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| Jazz for aficionados @tyray , glad you liked it. Pat Martino was a badass! Very interesting and at times sad personal story. | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato I get it . NOT a statement about my feelings on Rap one way or the other, but there is a big difference (in my book, anyway) between lyrics with “raunchy” sexuality, usually by way of innuendo or double entendre and lyrics that demean and debase ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Great stuff, acman3 and stuartk! Remler sounds great, but I’m a little confused about the title of the tune. “Cisco” is credited to Pat Martino, but his “Cisco” is a different tune. A brand old guitar recording that is really good! 😊: https://y... | |
| Jazz for aficionados HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Thank you, pryso. Best wishes! I think I may be able to shed bit of light on the reason for Tom Moon’s comment. Hopefully without getting too personal. I know Tom Moon from when we were both students in music conservator... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato That’s actually pretty funny. Well done. 😊 | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato That may be, and I don’t disagree, But the issue here is not Steely Dan’s lyrics per se. Nonetheless, an argument could be made that their lyrics are a perfect fit for their at often vapid, urban-hip overall musical aesthetic delivered with ul... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato **** expecting to find "good" lyrics (or music for that matter) in the stuff most popular these days is akin to him expecting to find good food at a fast food restaurant **** That was Beato’s point. ….as concerns the stuff most popular these day... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato I think some of you miss the point of what Beato is saying; which I mostly agree with. He is not saying that there are no good lyrics being written today. He acknowledges that there are. He is saying that today there are few songs with good lyrics... | |
| … "And the government shall be upon his shoulders" ** From everything I have ever learned Christ did not give a fig for earthly power ** Not so. Well, not “power” in the usual earthly sense. As with most things and certainly as concerns the teachings of Christian religion context is key. In th... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? ☺️ | |
| Jazz for aficionados @msbel , interesting comments. Not sure I understand your disagreement with “……some feel contributed to heralding in the early "new thing" among other musician extending at the time”. I’m not familiar with what Booker had to say about this notion.... | |
| Chet Baker vs. Miles Davis **** Comparison may be the thief of joy but it makes for edifying conversation.**** Exactly! Art forms as rich as Jazz evolve and are represented by different “schools” of style and sensibilities due to geographical (regional) and cultural diffe... | |
| Chet Baker vs. Miles Davis A little insight into Chet Baker from Bob Mover, one of the unsung heroes of the alto saxophone and Chet’s band mate for years: https://youtu.be/JFYq5D0ny9E?si=1godlFGu56z1HxB8 | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? **** Is more detail always better if not unnaturally bright or fatiguing? **** YES! The problem is that perceived “detail” is often precisely the result of “unusually bright or fatiguing” sound. In my book that is not more detail. That is a dis... | |
| Chet Baker vs. Miles Davis Two very different musicians, especially if one considers the totality of their respective contributions to Jazz. Both important Jazz players, but ultimately Miles is deserving of the title as one of the giants of Jazz. Baker was a beautifully int... |