frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados Funny, I search "Best Classical Composers" (not that I needed to) and he comes up in just about every list; and in the top 10-15 every time. Hmmmm, indeed. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Interesting questions, Newbee. Pretty well established that "European Jazz" owes mostly to American Jazz. Of course, with its own European flavor throw in; much to the dismay of some purists. "Shadow Dances": As you say, great Grammy nominated ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, I realize that this stuff is very difficult for you to grasp, but there existed a European Classical music tradition long before any European set foot on African soil. It can be said, however, that there also would be no jazz without your lo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados He was one of the acknowledged greats on the alto saxophone. Unfortunately, Phil Woods was hugely unrecognized as a composer and arranger. This is a gem of a record in a genre not talked about much here, the "small big band"; or, octet in this cas... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****The most interesting thing about this music is that the composer considered it Jazz. This begs the question, where did he get his concept of Jazz? Not from Pops I would wager. This says a lot about what we talk about often on this thread i.e... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, you have made some extremely thoughtful and open-minded posts recently. You addressed many of the issues which have been the source of contention on this thread, and I find it impressive that you did it while, at the same time, acknowledging... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Mel Lewis (d), Jim McNeely (p), John Lockwood (b)saxes, left to right:Joe Lovano, Kenny Garrett, Dick Oats, Gary Prebeck, Gary Smulyanbones:Earl McYntire, Doug Purviance, John Mosca, ? (don't recognize), french horn:Barbaratrumpets:Tom Harrell, Ea... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, I previously said that I needed a break from this thread. Your post is, in many respects, the best vacation of all. That was a fantastic post and I agree point for point; an extremely insightful post which is much of what I had hoped this th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Newbee, your comments directed at me are valid. While I am not sure that I would characterize my motivation as condescending (certainly not in intent and as unbiased as I could hope to be), I can certainly understand why they could be viewed that ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, that argument is so tired that it almost doesn't deserve commentary and is just plain bs. No one is suggesting that that is what jazz is. But, please, explain: First you agree that all artists practice their craft, now you seem to contradi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I find nothing arrogant in Learsfool's comments, and his very appropriate comment about "anti-intellectualism" could be considered (speaking for myself) as a gentler comment about simple lack of intellect. To those who may be offended by that com... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, first sorry for all the typos. Back on the ground now. Care to join me 😉?Unfortunately, you responded as I expected you would; although I keep hoping. I don’t know what it is you don’t understand about what we are saying; but you just don’t,... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, to be frank, what I am sick of is the arrogance in attempts by a very accomplished professional musician (Learsfool) to offer some insights into somehting that you admit to knowing little about being dismissed as "wack".****but I might as we... | |
| Best Drum Solos Tony Williams on Miles' "Nefertiti"; brilliant. The tune is all about Williams soloing throughout while the front line just plays the melody and don't solo. | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, I believe my words were "there's USUALLY a reason they are not well known"; iow, there are exceptions to every rule. Having clarified that, just because any one of us is not familiar with a player doesn't mean that he's not better known to ... |