because they're such melting pots with so many roots. Early jazz had so many influences. Obviously the blues from slave... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, writing poetry was never difficult for me because I was bursting with something to say and I wanted very badly to say it. I studied with Gary Snyder and other notable poets, so I had a technical foundation. Once a poem burst out of me, l... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, very well said! I do understand how difficult all jazz is and the degree of study and musicality that is involved. And I am really glad that you mentioned the inner feminine. As a writer, it something I have to struggle to find within mys... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? Cey, I think you are right about smooth upper frequency extension, but I think there is something also to the way the musical notes sound on both uppers and mids. I'm not sure about bass. People love tube gear because it brings "bloom" to the soun... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? When talking about black backgrounds, this comes mostly from the electronics, black backgrounds are the result of lowered noise floor which results in higher resolution/transparency. With lowered noise floors we hear far more of the 'inner' detail... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? What wonderful responses! I thank you for them. I read an audio review recently (sorry, I'm 78 and I can't remember where I've heard various things) in which the reviewer said that he was tired of "accurate" speakers in which the sounds are too we... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, good question about intellect versus funk, or what I call raw emotion. What the poem is saying is that music doesn’t come from the intellect, it comes from the streets, and I include the feminine because it is often excluded from discussi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I forgot one of the best classic female jazz musicians of all time. Alice Coltrane. She flies very high in "Journey in Satchidananda" accompanied by Pharoah Sanders. | |
| Jazz for aficionados This conversation feels a bit stuffy to me. Why? I was a good chess player in high school. When I went off to college I looked for chess games. A whole bunch of guys were playing in the student union. But the question hit me immediately. Where are... | |
| Upgrade ....streamer or amp? I was streaming through my computer into a Chord Qutest which I thought sounded good for about $2K. I tried it out against several Chinese DACs a little lower in price, and I thought the Chinese DACs sounded... too digital. Crispy critters. I upg... | |
| There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area My listening room is 20'x15' with wooden floors (with an 8x12 carpet) and windows. What I don't want are woofers that are so powerful they rattle my windows and shake my floors, adding bass distortions. I have a pair of Sonus Faber Olympica Nova ... | |
| Shakti Stone I was given a Shakti Stone as a present from someone I helped to get hired for a job as a software engineer. I kept it for several years moving it here and there, trying to locate the power source on components so that I could put it on top. I hea... |