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| exceptional voices of female singers (non-classical) https://youtu.be/QBmrDS2Zhawhttps://youtu.be/PjFoQxjgbrs | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, a couple of things that you may find interesting about the brilliant Fred Hersch. First, there is not a single one of his ten plus records that is not worth hearing. In 2008 he was in a pneumonia induced coma. When he came out of the coma... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Excellent clips, acman3. Sonny Rollins “A Night At The Vanguard” is a classic. Amazing player with one of the most powerful sense of rhythm of any jazz player. I am always amazed at the way that he becomes the rhythmic focal point. Instead of the ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, thanks for your response. For the sake of hopefully interesting discussion:What makes you think that Cuber was imitating Adams? He was not. He was improvising around the music AS WRITTEN by Mingus bringing his own style to it. He sounded ver... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, my intention was not to make an assessment about your musical tastes. I think you may have misinterpreted what I wrote. My point was that, if anything, some jazz fans don’t go back far enough in time; or look to the future. Not quite sure wh... | |
| Jazz for aficionados pryso, excellent account of the music and the players at the Mingus Dynasty concert. I agree with you about Cruz. Fantastic drummer. If you like modern jazz with a dose of Latin check out his work with pianist Danilo Perez; excellent. Interest... | |
| Jazz for aficionados pryso, I do indeed know most of those guys; some of the top young (ish) jazz players in NYC. Terrific players. For some perspective, and certainly not to take anything away from any of them, but simply to highlight the following point: an ongoing ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://youtu.be/THy13jLwR64 | |
| Jazz for aficionados Great Lorez Alexandria clips, O-10; wonderful singer. Have you heard these?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5LbY2EANfe4https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0MG1dY-A9EcBtw, Lorez Alexandria recorded two lps with King Fleming. Can’t find them on YouTube. | |
| Jazz for aficionados You are quite right, mary_jo, I agree with what Alex is saying. The only thing I would disagree with is that I don’t believe for one second that jazz will be forgotten. It will always be here. Different; it always changes. The reason it sometimes ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados mary_jo, thanks for your comments.**** It is as if you are saying: If the unknown one had been good enough (meaning great), we would have heard about him for sure. ****Well, that is exactly what I am saying. Now, to be clear, we are talking about... | |
| Jazz for aficionados mary_jo, I don’t disagree with anything you wrote and I don’t see where there is any real disagreement between our respective general positions on this based on what we have written. On a general scale, the big picture, history speaks for itself.... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I don’t think we even need to go to the issue of the popularity of jazz relative to other genres. First, many ( most) of the artists we are talking about predate R&R and were active when jazz was, in fact, a popular genre. Those “top ten under... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Some thoughts on the subject of the “forgotten” or “undiscovered” musician:I think that there is at least some truth in just about every comment so far re the reasons why some players remain obscure; but not every reason cited is relevant to what ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Killer bebop session and definitely a must-have record. One of the best and a testament to Stan Getz’ greatness; he could do it all. The story behind the title has nothing to do with any kind of distinction between musician and listener. Rather... |