frogman
Responses from frogman
| Jazz for aficionados I’m not sure I understand what the problem is and certainly don’t understand why there has to be any negativity or sarcasm around the sharing of ideas about this great music. I would hope that the value in attempting to create an accurate picture ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, your post of the great “Bag’s Groove” is a great example of how confusing things get with reissues of earlier records and confusion about lineups. The album cover accompanying your great clips is of the reissue album titled “Bag’s Groove” whi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://youtu.be/0VkrUG3OrPc | |
| Jazz for aficionados Catching up on recent posts. Great clips all. Thanks! And, welcome new contributors climt and vanya_42nd; looking forward to your posts and clips.pjw, I particularly liked Dexter’s “Tanya” and I agree that his solo is a masterpiece. One of my very... | |
| Jazz for aficionados How sad that the level of insecurity and emotional reliance on being “top dog” (to use his term) is so high that it can cause an individual to stoop to such a level of negativity and condescension. Instead of, at least, simple respect for a differ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://youtu.be/PBLd64VlezQhttps://youtu.be/xPu2hrzKzD8https://youtu.be/04IfOBFFD_4 | |
| Jazz for aficionados There is a scene in what is possibly the greatest American musical theater piece ever composed, West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim) and which is really the story of Romeo and Juliet in a modern urban setting, in which Maria and An... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** , but it is interesting in that he is saying something and you can’t listen to this as "" background ". It is a conversation .And one you don’t want to walk away from . Even if you don’t know the language .****And that is why Schubert shouldn... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Nice move, O-10. Go for the unwarranted, baseless and petty personal attack; that’s a mature and reasonable approach for sure. Now, even if your criticism were true (it is far from true), this is a music thread, no? So, what’s the problem?In ans... | |
| Jazz for aficionados It never fails to lead to this. Been saying it for a long time. Schubert, I hope you reconsider. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Coleman sounds amazing on the live in Paris. Thanks for that. Interesting and unusual take on Round Midnight and appropriate that he quotes “Freedom Jazz Dance” (1:20). Awesome player. | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, you asked for my thoughts on Steve Coleman. First, I should point out that I live in Brooklyn. I’m sure you are aware of the Brooklyn based M-Base Collective which Steve Coleman co-founded. Very interesting collective of extremely creative yo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados It’s coming, pjw. The KOB comment required practically no thought at all; a good thing. For now, I like Coleman very much. | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** I’ll never know why Kind of Blue gets all the credit.*****Because besides be a fantastic record with great playing as well as having “good tunes and is laid back” (mostly laid back) in the overall context of Jazz it ushered in, among other t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, be glad to. Give me a day or so; very busy time. |