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| Jazz for aficionados calvinj, this is the CD that I have:[URL]http://www.ebay.com/itm/EDMAR-CASTANEDA-WORLD-ENSEMBLE-LIVE-AT-THE-JAZZ-STANDARD-JAPAN-CD-G22-/37152...[/URL] | |
| Jazz for aficionados A Tombonist, a Harpist and a Drummer walk into their favorite bar, where they would get together two or three times a week for drinks and to talk shop after their gig.On this particular night, someone made the comment that teaching music to people... | |
| Jazz for aficionados jzzmusician, a Classical harpist friend introduced me to Edmar Castaneda a while ago. She thinks he is fantastic; as do I. Trombone and harp, no reed, no piano and no bass; now, there's a combination that will drive Rok back to the eggnog 😛. Wo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados The kid (from Indonesia) is amazing Check this out:[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1FggxlhxmqQ[/URL] | |
| Jazz for aficionados I would only add that we should always be careful about assuming that because something is virtuosic that it doesn't also have as much of the finer points (musicality, expression etc) than something that is not virtuosic; and vice versa. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Great post O-10. | |
| Great Flugelhorn Recordings Kenny Wheeler "Gnu High", ECM. Beautiful lesser known player.[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=myKkvyOxYXA[/URL]Freddie Hubbard "Straight Life", CTI[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7lWMYKsC8U[/URL]Clark Terry "Oscar Peterson an Clark Terry", ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Some people prefer restaurants where the portions are big; everything else is secondary. | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****Can a solo performer compete at creating musical emotion and expression cpmpared to a group?****Of course it can. Apples and oranges. Is Horowits playing a Beethoven piano sonata less capable of musical and expression than the Berlin Phil pl... | |
| Jazz for aficionados jzzmusician, words cannot express how significant, and a surprise, it was watching "The Drummer". The drummer in "The Drummer" is none other than Dave Ratajczek, an old friend and colleague. Our career paths took us in very different directions ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados As you may all recall I previously encouraged Rok to step away from the spiked eggnog; I guess he didn't listen. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Happy New Year to all!Rok, I think you missed the sarcasm in my previous post. It comes down to the first sentence in the last paragraph of that post: "Jazz is different things to different folks". Since its a new year and a new year is a time f... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****After Julie Andrews and John Coltrane, what can anyone add?****"Nice enough"? Well, I guess I need to throw out about half my jazz records. After all, what can anyone add to Gershwin's operatic version of "Summertime" , or "Scrapple From The... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ??????? | |
| Jazz for aficionados Jzzmusician, thanks for the fair and evenhanded response. Brad Mehldau "My Favorite Things": Wow! Astounding. I've been a Mehldau fan for years and had never heard this; thank you. His use of the right hand ostinati is simply amazing. An incr... |