frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados | |
| Jazz for aficionados Good to see Charlie Mariano get some love. Great player and a favorite alto player. Some of my favorite Mariano is as a side man with the great Elvin Jones. I confess to having to make an adjustment in my head (ears) to get used to his idiosyncra... | |
| Halcro - audiogon member @dover So sorry to hear! Very sad news. I second @noromance ‘s comment, a true gentleman. Best wishes to his family. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Oh yeah, great tenor player too: | |
| Jazz for aficionados Or Classical: | |
| Jazz for aficionados Beautiful clarinet tone. Whether Jazz: | |
| Jazz for aficionados | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** I’m not sure there is a bad Eddie Daniel’s album. Clarinet or Sax, always a good performance. **** There isn’t! Eddie is the greatest ever “woodwind doubler”. Hero to woodwind players in the NYC scene. He achieved a level of mastery that is ... | |
| Kind of Blue Fantastic musician, Pat Martino who had one of the most interesting personal life stories. Thanks mahgister! | |
| Kind of Blue Yes, but rarely, if ever, does one hear music (Jazz) with even nearly this level of sophistication of execution and sense of purpose at a wedding or hotel lobby. A recording such as KOB takes on special meaning in the context of the evolution of J... | |
| Changes to Orchestra tuning. As you know, it is standard practice for the concert master (1st violin) to enter the stage shortly before the conductor does. He then signals to the oboe to give the “A” . He usually remains standing while the orchestra tunes to that “A”. Usua... | |
| Kind of Blue **** I see the act of describing a “genre” (and the subsequent stringent segregation and put-everything-in-a-box attitude) as being useful only to a person for whom doing so helps them maximize their profits (corporate marketing execs, radio stati... | |
| Changes to Orchestra tuning. @simao , long standing tradition due to the oboe’s piercing tone which can be clearly heard and the fact that the oboe does not have an easy way to adjust its own pitch, unlike other instruments which have tuning slides or parts that can be adjust... | |
| Kind of Blue @whart , great article. Great record. Thanks. | |
| Changes to Orchestra tuning. Yes. Don’t know what orchestra concerts you have attended, but the oboe always gives the tuning reference in an orchestra. The oboe sometimes gives two tuning “A440-445”s (or whatever). One for the winds and then one for the strings. When it... |