frogman
Responses from frogman
| About your music collection Great response and good for you! | |
| Jazz for aficionados Spell checker strikes again! That should have read Stafford, not “Stanford” James. Btw, funny how the mind works, yesterday I couldn’t remember who the bass player was with Dexter and when I woke up this morning one of the first things I thou... | |
| About your music collection **** ….one has to be an audiophile to be a music lover. **** No way! Sorry, could not disagree more. Some of the most dedicated and musically astute music lovers that I have known could not give a darn about our hobby. Conversely, some of the mos... | |
| PS Audio PowerPlant 12 Review (AC Regenerator) **** Conclusions I hope you appreciate the comprehensive assessment that I presented to you above trying to tease out in every possible way what the P12 does. **** Conclusions? Comprehensive? Every possible way? Really? Not one word, no... | |
| Jazz for aficionados “over four decades ago”!!!! I’m showing my age ☺️. I was fresh out of HS when I went to see Dexter for the first time at the suggestion of a saxophone teacher that I had at the time. I didn’t quite understand the significance of those performan... | |
| ILLINOIS JACQUET Birthday Party Vol. 2 Don’t know that recording and no luck on the Tube. So, can you describe what exactly is happening musically at the precise moment that you hear the distortion? What instrument(s) are playing? Is the piano (?) playing a particularly percussive n... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Grieg? Huh?! 😊 Lovely sonata indeed. I’m sure you know it was not composed as a flute sonata. Composed as a violin sonata and transcribed/arranged for flute by others. | |
| Jazz for aficionados pjw, yes, Woody Shaw was there. Great shows and a lot of excitement in the air. The shows I attended were at the Village Vanguard, not the Village Gate. The recording in acman’s clip is from those shows at the Vanguard. Nice KC/FB! | |
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| Jazz for aficionados “supreme cool and timing”. Exactly! Great Al and Zoot. One of the great pairings in Jazz. The two were part of the famous “Four Brothers” saxophone section in Woody Herman’s band. Unusual in that the section consisted of three tenors and a ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Al Cohn, fine composer as well as arranger. Little known Miles record: | |
| Jazz for aficionados I have previously referred to our contributor Jafant as “the Jazz crier”. He was first to simply name an artist. I always took it as simply an acknowledgment of an artist worth exploring, or possibly an artist who is on his play list at the mome... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Mingus and Stitt. To the best of my knowledge they never recorded together. Hard to believe. Factoid: Stitt recorded more records as a leader than any other Jazz artist. An astounding 106! | |
| The Good Stuff 😊 | |
| Favorite Horn Jam |