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| Jazz for aficionados Hi Orpheus - that's a nice story. There are good and bad repair guys, sounds like you had a good one. Many musicians will fly across the country to have a certain person work on their instrument. I am lucky to have one of the very best in my immed... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus, to answer your question first - yes, it is normally just called "the horn," and everyone knows that that means French horn. There's really nothing French about it, and no one knows why it acquired that name in the first place. The Interna... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus - Miles used horn on quite a few of his albums - I believe I have mentioned Birth of the Cool already in this thread. We also discussed horn in jazz quite a while back. I know I have mentioned Julius Watkins and that same album in your fir... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok - another thing I thought of on the person playing no instrument - it may be the third bassoon/contrabassoon player, who didn't happen to play on that particular piece, but is on stage because he played something else on that half of the progr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Rok: to answer your questions: 1. Not sure what you mean here, exactly, without seeing it. Doesn't make much sense, frankly. I am assuming it is not a singer? Are you sure it is headphones and a mike?2. You are seeing rotary-valve trumpets. The... | |
| Good mid-priced speakers for vintage Mac? Klipsch and McIntosh is a classic combo, also the Altecs someone mentioned earlier | |
| Jazz for aficionados LOL, Rok - no sulking or pouting going on here! Haven't had a lot of time to be on this site over the holidays. If you like tenors, probably my all time favorite would be Jussi Bjorling, a Swedish tenor from the 50's early 60's. I have several of ... | |
| PRIMA LUNA owners, what power tube are you using? I use a Dialogue2. I replaced the stock KT88s with some EL34s that I am much happier with. I will say, though, that I agree the stock tubes are not nearly as bad as some say. In fact, I had to replace my stock 12AU7s recently, and I went with a mo... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics Frogman, your post of 12-5 here is one of the best of the kind I have seen on this site - thanks! | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi guys - sorry to be again away from the discussion for so long. I must admit, reading through the recent posts here, that I am very dismayed and frustrated at some of what I am reading. Frogman has made a valiant effort - I do not feel there is ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10 - thanks for reposting those links. It made me realize I had heard of Willie Ruff also in the context of Yale, but never put two and two together that this was the same jazz horn player. I haven't Googled him, so I don't know if he is stil... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Don't know about first rate audio and video, but a first rate performance is Claudio Abbado's with the Berlin Philharmonic. They did the whole Beethoven cycle on DVD about 10 years ago now. A very good set. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10 - I have once again missed a bunch of this thread - I have an album of Willie Ruff's that is very bizarre - he is playing hymn tunes pretty much by himself, some with an organ, in a very boomy church. Could you direct me to which link you ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Interesting conversation going on since I have looked in - I want to highlight some things that Frogman has said, starting with he is absolutely correct to say that one's reaction to music is subjective. There are many things about music that are ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi guys - sorry, been very busy. Now have a few days off, but will be going to visit my folks for Thanksgiving, so will probably be off the board again. Orpheus - yes, as I believe Rok said, those are mellophones. By the way, the term Stan Kenton ... |