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| Jazz for aficionados | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, that Joe Morello clip is outstanding. Being a rather casual listener of Dave Brubeck’s music I confess that I did not have enough appreciation for Joe Morello’s playing. I’ve always thought he was great, but I didn’t realize that he was GREAT... | |
| Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet He is clearly very passionate about music, “listen(s) to everything” (all genres), has a subscription to the NY Philharmonic, is very funny, doesn’t care that his listening room looks a mess and is not afraid to make a joke about offering a good r... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? But, tylermunns, the same can be said of practically every instrumentalist that played this music. So, you’re saying that all those great instrumentalists that played, for instance, “All The Things You Are” were not playing Jazz at all? That all... | |
| VPI Scout 1.1 parts to upgrade HW~19 A couple of corrections/additions to bdp’s VPI treatise: -As yogiboy points out, the 19 MK 3 did have a stainless steel sub plinth. The MK 4 bearing did not require modification of the plinth to accommodate the bearing well/housing. This bearing ... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? skyscraper, you may like this one: | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? Good recommendations by tablejockey. It’s interesting that the distinction is being made re “song book” material as concerns both Ella and Billie. The fact is that most of the material recorded by Billie is in fact, and like Ella’s…….also part of... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? tylermunns, that is a terribly narrow definition of what a Jazz singer is; and one that I could not disagree with more. Of the singers you mention, I may grant you Sinatra……maybe. However, Ellla, Vaughn not Jazz singers?! Ella Fitzgerald, with ... | |
| VPI Scout 1.1 parts to upgrade HW~19 If you are buying a full Scout, make sure you first listen to it before cannibalizing its platter for use on the 19. You may still like the 19 better. I am curious as to why you would want to buy a Scout with the express purpose of using only it... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? Goes without saying, sls141, but the problem is that technique is equated by some to mean absence of feeling. Why? Technique in the “hands” of a great artist opens possibilities of expression not available to an artist with limited technique. No... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? Excellent post, stuartk. You wrote much of what I was about to write. You are exactly correct re the role of listener bias. For me an even more interesting question is why, when considering artists in the admittedly very small group at the very to... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? Exactly! | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? |