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| Jazz for aficionados Excellent!Pretty good faking by Newman (actual tenor by the great Paul Gonsalves):https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UKGev0mYlvc | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, did you see this?:https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/4193584?ev=rbIn the meantime:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Pj9-3DDTchttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxRz1JjhYchttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=czW55U8-3mYhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iQO4n... | |
| Grado Stylus Upgrade pryso, I went through almost every “Signature” Grado back in the day. I suppose the 8MX could be considered an “earlier version of the 8MZ” and it did precede the 8MZ. However, as I recall there was a fairly significant uptick in overall sound qua... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Man, talk about straw man arguments (to use a popular phrase of yours); they abound in this discussion. To reiterate what pryso pointed out, no one has claimed that KOB is the best ever; only that some here prefer it over SE. Would be so much mo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Nice! | |
| Jazz for aficionados Yes! John Park on “Street Of Dreams” is amazing. I can’t believe I had never heard that cut. Just great. What a fantastic player! Thanks for that. pryso, excellent post. “like an onion”; I like that and very apt. Why KOB remains popular is, for me... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Happy Holiday, everyone!Thanks for the link acman3. And great Stitt clip; nice segue to the Cosby bit! Notice how toward the end of his comedy bit Bill Cosby sings “Cherokee” in the same key (the original key) that Sonny Stitt plays it in. Very ha... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Fitting for pjw’s post. Awkward to post this for reasons that should be obvious, but still one of the funniest bits:https://youtu.be/1Zn-P0ZH3_M | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, this is a little like the “what is West Coast Jazz and what is East Coast Jazz” issue in that there is a lot more nuance to the situation than is taken into account when discussing it. Miles was already someone of tremendous stature (and tre... | |
| Jazz for aficionados pryso, you’re exactly right re “Somethin’ Else”. That record has long been considered by some to really be a Miles session. There was a debate here a while back about the relative merits of it vs KOB. SE is a great record with a lot of fantastic p... | |
| Jazz for aficionados nsp, your observations about the two versions of “Everything Happens To Me” are very good. As concerns the arrangements, instrumentation, form and general feel they are very accurate and I agree. My one correction would be that it is actually si... | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, enjoyed the story re Lou Donalson. And like his playing a lot. Nice clip with the little talked about Tommy Turrentine, brother of Stanley. I like the other alto player you met that night also:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nq73hVJ3Rfshttps... | |
| Jazz for aficionados nsp, good question re Art Pepper since, as you say, he played in Kenton’s band. I didn’t read that factoid about his reading skills anywhere. I heard about it from an old friend, Joel Kaye who played saxophone in Kenton’s band in the early 60’s an... | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, you asked what I thought of Ginger Baker playing jazz. Like you, I have always thought that Baker is a great drummer and I concur about the supergroup Cream; fantastic and epochal music. I have loved the group and Baker since my high school y... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Sure! Glad to 😊. Will get back to you a little later. |