orpheus10

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Jazz for aficionados
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-private-side-of-jazz-music-through-the-eyes-of-a-blue-note-co-founder  
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Words of wisdom; an aficionado reads with his eyes and hears with his ears; if he reads something that is contradictory to what he is hearing, one of them is wrong; which does he believe? 
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"Drummer Buddy Rich, whose quicksilver, frenetic technique earned him the accolade “fastest hands in the world,” died Thursday after suffering a seizure at a Bel-Air residence where he was recuperating from brain surgery. He was 69."Maybe he was b... 
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MBL's the stuff that dreams are made of. 
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Acman, that was written by a guy named "Gunther Schuller" and anybody whose first name is "Gunther", is suspect from the "git-go" when writing about something he says was developed by African Americans.His jazz is kind of like "Jambalya", just thr... 
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pjw, I appreciate your input, although I probably wont evaluate it until tomorrow.Thanks. 
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I found something that was very interesting in regard to the subject being discussed; no, it does not support my position, as a matter of fact, I don't know what position it supports, but I think we should investigate it "together".        https:... 
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pjw, that was a fascinating interview. 
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Rok, you didn't tell me you were rich.As a matter of fact,  the rich guy was British.  
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Rok, I would like the "Beys" a lot more, if they stuck to script instead of giving every song the "Bey" treatment. 
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My fundamental thesis is that good jazz is no longer being "created". They are not creating jazz at the Lincoln Center, they are playing jazz. Musicians who play in Sue Mingus's big band, are not creating jazz, they're playing Mingus composition... 
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My question to you Acman is "How much do you play that interesting music?" Do you play it as much as you play what you and I would consider "good jazz?" 
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Rok, when I hung out at emporiums, I discovered that rich people like the worst music; marches even. 
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As I see it, the Frogman is not consistent. 
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Frogman, what you call good jazz and what I call good jazz are two different things. Can we agree on that?