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| Jazz for aficionados Some thoughts on recent posts:It always comes back to those famous and simple words "There's only two kinds of music, good and bad". It is true that a good jazz musician has something special in the ability to improvise, and it is also USUALLY tru... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Schubert, I love Sonny Stitt; and you're right, he was one of the greatest improvisers with a wonderful ease in how the ideas flowed out of him. When he played there was never a sense that he would run out of ideas and seemed like an endless font.... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Not full of b.s. at all, and you make some excellent observations. No time now, but more to follow. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Re Branford and "My new closing argument":****However, sometimes the crap they say is so breathtakingly stupid, something has to be said in rebuttal. Hence the tangents····**** - RokThe level of arrogance and stupidity shown by Branford in that ar... | |
| Jazz for aficionados In case they weren't obvious, a couple of typos; sorry:teumpet: trumpet"......Anout: About"BTW, Rok, if you are interested in the WSS/Bernstein recording that Learsfool mentions, for a fascinating peek into the process of its making check this out... | |
| Jazz for aficionados From "THE GREAT BULLSHIT DEBATE" :-)****Does all / most of FREE, and AVANT-GARDE Jazz, fall under the category of BULLSHIT?**** - RokFrankly, and no disrespect meant, I think the answer is obvious: OF COURSE NOT. But, as usual, we each have to arr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, great to see you back on the thread. As "second in command" :-) I would like to share a couple general observations about the direction of the thread which relate to some of your recent comments:I find it interesting how we (I certainly incl... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Schubert, the GREAT Gil Shaham indeed! I too like the Korngold; in fact, I have grown to like much of his work. I recently had the opportunity to perform his "Much To Do Anout Nothing" Suite, a very interesting work with a lot of charm; and which,... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Learsfool is exactly right, Faddis is best known as a lead teumpet player with great "high-chops". Personally, I have not been a fan of his jazz playing. It is true that he is a disciple of Dizzy,, but his jazz playing has often struck me as a lot... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Exactly right! | |
| Jazz for aficionados Still waiting:****The problem is, as I have said 3,025 times, Right next to 'Paterson' on the CD rack, is Peterson, Powell, Previn and even Don Pullen :) etc......... Why buy Paterson?****####Using your criteria then, what is the point of buying S... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Acman3, thanks for the Zenon clips. Great new player who has been making a lot of noise (sorry, couldn't resist :-) in the NYC scene for the last few years. Very interesting player in how his style is such an obvious mix of modern harmonic concept... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Nothing new under the sun here. The bullshit cliche about jazz and the classroom is just that, bullshit and a cliche. Sure there are some players who sound that way; so what? There are plenty of players who learned jazz in the street who sound lik... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Schubert, I listened to the Kenari Qt. on PR. Very impressive quartet by any standard; and especially for a student group. As has been mentioned it is really amazing the level achieved by young players today. They are truly an ensemble in that the... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****The problem is, as I have said 3,025 times, Right next to 'Paterson' on the CD rack, is Peterson, Powell, Previn and even Don Pullen :) etc......... Why buy Paterson?****Huh? I must have been on a different thread all those 3,025 posts, but se... |