orpheus10
Responses from orpheus10
| Jazz for aficionados Acman, thank you for those wonderful Carmen McRae posts. I hope they were to Schubert's satisfaction, I know I enjoyed each one of them; keep the fantastic posts coming. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I get great satisfaction from sharing music that I love and appreciate with others who can appreciate it as much as I do. | |
| Jazz for aficionados We are all gaining so very much from this thread; that's because without new music, this hobby doesn't show me much. We gain knowledge and new music from everyone who posts on this thread. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I've got a lot of Nina Simone, and I fell in love with her music the very first time I heard it. She's so individualistic, that I never compared her to any other vocalist. Here are some of my favorites; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Ella and Nina on "Blue Skys", I claim foul, and I'll leave it at that. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Dee Dee wins; she has gospel plus "Nawlins" in her music, no way you can go wrong with that; sounded like she had a personal acquaintance with the house. (authenticity). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT2AdOLemogDee Dee is incredible. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Now I understand. Comparing Nina to other Diva's is so subjective; but if you insist, I will do my best? | |
| Jazz for aficionados "She makes Miles, Trane, Monk etc... seem like fly by night flashes in the pan."I've been listening to jazz for my entire life, and I will testify, "You got that right!"I'm not sure I have that one; if not, it will be corrected. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, I don't think there is anything to elaborate; the post said it all, piano was her life, she didn't just play piano. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Now if you're saying that I said something that I said before, I can dig that. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Schubert, I'm glad that you share my love of Carmen. I have a number of pristine LP's by her that I enjoy immensely; that was when she was young and very beautiful, but as she aged, she gained weight and became less beautiful; what was she to do,d... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, you have provided enough for me to state my point.Irvin Mayfield is the pianist for Dee Dee's version of that song.Nina Simon is her own pianist.Ella Fitzgerald's pianist was John Lewis, one of the very best. Nina Simone's pianist was"Nina ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I'm going to compare Nina Simone to the most beautiful and best jazz diva's of our time, and I want you to give your opinion.I have a point to make, but not until after your evaluation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Y11hwjMNs htt... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Dr John memorably described James Booker as "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced."Why did so many jazz genius's have to be junkies; it didn't help them to play better, no junkie would ever tell you that... | |
| Jazz for aficionados There never has been, nor will there ever be, anyone to compare to "Nina Simone"; she is in a category of "One".In the beginning, I heard her artistic merit, and her virtuoso on piano; in the end, she conquered with raw power; her voice grabbed, a... |