frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados Rok, must you? How many great players have been posted here over the last few months for the first time; often with wonderment as to why they weren’t posted previously? What on earth does that have to do with anything? Surely, you can come up with... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, a very friendly suggestion: be confident with and comfortable in what you believe to be the truth and move on. Btw, as nsp recently pointed out a great deal of new Jazz was posted while you were away. Check it out. From me over just the l... | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, all I have to say is, thank God for Jazz fans like you.Answer to your question: Miles | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://youtu.be/mxQ-Ltfs9ds | |
| Jazz for aficionados With respect, you’re twisting some of what I wrote. First, I did not say Wynton is not significant. He is very significant (“Fabulous legacy”). He is insignificant as far as being part of where Jazz has been going for quite some time. His stu... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Refresh my memory, please. What was that quote again? Worse case, Big Brother will delete it again. It was a good post. | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** But without the well-spring of live music it all means nothing .You have to drink from the well to placate your thirst .****That is exactly right.**** The Jazz you are speaking of is gone. Gone. ****That is exactly not right. The problem i... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Indeed a crime, Schubert. Strassmeyer is very fine; and you’re right, being a good doubler is a requirement for membership in a band with a repertoire like theirs which runs the gamut. Speaking of Frank Wess, Maria Schneider, doubling and new Jazz... | |
| Jazz for aficionados The opposite of bombastic. Classic Neal Hefti big band chart:https://youtu.be/5_Mtgo9WOL0Even more relaxed tempo. Of all the renditions of this chart that I’ve heard, my favorite. The great Frank Wess leads a Basie alumni band. Fabulous instrumen... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Monster drummer! One of my faves and member one of my favorite quartets in recent times:https://youtu.be/dy0Kalb617whttps://youtu.be/Wem-GMT9NYALittle known fact, he also plays trumpet. He and Michael B. switch horns; Peterson on trumpet and Breck... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Beautiful Lester Young, pjw; thanks. Re Buddy:You make an interesting point about Buddy Rich as a sideman and you may be right that those are his best recordings. However, I’m not sure that I agree that he didn’t hire great players. I know a lot o... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Nah! I don’t compete that way. The glee will come when you see the light and stop being a Africa-connection denier. Besides, I am in the process of downscaling my system for something simpler and that doesn’t require the push of seven (!) “on” ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados MBL:Heard them at a show a few years ago. They sound amazing....if everything else in the chain is also great. Hate to break it to you, they sound better than your Polks. Btw, just bought a pair of Polk Atrium outdoor speakers. Impressive for $99. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Jazz:/Schuller:About as good an attempt at defining it as has ever been written; and classic. It answers Rok’s question perfectly; although there is at least one aspectof it that will see disagreement 😊. Thanks for that. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Jazz musicians have always loved comedians. No relative importance implied, but when all is said and done there are a lot more similarities than differences between a great comedian and a great jazz musician. The really good ones use inspiration, ... |