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| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Pegasus, I tried a Decca "London" in my ET2 years ago. What I can tell you is that the problems that I encoutered with this pairing had more to do with grounding issues that I was never been able to resolve. I still own that Decca (three pins/shar... | |
| Anyone interested in world music? Just as Alexatpos correctly compares the feeling of 'sevdah' to 'blues', the Cuban 'guajira' can rightly be considered Cuban blues. Guajira themes often spoke of the Cuba's natural beauty and peasant life. Guillermo Portabales was one of the great... | |
| Anyone interested in world music? Agon gremlins? Sorry for the double post. | |
| Anyone interested in world music? Alexatpos, thank you for the links. The Amira Medunjanin clip is some of the most beautiful and heartfelt singing that I have heard in a while; I will have to check out her recordings. Interesting how she ends the song (compared to the other rendi... | |
| Anyone interested in world music? Alexatpos, thank you for the links. The Amira Medunjanin clip is some of the most beautiful and heartfelt singing that I have heard in a while; I will have to check out her recordings. Interesting how she ends the song (compared to the other rendi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Completely agree on all counts. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, thank you for the thoughtful post. Please understand, my primary motivation is not to "teach". Like all of us on this thread I share my thoughts and likes and dislikes. If, given my particular background and perspective, anyone finds value i... | |
| Jazz for aficionados He may have. It's his solo and I'm not inside his head, but it's a predetermined amount of playing space (two choruses) and there is no musical distinction between what I imagined he was saying and what you imagined. It's a solo and that was the f... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, it's the first note of his solo. Nice way to start a solo; economical use of just one note. Think of a solo in terms of speech; hence why it is referred to as telling a story. Listen to the shape of that opening musical comment that starts wi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Woke up to this today (thank you WBGO!). Greatness, without a doubt. What a sound!:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=acuR014vnwg | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, here's one. Alex, here is one of my favorite "unknowns". Well, fairly well recorded and I happen to know he is one of the ones who simply doesn't want the limelight. One of the most amazing and versatile musicians I have ever heard. From Chic... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, I have no interest in arguing. I appreciate your perspective and I can only offer the perspective of someone who has been in the music "business" his entire working life (37 years) and done nothing but play music that entire time in order to... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, I wrote my previous post before reading your most recent. Speaking for myself, I don't mind a debate about this or any other topic having to do with a great topic such as this. Having said that, let me remind you that it was you who asked fo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I would add a couple of things and emphasize a couple of things that have already been pointed out:The jazz music scene is a small world. Musicians during any era know who the best players are from reputation and seek them out and give them exposu... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, I mean no disrespect but, as I see it, you are contradicting yourself. First you make the statement that the mentioned "forgotten" players are "equally as good" as the not forgotten, and now you state that they shouldn't be compared to the R... |