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| Jazz for aficionados mahgister, first of all I think it is so cool you've read Richard Tarnas. And you are right, he did not talk about things in terms of masculine and feminine. That is why what I'm doing is so difficult. Nobody has really broken down our history by ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados acman3, it has taken me years of working on a book to try to get across my ideas on the Feminine Creative Spirit. I don't know how much you know about physics, but there is a concept called entropy. Basically, it says that forms will eventually di... | |
| Jazz for aficionados frogman, so funny that you're hip to the violist jokes. At the L.A. Phil we had a lead violist named Carrie Dennis. She must have been one of the best violists in the world. In her twenties she was chosen as the L.A. Phil's lead violist but she we... | |
| What type of speaker would sound better? I would say a high-end two way, especially if it has a decent sized woofer that can push a fair amount of air. I think, however, that you might want to add a few other variables. What kind of music do you listen to? How loud do you usually play it... | |
| Jazz for aficionados curiousjim, I like Sharel Cassidy. I'll stream one of her albums. | |
| Jazz for aficionados frogman, BTW, I have a number of Beethoven's string quartets on vinyl. His last ones sound as though they were written in the 20th century. I have no idea how he was able to make those musical leaps. I heard one of his early piano sonatas played l... | |
| Jazz for aficionados frogman, thank you for the long post responding to my various posts. You have more of an understanding of the structure of music and a vocabulary to discuss it than I ever will. I think that also helps with an appreciation of music, but I’ve loved... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, let me elaborate just a bit on the feminine angle. On Melissa Aldana's last album "12 Stars," the Chilean sax player has a song she wrote called "Emilia." Aldana is 36, a woman of childbearing age. When she played the song, she explained ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados curiousjim, thanks. I'm always looking for something different. Mediterranean sounds good. I often go to the Absolute Sound music reviews. That's where I found out about Lizz Wright's new recording "Holding Space." You can only stream it, though. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, I don't think their art/music has to do with their personalities. I could use actors as a comparison. Personally, some actors are quite modest while others like to fill a room full of people at a party. On stage, they all must "swagger," ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I'm listening to Randy Weston. Like him a lot. I rewatched the first episode of the documenatary "Jazz" last night. Wynton Maralis was their go-to man on the origins of Jazz in New Orleans. The first part went from slavery in the early 1800's up ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I think it was frogman who asked me why I said men swagger with their shoulders and women swagger with their hips. It is because jazz is about swagger, and I was saying that women express themselves artistically differently than men. This differen... | |
| Jazz for aficionados maghister, wharfy, I think I understand the concept of a musical gesture. The musical impulse must begin in a human who then has to embody that internal gesture into music, poetry, dance, etc. I think, however, that you are talking about music wit... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, sorry for my tirade. I have to admit that I felt insulted by what you said. I have mentioned how many live jazz concerts I have attended. How would it be possible for me to see so many live jazz concerts and not know what improvisation is... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, you're not understanding me at all. When I hear a jazz group I can hear what is planned and when a musician goes into improvisation. That's a no brainer. Coltrane on "My Favorite Things" plays with his band the setup going through the mel... |