frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados Abbey Lincoln. Great record. Getz sounds fabulous; beautiful story telling. “Bird Alone” is a gem. I posted this record a couple of times previously and glad to hear it again. A little factoid: Max Roach and Abbey are husband and wife.This followe... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** I though this was the new Art Blakey album ****It is, pjw. Don’t be a stranger. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Worth getting if only for the players on it (Morgan). Some pretty good reaction, but I’m not aware of “everyone going gaga over it” at all. For whatever it may be worth to anyone, my post on a recent and different thread about this release:Always ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Actually, he did worse (better?) than that. He referred to bebop as “Chinese music”. Talk about politically incorrect. I know exactly what he meant.Good catch on the tempo relaxing toward the end. 2:00 AM, last take of the night, rough night the d... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Pretty good piano player. Needs a better drummer; way too heavy handed and plodding for the way she’s playing the tune. Almost ruins it for her. The bass player keeps pretty good time, but the soloing is a good example of why some people hate bas... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Won’t wonders ever cease?! O-10, I agree with you word for word on Abbey Lincoln. Except for the studio/live part. The studio always benefits those with lesser vocal instruments; hence the expression “We can fix it in the mix”. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Some political views; thank you 🙄Speaking of nuance, remember it is not just between Rok and I; it is between the whole of the Jazz community and Rok (and O-10, sometimes, mostly, when he needs Rok’s approval 😊). He, of course, knows better than ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Oh, I know exactly where he’s coming from. I wish I didn’t; I hate to witness willful ignorance. | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** Black folks, the Most American of all people in this country.****And there you have it. Explains everything. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Re Wynton and the supposed “Americanization” of Jazz. First, Jazz needs no “Americanization”. The melting pot concept goes to the very core of what America is about. No surprise, but that is the precise opposite of what his message is. He has far ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** Can any one tell me how swing sounds like "Bop"? ****Sure. However, I think a better question is “how does Bop sound like Swing?”. A subtle, but important distinction. With respect, those are not particularly good examples to make the point. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** Also, I do not beleive that anybody would consider jazz to be less significant because its creators have been influenced or exposed to other styles of music which they incorporated to that new sound.Why is that even an issue?****Excellent poi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** In documentary Wynton talks about history of music and jazz and he says ’this led to that’ and so on (’there was swing, than came the bop’, etc)So, if we follow that line, it looks quite logical, even the musical examples are making sense, it... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Obfuscation by way of a torrent of irrelevant data and presumptions.Isn’t it interesting how sometimes a person hears only what they want to hear. An interview over one hour long with one passing reference (with interesting factual example) to an ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex,Actually, in my 45 years as a professional musician, Rok is the only person (O-10, sometimes, not so much other times) that I have ever encountered that so adamantly contests what is universally accepted as how Jazz came to be; a melting pot ... |