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Rok, I think you missed the point. You may be arguing a point that has nothing to do with what I wrote. I could dispute your notion of “the great unwashed decide….” , but it is not relevant to my point. It is not about who is great, but rather, is... 
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  Some thoughts in the spirit of the thread. Where is our OP, btw? We all have favorites. They are favorites for a variety of reasons; mostly subjective and not objective The playing style of a favorite resonates with our own aesthetic sense and... 
The Good Stuff
I suppose that it could be argued that a protest is not much of a protest if it is not in plain “view”. However, some, including some artists, choose to not mix their art with politics; not in an obvious way, anyway. “I merely took the energy tha... 
Jazz for aficionados
We are, and have been, in complete agreement.  I would only add that what we are discussing is at the heart of the often mentioned quote:  “There are only two kinds of music…..good music and the other kind”.  This from one of the greatest Jazz mus... 
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**** the most important element in music, which is musical time out of metronomical or measured time, **** That’s right. I would qualify that comment by streamlining the idea even further to simply “time”. Time is the most important element of mu... 
Jazz for aficionados
On a different thread, mahgister wrote very eloquently about “time” in music; specifically, an orchestral conductor’s time conception. It could be said that the musical “particulars” that come into play (😉) in the expression of time in music are, ... 
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Good to see your post, Chris.  Coincidentally, just yesterday (and a couple of times prior) I thought to pm you to say hello and to see how you are doing, but one of life’s mini curve balls side tracked me.  Hope things are more settled for you no... 
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I think you meant “Egmont”, not “Coriolan” 😊. Thanks for your comments. First, my choice of the young Celi was in great part for the visual element in that clip. I agree that it could be said that the 1976 Stuttgard version is “more mature”. Howe... 
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Nice! Great chart and some swinging solos. Thanks, pryso. As you know, they were well known as a foursome as the saxophone section in the Woody Herman big band of the late ‘40’s; Woody’s Second Herd. A very unusual saxophone section in that it fe... 
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Thanks, pryso for the reminder of “Keep On Keepin’ On”.  Fantastic documentary What a wonderful musician and human being Clark Terry was!    
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What is laughable, if it weren’t so ridiculous, is a comment like the one above The comment above is the kind of commentary that makes this topic often pointless and not a little ridiculous. I have no great love for audio reviewers, but to so brut... 
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