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| Jazz for aficionados That’s a good observation and accurate. It is part of the “set up” for the entrance of the soloist, whether it be vocal or instrumental. What does our resident Grant Green-phile think of this? https://youtu.be/2yZXafHQiIA | |
| Jazz for aficionados This one is for our OP, O-10. One of the first tunes by Gato that I heard way back when. Great feel in the rhythm section: https://youtu.be/vRsxDN2YLQM | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok,**** A person sits in front of a stereo system and listens to a tune he has never heard before. He does not know the group playing. He has no prior knowledge of any aspect of the music he is about to hear.Can a person tell just from how the mu... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Mary_jo and the reason that, as a relative of mine always says, the world would be a better place if more women were in positions of power.Excellent post, Mary_jo. That anecdote on “Bolero” is wonderful; and completely true. More on the great Budd... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Glad you posted some Rudresh Hamanthappa. I didn’t want to comment on jpw’s clips before O-10 did since he had just promised to do so. Just being cautious 🤫; one never knows 😊.Astounding! I can’t believe I hadn’t heard this guy before. Total ease ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You have an amazing record collection, pjw. Congrats. Great Buddy Rich clip. Amazing drummer. More Buddy; with the great Tonight Show Band (Lew Tabackin on tenor!):https://youtu.be/2-yQWPanTyw | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, Buddy’s ranting and raving is the stuff of legend among musicians. I know many players who played in his various bands over the years including the pianist responsible for making that infamous tour bus recording. The stories are incredible; s... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** Frogman, what you call good jazz and what I call good jazz are two different things. Can we agree on that? ****Absolutely not. You have posted many things that I consider good jazz and others have also posted many things that both you and I h... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** If jazz is moving so freely forward, why are you submitting so much jazz from the past? Why aren’t you submitting jazz from 2010 at least ****O-10, because you brought up the subject of “free jazz” and, based on your post it seemed to me that... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Pharaoh Sanders, “The Creator Has a Master Plan”. Amazing! Thanks.What other hat wearing tenor player had a tenor tone later in his career almost exactly like Pharoah’s? Both came up in the “free jazz” scene around the same time (mid-late ‘60s)... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Jazz is never stuck. Whether we can unstick ourselves to understand, appreciate, or like where it has gone is another matter. There is a big gulf between today’s Jazz (modern, by definition) and “free” jazz. The great majority of today’s jazz is ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Very nice player, Oliver Jones. Nice clips. Student of Oscar Peterson and shows it. He doesn’t quite reach the amazing technical command of Peterson, but who does? Lighter touch and not quite as rhythmically assertive as Peterson, but brings a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** what do you know about Joe Wilder ****Wonderful trumpet player. I have heard many Joe Wilder stories and references from musicians in NYC of that generation (many no longer with us) and who worked with him; he was a fixture in the NYC scene. ... | |
| Saxaphone vs. Trumpet...Which do you prefer? https://youtu.be/_KjlS7in-3c | |
| Jazz for aficionados Pjw, thanks for the James Carter recommendation. Looked for it on the Tube; not there yet. I look forward to hearing it.For me, one of the all-time greatest instrumental pairings in Jazz was the collaboration between Bill Evans and Stan Getz. To... |