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| 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... | |
| Jazz for aficionados stuartk, I don't define jazz vocals as scatting. Billy Holiday does not scat on the records I have by her. I think where we're diverging is that I like to be lost. I like to pose questions I can't answer, and I don't feel the need to know the ans... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? thom_oz, I also have floor standing Sonus Fabers and they weren’t cheap, either, but I stayed in the Olympica Nova range. Doublte that price was too steep for me. Okay, so I know that Diana Krall is mostly shunned on the jazz thread, but her CDs ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I went to hear Kurt Elling sing last year. He uses his voice as a jazz instrument. I knew it was true jazz because my wife couldn't stand it. | |
| Jazz for aficionados mahgister, thanks for the music! stuartk, I have a lot of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, and Billie Holiday albums. They often don't improvise except in the way they interpret songs, like Frank Sinatra. No doubt, Fitzergerald can scat with the be... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I'm listening to the Belgian musician Toots Thielemans, the preeminent jazz harmonica player. "The Soul of Toots Thielemans" if you want to stream it for a taste. | |
| Jazz for aficionados acman3, thanks for finding that article. That's what I was talking about when I said other musicians regard him highly. On the level of Billie Holiday! High praise. mahgister, on the topic of Persian singers I have a story. I was a pretty wild yo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados curiousjim, glad I could get your toes tapping! stuartk, the reason I mentioned Sinatra was because many musicians and singers have called him a genius. He lost his voice early on in his career, I think when he was in his twenties. Early Sinatra ... |