frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados From the very Wiki article you site:++++++++++++Lion first heard jazz as a young boy in Berlin. He settled in New York in 1937, and shortly after the first From Spirituals to Swing concert, recorded pianists Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis in 19... | |
| Jazz for aficionados As is usually the case, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Heads of jazz record labels tend to indeed be jazz lovers. Why else would someone start a jazz record label? Plenty of better and easier ways for entrepreneurs to make money... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, yes, a flat fee was often the case for players without a lot of clout. Some players were "taken advantage of"; some let themselves be taken advantage of.****they seem to prefer "junkys"****.Sorry, O-10, but that has got to be one of the mos... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You are wise to not draw any conclusions from one article, Alex. I would preface my comments (opinions) by pointing out that it was I who first mentioned Tina Brooks on this thread way back when, and then again more recently as one of the players... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Excellent! Will check him out. Thank you. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Maybe the piano player WANTED to teach. Not everyone is cut out to be a performer; a LOT of pressure. Maybe the organ player, had he gone to school, would have learned the importance of discipline; and, that may have kept him away from the bottl... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Range, Rok, range! 😔 As always, "there’s only two kinds of music.....(you know the rest).Actually, being the daughter of Johnny Copeland (Texas) means that she’s probably more from Texas than anything else; as far as her music genes go, anyway.Sto... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, to quote Rok himself in the Brubeck thread:****First, this is not an argument. It’s a discussion. ****A very good discussion in that thread, btw; of the kind that, frankly, I wish we had more of here. To quote Rok again (imagine that ☺️), "w... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I doubt it; a great instrument always helps. This is one of those situations where, in my opinion, it’s important to understand the context. I am not going to defend Stereophile; it is an audiophile magazine and we are concerned about music first.... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, you could well be correct about what that reviewer meant, after all it's impossible to tell from a couple of words taken out of context, regardless of what I hear re the instrument. I would be very interested in reading the entire review. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, re Mary Lou Williams:Not much room for a "professional critique" in those two cuts, really; especially "Mary Lou’s Blues". What I mean is that I am reminded of the movie "Ratatouille" in which the restaurant critic "critiques" a plate of rat... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Newbee, thanks for the recommendation. I had not heard this record eventhough I've been a fan of Haden and Rubalcaba for a long time. As you say, Haden was (!) a wonderful and extremely creative musician. Rubalcaba is an amazing virtuoso and on... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Perhaps something Freudian involved (not!), but I got the protagonists of my trombone joke backwards. Should be:Q: How do you make a French Horn sound like a trombone.A: Take your hand out of the bell and lose all sense of taste.☺️Another fave:De... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Q: How do you make a trombone sound like a French Horn?A: Take your hand out of the bell and lose all sense of taste.Q: What's the difference between a tenor saxophone and a lawnmower?A: You can tune a lawnmower.😊 | |
| Jazz for aficionados Carter/Hall: beautiful stuff; works indeed.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2olBE4C5_Gk |