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| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk, I must have gotten confused. There is a lot going on with my qobuz screen. I'll check it out again. I liked what I heard. Here is a juneteenth offering of Pharoah Sanders on sax with Leon Thomas singing. To me, this is spiritual music. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray, sorry if I had any part in triggering you. It is true that I had no idea what the word meant. I find all words interesting, especially ones that uncover hidden sentiments within a culture. But there are words that trigger me too, and I wou... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray, interesting about the colloquial usage of the Brazilian N-word. I would never have an occasion to use it except talking about that song. Kind of like you have to be careful about which tense of kissing you use in French. Did you listen tot... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk, I found out that Femina is a song on "Natureza," and I'm enjoying it a lot. Here is the song by Wando, "Nega De Obaluae," that got me into Brazilian music. I heard a cover at a bar in Santa Cruz and I had to, had to dance. No keeping me ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuark, I don't listen much beyond 80db. Every now and then a song will push me into the mid 80s, but I watch it, too. I kind of blew my right ear sitting next to a speaker at a Delany and Bonnie concert many years ago. I now wear a hearing aid i... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray, I have an album I'd all but forgotten about called "Mosaico" with Jorge Strunz, Ardeshir Farah, and L. Subramaniam" that you reminded me of. I'm about to play it. I can't remember it, but it must have impressed me when I bought it. | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk, @tyray, I have loved music all of my life, back into elementary school. I have listened and enjoyed music on early transistor radios with little plastic ear pieces. I have always had a stereo, but for many years they were pretty cheap. I... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray, I get you on various people's audio gear. I do try to keep down my references to equipment. But some things you just can't get unless you can kick up the volume. I made reference to myself not being able to listen to Jorge Ben properly bec... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk, @tyray, the Flor Purim album I come back to again and again is "Encounter." I don't think it can be appreciated over computer speakers. I need to play it loud. I bought it when I was buying a lot of Flora Purim albums and for years it wa... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim, I have been pulling out a bunch of Brazilian CDs I forgot I had. I'm now listening to Selma Reis and Maris Monte. I listened to Jorge Ben yesterday, but my wife was home and I couldn't blast it, the way I think it needed to be. The re... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray, I have a Jorge Ben album (Personalidade) from Brazil I haven't played in God knows how long. Maybe twenty years. Maybe more. I'll have to pull it out and listen. | |
| Why the huge increase in the price of Sonus Farber Amanti G5 speakers. I purchased my Sonus Faber Olympica Nova V speakers about eight months ago, before the Trump tarrifs. When I looked at reviews, everyone said that they cost $16,500. Yet all the dealers I could find were selling them at $18,000. Clearly, the speak... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim, @tyray, I haven't been playing CDs since forever until I started contributing to this forum. Much of my jazz is on CD, SACD, and DVD Audio. I have a twenty-year-old McCormack multi-disk player and run it through my Moon 280 D Streamer... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray, I think you are much more of a musical scholar than I am. I am more of a joyous listener, unapologetically listening to whatever pleases me. Van Morrison is often on my turntable. I went to a Robyn concert by accident and now I’m a fan of ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @alexatpos, a bit of a sidestep into the "classical" world, but staying in Brazil. Hector VillaLobos was a Brazillian street musician as well as Brazil's most famous classical composer. His Preludes for guitar have all of the duende of the streets... |