frogman
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| "detail" enjoyable inversely related? There is no such thing as too much detail; if true accuracy and musicality are the goals. Not only are accuracy and musicality NOT mutually exclusive, but you can't have one without the other. The problem is that the so called detail is often a di... | |
| Counterpoint and Mike Elliot Hey Kubla, glad to share my reactions to your query. I will go through a brief "personal pre-amp history", which includes the Counterpoint 5.1, to hopefully put my comments in perspective.A 5.1 replaced an Audible Illusions 4D a few years ago. The... | |
| Dogs who love music My sadly departed pet parakeet Rudy, showed a distinct preference for Mozart; the only music that he would sing along to. He also posessed an extensive vocabulary. Phrases such as: "Beam me up Scotty", "Hey Moe, look!" and "Let me out, damm it!" | |
| Best Cool Jazz Record There is a radio station in NYC, CD 101.9, that bills it self as a broadcaster of "cool jazz". Most of the cute pop-jazz that they play is not jazz at all. During the forties and fifties, as Kublakhan points out in his inimitable style, a "cool sc... | |
| Best Sax Jazz Well said, Jay. | |
| Jazz Review CD only. | |
| Jazz Review What do you get when you combine the best jazz players in New York with some high-profile guest soloists to back up, in a big band setting, a featured artist? The usual answer? A competent, somewhat exciting set with a bunch of players each trying... | |
| Best Sax Jazz oops! Not Walt Levinsky (different era altogether). I meant Walt Weiskoff. | |
| Best Sax Jazz or Eric Alexander, Rich Perry, Walt Levinsky, Gary Smulian, Marty Erlick, Bill Evans............... | |
| Best Sax Jazz Jay, good to hear from someone who obviously knows what's what in the saxophone world. It is unfortunate that so many of the really great and interesting young players seldom get heard by so much of the music loving public. Regards. | |
| Best Sax Jazz Sdcampbell, I would respectfully like to comment on your fine posts. I would move the time frame during which the saxophone became more of a solo instrument back by a few years, perhaps even a decade. Coleman Hawkins was recording by the mid-twent... | |
| Favorite Audio Ad A recurring problem in audio ads, IMO, is the poor representation of musical instruments and musicians. How many times do we have to see a clarinet or a saxophone with the mouthpiece (reed) upsidedown? Worse yet, a "musician" "playing" the instrum... | |
| CD Recommendations Frap, thanks for the positive remarks. Your suggestion to Lev is an excellent one. Exposure to the music of the giants in their respective categories is the best way to expand one's musical horizons; even if the music seems "difficult" at first or... | |
| CD Recommendations Daniel, in the spirit of sharing ideas and being true to my own belief system, as concerns what I feel is great music; I would like to respectfully suggest that rather than trying to find listening satisfaction in new examples of music in your men... | |
| Musicality" in a system? What IS that ? I would like to up the ante in this very interesting discussion. Haven't we all experienced being in the presence of a very gifted artist or of an otherwise very gifted individual and felt a very powerful force or presence about them? This force i... |