frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados mary_jo, I am duly impressed. Few people even know of the existence of the slide saxophone. A relic and curiosity, but a real (and strange) instrument.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bPz85Ie2CdM”The man with the funny little horn”. My wife has us... | |
| Jazz for aficionados No Bird, no Trane??? Interesting question. However, I have a hunch it wouldn’t be all that different except for the “sounds”. Conceptually, the instruments are just a means to an end; which is why I am always a little bewildered when some liste... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, that Cab Calloway clip is unbelievable! No words to describe how good the Nicholas Bros were. Thanks for that! Amazing dancing all the way around with great and tasteful choreography and the band sound fantastic. Just great! A humorus foo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Oh, I get it! West Adams, LA; not Adam(s) West (Batman). You heard Roland Kirk in 1965. Good for you. I’m jealous; never had that privilege. Amazing player. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Wow! And I thought I was pretty good at being purposely cryptic. Thanks for quoting me ps, but you’ll have to explain this one to me. 🤔 | |
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| Jazz for aficionados Food for thought:If “there is no past”, how can there be a future? So...why the “doom and gloom”?VERY nice alto player in that Wynton clip; very inventive. I enjoyed that clip. Thanks. Now, I hope this is not taken the wrong way and I hope it ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks for the clips, O-10. Nice Billie. You may find this interesting:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_VodouFrom that article:*** Today, Vodou is practiced not only by Haitians but by Americans and people of many other nations who have b... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks for the excellent clips, mary_jo; two great artists. That Turrentine recording is one of my favorites from one of my favorite tenor players. He had a wonderful way of telling a story with his solos; great tenor sound. As you say, it is i... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Sorry if this disappoints. It was I who deleted my own post. In my haste I misread pryso’s post. I thought, at first, that his “aficionado challenge” was to be able to identify a band....any band....not just the one in his link. I had responde... | |
| Jazz for aficionados mary_jo, I have gotten to know a bit about your beautiful country by way of a wonderful young lady who was my youngest son’s babysitter for many years. She and her family immigrated to the USA and were our neighbors for many years and my family wa... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Since the door of judgment re what determines worthiness to be called a true jazz aficionado has been flung wide open, I will walk right in. More than anything, and short of total unlistenability, should be the ability to listen to and at least a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, well that was certainly a less complicated answer....”Yes”. I still think she’s a Buddhist. Buddhism, Zen; you know...that stuff 🤔 | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** To what, does ’The Sound of Red’ refer. ****Rok, I don’t know this for a fact, but I would bet that Renee Marie is a Buddhist. In Buddhism there is a concept called “chakra”. A chakra is believed to be an “energy center” in the body; there ar... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** I think I should have been more silent... ****No!!! Not at all. mary_jo, as you are finding folks here are very passionate about music and it’s history and sometimes stubborn with our opinions. It is one of the beauties of great art that it i... |